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Andrew Bennett in Dracula: A Journey Into Darkness (Pic: Allen Kiely)

Bram Stoker Festival - the festival with fangs returns

Bram Stoker's novel Dracula has captivated readers and film fans for more than a century...

The acclaimed documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed screens at the Red Umbrella Film Festival

''We want to create a space for sex workers' stories'

Red Umbrella Film Festival is Ireland's first-ever sex worker film festival. RUFF is organised by a collective of current and former sex workers and will feature films, workshops, panel discussions, and performances.

Film • 09 Oct 23

Actor Eileen Walsh is the 2023 receipient of the Maureen O'Hara award.

Eileen Walsh to receive Maureen O'Hara Award at Kerry Festival

Actor Eileen Walsh has been announced has this year's receipient of the Maureen O'Hara award at this year's Kerry International Film Festival.

Film • 11 Oct 23

Star Wars: Visions are coming to this year's Kilkenny Animated festival

Kilkenny Animated festival feels the force with Star Wars 'toons

Now in its fifth year and hosted by five-time Oscar-nominated animation studio, Cartoon Saloon and BAFTA-winning Lighthouse Studios, Kilkenny Animated is an annual celebration of the creativity and craft of animation.

Festivals • 28 Sep 23

The anarchic comedy Apocalypse Clown opens this year's Dissappear Here festival

Disappear Here film festival returns to Donegal

Film • 25 Sep 23

Vital Signs: Festival in a Van brings poetry to the people

Poet Martin Dyar anticipates an unconventional tour for his anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing

Festivals • 10 Aug 23

A kind of magic - Kilkenny Arts Festival turns 50

Festival Producer Marjie Kaley celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Kilkenny Arts Festival, as the epic arts shindig descends upon the Mable county this August...

Festivals • 02 Aug 23

RTÉ Arena takes a trip to the Galway International Arts Festival

Join RTÉ Arena at this year's Galway International Arts Festival

RTÉ Arena • 25 Jul 23

E the Artist is one of the emerging acts performing at Musictown 2023

Return to Musictown: Leagues O'Toole on capturing a moment

Musictown Creative Director Leagues O'Toole introduces this year's installment of an event described as 'an essential inspection and celebration of the state of Irish music in 2023'.

Music • 24 Jul 23

3 must-see events at this year's Boyne Music Festival

Founded by twin sisters Julie-Anne and Aisling Manning along with their cousin Deirdre Brenner, the Boyne Music Festival celebrates 10 years in the heart of Drogheda's Boyne Valley with 4 days of chamber music, poetry and song...

Festivals • 19 Jul 23

The Dublin Baroque Orchestra bring the HandelFest to Dublin this July

Sing Hallelujah! Liz Nolan on the Dublin HandelFest 2023

For the first-time Dublin tourist, there are the touchstone attractions - the Viking tour, Kilmainham Gaol, the inevitable pints... and there's no knocking any of the above.

Festivals • 11 Jul 23

Helen Hutchinson: 'As a community, over time, we have developed a strong voice for our own people and issues that affect us.'

Why Traveller Pride Week matters

Poet and Traveller Helen Hutchinson introduces this year's Traveller Pride Week - this annual event celebrates Traveller culture and identity and includes 40 free events across 22 counties.

Festivals • 04 Jul 23

Telling Whole Story (clockwise, from left) Senator Eileen Flynn, Dr Angle Byrne, Kit de Waal. Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Mairéad O'Donnell

What does it mean to reclaim a narrative?

What richness can be nourished in Irish literature and the arts by making room for diverse and marginalised perspectives?

Annemarie Ní Churreáin • 04 Jul 23

Jennifer de Brún from Fidget Feet, coming to this year's Clonmel Junction Festival (Pic: Allen Kiely)

Clonmel Junction Festival returns with a celebration of the arts

2023 marks Cliona Maher's 5th year as Artistic Director of the Clonmel Junction Festival, and is a culmination of the re-thinking of the festival that has been a hallmark of her programming of the multi-disciplinary arts festival

Clonmel Junction Festival • 27 Jun 23

Godot in the wild in 2022 (Pic Maria Rolston)

Happy Days! The Enniskillen Beckett Festival tells tales

Festivals • 26 Jun 23

Turn it up! 5 essential 2023 summer festivals

There's definitely a summer in it. Here are a quintet of our favourite cultural happenings over the new few weeks...

Festivals • 12 Jun 23

BodyBodyBodyBody is coming to the Carlow Arts Festival

Carlow Arts Festival kicks off a summer of culture

Carlow Arts Festival, the first big cultural event of the Irish Summer returns this June.

Festivals • 22 May 23

Dylan Moran is coming to this year's Kilkenny Cat Laughs

The Cat Laughs returns with a packed programme of funny business

Heralding the start of the summer season since 1995, this year the Kilkenny Cat Laughs are doing things a bit differently, with an eclectic bill that mixes Irish comedy favourites with a whole new generation of talent.

Comedy • 16 May 23

Author Deepti Kapoor has won acclaim for her second novel, Age Of Vice

Author Deepti Kapoor headlines Maynooth's Arts & Minds festival

Acclaimed Indian novelist Deepti Kapoor makes her first trip to Ireland for Maynooth University's Arts & Minds Festival, which runs across the Maynooth campus from May 3rd-6th.

Books • 05 May 23

Nadar Ensemble's Generation Kill comes to Music Current 2023

Music Current Festival returns with sounds from the cutting edge

Fergal Dowling is a co-founder of Dublin Sound Lab and the Artistic Director of the annual Music Current Festival, which returns to Project Arts Centre, Dublin from April 12th – 15th.

Music • 05 Apr 23

Author Carmen Maria Machado is coming to Galway (Pic: Art Streiber)

Cúirt International Festival of Literature announces programme

The Cúirt International Festival of Literature has announced a diverse and eclectic programme for 2023, featuring featuring an array of some of the most exciting Irish and international writers at work today.

Festivals • 27 Mar 23

Stephen Rea - an Irish acting legend celebrated

The actor's work and life is the subject of a tribute at Scéal Eile, an Irish Film Festival taking place in Belgium between March 21st and 25th

Film • 20 Mar 23

Crash Ensemble lead the charge at New Music Dublin 2023

New Music Dublin returns with fresh sounds for for curious minds

The programme for New Music Dublin 2023 offers a whopping 20 World Premieres and 12 Irish Premieres, alongside new music from Irish and international composers and performers.

Music • 14 Mar 23

And now, ladies and gentlemen... Hereeeeee's Grace!

Win tickets to the Beyond The Pale festival

Following a successful (and sold out) inaugural outing in 2022, the Beyond The Pale festival returns to the stunning surrounds of Glendalough Estate this June 16th - 18th - and we've got tickets to give away!

Competition • 03 Feb 23

Performers Millie Dempsey and Sophie Hogan at the St. Patrick's Festival launch

St. Patrick's Festival offers global celebration of Irish arts

The National St Patrick's Festival has announced their line-up of events for this Paddy's Day weekend in Dublin.

st patricks day • 23 Feb 23