Public Art Programme at the Tea Houses, Kilkenny

We’re delighted to announce that the two Tea Houses, situated by the River Nore, will be activated as visible spaces for public art programmes that in…


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…