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festivals · Friday 14 August 2026 · Various 
Féile na Gréine 2026
At Multiple venues across Limerick City · Limerick City, Co. Limerick
At Multiple venues across Limerick City · Limerick City, Co. Limerick
Féile na Gréine - the Festival of the Sun - is three days of experimental and emerging music spread across Limerick City, running August 14 to 16, 2026. Born in 2018 from a group of friends who simply started putting on gigs, it has grown into one of Ireland’s most distinctive small festivals: volunteer-run, fiercely independent, and built around the idea that good music should have no gatekeepers. If you have any appetite for discovering artists before everyone else does, this is the weekend for it.
The festival runs as a music trail rather than a single-stage event. Each day you move between venues - bars, coffee shops, arts spaces, underground clubs, and craft breweries scattered across the city centre - picking up the programme and following wherever it takes you. Ormston House, Pharmacia, The Record Room, and Mother Mac’s have all featured in previous editions, and the same intimate scale holds each year.
Emerging Irish artists sit alongside international acts, with a strong emphasis on experimental and left-of-field sounds - electronic, post-punk, ambient, and genre-crossing work that rarely finds a home on mainstream festival bills. The organisation also produces short films and publications alongside the gigs. The 2026 edition is ticketed - check feilelk.ie for the full programme and pricing once announced.
Limerick is well connected by rail and bus from Dublin (roughly two hours from Heuston), Cork (about 1 hour 45 by bus or train), and Galway (Bus Éireann, around two hours). The city centre is compact and walkable, which suits the trail format well. If you are driving, paid multi-storey parking is available close to the main shopping streets; Arthurs Quay car park is a handy central option.
Limerick’s medieval quarter, the Hunt Museum, and the restored King John’s Castle are all within easy reach of the festival venues. The city’s food scene has improved considerably in recent years, with good options for a meal before an evening gig. There is more to see in Limerick and across Co. Limerick.
Heading to Multiple venues across Limerick City in Limerick? Limerick has plenty more to see. Read the Limerick area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.