Some of the big names include The Undertones, Jerry Fish, Luka Bloom, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre and Ireland’s finest U2 tribute band, Rattle & Hum and soprano, Celine Byrne with pianist David Monro and violinist Nicole Hudson.

There are spoken word and literary events with Carole Coleman, Vona Groarke, Eileen Dunne, Cauvery Madhavan, Kathy Donaghy, Ollie Grace, Michael Mulvey and outrageous comedy from the Dublin Comedy Improv group, which features comedians Joe Rooney, Sharon Mannion, Danny Kehoe and Ian Coppinger along with a local premiere of the new film ‘Ann’.

The centrepiece of Boyle Arts Festival is the main Visual Exhibition in King House with artwork from leading Irish painter Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh.