4th 21-25 Gurteen 19th Coney Island August Branley Family Gathering Tel: 087 3766136 Coleman Traditional Festival Tel: 071 9182599 Coney to Coney Tel: 087 7811638 email: [email protected] August www.colemanirishmusic.com October [email protected]

4th 25th Strandhill 25-28 Archeology of Gathering Town August Sligo Sprint Distance Triathlon Tel: 087 2229441 American Wake/Homecoming Tel: 087 1308396 Tel: 071 9305544 email: [email protected] August email: [email protected] October Conference email: [email protected]

7th Cleveragh 26th Mullaghmore 25-28 Sligo Town August Sligo Races Evening Meeting Tel: 071 9162484 August Donkey Derby Tel: 071 9166367 October O’Rourke Clan Gathering Tel: 087 2568692 www.countysligoraces.com email: [email protected] 8th Cleveragh 24-26 Sligo Town 26th Sligo Town August Sligo Races Ladies Day Tel: 071 9162484 Soap Stars Charity March Tel: 087 4169247 Bramstoker Experience Tel: 0872162446 www.countysligoraces.com August email: [email protected] October email: [email protected]

9th Sligo 24th Enniscrone October Gathering of Eastern Harps Gurteen August Soden Gathering Enniscrone Show Tel: 087 6474290 Bank Holiday Tel: 087 2875836 Tel: 086 2555360 August email: [email protected] - 40 Yrs email: [email protected] Sligo Town Sligo Live - Irelands Sligo Town 7-11 24th 23-28 email: [email protected] August Sligo Lunasa Festival Tel: 071 9170793 Twin Fest Ireland Tel: 086 3516627 email: [email protected] August www.twinfest.ie October Folk Root & Indie Festival www.sligolive.ie 9-11 Mullaghmore 31 August & 7-10 Sligo Town Mullaghmore Sessions 2013 Tel: 071 9166171 1 September Tool & Gauge Reunion Tel: 071 9186124 Sligo Twin Towns Sing Tel: 087 6495349 August email: [email protected] email: [email protected] November email: [email protected] St. James’ Well 29-31 Strandhill Sligo Town 8-9 The Warriors Run Festival 7-10 Sligo International Choral Festival [email protected] Tel: 087 6250454 www.warrriorsfestival.com Tel: 086 2690225 August National School Gathering email: [email protected] August email: [email protected] November www.sligochoralfest.com

8-12 Enniscrone 1st Having a Laugh Sligo 8-9 Connaught Rangers and the Irish in The Black Pig Festival Tel: 087 6214422 Tel: 087 7782261 Tel: 071 9167800 August email: [email protected] September Adventure Festival email: [email protected] November World War 1 email: [email protected]

9-10 Sligo Town 2-5 Strandhill, Bundoran 15-22 Sligo Summer Festival 2013 [email protected] West Coast Challenge Tel: 071 9842014 Santa Town Tel: 071 9165001 August www.facebook.com/sligosummerfestival September www.westcoastchallenge.info December http://sligofolkpark.com/special-events/santa

10-12 Carmel Gunning Gleann, Co. Sligo. 7th August Tel: 087 6250454 September 101 Beltra Show Tel: 087 2572920 Summer School email: [email protected] 10-14 Tubbercurry Tubbercurry 8-14 Sligo Town August Tel: 087 9581499 September Emigrant Trail Tour Tel: 071 9143728 Old Fair Day Festival www.oldfairday.ie www.sligoroots.com Events 17th Sligo 6th Sligo Northwest LGBT Pride https://www.facebook.com The Cinderella Story Tel: 086 3468048 2013 August /nwprideireland September email: [email protected] 11-17 Sligo 6-8 Hazelwood www.sligotourism.ie August Emigrant Trail Tour Tel: 071 9143728 September Wynne Family Gathering Tel: 087 9369003 www.sligoroots.com email: [email protected] www.facebook.com /sligotourism 3-5 Cloonloo 14-15 Enniscrone Cloonloo Midsummer Gathering Tel: 086 3185986 Enniscrone Walking Festival Tel: 087 2564532 August [email protected] September www.enniscronewalkingclub.ie

16th Tubbercurry Vocational School Tubbercurry 13-20 O’Sheas Irish Pub & Rest Co. Sligo Golf Clubs August Tel: 087 7980114 September Tel: 0049 911232895 Golden Jubilee email: [email protected] Golf Society email: http://osheas.de/ 17-25 Sligo Town 27-29 Drumcliffe August Heritage Week www.heritageweek.ie September Sligo Baroque 2013 email: [email protected]

19th Rosses Point 27-29 Radisson Blu, Co. Sligo Golf Club Tel: 071 9177186 Irish Woodturners Guild Tel: 051 421032 August email: [email protected] September www.irishwoodturnersguild.com

19-22 The Creative Writer’s Collooney 2nd Cleveragh Tel: 086 2523428 Sligo Races Students Day Tel: 071 9162484 August Workshop-Memoir Writing www.thecreativeworkshop.com October www.countysligoraces.com

20th Cleveragh 4-6 Frank Finn Rosses Point Sligo Races Evening Meeting Tel: 071 9162484 Tel: 087 2632437 August www.countysligoraces.com October Traditional Singing Weekend www.sligotradsingers.ie www.sligotourism.ie • www.facebook.com/sligotourism Designed & Printed by Business Supplies, 096 72755. It gives me great pleasure to introduce ‘The 1-3 Sligo Town 7-9 Mullaghmore 14-19 Sligo Gathering, Sligo Events Guide 2013’. Sligo Feis Ceoil Tel: 087 9602866 Sligo Set Dancing Weekend Tel: 086 2542959 Emigrant Trail Tour Tel: 071 9143728 April www.sligofeisceoil.ie June email: [email protected] July www.sligoroots.com Tubbercurry Tubbercurry Sligo, where a warm welcome and good times 7th Sligo Try a Tri Cleveragh 12-16 14-20 South Sligo await you, it will come as no surprise that Sligo Murphy Clan Gathering Tel: 071 9185598 Tel: 086 056 6383 April (Sligo Sports Complex) www.sligotriathlon.ie June email: [email protected] July Summer School of Trad Music www.sssschool.org has a calendar crammed with a range of vibrant festivals and events to celebrate The Gathering. Sligo Sligo Town Sligo 20-21 13th email: [email protected] 20th April Sligo Adventure Weekend Tel: 086 8099898 June Yeats Day July Sligo County Show Tel: 071 9127177 email: [email protected] www.seasonofyeats.com www.sligocountyagrishow.com The highest calibre of international, national and local artists grace Sligo venues in a sparkling series of arts and cultural events Collooney Rosses Point Sligo Town 27-28 The Creative Writer’s Workshop/ 14-16 Rosses Point email: [email protected] 16-21 throughout the year. April Tel: 086 2523428 June July Sligo Jazz Festival Tel: 071 9161518 Memoir Writing / Yeats Building www.thecreativewritersworkshop.com Sea Shanty Festival 2013 www.rossespointshanty.com www.sligojazz.ie So check out The Gathering, Sligo events calendar and ensure that So Sligo Food & Culture Sligo Town Cleveragh Irish Seaweed Riverstown 1-6 email: [email protected] 18th 25-26 your visit coincides with a festival for a truly memorable trip. May June Sligo Races Evening Meeting Tel: 071 9162484 July Tel: 0041 788118540 Festival 2013 web: www.sosligo.com www.countysligoraces.com Kitchen & Coopershill House email: [email protected] Its a credit to all the community groups and clubs that are putting Sligo Town Grange 1-2 The World Irish Stew www.worldirish 21-23 [email protected] 25-28 such an effort into making 2013 a massive celebration of the May June Celtic Fringe Festival July Coolaney Summer Festival Tel: 086 886 7379 Championships stewchampionship.com www.celticfringefest.com email: [email protected] Gathering. We hope that many visitors will visit our area and the important thing will be to offer a huge “Cead Mile Failte” so as to 4-5 Sligo Town 24th Open week in Enniscrone 26-28 /Sligo An Post Tour of Sligo 2013 Tel: 071 9161511 Tel: 096 60600 Nangle Family Gathering Tel: 086 1523151 ensure many return visits for years to come. May www.sligosportandrecreation.ie June Enniscrone Golf Club email: [email protected] July email: [email protected]

I wish to thank Failte Ireland, , IPB, Sligo 5th Cleveragh 28-30 Paddy Killoran Ballymote 28th Keash Sligo Races Day Meeting Tel: 071 9162484 Tel: 086 6036243 Home for Garland Sunday Tel: 071 9183013 Tourism and my hard working Gathering Committee for all the May www.countysligoraces.com June Traditional Festival www.comhaltas.ie July email: [email protected] efforts to date and hope our visitors enjoy their visit to Sligo and Yeats Country. 4-6 Tubbercurry 27-29 Sligo International Sligo Town 28 July - Yeats International Sligo Town May South Sligo Walking Festival Tel: 087 9671339 June Tel: 086 8094211 Tel: 071 919 0400 www.southsligowalkingfestival.com Song Contest email: [email protected] 9 August Summer School www.yeats-sligo.com Joe Corcoran Chairman Music in Drumcliffe Drumcliffe Lily & Loly Sligo Town 22 July - Sligo Town 4-6 13-22 email: [email protected] May Tel: 01 505 9582 June Tel: 071 9143686 Tread Softly Sligo Gathering Committee. (Vogler Quartet) www.musicindrumcliffe.ie Craftfest Northwest email: [email protected] 9 August www.seasonofyeats.com 2nd Sligo Town 6-12 Cos Cos Sean Nos Rathcormac/Drumcliffe July Gurteen July - Scotlands Day Cleveragh IMBOLC Festival Tel: 071 9141138 Tel: 086 1925988 Comhaltas Summer Seisiun Tel: 071 918 2599 Tel: 071 9162484 Febuary email: [email protected] May Gathering Festival www.coscos.ie Weekly www.colemanirishmusic.com August @ The Sligo Races email: [email protected]

19-20 Sligo Town 10-12 A Celebration Sligo Town 1-3 Enniscrone August Gurteen March Kings of Country Tel: 087 1206748 May Tel: 087 1304843 July Atlantic Coast Golf Challenge Tel: 097 82292 Weekly Comhaltas Summer Seisiun Tel: 071 918 2599 www.oceanfm.ie/kings_of_country of Sligo Families email: [email protected] www.carnegolflinks.com www.colemanirishmusic.com 17th Sligo St. Patricks Sligo Town 19-23 The Creative Writer’s Workshop/ Collooney 1-5 Gurteen 5-7 Carmel Gunning Sligo Town March Tel: 071 9173166 May Tel: 086 2523428 July Coleman Bodhran School Tel: 086 3013567 August Tel: 087 6250454 Day Parade www.oceanfm.ie/kings_of_country Travel Writing & Photography www.thecreativewritersworkshop.com www.colemanbodhran.com Summer School email: [email protected] 15-17 Maugherow 19-24 Sligo 6th The Great Sligo Sligo 2-4 James Morrison Riverstown March Maugherow’s Call Tel: 086 8973472 May Emigrant Trail Tour Tel: 071 9143728 July Tel: 085 1314084 August Tel: 071 9165283 email: [email protected] www.sligoroots.com Fresh Air Experience email: [email protected] Traditional Music Festival www.morrison.ie 15-18 St. Patricks Ballymote 22nd Cleveragh 10-14 Sligo Town 3-5 Benbulben March Tel: 087 6796056 May Sligo Races Evening Meeting Tel: 071 9162484 July Cairde Festival Tel: 087 2214079 August Benbulben Speaks Tel: 087 6892610 Day Festival (Ballymote) email: [email protected] www.countysligoraces.com www.cairdefestival.com email: [email protected] 23rd Sligo Duathlon 24-26 Yeats Country Sligo Town 20th Rosses Point 3-5 Curry Moylough Curry/Moylough Rosses Point Warrior of the Sea 6K Swim email: [email protected] March www.sligotriathlon.ie May Tel: 086 2652871 July August Tel: 087 6702903 (4k Run, 15k Bike, 2.5k Run) International Bridge Congress email: [email protected] www.wots.biz Heritage Gathering email: [email protected] 2-27 Sligo Town 1-31 Sligo Town 19-21 Ballygawley 3rd Tubercurry 84th Feis Shligigh Tel: 071 9168197 Bealtaine Festival Sligo Tel: 071 911 1826 Ballygawley Fest 2013 Tel: 086 1025285 Brennan Family Reunion Tel: 087 7980114 March www.feis-shligigh.ie May www.sligoarts.ie July www.visitballygawley.com August Mullaghmore Rosses Point 29th March 25th Rosses Point 12 July - Sligo Famine Diaspora; 3-4 Rosses Point - 1st April Visit Ballintogher 2013 Tel: 086 3822293 May Rosses Point Triathlon Olympic www.sligotriathlon.ie Tel: 071 9176737 August Tel: 086 1744255 email: [email protected] 4 Aug Palmerston’s Sligo Estate, 1847 Exhibition email: [email protected] Through the Decades email: [email protected] Rosses Point Riverstown Various Ballymote 27th March West of Ireland Amateur 1-4 13 - 14 3rd - 2nd April Tel: 071 9177134 June Annual Riverstown Vintage Day Tel: 071 916 5001 July Sligo Stages Rally Tel: 086 867 5038 August 19th Battalion FCA Reunion Tel: 087 2341844 Open Golf Championship www.countysligogolfclub.ie www.sligofolkpark.com www.connachtmotorclub.com email: [email protected] Sligo Cleveragh 1st Carney 5-13 14th 3-5 Guided Tour of Carney 10k www.sligotriathlon.ie Emigrant Trail Tour Tel: 071 9143728 Sligo Races Family Day Tel: 071 9162484 Tel: 087 9671339 April June www.sligoroots.com July www.countysligoraces.com August South Sligo’s Local Heritage Sites [email protected] Designed & Printed by Business Supplies, 096 72755.