Here’s a round up of some of the best festival line-up’s country-wide, from Ailin Quinlan.

IT’S A LONG way from the Arctic that Cormac James was reared. Born and raised in Ballincollig in Cork — when he was still Cormac McCarthy — Cormac James has lived in Montpellier in France for the past 12 years.

Cormac James