Celebrating 30 years of Bealtaine at the National Museum of Ireland
Since 1995, Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine festival has been a vibrant, nationwide festival celebrating arts and creativity as we age. With performances, exhibitions, readings, and workshops taking place across Ireland, the festival invites everyone to engage, create, and connect.The National Museum of Ireland has been proud to participate in this festival for the past thirty years and to offer a range of different events for members of the public to engage and participate in. Themes ranged from Be Our Guest, Push the boat out, whatever the sea, All together now - Power of the Collective, and Grow Happy.
We look back on those themes over the past thirty years and reflect on the events held across the four sites of the National Museum. We invite you to reflect with us and digitally explore by visiting the pages below.
Please note this is a living archive and we will be adding to this page throughout the course of 2025.