Kilkenny Arts Festival

The Local: Debs night, 1992, and a community’s hopes, dreams and difficulties are unfolding before us

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: This ambitious community play, staged in the cabaret lounge of a working bar, is at its best in its heightened, stylised moments

Sun Aug 13 2023 - 09:59

Camerata Kilkenny: Gorgeous tones and mesmerising command in a Bach-dominated programme

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The group’s harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, featured as a young musician at the first festival, back in 1974

Sat Aug 12 2023 - 19:00

‘The only way out is a divorce!’: Carducci String Quartet on being married to music and each other

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: Couples might find it hard to work and live together. The two pairs of Carducci musicians cannot imagine it any other way

Wed Aug 09 2023 - 05:15

The Local: A love poem to the Irish pub

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: At Sheridans in Ennisnag, a large cast is rehearsing for a play about the bar’s role in Irish community life

Tue Aug 08 2023 - 05:00

Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates life

An exhibition coming to the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival underlines how present sport is in every aspect of life

Sat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00

Clare Monnelly: ‘Women have had a terrible time in this country for a really long time’

When the actor started writing and creating her own work, she found a new level of fulfilment

Sat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00