Get ready for Fleadh 2024
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
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Fleadhanna
About The Fleadh
Fleadh Cheoil means ‘a festival, or feast, of music’ and Comhaltas runs numerous Fleadhanna each year around the country including at County and Provincial level. Fleadhanna are also held in our overseas regions where they are sometimes known as ‘Féilte’. However, the biggest and best- known of these festivals is ‘Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann’, often simply known as ‘The Fleadh’.
‘For what I put in, I got way more out of it’
Fleadh 2022 volunteer
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, or the All-Ireland Fleadh, is the world’s largest annual festival of Irish music, song and dance and since its beginings in Mullingar in 1951 ‘The Fleadh’ has become a national institution, an annual event now drawing upwards of 600,000 visitors to the host town over the course of a week of festivities and competitions in August each year.
Those who compete for All-Ireland titles in music, song, dance and comhrá at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann have already qualified through participation at County and Provincial fleadhanna held throughout the late spring and early summer.
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024 will be held in Wexford from 4th – 11th of August. Discover more about Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2024
Find out where some of the towns where Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann was held through the years.
Results
Over 5,000 competitors took part in over 180 competitions at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Mullingar in August 2023. See the full listing of the results in all categories.
Scoil Éigse
Annually, over seven hundred and sometimes as many as nine hundred students attend Scoil Éigse which is the Irish traditional music summer school organised by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. It’s the flagship CCÉ educational event and is held in the week leading up to the Fleadh in the host town. Classes are conducted in all the instruments associated with Irish traditional music up to an advanced level. Students do not need to be at an advanced level, the Scoil Éigse experience will enhance their skill set. Masterclasses are also part of the week’s schedule.
“Emerging talent are encouraged and guided during Scoil Éigse by the cream of Irish trad artists in a wonderful hothouse of respect for tradition, encouragement, innovation and creativity which has been going for fifty years”