Cork Craft and Design
Established in 2005, Cork Craft & Design brings together the very best of Cork’s unique and excellent Irish craft and design tradition. The organisati…
Irish National Opera: Trade/Mary Motorhead
Two searing one-act operas.When this double bill of new Irish operas premiered in the US last year it met with instant acclaim. Now Irish National Op…
Aoife Ní Bhriain | Liam Byrne
Hardanger fiddle player and violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain is adept at crossing musical boundaries, embracing classical, traditional, jazz and contemporar…
Fintan O’Toole
Hosted by Olivia O’LearyIt used to be possible to imagine that art is always a civilising force, generating what Jonathan Swift called ‘sweetness and…
Secret Garden Music at Lyrath Estate Hotel
The ever-popular Secret Music Series returns for another year, bringing a stellar (but unannounced) line-up of musicians to some of the city’s most ic…
Ross Costigan
Ross Costigan was a photographer and artist who framed Kilkenny life and beyond through his own lens.For this year’s Festival Gallery exhibition, cur…
Pstryk!
Pstryk! is an interactive musical experience for children. Led by Kasia Eliasz with Rafal Szydlowski on violin and Cormac O’Brien on double bass, this…
The Libravian
Meet Lynn, a lovable ‘libravian’ minding her own business until the Ben the Book Tour guide gets laryngitis and suddenly she is doing the one thing sh…
Bassekou Kouyate
Traditionally, the ngoni, a four-stringed lute, was used to accompany the stories of Malian griots. It wasn’t used as a lead instrument, but ngoni mas…
Catherine Marshall
Art collective Na Cailleacha made waves earlier this year when they staged a full-scale re-enactment of Raphael’s famous painting, School of Athens, i…