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Day of the Straws explores how social history surrounding the 1832 Cholera epidemic relates to Covid-19 events

Cork's Midsummer Moments - a festival for the new reality

Lorraine Maye, Director of Cork Midsummer Festival, writes for Culture about Midsummer Moments, a series of events and experiences to celebrate the arts this June, 'born of the new and the now'.

Festivals • 09 Jun 20

Carlow Arts Festival: Bryan Quinn as Bernie in SLICES #2

Virtual Carlow: Jo Mangan on reinventing the arts festival online

'Art can be entertaining but it can also be dangerous...' Jo Mangan, Director of Carlow Arts Festival, writes for Culture about taking the event online with their eclectic SLICES events, the latest of which takes place on Saturday, June 6th.

Festivals • 03 Jun 20

Cúirt to host world's first ever digital literary festival

Galway will host the world's first ever digital literary festival, a free online event to be held later this month.

Books • 09 Apr 20

Edinburgh cultural festivals cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak

The five cultural festivals held in Edinburgh every August will not take place this year, due to the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

Festivals • 01 Apr 20

Mango X MathMan, AKA Karl Mangan [Mango] and Adam Fogarty [MathMan]

Zero Zero - When Crash Ensemble met Mango X Mathman

Crash Ensemble's CEO Neva Elliott McGinley tells Culture about the new music group's upcoming performance (and perhaps an unlikely partnership) with Dublin grime artists Mango X MathMan, in a new music show called Zero Zero for the Where We Live Festival.

Music • 03 Mar 20

Inside the Ennis Book Club Festival

'It's the contrast that I love...' Committee member Bridget Ginnity previews this year's Ennis Book Club Festival programme, which runs from 6th - 8th March.

Books • 03 Mar 20

Andreea Banciu (viola) and Aileen Cahill (piano) will perform at this year's Finding A Voice festival

Finding A Voice - Clonmel celebrates women composers

Finding a Voice, Clonmel's celebration of music by women composers, is back for its third year from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th March 2020. Artistic director Róisín Maher introduces this year's programme…

Festivals • 02 Mar 20

Sinead O'Connor will make her only Irish festival appearance of 2020 at All Together Now

Sinead O'Connor to play All Together Now - full line-up revealed

The full line-up for the 2020 All Together Now festival has been announced with Sinéad O'Connor, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Rufus Wainwright among the acts joining headliner Iggy Pop over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Curraghmore Estate, Waterford.

Festivals • 24 Feb 20

Spike Cello Festival (Pic: Laura Sheeran)

Strung out - Spike Cello Festival takes a bow

Spike, Dublin's alternative cello festival, is back for its fourth installation with three days of cello action Friday 7th- Sunday 9th February 2020. Festival curators Mary Barnecutt and Lioba Petrie introduce this year's programme...

Culture • 07 Feb 20

Farmleigh Composer In Residence Dave Flynn, curator of the inaugural Farmleigh Music & Arts Festival

Introducing the Farmleigh Music & Arts Festival

Farmleigh Composer In Residence Dave Flynn writes for Culture about the inaugural Farmleigh Music & Arts Festival, which runs from 28th November - 1st December.

Festivals • 27 Nov 19

Irish Folk Awards winners Ye Vagabonds are coming to this year's Quiet Lights festival

Quiet Lights returns - talking about a Nu-Folk revolution

Tom Chipping, co-founder of River Lea records, writes for Culture about bringing a whole wave of folk talent to the world...

Festivals • 19 Nov 19

Paging the Dublin Book Festival - a bibliophile's delight

Dublin Book Festival Director Julianne Mooney writes for Culture about this year's event, an absolute treat for bibliophiles which runs from November 14 - 17th...

Books • 01 Nov 19

InstaTerror - Peter Dunne on his Instagram horror story

Peter Dunne writes for Culture about his new project InstaTerror, an 'Instagram horror story' created for this year's Bram Stoker Festival, which takes place from October 25th -28th.

Bram Stoker Festival • 21 Oct 19

Conor Wilson, director of Westival, the Westport Music and Arts Festival

Westival rocks - Conor Wilson on bringing it all back home

Festival Director Conor Wilson writes about Westival, the Westport Music and Arts Festival (which runs Oct 23rd - 28th) and his own journey from Westport to the big city and back...

Festivals • 18 Oct 19

Red Line Festival guests Alison Spittle, Colm O'Regan, Sophie White, Twistedddoodles and Liam Geraghty

The Red Line Book Festival returns - prose, no cons

Festival programmer Mark Ward writes about the latest installment of the Red Line Book Festival, which takes place across South Dublin from October 7th - 13th.

Books • 09 Oct 19

Mary Wycherley's Invisible Histories - coming to Tipperary Dance Festival (Pic: Maurice Gunning)

Tipperary Dance Festival - on the good foot

The 10th International Tipperary Dance Festival kicks off on Monday, October 7th, with the theme Dance & Tradition, Dance & Community, and featuring performances, exhibitions, seminars, masterclasses, workshops and screenings...

Dance • 04 Oct 19

Ellie Shine, who will perform at the 2019 Cork Folk Festival, alongside her father Noel Shine, who played at the very first Festival in 1979, launching the Cork Folk Festival

Cork Folk Festival at 40 - between the jigs and reels

Festival Organiser William Hammond celebrates four decades of the Cork Folk Festival, which runs from 3-6th October and plays host to a 'dazzling array' of folk talent past, present and future.

Music • 03 Oct 19

Circus Factory members Natasha Bourke, Kate Mitchell, Édaein Samuel and Karen Dunn warming up for Pitch'd Circus & Street Arts Festival

Pitch'd - Cork's circus extravaganza hits the streets

The Pitch'd Circus Arts Festival, presented by the Circus Factory Cork, returns for its third installment from Friday 20th to Sunday 29th September, bringing with it new and exciting circus acts, street performances, aerial arts, comedy, and workshops...

Festivals • 20 Sep 19

Improvised soap opera Fur City - coming to Monkstown

Introducing the Monkstown International Puppet Festival

Festival Director Roger Duggen writes for Culture about the inaugural Monkstown International Puppet Festival, which takes place on Saturday, September 21st.

Theatre • 17 Sep 19

The Trip Back To Tipp - Tom Dunne's Féile flashback

On The Trip Back To Tipp, screening on RTÉ 2 this Wednesday, September 18th at 11.30pm, broadcaster and occasional rock star Tom Dunne picks his favourite songs from last years Féile Classical Festival...

Music • 16 Sep 19

The Sounds from a Safe Harbour team: curators Mary Hickson Credit- Bella Blasko

Sounds from a Safe Harbour - Cork tunes up

Sounds from a Safe Harbour, which runs from 10 – 15th September, is curated by Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National, festival director Mary Hickson, Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh, and presents 6 days of music, dance, visual art, and conversation...

Music • 02 Sep 19

Electric Picnic announce a jam-packed comedy line-up

Get ready to laugh, Picnickers.

Comedy • 21 Aug 19

All Together Now 2019 - who's playing when and where

All Together Now 2019 will descend upon Curraghmore Estate in County Waterford this weekend, August 2nd-4th - find out who's playing where, and when...

All Together Now • 01 Aug 19

Bodhran player Kevin Meehan (centre) and assorted spooky creatures at the launch of Púca

Puca Festival to celebrate Halloween's Irish roots

A new three-day festival, Púca, will celebrate Ireland as the original birthplace of Halloween, exploring and evoking ancient tradition in the company of cutting-edge Irish creative talent.

Festivals • 16 Aug 19

Rough Magic's Cleft - coming to Kilkenny 2019

Why the Kilkenny Arts Festival matters

As its 46th edition kicks off on August 8th, Olga Barry, Festival Director of Kilkenny Arts Festival, writes for Culture about an event that celebrates 'darkness and light, in some cases literally, but more truly in the emotional sense'.

Festivals • 30 Jul 19

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