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FOURTH AND FINAL SHOW ADDED DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND Smash hit Irish comedian, best-selling author, podcast host and viral online star Emma Doran hits…
Toil & Trouble 2026: Burning Woman
Sunday 01th November 2026 Location: Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1 The first in a planned annual seminar series uses the 1324 execution of Petronilla de Midia to examine the Kilkenny witch trial and wider questions of…
Toil & Trouble 2026: Bright I Burn – Molly Aitken hosted by Anya Bergman
Sunday 01th November 2026 Location: Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1 Molly Aitken discusses Bright I Burn, her novel that reimagines Alice Kyteler from the perspective missing from the surviving prosecution records. The novel portrays Alice as…
Print the Witch! Lino Printmaking workshop
Sunday 01th November 2026 Location: Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F Inspired by the stories, folklore and legends surrounding Kilkenny’s witch trials, this beginner-friendly workshop introduces traditional linocut printmaking. Local artist and printmaker Blaise Butler guides participants…
Cures and Curses by Sarah McKenna
Saturday 31th October 2026 Location: Kilkenny Home Rule Club, 3 John’s Quay, Kilkenny, R95 T382 After two years documenting traditional cures and curses in Ireland’s border counties, Sarah McKenna presents a 45-minute storytelling performance about how these practices survive in…
Cauldron of Curiosities at Rothe House
Saturday 31th October 2026 Location: Rothe House & Garden, 16 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, R95 P89C A drop-in family programme at Rothe House featuring Bemusement Games in the courtyard, spooky music from DJ Raven, and Scientific Sue in the Tudor Kitchen…
BRIDGET: Film Screening + Q&A
Saturday 31th October 2026 Location: Billy Byrne’s Gastro Bar & Venue, 39 John Street Upper, Kilkenny, R95 K091 Anne Williamson’s first film recounts the 1895 killing of 26-year-old seamstress Bridget Cleary after her husband became convinced she had been replaced…
Kilkenny’s Toil & Trouble presents Anakronos: The Red Book of Ossory
Friday 30th October 2026 Location: St Canice’s Cathedral & Round Tower, The Close, Coach Road, Kilkenny City, R95 V63H Anakronos, led by Caitríona O’Leary, sets sixty Latin poems written by Bishop Richard de Ledrede and preserved in the fourteenth-century Red…
Sing Along Social presents The Witches’ Ball
In partnership with the Kilkenny’s Night Time Economy initiative, Sing Along Social bring their mass-participation, no-mic-required singalong to Water…
The Juniper Tree – Movie Screening with Live Score
Thursday 29th October 2026 Location: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, R95 D320 Composer Matthew Nolan, with Seán Mac Erlaine, Lisa Dowdall and Damien Lennon, performs a specially commissioned live score for Nietzchka Keene’s debut feature The Juniper Tree. Loosely based…