Bealtaine is Ireland’s national festival which celebrates the arts and creativity as we age. The festival is run by Age & Opportunity, the leading national development organisation working to enable the best possible quality of life for us all as we age. This year Age & Opportunity unveils an all-new festival theme, ‘Lust for Life’, which reflects a familiar experience for many older people. To celebrate the theme Bealtaine Festival has commissioned a new essay, ‘Lust of Life’, by writer, former Labour TD and Bealtaine Festival ambassador, Liz McManus, which explores the n

Joining all multicultural communities in Dublin with representation for all over Ireland. Celebrate the communal social life by the people and for the people from all over Dublin and counties all over ireland. Purpose of the Festival We would like to invite you on a journey of sharing and exhibiting talents from our diverse community. – To trace back the triumphs of our society – To showcase a myriad of cultures who choose Dublin as their home, – To exhibit the culture of powerful artists and entertainers in our community Festival Highlights CONNECT 2024 will be a one of a kin

Four young people, one an Olympic champion. Tangled relationships. Forbidden love, twice over. An unsuccessful assassination. An execution avoided. And a royal father who has to accept his children as they are. Irish National Opera continues its award-winning exploration of Vivaldi’s operas with the work which started the 20th-Century revival of the composer's works for the stage. L’Olimpiade brims with opportunities for all seven characters, showing their personalities and feelings through arias that range from the explosive and almost instrumentally virtuosic, to the slow explorati