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	Age & Opportunity: Background to Bealtaine
		Bealtaine is a unique partnership between Age and Opportunity, national and local arts organisations, public libraries, V.E.C.s, health boards and groups of older people around the country.
		The majority of Bealtaine events are planned and organised independently while Age and Opportunity encourages participation through the provision of information, networking opportunities, publicity and the publication of the Bealtaine Bulletin, which lists all organisers and gives contact details - see the Bealtaine Bulletin 2006 on this web site.
		Bealtaine brings older people into contact with members of the wider community including school children in a range of events and in a range of capacities.
	www.olderinireland.ie /artsandculture/bealtaine/bealtaine-origins.htm (448 words)

	Wisdom Seekers of New Zealand - The Beltaine Fires ~ A Celtic Celebration. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bealtaine (pronounced Bel-tuhn-uh) or Beltaine as we have come to call it is the signpost pointing back to the Spring Equinox where life began anew, and also forward to the Summer Solstice, the culmination of the heat and light of summer.
		Bealtaine is given in honour of the coming of the Sun King, the child of the Sun Goddess called 'son of the Sun'.
		Bealtaine celebrates the sexual and fertile power of women and the land through the Goddess as a wild lover and a 'mother to be' for it is women that renew the world.
	www.wisdomseekers.org.nz /NeilGilesOct04.html (2266 words)

	Beacons of Bealtaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beacons of Bealtaine is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney composed for the EU Enlargement on May 1, 2004.
		"Bealtaine" is a Gaelic holiday celebrated on this day marking the beginning of summer.
		The poem was read by Heaney at a ceremony for the 25 leaders of the enlarged EU arranged by the Irish EU presidency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beacons_of_Bealtaine (101 words)

	Age & Opportunity: Bealtaine in Previous Years
		Bealtaine 2003 and Bealtaine 2002 and a summary of Bealtaine 2001.
		Bealtaine is one of the biggest Arts festivals in the land with over 700 events running in hundreds of diverse venues throughout the twenty-six counties during the 2004 festival.
		Traditionally one of the key elements of Bealtaine has been the collaboration of the national arts institutions as evidenced in the Affairs of The Arts programmes: the film December Bride, the exhibition Bearings and the play The Shaughran were the focus of this year's two-day event.
	olderinireland.ie /artsandculture/bealtaine/bealtaine-previousyears.htm (1681 words)

	Bealtaine at Tara - Indymedia Ireland
		Bealtaine is the time of year when nature suddenly seems to burst forth from the winter grip.
		At Bealtaine all fires were extinguished and a sacred fire was started on the Hill of Uisneach, which was then brought to Tara.
		"Bealtaine, Lammas (or Lughnasa), Samhain and Imbolc are Solar festivals occurring half way between the solstices and the equinoxes.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/82169 (659 words)

	Beltaine
		Bealtaine was called Walpurgisnacht in Germanic lands, and takes its name from a christianized Teutonic Mother Earth Goddess named Wal- burga who was thought to marry the God on this night and become impregnated with her son/lover of Yule.
		For most European cultures, Bealtaine marked the time of the final phase of spring planting, and their immediate concern was for the condition of the tender new shoots.
		Ashes from the Bealtaine balefire were scattered over the fields to bless and protect them, and infertile women would take these ashes and tie them in a bag around their necks.
	psychicinvestigator.com /demo/belta.htm (2391 words)

	Feasting at Bealtaine
		Bealtaine comes at such a welcome time, with the sun increasingly shining and the warmth chasing away memories of cold, snowy or damp winter.
		Still, in earlier times in Celtic lands, Bealtaine was when crops were just sown and the stored results of the previous harvest were dwindling.
		Bealtaine also marked the opening of hunting in medieval times.
	www.geocities.com /celticwell/ejournal/beltane/feasting.htm (821 words)

	Speech by Mr. Ivor Callely T.D. at the launch of the Bealtaine Festival
		Each year Bealtaine allows for a focus to be put on older people and growing older - on what is possible as we age, rather than what may not be possible.
		The Bealtaine Festival is an excellent example of co-operation between organisations of older people in care settings and arts organisations working together at local and national level.
		Bealtaine provides opportunities for greater participation by older people in the arts, be that the visual arts, drama, story-telling, dance or films.
	www.dohc.ie /press/speeches/2004/20040420a.html (727 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Bealtaine arts festival starts today
		Bealtaine, the month long arts festival that celebrates creativity in older age, starts today in venues throughout the country.
		This is the eighth year of the festival which covers all artforms including theatre, literature, dance, film, storytelling, music, painting, sculpture and criticism.
		Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, said: "The Bealtaine Festival reaches a broad spectrum of participants in a variety of settings, ranging from professional artists and practitioners to people who have never before had the opportunity to participate in the arts".
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0501/bealtaine.html (117 words)

	Bealtaine '99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bealtaine is a national festival, presented by Age and Opportunity.
		Bealtaine 2000 was a major celebration of that creativity.
		Bealtaine 2000 was the largest festival to date and featured over sixty events in more than thirty centres throughout County Donegal.
	www.donegal.ie /dcc/arts/bealtaine.htm (348 words)

	Celtic Fire Festivals in The Summerlands
		Bealtaine was the time when divorces were granted in Ireland as well as a night of release from the Winter.
		This festival was associated with the province of Connacht and the fortress of Uisneach.
		Bealtaine marks the beginning of summer when the land is filled with plenty.
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/library/celticfi.htm (2466 words)

	beltaine
		Bealtaine is the festival of fire and fertility, celebrated on May 1st.
		Bealtaine is the first day of summer and begins the light half of the year, as Samhain begins the Celtic year and begins winter, the dark half.
		Significant events always happened at Bealtaine It was at Bealtaine that PartholÛn arrived as the leader of the first mythical invasion of Ireland.
	www.geocities.com /nancyvenus/beltaine.html (540 words)

	Western People: Bealtaine Festival takes to floor with tea dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bealtaine is the national festival celebrating creativity in older age and is held in May each year.
		Bealtaine aims to involve older people in the arts through creative expression and active participation.
		As part of the Bealtaine 2003 festival to celebrate crerativity in older age, Mayo County Council Arts Office, in association with the Linenhall Arts Centre, presented an afternoon of music, song and storytelling by John Hoban, and storyteller Pat Speight, on Tuesday 6th May. A large crowd enjoyed the music and the stories
	www.westernpeople.ie /news/story.asp?j=13503 (464 words)

	Astrology on the Web: Celtic Fire Festivals 3
		Bealtaine (pronounced Bel-tuhn-uh) is the signpost pointing back to the Spring Equinox where life begins anew, and also forward to the Summer Solstice, the culmination of the heat and light of summer.
		At Bealtaine, bonfires were lit and there would be dancing and merriment around them, including acrobatic leaps across the burning logs to show our daring and prowess as we woo our lover, the Earth.
		Bealtaine was given in honour of the coming of the Sun King, child of the Sun Goddess, son of the Sun.
	www.astrologycom.com /celtfire3.html (1163 words)

	Fonn cuartaíochta ar Bhalor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Is leo sin anois Lá Bealtaine, dar leo féin, agus ag iad ag sleamhnú amach as a gcuid pluaiseanna le trioblóid a chothú sa tírín seo nach bhfuil taithí ar bith aici ar thrioblóid. "Ach cé hiad féin?" a cheistíonn Balor.
		Lá Bealtaine na bliana seo rinne rialtas na hÉireann éacht thar éachtaí dá ndearna siad riamh roimhe, níos tábhachtaí agus níos mó ar leas na tíre ná go fiú an pinsean a bhaint de na baintreacha.
		Ach is mí fhriseáilte, íocshláinteach, athbhríoch í mí seo na Bealtaine, dar le laoch na litríochta: an t-am a dtagann duilliúr ar na crainn agus bláthanna ar na sceacha, an t-am a dtosaíonn suán na beatha ag sníomh aníos arís fríd a chuid féitheacha.
	www.beo.ie /2004-05/balor.asp?print=true (642 words)

	Waterford News & Star: Bealtaine Festival In Waterford Celebrates Creativity In Older Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bealtaine 2002 is the single biggest celebration of participation in the arts by older people in Ireland.
		Bealtaine Events in Co. Waterford will be many and varied over the course of May 2002.
		The Bealtaine Film Tour brings Australian comedy The Dish to the Garter Lane on May 8.
	www.waterford-news.ie /news/story.asp?j=5179 (283 words)

	Feile na Bealtaine - About the festival
		In 2008 Féile na Bealtaine will be celebrating our 14th anniversary.
		The festival was also associated with the Sun God 'Belenos' who was worshipped in Gaul, Italy and the Alps.The Irish year was basically divided into two parts Ó Samhain go Bealtaine is ó Bealtaine go Samhain.
		The Irish year was basically divided into two parts Ó Samhain go Bealtaine is ó Bealtaine go Samhain.
	www.feilenabealtaine.ie /aboutus.html (305 words)

	Sabbaths @ PathWalkers.Net - Hunter of the Light: Wheel of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The winter solstice (midwinter) lies between Samhain, and Imbolc, the spring equinox between Imbolc and Bealtaine, summer solstice (midsummer) between Bealtaine and Lughnasadh, and the autumn equinox falls between Lughnasadh and Samhain.
		As Samhain and Bealtaine are the hinges on which the Wheel turns, so are they the greatest and most perilous days of the year.
		Every ninth year, it is on Samhain that the Stag begins to run, and on Bealtaine that the Goddess Éire chooses her new Hunter.
	www.pathwalkers.net /sabbaths/hunter-of-the-light-wheel.html (629 words)

	Echoed Voices: Beltaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It was with this definition that we began to realize that Bealtaine was a bit more complicated that we had thought.
		Bealtaine not only had a "Scottish" definition (which was very ambiguous to begin with), but had Gaelic, Old English, and Greek roots to the name.
		What does seem to be a unifying link in the ways that Bealtaine is celebrated is that it is ultimately a festival of rebirth - celebrating the coming of spring, and the springing forth of new life that the season brings to us.
	www.echoedvoices.org /May2003/Beltaine.html (1972 words)

	The Kingdom: Bealtaine festivities are set to continue in Kerry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		BEALTAINE 2003 festivities continued throughout Kerry this month with dozens taking part in the single biggest celebration of participation in the arts by older people.
		Now in its eight year, Bealtaine has expanded to include every region covering 24 counties with a range of more than 500 arts activities and events.
		Supported by Age and Opportunity the national agency that challenges negative attitudes to ageing and older people Bealtaine 2003 aims to promote greater participation by older people in Kerry society.
	www.the-kingdom.ie /news/story.asp?j=9190 (199 words)

	May
		The two weeks before Bealtaine is ceitean earrach, spring May-time, and the two weeks after Bealtaine is ceitean samhradh, summer May-time.
		Bealtaine, also associated the God Bel, means 'the fires of Bel'.
		May Day, Beltane, La Bealtain, Cedsoman or Ceadamh (Irish for the "first of Summer"), May Day, Rood Day, Rudemas, Galan Haf, Walpurgisnacht is celebrated with bonfires atop hills, sometimes near sacred trees in honor of the coming summer and the rebirth of the sun.
	www.angelfire.com /de/poetry/Holy_Days/may.html (3978 words)

	Bealtaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Sonorities Contemporary Music Festival, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Dingle's Feile na Bealtaine with Micheal O Suilleabhain and that other Bealtaine, the Laois Literary one over the weekend, as wasDublin's St Pat's, rescheduled due to F&...
		The ancient festival of ' Bealtaine' will return to the park as families join in the preparations of the Great Maytime feast.
		About 5,000 people attend events at the Feile na Bealtaine, the West Kerry festival, held in the first week of May. Dingle GP Dr Micheal Fanning, the director of the festival, said...
	irish.encyclopedia.st /Bealtaine (286 words)

	Gaelic Bealtaine
		When the sun shone on water, the power transferred to the water and could be accessed by humans who washed in the water or drank it or threw it on animals, places, and things.
		Local wells would lose their power after the first use on Bealtaine morn, but special holy wells whose power was thought to be greatest at Bealtaine would service many devotees.
		Washing the face in the dew of Bealtaine morn was thought to be effective against aging.
	www.applewarrior.com /celticwell/ejournal/beltane/gaelic_bealtaine.htm (1937 words)

	This Month in Celtic History -- May 2001
		Bealtaine, the 1st of May, was one of the most important of the four quarterly feasts of the ancient Celts, as it marked the start of summer and the beginning of the “light half” of the year when the daylight grows long and all living things flourish.
		Bealtaine is thus a time of turnover, of new beginnings.
		It was on the eve of Bealtaine in 1916 that the last Irish units in the ill-fated Easter Rising surrendered to English forces.
	www.celticleague.org /history_5-01.html (763 words)

	Minister Callely opens programme of events for the Bealtaine Festival
		The Minister pointed out that Bealtaine is the only arts festival that specifically targets older people and that this year the Festival will include some 560 events country-wide, covering a broad range of artistic endeavours and emphasised the importance of participation of older people in the arts.
		The Minister also stated that he is a firm believer in the contribution that participation in the arts can bring to all of us, as we age, both as individuals and as a society.
		The Minister concluded by congratulating all those groups who are involved in Bealtaine is organisers, performers, artists, and audience throughout the entire month and for the rest of the year.
	www.dohc.ie /press/releases/2004/20040420.html (360 words)

	The Kingdom - 2004/05/06: Dingle - Féile na Bealtaine kicks off in style
		THE tenth annual Féile na Bealtaine was officially opened on Thursday night last by Mayor of Kerry Councillor Breandán MacGearailt and continues until Sunday, May 9.
		Féile na Bealtaine has developed steadily over the years and is now one of the major cultural festivals in the South West.
		The Dingle Peninsula has a rich cultural heritage and Féile na Bealtaine’s aims are to promote this natural heritage and to introduce the arts and artists - not alone from Ireland but across the globe.
	archives.tcm.ie /thekingdom/2004/05/06/story13312.asp (1439 words)

	Limerick Leader - May 1st, 1999 - Features - Odds and Ends with An Mangaire Súgach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Irish name for May, as most of my readers know, is Bealtaine; and May Day (Lá Bealtaine) and May Eve were very important dates in the Ireland of the past.
		Bealtaine - that is, Lá Bealtaine, May Day - was, of course, one of the four great feasts of the pre-Christian Celtic year.
		The working of pishogues on May Eve was a relic of that, some kind of distorted memory that had percolated down from remote pagan times, through centuries of Christianity, to our own days.
	www.limerick-leader.ie /issues/19990501/seoighe.html (929 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Bealtaine Festival events announced
		Details of this year's month-long Bealtaine Festival have been announced.
		The festival, which celebrates creativity in older age, takes place throughout May with over 400 arts activities and events taking place in 23 counties across Ireland.
		Further information is available from Age and Opportunity, The Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9 (01 837 0570).
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/0416/bealtaine.html (130 words)

	Bealtaine Arts Festival 2002 Timetable of Events Day 3
		Bealtaine Arts Festival Timetable of Events 3rd May
		Publicity:Newbridge has a lively voluntary sector and Bealtaine with Christy is delighted to be able to say thanks for all the work.
		Bealtaine is proud to present Artastic, Ardangheasa, local artists, the schools and community groups in a vibrant multi-coloured celebration of this year's theme of "Warmth and Welcome" on our Main St. Watch out for the world priemere of the Taikoo Band from Kildare - Thunder Drums.
	kildare.ie /bealtaine/bealtaine_timetable_03.asp (282 words)

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