30th April – 4th May 2026

Tá tinte na Bealtaine á lasadh againn arís, agus sinn ag iompú i dtreo an tsolais, ag oscailt ár gcroíthe, ár n-aigní, ár gcoirp ar son na n-ealaíon agus dá chéile.

These are 5 days of release and renewal: let’s open up to the unknown, the unexpected and the unintentional! Through theatre, poetry, spoken word, music, art and dance we’ll explore our absurd existence in this rapidly changing world. Our theme of Birds this year, nesting in the amazingly collaborative Morshúil on Sunday afternoon, darts and swoops through the programme.

Otherworldly, elusive and musical – their numbers are plummeting, the canaries of our particular coal-mine – what happens when their music stops..?

As usual we have more events than we can properly describe or control. It’s an outpouring of our community’s need to create and celebrate, to let loose and live. Please take the opportunity to try something new, tapaigh an deis chun éalú ó ghnáthimeachtaí an tsaoil.

Féile na Bealtaine continues to renew, and we are really grateful to our newer younger volunteers this year who have begun to put their own imprint on the festival. We are as ever grateful to the openness of all the businesses, schools, voluntary groups and individuals who welcome us in, and help keep this show on the road.

Féile na Bealtaine is curated entirely by volunteers. We’re amateurs, we do it for the love of it and no one gets paid. Bígi deas má thá ruaille buaile nó muna bhfuil freagra ar do ríomh-phost. If we were professionals it’d be no craic!

Táimid 32 bliain ar an bhfód anois agus níl deireadh ráite againn go fóill – ná baol orainn.