Earagail Arts Festival

Earagail Arts Festival Donegal's premier summer event on the Wild Atlantic Way. Join us in 2026, 10 - 25 July!

JumpStart Residency 2026/27 - Em Murphy ➡ More info https://eaf.ie/events/jumpstart-residency-2026-27-em-murphy/📍Donegal...
16/06/2026

JumpStart Residency 2026/27 - Em Murphy ➡ More info https://eaf.ie/events/jumpstart-residency-2026-27-em-murphy/

📍Donegal.
📅 2026 - 2027

Earagail Arts Festival is delighted to welcome movement artist Em Murphy as the 2026/27 recipient of the Jumpstart Residency, a national two-year programme supporting emerging aerial artists.

Led by the ISACS Network in partnership with Earagail Arts Festival, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival and Fidget Feet’s Irish Aerial Dance Festival, and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Jumpstart offers mentoring, training and festival platforms.

During the residency Em will develop their debut work Ochón, an experimental aerial performance exploring grief, Irish mythology and the tradition of keening.

We look forward to supporting Em’s artistic journey and sharing the development of this exciting new work with audiences

TUNE IN 🎙Don't miss the Mark Patterson Show on BBC Radio Foyle at 12noon today! Mark will be having his annual chat with...
16/06/2026

TUNE IN 🎙Don't miss the Mark Patterson Show on BBC Radio Foyle at 12noon today! Mark will be having his annual chat with Paul Brown, CEO /Artistic Director, doing a round up-up of the some of the festival's upcoming highlights! Visit https://eaf.ie/ to view the full programme and look out for copies of the brochure!

Fanzini Brothers – Risky Business ➡More info https://eaf.ie/events/fanzini-brothers-risky-business/📍Dún Lúiche / Dunlewe...
16/06/2026

Fanzini Brothers – Risky Business ➡More info https://eaf.ie/events/fanzini-brothers-risky-business/

📍Dún Lúiche / Dunlewey, Ionad Cois Locha.
📅Déardaoin 23 Iúil & Dé hAoine 24 Iúil / Thursday 23rd July & Friday 24th July, 3pm.
🎫Tickets at www.eaf.ie

Tá diúlaigh an dainséir, máistrí na tubaiste, na deartháireacha iontacha Fanzini ar ais lena seó nua, Risky Business. Seó dochreidte é, atá lán de chontúirt, cabáistí, cleasa móra agus rothair bheaga.
Lán le greann fisiceach, le hamaidí a rachaidh i dtreise agus le ruaille buaille a thiocfaidh ón lucht féachana, is léiriú an-ghreannmhar é Risky Business ar an choimhlint idir an tsiamsaíocht dhainséarach agus an rialáil gan staonadh.

The denizens of danger, the masters of disaster, the amazing Fanzini brothers are back with their new show Risky Business, a stupefying spectacle full of danger, cabbages, big stunts and tiny bicycles.
Packed with physical comedy, escalating nonsense, and audience fuelled mayhem, risky business is a hilarious tug-of-war between reckless showmanship and relentless regulation.

A Personal History of Pyromania - Brendan Mac Evilly ➡ More info https://eaf.ie/events/a-personal-history-of-pyromania-b...
16/06/2026

A Personal History of Pyromania - Brendan Mac Evilly ➡ More info https://eaf.ie/events/a-personal-history-of-pyromania-by-brendan-mac-evilly/

📍Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
📅Wednesday 22nd July, 8pm.
🎫Tickets at www.eaf.ie

An intimate, darkly comic essay-performance that reflects on the meanings and functions of fire in life and art. Moving between childhood experiments with homemade fireworks, family and national history and the author’s novel Deep Burn, Brendan Mac Evilly traces a lifelong fascination with flame. At its centre sits an elusive story about the burning of an inherited uniform—a moment that hovers between memory and invention—asking why we are drawn to fire and what can it transform?

Combining live reading, projected media, sound and ceramics, the piece considers fire as a force of attraction, creation, remembrance and release.

The Journals Fleadh | Poetry Workshop with Mícheál McCann ➡️More info https://eaf.ie/events/the-journals-fleadh-poetry-w...
15/06/2026

The Journals Fleadh | Poetry Workshop with Mícheál McCann ➡️More info https://eaf.ie/events/the-journals-fleadh-poetry-workshop-with-micheal-mccann/

📍Rathmullan House, Rathmullan.
📆Sunday 19th July, 3:30pm.
🎫 Tickets at www.eaf.ie

This generative workshop will explore the canonical and the contemporary Irish lyric poem; where have we found ourselves in the wake of greats like Yeats and Heaney? And contemporary wonders like Flynn, Morrissey and Bryce?

How do we feel about the ghosts of influence in our work, and what might we do when we call their name within our own poems? What are contemporary Irish poets thinking and writing about? With attention to recently published poems, through a blend of reading, and then writing new poems, we will think about what it means to write a poem in this place, in this strange time.

Mícheál McCann is a poet, editor, and poetry critic from Derry City. His poetry is published by The Gallery Press, and his second collection of poems – Lives of the Saints – is forthcoming in 2026. He has published pamphlets of poems with Green Bottle Press in 2020 and Fourteen Publishing in 2022, and a collaborative art book with Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Skein Press in 2022 also. His first collection with Gallery, Devotion, was longlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2024, and was listed as a book of the year by The Irish Times and RTÉ. He is a poetry critic for The Irish Times, and lives and works in Belfast.

Thank you so much to the Finn Valley Men's Choir and Musical Director Mary Dunne for joining us on Friday! Do not miss t...
15/06/2026

Thank you so much to the Finn Valley Men's Choir and Musical Director Mary Dunne for joining us on Friday! Do not miss them at the Balor Arts Centre next month!

15/06/2026

Upcoming Events In Donegal:
🎶 Buncrana Music Festival 🎶 Earagail Arts Festival 🎶 Clonmany Festival
Our hotel is located 5 minutes walk to Buncrana main street - ideal base while taking in these great events.
*Food served daily in our bar *For best B&B rates book directly *Live music every saturday night

LAUNCH 🇮🇪🇵🇱: Chargé d’Affaires of Poland to Ireland launches Earagail Arts Festival ProgrammeThe Chargé d’Affaires of t...
15/06/2026

LAUNCH 🇮🇪🇵🇱: Chargé d’Affaires of Poland to Ireland launches Earagail Arts Festival Programme

The Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Poland to Ireland officially launched the 2026 Earagail Arts Festival Programme in Ballybofey on Friday 12th June.

The official launch of the 39th festival programme was performed by Mr Artur Michalski at a public reception in the Villa Rose Hotel & Spa with musical entertainment by the Finn Valley Men’s Choir.

Full press release and pictorial coverage on the link in comments 👇or visit eaf.ie

📸 Photos: Gerard McHugh, Earagail Arts Festival

❗CLOWN WORKSHOP❗🚨LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE🚨We only have a few tickets left for the Clown Workshop with Fraser Hooper. Hur...
15/06/2026

❗CLOWN WORKSHOP❗
🚨LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE🚨

We only have a few tickets left for the Clown Workshop with Fraser Hooper. Hurry to secure yours on the link below. 🎟🤡
https://eaf.ie/events/all-ages-5-95-years-clown-workshop-with-fraser-hooper/

📍Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
📅Saturday 18th July, 11am.
🎫More info at www.eaf.ie

Exercise your funny bones and discover the art of clowning around with internationally acclaimed clown Fraser Hooper. Through improvisation, rhythm and play learn how to develop your timing and build comedy routines. This fun practical workshop is for the whole family to enjoy together. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

After a glittering career in menswear, Fraser Hooper gave it all up to become a clown. Thirty six years on his unique brand of award winning comedy has delighted thousands of audiences in over forty countries worldwide. In New Zealand he won The Iron Chicken Award at The World Buskers Festival, Best Act at The Landshut Street Festival Germany, Bronze at The International Acrobatic Circus Festival Wuhan China and Silver at Saint-Paul-Les-Dax Circus Festival in France. Fraser is also a popular clown tutor and has taught in twenty countries including twelve years at The National Centre for Circus Arts London.

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