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All the land’s a stage: The pick of 2022’s summer festivals

What’s better than a summer festival? Very little – and particularly this coming season, when festival goers are finally allowed back to their old hunting grounds after two years of pandemic-related silence. Here, we pick some of the highlights to come across arts, music, food, gardening and literary festivals

Festival goers are finally allowed back to their old hunting grounds after two years of pandemic-related silence. Here is our pick of the best events to enjoy this summer. Picture: Ruth Medjber

JUNE

Listowel Writers’ Week

Where: Listowel, Co Kerry

When: June 1-5

Who: Claire Keegan, John Boyne, John Connolly, Lara Marlowe and Louise Kennedy, among many more

What: one of the country’s oldest and most loved literary festivals features panel discussions, interviews, poetry readings, cultural tours, walks and more.

Don’t miss: Claire Keegan’s events at the festival. The author of Small Things Like These recently saw her novella Foster turned into the award-winning Irish language film ...