Schedule of Events at May Fair 2023

May 12th, 13th and 14th

Friday 5pm to 10pm - Saturday 10am 'til Late- Sunday 10am to 5pm.

Check below for our timetable of events at Ballymaloe May Fair
Don't forget to buy an entrance ticket when you purchase tickets to the individual events. We will be adding to our timetable in the next weeks, stay tuned for new updates and potential changes.
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Friday

Black Poppy Tattoo

4.30pm

Waste Nothing - Panel Discussion

5.00pm

Live Music- Johnny & Paul

5.00pm

Daniel Rankin - Cooking Demonstration

5.00pm

Indie Beers:

5pm

The Chicken Fillet Roll, Ireland's Unofficial National Dish??

5.30pm

Maria Walsh - Ancestral Practices for Better Digestion

5.30pm

In Conversation with Matt Tebbutt

5.30pm

Conor Spacey - Book Signings

6.00pm

Thomasina Miers - Cooking Demonstration

6.00pm

Russ Parsons in Conversation with Hanna Bäckmo

6.00

Beyond Garlic Butter: Compound Butters and other Fabulous Flavours

6.00pm

Lisa Fingleton Exhibition Opening

6.30pm

Wild About Mushrooms

6.30pm

Life Beyond Marlborough Sauvignon:

6.30pm

Graham Herterich - The Cupcake Bloke

7.00pm

Mark Moriarty & Barrie Quinn - Pop Up Dining Experience

7.00pm

Fadi Kattan & Anna Patrowicz - Ballymaloe Festival Dining Experience

7.00

The Sharper Edge : Knives and the people that make them.

7.15pm

Thomasina Miers - Book Signing

7.45pm

Graham Herterich - Book Signing

8.00pm

Ripple Effect Introduction and Screening

8.30pm

DJ in the Lambing Shed

8.30pm

Lambing Shed Disco

Saturday

Black Poppy Tattoo

3pm

Local Enterprise Office South Cork

9.30am

Soil Food Web Party and Practical

10.00am

Amber Guinness - Cooking Demonstration

10.00am

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

10.00am

Anna Patrowicz - Vineyards in Palestine

10.30am

Bia Cultures - Kimchi Workshop

10.30am

Ballymaloe History tour with Fern Allen

10.30am

Disco Brunch

10.30am

The New Irish Larder

10:30

Deconstructing Jeremy Lee's Iconic Eel Sandwich

10.45am

The Full Irish

11am

Romy Gill - Cooking Demonstration

11.00am

Birgitta Hedin Curtin - Seafood Smoking Workshop

11.00am

Live Music- Johnny & Paul

11.00am

Local Enterprise Office South Cork

11:15am

Amber Guinness Book Signing

11.15am

Craft cider: The Wine of Ireland

11.30am

Jay Rayner - Cooking Demonstration

11.30am

Henrietta Lovall & Richard Hart & Rev Richard Coles

11.30am

Tom Parker Bowles - In Conversation

11.30am

Ballymaloe Walled Garden Tour with Head Gardener Mags Coughlan

11.45am

Daniel Rankin - Butter Disco

11:45am

Marcus O'Laoire Butter Disco

11.45am

Romy Gill Book Signing

12.00pm

Start your Bee Journey with Hanna Bäckmo

12.00pm

Middle Eastern Food in a Modern World

12.15pm

Super Human Super Food

12.30pm

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

12.30pm

Influencers Through The Ages

12.30pm

Tom Parker Bowles - Book Signing

12.30pm

Poitín Party

12.45pm

Culinary Couture: Is food the new fashion?

12.45pm

Jay Rayner Book Signing

1.00pm

Live Music by Sean Kelleher

1.00pm

Jeremy Lee - Cooking Demonstration

1.00pm

Richard Hart Book Signing

1.00pm

Eric Matthews - Cooking Demonstration

1.00pm

Tobias Pederson - Ballymaloe Biodiversity

1.00pm

How to keep your garden looking good all year round

1.30pm

Maria Walsh - Food as Medicine

1.30pm

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

1.30pm

In conversation with Russ Parsons

1.30pm

Grown Not Flown - Irish flowers and Natural Tablescaping

2.00pm

Noor Murad - Cooking Demonstration

2.00pm

Seasonal Sips with Helen McGinn

2.15pm

The Buttery Cocktail: Oisín Davis

2.30pm

Fadi Kattan - Cooking Demonstration - Palestinian Food

2.30pm

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

2.30pm

Critiquing the Critics

2.30pm

Grow the plants for your Floral Arrangements

2.30pm

Kerry Diamond Podcast

2.45pm

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

3.00pm

Tablescaping with LNH Edit

3.00pm

School Food

3.30pm

Social Media: The Stories behind the Camera

3.30pm

Recipes for Recovery

3.30pm

Ancient Grape Varieties

4.00pm

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

4.15pm

Rory O'Connell - Cooking Demostration

4.15pm

Theo Kirwan - Cooking Demonstration

4.15pm

Sustainabili - tea

4.30pm

Jr Ryall Ballymaloe Pastry Chef

4.30pm

The Wooded Pig - Charcuterie with Eoin Bird

4.30pm

From Our Table To Yours

4.30pm

Shaken not Stirred

4.45pm

After-Hours Sambos: What Do Cooks Whip Up When They Get Home Late?

5.15pm

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

5.30pm

George Lamb

5.30pm

George Lamb

7.00pm

Kinneuchar Inn - Wood Shed Pop Up

7.00pm

Farm to Fork in the Walled Garden Pavilion

9.00pm

Marcus O'Laoire DJ'ing in Lambing Shed

Sunday

Black Poppy Tattoo

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9.30am

Tobias Pederson - Ballymaloe Biodiversity

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9.30am

Supercharged Coffee Mornings

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9.45am

Daniel Rankin - In conversation

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10.00am

Hanna Bäckmo

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10.00am

Matt Tebbutt - Cooking Demonstration

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10.00am

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

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10.00am

Tim Hayward Cooking Demonstration

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10.00am

Sunday morning - Low and No

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10.30am

Ballymaloe History tour with Fern Allen

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10.30am

Tobias Pederson - Ballymaloe Biodiversity

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10.30am

Grá Chocolates- Chocolate Making Workshop

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10:30

From Crust to Cruton: Finding Beauty in Lost Bread

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10.45am

Ripple Effect

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11.00am

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

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11.00am

Jay Rayner In Conversation With Rev Richard Coles

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11:00am

Marcus O'Laoire Butter Disco

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11.00am

Live Music- Johnny & Paul

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11am

Cocktail Anyone??

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11.15am

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

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11.30am

Training Fruit

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11.30am

Matt Tebbutt - Book Signing

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11:45

Butter Disco with Darina Allen

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11.45am

Creative Communities

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12.00pm

Fadi Kattan - Book Signing

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12.00pm

Local Enterprise Office South Cork

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12pm

Hybrids (Vines – not Cars!) in Irish Vineyards

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12.0

Trials and triumphs of running a restaurant

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12.15pm

The Wooded Pig - Charcuterie with Eoin Bird

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12.30pm

Antony Worrall Thompson - Cooking Demonstration

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1.00pm

Paul Flynn & Ivan Whelan - Pop Up Dining Experience

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1.00pm

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

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1.00pm

Jeremy Lee - Ballymaloe Dining Experience

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1.00pm

Kinneuchar Inn - Cooking Demonstration

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1.00pm

The Food that Shapes Us - Noor Murad

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1.00pm

Live Music by Sean Kelleher

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1.00pm

Walled Garden Cocktails

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1.00pm

Everything but the Baa

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1.00

Next-Level Sandwiches: Should they ever be star-worthy?

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1.30pm

Matt Tebbutt - hosts a panel discussion on the Grainstore stage

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1.45pm

Tablescaping with LNH Edit

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2.00pm

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

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2.00pm

Thomasina Miers - In conversation with Dee Laffan

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2pm

Tour of Ballymaloe Orchard

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2.15pm

Rebel Winemakers

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2.30pm

Tom Parker Bowles - Cooking Demonstration

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2.30pm

Henrietta Lovell & Richard Hart - Afternoon Tea Dining Experience

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2.30pm

Growing Q&A

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3.00pm

Sarah Browne - Oyster Workshop

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3.00pm

Cool Food School - Kids Cooking Workshops

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3.00pm

Live music Ronan O'Driscoll

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3.00

Bread: A Universal Language

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3.15pm

Izz Cafe - Cooking Demonstration

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3.30pm

Bia Cultures - Kimchi Workshop

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3.30pm

Future of Farming

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4.00pm

Rachel Allen & Darina Allen - Cooking Demonstration

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4.00pm

The Final Panel

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