- Festivals
- Aran Islands Prose and Poetry Festival
- Features readings from celebrated international and Irish authors, lectures, workshops, and more. August 14-21, 1999. - Dublin Writers Festival
- Annual festival of Irish and international poetry and fiction, taking place in mid June. - William Carleton Summer School
- Aims primarily to present Carleton as a significant writer, worthy of serious critical attention, and to promote the study of his writings. Held annually, during the first full week in August
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