CELEBRATE the 54th Clarke Machinery Group Queen of the Land Festival this Friday to Sunday, 9-11 November, at the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore. This Macra na Feirme-run festival celebrates the talents and achievements of its members. Featuring contestants from at home and abroad, the festival runs over three days drawing Macra na Feirme members and non-members from all over the country to the midlands for the weekend. This year we will see a superb line-up of entertainment, craic agus ceoil. The Irish Farmers Journal and Irish Country Living would like to wish our very own Katríona Kinsella the very best of luck as she represents Co Wicklow over the weekend. Find out more at www.queenofthelandfestival.com.

VISIT Kilkenny this Thursday at the ninth edition of Kilkenomics, the world’s first economics and comedy festival. This unique event brings together some of the world’s leading economists, financial analysts and media commentators with some of our funniest, sharpest stand-up comedians.What started as a way to make sense of the 2008 economic crash has turned into the Kilkenomics festival as we know it today. The aim of Kilkenomics has always been to take economics out of the conference room and academia and make it accessible to ordinary people’s lives. Now you can laugh and learn all about economics. See www.kilkenomics.com

MEET people from all over the world to tell stories, jokes and join in on sing songs, at Sneem Folklore Fest in Co Kerry this weekend, from 9-11 November. This wonderful event started off in 2011 as an idea by chairman Batt Burns, coming to fruition the following year. Since then, the festival has grown year on year, attracting storytellers from across the world as well as home grown Seanachais. There are stories to swap, music to play and workshops and performances to enjoy at this authentic Irish festival which celebrates Seanachais of past, present and future. See www.sneemstorytellingfestival.com for more information.

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ENJOY Art Source Ireland’s biggest art event of the year at the RDS Dublin this Friday to Sunday, 9-11 November. Over 15,000 people are expected to view exhibits from artists across all genres. From cutting-edge contemporary art, realism and portraiture, to abstract art and landscapes, Art Source 2018 will showcase it all in one place and give visitors a fantastic opportunity to meet the artists and to buy directly from them. Subjects of the featured work will include Grace Jones, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jay Z, LCD Soundsystem, Garbage, Prodigy and St Vincent. Children can design their own superhero masks, thanks to Ireland’s children’s arts and health organisation Helium Arts. There really is something for all the family. See www.artsource.ie.

JOIN the people of Ballyshannon, Co Donegal this Thursday to Sunday, 8-11 November, as they honour poet William Allingham during the annual Allingham Arts Festival. This year’s events include a tribute to poet Francis Harvey, performances from the Donegal Youth Orchestra and ‘Black 47’, plus an exclusive Q&A with Patrick and Rossa O’Neill, a WWI Remembrance Day performance, Wild Atlantic Writers with Jessica Traynor, as well as a social media workshop designed specifically for writers with the renowned Paul McVeigh, plus much more. This tribute festival is family friendly, with plenty of arts, crafts and film fun for the little ones too. See www.allinghamfestival.com.