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🍦Grab an ice-cream and celebrate - your Irish summer social media content is sorted.
📅 July starts the second half of the year, so share your thoughts – what have you done already and what have you planned?
📅 August is about about staying cool, back to school, and making the most of the last days of sunshine.
July is a great month for sports and outdoor events generally. It usually has the All Ireland finals (hurling on the 20th, football on the 27th), Galway Arts Festival (14-27th), Longitude (5-6th), and Forest Fest (Emo Village, Laois). The Tour De France and Wimbledon will take over the TVs too! Cork LGBT and Pride starts on 30th July and goes until Aug 6th.
August keeps the heat on: Puck Fair (always on the 10th-12th), Rose of Tralee (15th-19th), Dublin Horse Show (14th-18th), All Together Now (July 31st – Aug 3rd), Fleadh Cheoil (4th-11th) and National Heritage Week (16th-24th). Electric Picnic from the 29th to 31st.
Some other hot dates for the diary:
😆Jul 1st: Share a joke or funny picture on
🍫Jul 7th:
💛Jul 30th: International Day of Friendship – boost a friend’s content or do a “tag-a-friend” giveaway
🌾Aug 1: Lughnasadh/Lúnasa – Irish harvest season
🍦Aug 4th is a public holiday (yay!)
📷Aug 19th: show off your pics on
🐱Love animals? Aug 8th is International Cat Day and Aug 26th is International Dog Day.🐶
29/10/2024
‘tis the season of kindness, charity, and stressed-out marketing! No need to put yourself on the naughty list, here's some inspiration for Irish content in November and December.
It’s time to get social with pre-Christmas sales, gifts – including corporate gifting – and parties galore. Show off your sparkling ideas for gifts, celebrate the party season with sumptuous clothes and food, and share your festive planning and survival tips.
⛄Winter is really here so embrace the cold – check out and .
🥶Not a winter person? Us neither. You can talk up the from the 21st when the days start to get longer again.
🏷️November starts with men’s health (Movember) and ends with the big sales bonanza that is Black Friday on the 29th and Cyber Monday on Dec 2nd.
🌳Not feeling the Black Friday vibe? is a more sustainable option, growing in popularity in recent years, encouraging people buy local and support Irish where possible.
🎅December is about goodwill, great eating – and getting though the festive season in one piece. It really is the happy holidays – December has Hannukah, Yule & a Krampus as well as Santa!
Winter 2024 events in Ireland include, in November:
🎁1st – (all month),
🌲5th – American Presidential Election
🎁6th – Stress Awareness Day
🌲7th – International Stout Day
🎁8th – STEM/STEAM Day
🌲13th – World Kindness Day – share the stories behind your business – the charities that matter to you or thanking people for their kindness.
🎁19th –
🌲20th –
🌲29th – Thanksgiving (USA)
🎁30th – Small Business Saturday
And December:
🌲1st – Human Right’s Month / World Aids Day
🎁3rd – International Day of People with Disabilities
🎁6th – The Late Late Toy Show
🌲18th – International Migrants Day
🎁21st – Winter Solstice
🌲24th, 25th, 26th – Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, St Stephen’s Day
🎁31st – New Years’ Eve
Boo! 👻 Did we scare you? Halloween is almost here and Christmas is just around the corner (that’s actually terrifying). Here are some frightfully fun content ideas for October 2024.
October is time to enjoy the harvest, kick up those fallen leaves and break out the pumpkin spice and cosy sweaters. October is also the month of Bullying Prevention, Global Diversity Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness.
Events in Ireland in October include:
- Di**le Food Festival – 4-6 Oct
- Belfast International Arts Festival – 16 Oct-2 Nov
- Wexford Festival Opera – 18 Oct-2 Nov
- Cork Jazz Festival – 24-28 Oct
- Sligo Live Music Festival – 24 Oct- 3 Nov
- Bram Stoker Festival – 25-28 Oct
- Dublin City Marathon – 27 Oct
- Macnas Parade (Galway) – 27 Oct
- Derry Hallowe’en Festival – 28-31 Oct – Europe’s biggest Halloween festival
Dates to dies for!😱
🎃1st – Oct 1st is a busy one, it’s International Music Day , , and the Day of Older Persons
4th –
👻4th – International Animal Day
🎃5th – International Teachers Day
👻10th –
🎃11th –
👻16th –
🎃22nd – Got something you want to shout about? It’s
👻24th – United Nations Day
with an extra hour’s sleep – the clocks go back on Oct 27th.
🎃The 28th is a public holiday here in Ireland.
🍬31st – No tricks, only treats – it’s finally Halloween
🎃What comes after October?👻
It’s starting to look a lot like… well, time for planning Christmas, anyway! If you have big plans for Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas, now is the time to get them moving. With less 65 days to Dec 1st (we know, we know, we’re sorry to remind you!) most digital marketers are already planning lots of end-of-year campaigns by Oct 1st.
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