Things to do

2026 Festival & Events Calendar 

January

Sligo On Ice| Yeats Winter School | Sligo Chess and Culture Festival | Informal Music Afternoons 

February

Sligo Chess and Culture Festival | So Funny Sligo Comedy Festival | Trad agus Tine | Care in the Square |

Informal Music Afternoons | Western Drama Festival Tubbercurry 

March

Western Drama Festival Tubbercurry | Sligo Engineering Fair | St Patricks Day Festival | 

Feis Shligigh | Informal Music Afternoons | "Ubo Roi" Blue Raincoat Theatre Company

April

Feis Shligigh | Castle 2 Cave Camino | Easter Glow Walk | Informal Music Afternoons | 

West of Ireland Amateur Golf Championship

May

Uisce Alainn | Love is a stranger - Juniper Barn | National Volunteer Week |  Bealtaine Festival | 

The Sligo County Fleadh | Aremoja Global Culture Festival Sligo 2026 | Streets of Sligo 5k | Croi Heartfest |

Informal Music Afternoons | Sligo County Fleadh | Sligo Races 

June

Sligo County Fleadh | BallisodareFalls Festival | Sligo Indian Association Events | Informal Music Afternoons |

Wild Atlantic Shanty Festival 

July

Cairde Sligo Arts Festival | Sligo Camino | Black Pig Festival Enniscrone | South Sligo Summer School | 

Wipeout Festival | Ballygawley Music Festival | International Chess Day | Taste of Sligo Food Festival | 

Sligo International Summer School and Jazz Festival | Informal Music Afternoons 

Augest 

Tread Softly | Yeats International Summer School | Sundance Festival Tubbercurry Old Fair Day | Sligo Summer Festival | 

Hagstravaganza | International Brewery Festival | Sligo Heritage Week | Coleman | Traditional Festival | Warriors Run |

Tubbercurry Music Festival | Glow Walk | Informal Music Afternoons | Strandhill Film and Folk Festival 

September

Sligo Coast to Coast Race | Wild & Well Festival | Relay for Life | Culture Night Sligo | Harvest Festival | 

Remembering the Armada | Ballintogher Traditional Music Festival | Cloonacool Sheep Festival | Sligo Baroque Festival |

Adaptation Film Festival | Informal Music Afternoons 

October 

Change Your Mind Festival | Haunted Sligo | Sligo Live | Fiddler of Dooney Festival | Informal Music Afternoons 

November 

Sligo Live | Yeats Winter School | Volunteer Manager Day | Split Milk Festival | Salsa Festival | Sligo On Ice | Informal Music Afternoons 

December 

Christmas Lights Turn On - Sligo Town | International Volunteer Day | Sligo on Ice | Informal Music Afternoons