Fingal Poetry Festival

Fingal Poetry Festival
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WELCOME!! FÁILTE !!

In 2024, we decided to go biennial. 2025 is our ‘gap’ year, so please mark September 2026 in your diaries for our next coming together. And come back here for exact dates, which we will share with you nearer the time.

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A look back to the 2024 festival

The 2024 Fingal Poetry Festival was our fifth outing as Ireland’s friendliest, most inclusive poetry festival. Running from the 13^th – 15^th September 2024, we had something for everybody! Along with new and exciting events, we brought back some firm favourites — our Poetry Walks by the sea and through the forest, our lunchtime reading and our Family Fest for younger poetry lovers, and much, much more — all, as usual, in the company of music, poetry’s first cousin. A special treat was enjoyed by fans of blues and jazz this year….

If you were at our festival this year, we would value your feedback!

We are very proud of this year’s line-up of diverse poets, reading their works in Irish and English, and to have secured perfect musical pairings for their words for each event. See a review of our events here.

Programme Illustrated and Designed by Matthew Kelly

For generations, visitors would come to Skerries for a day out by the sea. We continued this tradition with an invitation to the BIG POETRY DAY OUT LÁ MÓR FILÍOCHTA on Saturday 14^th September. A day full of fun discovery and poetry and music in different locations around Skerries, making the most of its natural beauty.

We had timed our events in such a way that visitors could reach us with an early bus/train and will be able to get the last bus/train back home again. As inclusivity is one of our core values, we have ensured that all our venues are fully accessible.

We are very grateful to our sponsors, and the large team of volunteers, without whom none of this would be possible!

We hope you enjoyed the weekend, with poetry and music, in often unexpected places, but always with a big smile of welcome!

féile agus craic ● Filíocht agus ceol ● agus fáilte roimh cách

Ernestine Woelger, Chair

Until the next year, keep poetry in your lives…. listen to our podcast (now in its 3rd season) … subscribe to our new newsletter… and keep checking in with us for all our news…

Funding for the 2024 festival from Fingal County Council, the Arts Council and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature is gratefully acknowledged. With support from Poetry Ireland.