There is just one week left in the month-long Endinburgh Fringe Festival - the world's largest performing arts festival - but that leaves plenty of time to see some outstanding Irish acts.
There are thousands of shows to choose from across hundred of venues on a daily basis, so to help you whittle things down, we're listing just 10 of the Irish acts making their mark at the 2023 Fringe.
1. Coffee Kid
You know those Nespresso ads? The ones where George Clooney swans around making coffee while surrounded by beautiful women. Well, imagine if the Hollywood star only had eyes for the machine and not the models. This might result in Beanie, a sentient coffee pod who is struggling to reconnect with her famous father.
An absurdly funny one-woman show performed by Dublin comic Síomha McQuinn, this is one to tell your friends about. Over coffee, perhaps.
2. Shane Daniel Byrne: But He's Gay...
As one of Ireland's Young Hot Guyz, Shane Daniel Byrne has successfully won Irish audiences over with a mix of majestic cartwheels and viral-worthy videos. For his fierce and fiery Edinburgh début, though, he has managed to up the ante, sharing hilarious insights into his personal life and well as reflections on same sex love.
3. Thinky Winky
Kate Feeney is an Irish comic with a lot of thoughts. She also has thoughts on those thoughts. But those might change. In her first solo show, the comic explores the mind-altering hilarity and frustrating psychology of why people are constantly making up their minds, only to change them back again.
A late night extravaganza of on the spot material, The All Irish After Party is a hotly anticipated night of improvised stand-up. With engaging (and potentially viral) crowd-interaction from one of the country's most energetic performers, this is sure to be a night to remember.
5. An Evening with Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann
Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann may have gained individual acclaim for their viral sketches and earworm hits, but the two have undoubtedly grown their fanbase since buddying up for live shows. As well as celebrating their most popular sketches, the two deliver new material, live music and some back bending moves.
6. Micky Bartlett: Let Me Start from the Start
Northern Irish comic Micky Bartlett brings his years of stand-up experience and decades of life experience to his latest show, Let Me Start from the Start. Armed with a seemingly endless supply of side-stitching stories and cringe-inducing anecdotes, the warm and welcoming comic delivers an hour of laughs.
7. Aidan Greene: I Can't Believe It's Not Stutter!
Aidan Greene is a stand-up comedian with a stutter - a potential nightmare that the funnyman has transformed into comedy gold. From 2016 to 2019 he had sell out runs with his pun-filled solo shows (500) Days of Stammer, Stutter Island, Eternal Sunshine of the Stammer Man and Did I Stutter?.
With I Can't Believe It's Not Stutter he delivers a brand new hour that promises to be "The King's Speech but a lot more craic".
In Failed by Design, audience members are asked to help build a new invention to save the world. A chaotic concept that promises new material (both figurative and physical) every night, audiences will have the chance to challenge award-winning comedians Allie O'Rourke and Cian Jordan to solve problems big and small over one frantic hour of cardboard-covered mayhem.
A comic with an infectious laugh, endearing vulnerability, and an endless supply of flower crowns, Alison spittle is a Westmeath woman with the gift of the gab. In her one hour show, Spittle serves up hilarious admissions and odd anecdotes as well as some unanticipated insights to her recent battles with mental health. She also talks about soup.
10. Mike Rice – Hand of a Sinner
How does a good boy go bad? This is the question Kilkenny comic Mike Rice asks himself in his new hour, Hands of a Sinner. With seemingly little filter, the self-aware funnyman charts his journey from a childhood spent between church and farm, to his present state where he claims to have taken "the devil as a dance partner".
