Samhain Festival Ireland 2024 Dates. Samhain is a fire festival, one of the eight celtic festivals of the wheel of the year, the others being the two solstices, the two equinoxes, imbolc, bealtaine and lughnasa. Samhain 2024 will be observed from the evening of thursday, october 31st, 2024 to the end of the day on friday, november 1st, 2024.
Halloween began in ireland thousands of years ago. The galway comedy festival returns this halloween, running from october 22nd to 28th, 2024, bringing top international and irish comedians to venues across.