Each year Dublin UNESCO City of Literature has an abundance of cultural events, cultural festivals and arts festivals. The City of Literature calendar contains an exciting array of cultural events including book festivals, writers festivals and festivals for all the family to enjoy.

• Bealtaine www.bealtaine.com
• Bloomsweek www.jamesjoyce.ie
• Children’s Book Festival www.childrensbooksireland.com
• Chinese New Year Festival www.dublincity.ie/cny
• Dublin Book Festival www.dublinbookfestival.com
• Dublin City Soul Festival www.dublincitysoulfestival.ie
• Dublin Fringe Festival www.fringefest.com
• Dublin Gay Theatre Festival www.gaytheatre.ie
• Dublin Ghost Bus www.dublinsightseeing.ie/ghostBus.aspx
• Dublin Handel Festival www.templebar.ie/Events-37/in_handels_day
• Dublin Horrorthon Film Festival www.horrorthon.com
• Dublin: One City, One Book www.dublinonecityonebook.ie
• Dublin Theatre Festival www.dublintheatrefestival.com
• Dublin Writers’ Festival www.dublinwritersfestival.com
• An Feis Ceoil www.feisceoil.ie
• Festival of World Cultures www.festivalofworldcultures.com
• Franco-Irish Literary Festival www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com
• GAZE: the Lesbian and Gay Festival www.gaze.ie
• Heineken Green Energy Festival www.visitdublin.com/events
• Imram www.imram.ie
• Jameson Dublin International Film Festival www.dubliniff.com
• Lights Out! Film Festival www.lightsout.ie
• Literary Pub Crawl www.dublinpubcrawl.com
• Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival www.mountainstosea.ie
• Martell French Film Festival www.irishfilm.ie
• Poetry Now Festival www.poetrynow.ie
• The Project Arts Centre www.projectartscentre.ie
• Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) www.snag.ie
• St. Patrick’s Festival www.stpatricksfestival.ie
• Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival www.irishfilm.ie
• Street Performance World Championship www.spwc.ie
• Temple Bar Trad Festival www.templebartrad.com