Dingle Druid/ Juli Ni Mhaoileoin / Juli Malone

05/12/2025

Mile buíochas ó chroí do &
What a magic weekend in Di**le. Thousands of music lovers came to our town for Other voices.A diverse group of gorgeous musicians & music lovers.
Precious music, vibrating like a whistling, whispering, welcome wind, bathing us in new ways of being.

It was and always is amazing.

Mile buíochas do , Bhí an maidin again ag an ceardlann lóchrainn.

Next year brings 25 years and the massive team behind Other Voices return.

Special buíochas for .
John and his team always incredibly kind and professional. And the food always top class. I love Benners it has an old world charm and a very warm welcome.

Tá mó chroí lán, ready to enter the fertile darkness of Winter now. Fireside dreaming with the ancestors to emerge renewed in Spring .

21/11/2025

18/11/2025

Friday evening @ 4.30 pm . Wetlands centre in Tralee, I am holding a free fire ceremony as the Cailleach effigy is returned to the earth . Music by .

Effigy to Be Returned to Nature in Closing Samhain Ritual at Tralee Bay Wetlands

The closing event of the inaugural Samhain Chiarraí – A Kerry Halloween Festival will take place at 4.30pm on Friday, 21st November 2025, at the Tralee Bay Wetlands Willow Park, marking the final chapter of this year’s celebrations.

Titled ‘Gabh Buíochas / Gratitude’, the event invites the public to join the Di**le Druid for an atmospheric ceremony of fire, song and ritual, as the carefully crafted Cailleach Willow Effigy — created through community willow-weaving and lantern-making workshops held across Kerry — is ceremonially returned to the earth.

This closing ritual offers a reflective moment to acknowledge the turning of the Celtic year: A time to turn inwards, to gather our inner light in the winter darkness, to rest and regenerate in preparation for the renewal of spring.

The ceremony brings to completion the festival’s month-long celebration of Samhain across Kerry, which has included processions, fire theatre, storytelling, workshops and community events from the Hub towns of Tralee, Killarney and Listowel and sixteen other associated community events and festivals throughout Kerry.

This final gathering at Tralee Bay Wetlands is free to attend via Eventbrite ticketing and all are welcome to share in the closing moment of the 2025 Samhain Chiarraí Festival.

Register here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/gabh-buiochas-gratitude-tickets-1969274889205?aff=oddtdtcreatorCailleach

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