What is this madness? It's the summer and the sun is actually shining! You'd better make the most of this midsummer madness while it lasts and we've got some great festivals to help you do just that. Check 'em out and fill your June full of festivals.

Galway Sessions: 23rd June 2013
The Galway Sessions 2013 is a week-long event which taps into and showcases the unique and vibrant culture and heritage of Galway and its environs. Galway is home to a great many of Ireland's top traditional & folk acts that travel the globe widely performing top class traditional music. Read more.

Strawberry Festival: 28th - 30th June 2013
The Strawberry Festival is one of Ireland's oldest and most diverse of festivals featuring music from local and national artists. Strawberry Princesses will attend an opening night ball leading to a selection of the Strawberry Queen who will then be entered into the Rose of Tralee Competition. The festival also boasts a new Sportive event, an All-Ireland Farmers Market, a singing pubs competition, music competition for teenagers, loads of children's activities, fringe events plus much much more. Read more.

Dublin Pride: 21st - 30th June 2013
Dublin Pride 2013 will be a phenomenal festival celebrating three very important historic milestones. This festival will represent the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Gay movement; the 30th anniversary of the Dublin Pride Parade and the 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland. Read more.

Loughcrew Summer Solstice Festival: 21st June - 14 July 2013
The Loughcrew Summer Solstice Festival is a unique festival, which celebrates the Summer solstice, set within amazing surroundings that are overlooked by the Loughcrew hills and unspoiled Loughcrew Cairns. It's the perfect location to unwind and begin the summer festivities. Read more.

Love Longford Summer Festival: 21st - 30th June 2013
Love Longford Summer Festival 2013 will be a blend of music, entertainment, sports and children's activities together with literary and cultural events to suit all genres. This event is to be one of Co. Longford's main contributions to The Gathering 2013 and is a celebration of everything that's great about Longford. Read more.

Cork Midsummer Festival: 21st June 1st July 2013
Cork Midsummer Festival is smart, startling, annual festival that takes place in Cork City and county - captivating a growing audience of all ages. Featuring over ten days of world-class theatre, dance, music, opera, visual art and street art, it presents unique events in unexpected places. Read more.

Féile an Grianan Ailigh | Awakening the Horsemen: 21st - 22nd June 2013
Féile Grianán Áiliagh celebrates the summer solstice festival weekend 2013 with Irish landscape spectacle company LUXe keeping the darkness at bay from dusk to dawn. Enjoy an installation of fire and light sculpture weaving a musical pilgrimage for all the family and awakening the legendary horsemen that sleep beneath Grianan of Aileach, one of Ireland's most spectacular ancient sites and the most identifiable structure on the landscape in the entire north west region. Read more.

Body and Soul: 21st - 23rd June 2013
Body And Soul presents its own flight of fancy - a decadent secret of sorts. An independent festival with a heart shaped mind and a cutting edge soul, staging a modern celebration of the age old solstice tradition. Read more.