Samhain Festival Ireland 2024. Learn how modern halloween traditions developed from the ancient celtic pagan festival of samhain. For four nights the worlds of past and present collide to bring you a dazzling street celebration of all things spooky in the official home of halloween.

There are four quarter festivals, the solstices and the equinoxes and four cross quarter festivals. Samhain festival for 2023 (thursday 02nd to sunday 05th november) takes many of these elements to the heritage town of kells, co meath;