Beo-tiful Bealtaine: Celebrate the Celtic Fire Festival

Celebrate the Celtic Fire Festival of Bealtaine at the Irish Cultural Centre & Reconnect to the Abundance of Goddess Ériu

On 4th May, we continue Mary Ellen’s Celtic Wheel events with Beo-tiful Bealtaine, a celebration rooted in Cnoc Uisnigh—the Hill of Uisneach in Westmeath, near the farm where Mary Ellen was born and raised.

Here at Ireland’s Sacred Centre, over 5,000 people will gather around a tall tine cnámh—bonfire to mark the start of Mí Bealtaine—the month of May. This event embraces the joy and vitality associated with Bealtaine, highlighting the blooming of nature and the communal spirit of welcoming the new season. 

This ancient fire festival rekindles the bond between people and place, spirits and sinsear—ancestors, under Ériu’s powerful presence. Her resting place there at Aill na Mireann—The Stone of Divisions, reminds us of her tírghrá—deep love for the land itself. After all she gifted her name to it, for Ireland was first known as Ériu’s land.

You can expect another captivating mythological retelling from Mary Ellen, where Goddess Ériu and Amergin are united with fierce filíocht—poetry binding them and the Tuatha Dé to the sliabhta—mountains and the Síoga, go deo—forever. 

As Mary Ellen’s scéalta—stories guide you abhaile—home to yourself, her Gaeilge glimmers and the rhythm of the Irish language will stir something deep within, awakening the healing echoes of your mother tongue, stored within your bones and blood. 

Ériu embodies grá—love and calls you to follow our croí—heart. With Mary Ellen’s unique Mnátra Meditation you will feel beo—alive to your feminine energy. She’ll awaken your samhlaíocht—imagination as she invokes suaimhneas—ease. 

Mary Ellen is joined by musician Caitlín Mannion. 

Le chéile—together they‘ll weave spoken word and ceol—music to transport you to an otherworldly realm, to access inner power and saoirse—freedom within.

Both women stand at the heart of the Gael-wave in London, bród—proud to be part of a grass roots community reviving the feasa—wisdom and healing of our indigenous Irish culture through trad music and an Ghaeilge herself. 

Bígí linn—join us as we welcome the warmth and flowering fuinneamh—energy of summer!