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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

24/09/2024

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.

26/08/2024

Back to school and back to business! Here's some inspiration for your Irish Content calendar this September.

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Time for autumn festivals and colours, and harvest foods that warm the body and soul.🍂

Summer may be over but the evenings are still bright and mild. September is a month with plenty to celebrate and do, including Culture Night on the 20th. It’s Alzheimer’s month and National Heart month too.

Events in Ireland in September 2024 include: the Waterford Harvest Festival, Dublin Fringe, 7–22nd and the National Ploughing Championships (Ratheniska), 17-19th.

🍂5th: International Day of Charity – tell a charity’s story or talk up your favourite NFP this
🍂6th: – what’s on your reading list for the rest of the year? Get recommendations.
🍂10th: Swap Ideas Day – share your good ideas or ask for tips.
🍂22nd:
🍂25th: One Hit Wonder Day – never gonna give this one up! What do you love and why?
🍂26th: EU Day of Languages
🍂30th: International Podcast Day – recommend a great podcast – or record your own!

26/06/2024

Summer is here! It’s too nice to be indoors staring at a screen - here's some inspiration so you can get your posts done early and head off on holidays.

📅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.

Sport takes centre stage this summer as the Paris Olympics run from July 26th-August 11th.

July is a great month for sports and outdoor events generally. It usually has the All Ireland finals, Galway Arts Festival, Longitude, and Forest Fest (July 19-21 2024, at 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 (16th-20th), Dublin Horse Show (14th-18th), All Together Now (1st-4th), Fleadh Cheoil (4th-11th) and National Heritage Week (17th-25th). Electric Picnic may be early this year, 16-18th (tbc).

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 5th 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.🐶

31/05/2024

We're ending the month on a high note - with a lovely review from one of our clients.

Wishing everyone in Ireland and lovely long weekend. We will be out enjoying the sunshine and reopen on Tuesday June 4th.

28/05/2024

🏖️Jumpstart your June: here are some Irish content ideas for June 2024.

June is time for holidays and happy days! We’re in the mood for rainbows and Pride, BBQs and picnics, travel and outdoor fun. Schools are closing – what to do with the kids? – and summer festivals are starting.

🌈It’s Pride month : Celebrate with a rainbow flag or theme. Dublin Pride parade takes place on June 24th, with a theme of "Protest. Remember. Celebrate."

🌅Grand stretch anyone? The 21st is Summer Solstice. Share plans for the summer or the second half of your year.

🏟️Plenty of sport this month.Euro 2024 takes place from June 14th-July 14th, but don’t expect to see Ireland there as we did not qualify. The T20 Cricket World Cup run from June 4th-30th – and Ireland are in this one.

🎪Concerts galore as well: Taylor Swift is bringing The Eras Tour to Dublin on June 28th and Cork will be dancing with Live at The Marquee and Musgrave Park running most of the month.

Other events include: Cat Laughs Comedy Festival (Kilkenny, 3rd – 4th), Forbidden Fruit (Dublin, 3rd – 4th), Bloom festival (1st – 6th, Dublin); Longitude (29th-30th, Dublin); Cork Midsummer Festival (14th – 25th), Sea Sessions Bundoran (16th – 18th)

1st: International Childrens’ Day
2nd: Leave early on
Get outside! The 3rd is Global Running Day and World Bicycle Day.
5th: June Bank holiday (Irl)
8th: World Ocean Day
16th: Bloomsday (Irl)
18th: Fathers’ Day (Irl, USA, Can, UK)
21st: World Music Day and the summer Solstice
24th: Go the dogs! It’s – and
30th is – share links to yours and encourage people to follow and interact.

Want more 2024? Head over to

Content Calendar 2024 for Ireland with all the Irish holidays and important days, Get your Irish content calendar organised early in 2024.

21/05/2024

Got a big writing project on to-do list in 2024? Get in touch and we'll get you sorted.

29/04/2024

Ready to make the most of May?

Summer has arrived (in the Celtic calendar anyway, MET may disagree) and the grand stretch is definitely here. Get sunshine-ready – think garden furniture, al fresco dining, chic summer style – and stocking up on sunscreen!

Taking care of yourself is a theme: month long events include Mental Health Awareness month, Skin Cancer Awareness month and . Other May themes include Asian Heritage month, , and .

Bealtaine, on May 1st, begins the Irish summer. Washing your face in May Day dew is said to give you a flawless complexion for the year. It also kicks off the month-long Bealtaine Festival – Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age.

The 9th is and the Eurovision sparkles onto screens from the 7th to the Grand Final on the 11th.

1st: Bealtaine and
3rd: World Press Freedom Day
4th: Star Wars Day .
5th: Go to the dark side – Revenge of the Fifth!
6th: schools go on midterm this week
6th: Public holiday
12th: International Nurses Day
15th: International Day of Families
17th: International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
18th: International Museums Day
24th/25th: 🏉EPCR and Heineken Champions Cup final
28th: World Hunger Day
29th: Listowel Writers’ Week starts in county Kerry

Want more 2024 dates? Head over to our blog at https://redrock.ie/content-calendar-2024-ireland/

17/04/2024

⏰Calling all Irish craft makers and designers - the🏆Irish Made awards🏆portal for 2024 is now open.

This prestigious event celebrates the Irish craft scene and can raise your products' profile sky-high. The short application form has one key question with a 300 word limit, supported by other fast answers and photos.

That makes it more of a challenge - as any copywriter will tell you, crafting 1,000 good words is far easier than 300 great ones. Get drafting now to create an application that truly showcases your strengths. Our best tips on award writing are at redrock.ie/award-winning-website-writing/

The Irish Made Awards are back for 2024 and here's what you need to do to enter!

29/03/2024

It's the most pun-derful time of the year! Happy Easter, everybunny.

26/03/2024

Don't act the fool, it's almost April! April 1st is both Easter Monday and April Fools (the real joke is how fast I ate all that chocolate I said I'd never finish, amirite😳).

Plenty of amazing themes in April: Celebrate Diversity Month, with the Irish Heart Association, National Poetry Month, and .

It’s time to get outside – the Irish weather is improving (we hope), picnic season has started & salad leaves are coming into season.

🐰1st: Easter Monday and April Fools
🌻2nd: World Autism Awareness Day
🐕5th: Walk to Work day
🌻7th: World Health Day
☪️9th: Ramadan is expected to end – Eid Mubarak is a popular greeting for Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Breaking the Fast.
🐕11th: National Pet Day
📖16th: National Librarian Day
🌏22nd: Earth Day
📖23rd: World Book Day
🌻22nd-23rd: Take That play 3Arena (don’t fret if you miss them, they play Cork on 20 June, Malahide Castle on the 21st and Belfast on the 22nd)
📖27th: Independent Book Store Day
🌻26th – 28th: Want to spruce up your space? The Ideal Home Show returns to the RDS.
🩰29th: International Dance Day

Want more 2024 content ideas? Head over to the Red Rock blog for all you can eat: ➡️ https://redrock.ie/content-calendar-2024-ireland/

17/03/2024

Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone.

14/03/2024

A website rewrite, an ebook, application or a total content overhaul - need to tick something big off the to-do list before the summer break?

Get in touch and we'll get you sorted.

05/03/2024

This morning's session on disability and self-employment was met with enthusiasm by the speakers and attendees alike. It was a really valuable 2 hour session that packed in a lot of insight and experience - and a surprising amount of laughter too.

Thanks to the Crann Centre and to Local Enterprise Office, Cork City for organising and co-hosting the event. Great to see this topic getting some time in the spotlight.

04/03/2024

When the rules don't work for you, maybe it's time to change the game.

Tomorrow we will be speaking at a self-employment seminar for people with disabilities with the Local Enterprise Office, Cork City.

⏰2 hours, 4 speakers, networking and refreshments from 10.30am.
📝Support, information and the top tips for starting a business from people who have been there, with a Q&A at the end.
🎟️Tickets are free, but limited so grab one today.

Are you considering what it takes to be self-employed? Local Enterprise Office, Cork City is hosting "An Introduction to Self Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities" on March 5th at Crann's accessible co-working space The Impact Hub at Crann with ambassador and brand collaborator Paddy Smyth, Sean O'Mahony of The Autistic Baker and Sadhbh Warren of Red Rock Writing

Book your place at https://www.localenterprise.ie/CorkCity/Enterprise-Development/Local-Enterprise-Week-2024/

26/02/2024

🌱Spring has sprung, there are daffodils everywhere and soon the clocks will be going forward - it's time to get your content planned.

Big themes this month include: Women’s History Month, Mother’s Day, and, of course, St Patrick’s Day!

Looking for social media inspiration for your Irish business? 🐰Easter is the main event in Ireland this month; think sweet treats, egg hunts, and school holidays. (Don’t forget to tell people your holiday hours and any closures.)

Show your grá for the mná: it’s Women’s History Month, and the 8th is International Women’s Day with the theme . And don’t forget Mother’s Day on the 10th!

Local Enterprise week usually runs March 4th to March 8th, check your Local Enterprise Office for details on what’s happening near you.

3rd: World Wildlife Day
5th: He’s never gonna give you up: Rick Astley plays 3Arena, Dublin
10th: Mother’s Day (Ire & UK) and Ramadan is expected to begin.
14th: Pi day
17th: Celebrate all things Irish for ! (Remember it’s .)
20th:– Spring Equinox / International Day of Happiness
21st: World Poetry Day
22nd: World Water Day and Daffodil Day
23rd: Earth Hour Day
29th-31st: Are you egg-cited? It’s Easter – Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
31st: The clocks go forward on Ireland so into the .
31st: Transgender Day of Visibility

We’ve listed all the major Irish holidays, themes, and important days upcoming on our blog - head over to https://redrock.ie/content-calendar-2024-ireland/ for more.

06/02/2024

31/01/2024

Looking for social media inspiration for your Irish business?

There's lots of social media calendars out there but most focus on US holidays. Here’s one for Ireland.

🌱Spring into February! Spring is here – think spring cleans, spring break, spring food, green shoots and fresh new ideas and experiences.

🌬️(Not everyone says it’s spring. MET Eireann says March 1st, take it up with them if you disagree!)

📆This is the shortest month – perfect for 28 day challenges most years, but this year you have a bonus day, so watch out. What will you do with your extra day on Feb 29th?

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Irish parents will love fun ideas for the Irish midterm break.

🏟️It’s also a great month for Irish rugby as the 6 Nations get underway. It’s also a good month to be a GAA fan, or horse-racing with the Dublin Racing Festival (3rd and 4th). And for those of you with a love of all things American, Superbowl Sunday is on the 11th.

We're making a list - 🌟 February's important dates 🌟
1st: Imbolc/Brigid’s Day (public holiday on the 5th, and Brigit Festival in Dublin from the 1st-5th)
4th: World Cancer Day
7th:
10th: Lunar New Year ushers in the year of the Dragon
11th: Day of Women and Girls in Science and also Inventors Day
Fall in love with Feb: Celebrate love on Valentines (14th) or Galentine’s Day (13th).
13th: Pancake Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday
17th:
18th: If you insist – it’s
20th: Love Your Pet Day
21st: International Mother Language Day
23rd-25th: Belfast TradFest
29th: Leap Day! In Ireland this is traditionally the day when Irish women may propose, based on a legendary exchange between St Brigit and St Patrick.
All month: Black History Month

Want more 2024? We’ve listed all the major Irish holidays, themes, and important dates on our blog. Take a look at https://redrock.ie/content-calendar-2024-ireland/