Host of exciting events still yet to come as part of Bealtaine Festival in Tipperary
Bealtaine is taking place across the county throughout the month of May
Over half way through a busy month for the Bealtaine Festival 2025, celebrating creativity as we age, why not discover your Lust for Life this May.
While the sun has been shining, the organisers have been engaged, entertained and educated in a whole host of events and activities taking place in venues right across the county, and there’s still more to come.
The 2025 Bealtaine Festival theme is Lust for Life, based on Iggy Pop’s iconic punk-era song celebrating life’s dreams, ambitions, intoxications and excesses.
With a diverse programme of events still to come in libraries, arts centres and venues across the county, the organisers ask you to check out your local area in the Tipperary Bealtaine Festival programme which is available in your local arts centre or library and also online at www.tipperarycoco.ie/arts.
Local Tipperary artist Aoife Barrett in association with the Clonoulty community will be facilitating an exciting new project called Memory Land: A Playground Festival for all ages.
Members of the Clonoulty Rossmore Vintage Club, Clonoulty Rossmore Young at Heart Group, Clonoulty Tidy Villages and students from Clonoulty National School have collaborated with Barrett on this exciting memory and play themed creative project.
The project culminates in a public play-themed festival event bringing together project participants in a celebration of nostalgia and imagination, embracing the timeless joy of play.
Memory Land will facilitate fun and creative workshops that capture themes of community, memory and play.
The festival will run from 3pm to 7pm on Tuesday, May 27, in the Clonoulty Community Garden.
This event has been funded by Tipperary Arts Office and Creative Ireland Tipperary.
Tipperary Arts Office’s Music on Tour programme is a much-loved centrepiece of the Tipperary Bealtaine Festival.
Professional musicians take their performances to residents in day care centres, nursing homes, hospitals and other settings, bringing concert performances to audiences who otherwise would not have an opportunity to attend and enjoy them.
Still to come on the Music on Tour programme: music performances in the Community Hospital of the Assumption in Thurles, Padre Pio Nursing Home in Holycross and Newport Day Care Centre featuring Tipperary musicians Mary Rose McNally, Anne Marie Dwan, Tom Lyons, Denis Carey and welcoming Limerick’s Denis Allen.