An Féile Eile is a week long festival in its second year, challenging those brave enough to embrace an alternative perspective and reconnect with the ancient energies of Samhain. A celebration that unites the past, the present, and the other, where folklore, fire, and festivities illuminate the dark, marking the transition from harvest into winter. Join us in understanding the true origins of Halloween.

The week-long celebration includes an introduction to the lost arts associated with the end of the harvest and the arrival of darker days, with workshops in basket weaving, felting and Motanka Doll making. We’ll celebrate phantasmic folklore with Eddie Linehan and the magic of nature with Dr Una Nealon.

In the run-up to Halloween week, visit our ancestral effigy at Grilse Gallery and leave your messages to those that have gone before you in the wicker messenger. Then on the night the veil is thinnest between this world and the next, join us as it is ceremoniously set alight on the River Laune, the flames carrying these messages to the other side.

Rediscover the magic of ghost stories with an evening of fire-side tales of fairies and ‘pucas’ from arguably Ireland’s greatest living seanchaí, Eddie Lenihan, whose candlelit tales of the ‘Other Crowd’, as he likes to refer to the little people, will scare the soul out of you.

Kick off the week with our darkly decadent costume ball in the gloriously gothic surrounds of 10 Bridge St. Dare to don some sinister style with a prize for best costume while sipping on bespoke cocktails and mingling with the weird and wonderful on the dance floor as the DJs play the Divil’s music.

 This and so much more awaits you at An Féile Eile.