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Kilkenny Arts Festival 04 - 14 August 2022
  • Programme 2022
  • Experience Online
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Programme 2022

  • Free
  • Live Performance
  • Installation
  • Exhibition
  • Lunchtime series
  • Ticket bundle discount
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Opera
  • Spoken word
  • Visual Art
  • Literature
  • Craft
  • 3rd
  • 4th
  • 5th
  • 6th
  • 7th
  • 8th
  • 9th
  • 10th
  • 11th
  • 12th
  • 13th
  • 14th
  • Indoors
  • Outdoors
Linda Buckley

A Strange Beauty

The Music of Linda Buckley
  • 14 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
Book Tickets
Paula Meehan 1 2

Paula Meehan with David Power

For the Hungry Ghosts PREMIERE
  • 13 — 14 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Out of ord

Irish National Opera

Out of the Ordinary / As an nGnách
  • 9 — 14 August 2022
  • The Old Nightclub (Ormonde Hotel)
Book Tickets
Rothe

Secret Garden Music

  • 6 — 14 August 2022
More Info
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Wingform

Barry O'Halpin & Jack Phelan
  • 9 — 14 August 2022
  • The Learning Centre at the Butler Gallery
More Info
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Stephen Doyle

Self Identity: An Exploration
  • 6 — 14 August 2022
  • KAF Gallery, ST KIERAN’S COLLEGE, VIA NEW ST
More Info
Kevin Atherton with Signature Piece 2018 Landscape2

Kevin Atherton: The Return

In partnership with Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 7 August — 2 October 2022
  • Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home
More Info
No Bones About it 2016 Pauline Cummins 6

MATRIARCH

  • 4 — 17 August 2022
  • Various venues
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Jennifer Hickey The heart compared to a seed Porcelain tulle and translucent thread Photographer Aileen Dillon

Conjuring Form

Image by Jennifer Hickey
  • 6 August 2022
  • National Design & Craft Gallery, Castle Yard
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Ailish Tynan

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Ailish Tynan

Opera Gala
  • 11 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle
  • 6 — 11 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
More Info
Malcolm Proud

Malcolm Proud

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1 - Concert 1
  • 12 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Malcolm Proud

Malcolm Proud

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1 - Concert 2
  • 13 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Chamber Choir Ireland

Chamber Choir Ireland

Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
  • 11 August 2022
  • The Black Abbey
Book Tickets
Martin Hayes

Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble

Marble City Sessions
  • 13 August 2022
  • St Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
Maij

Maija Sofia

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 11 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Book Tickets
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Sean O’Hagan

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 11 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
Book Tickets
Howe Gelb

Howe Gelb

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 12 August 2022
  • Cleeres Theatre
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Bas Jan

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 13 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Book Tickets
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TOUCAN

  • 12 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
Book Tickets
THEO DORGAN SEATED 1

Theo Dorgan

Introduced by Liz Kelly
  • 12 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
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Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet

  • 11 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
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The Local - Steppe's Bar, Callan

By Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O’Grady
  • 12 August 2022
  • The Steppes Bar, Callan
Sold Out
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The Local - Cleere's Bar

by Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O'Grady
  • 13 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Sold Out
Sir Denis Pack

Marcus de la Poer Beresford

Sir Denis Pack & the War Against Napoleon
  • 10 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Malcolm Proud

Malcolm Proud

In Converstaion
  • 12 August 2022
  • St John's Priory
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 5
  • 10 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 6
  • 11 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Kevin Atherton with Signature Piece 2018 Landscape2

Kevin Atherton

in conversation with Sonia Shiel
  • 7 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Stephen

Stephen Doyle

in conversation with Anna O’Sullivan
  • 7 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
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Maya Youssef

Marble City Sessions
  • 8 August 2022
  • Set Thetre
Book Tickets
Brian Mc Martin Hayes

Martin Hayes

in conversation with Brían Mac Gloinn
  • 8 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 1
  • 6 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 2
  • 7 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 3
  • 8 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Irish Chamber Orchestra

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Sharon Carty

Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor and Deirdre Gribbin's 'The Stones of Life'
  • 6 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
Irish Baroque Orchestra

Irish Baroque Orchestra and Tara Erraught

The Trials of Tenducci
  • 7 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
Saoicht multiple

Saíocht: a celebration of Ireland’s leading poets and Irish traditional musicians

Stephen Rea, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy, Neil Martin, Emily Cullen and Gabriel Rosenstock
  • 8 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (AKAMUS)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

An Evening with Handel and Friends
  • 6 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
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Ye Vagabonds

Marble City Sessions
  • 7 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
Sold Out
Bell X1 & Dowry Strings

Bell X1 and Dowry Strings

  • 5 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Sold Out
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Myles O' Reilly

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 7 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Book Tickets
Clang Sayne 1

Clang Sayne

  • 5 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Book Tickets
Aoife Cormac Kate Nell

Cormac McCarthy, Nell Ní Chróinín, Aoife Ní Bhriain & Kate Ellis

Marble City Sessions
  • 9 August 2022
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
Book Tickets
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Dave Holland Installation

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 8 — 9 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
More Info
19 Dave Holland copy

Dave Holland Live Performance

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 8 — 9 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
Book Tickets
Hubert Butler

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2022

  • 9 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
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Michael Dervan

In Conversation
  • 9 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 4
  • 9 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
Book Tickets
Landscape Critical Voices 1

Critical Voices

  • 6 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Roisin Reimagined

Róisín ReImagined

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra
  • 10 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets
Laoise O Brien Recorder 2

Laoise O’Brien

For the Record
  • 10 August 2022
  • The Parade Tower
Book Tickets
Keel

Keeley Forsyth

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 10 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
Book Tickets
Loosysmokes In Rhythms 8114

Loosysmokes 'In Rhythms' Bus

from Kilkenny City to Callan (return)
  • 5 — 7 August 2022
  • From the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel to Callan (return)
Book Tickets
Handel's Semele

Handel: Semele

with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in partnership with Sestina
  • 4, 5 and 7 August
  • Watergate Theatre
Book Tickets
Gessen

Masha Gessen

The Hubert Butler Annual Lecture
  • 7 August 2022
  • St Canices Cathedral
Book Tickets
Johnny Gandelsman

Johnny Gandelsman

Bach's Cello Suites
  • 10 August 2022
  • The Black Abbey
Book Tickets
The Tempest

The Tempest

Rough Magic and Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 3 - 6, 8 - 13 August 2022
  • Kilkenny Castle Parklands
Book Tickets
Loosy

Loosysmokes

In Rhythms
  • 5 - 7, 10 - 13 August 2022
  • The Warehouse, Callan, R95 D237
Book Tickets
Colm Theo

Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Theo Dorgan: Ériu and Amergín

Narrated by Aaron Monaghan & Bríd Ní Neachtain
  • 11 — 12 August 2022
  • Watergate Theatre
Book Tickets
Speak like no

Speak Like No One in Particular

by Eszter Némethi
  • 10 — 13 August 2022
  • The Study Hall, St Kieran’s College
Book Tickets
Luke murphy

Slow Tide

Luke Murphy/Attic Projects
  • 10 — 12 August 2022
  • Viewed from The Peace Park
More Info
ASVO BR 1

Anne Sofie von Otter & Brooklyn Rider

Songs of Love and Death: The Music of Franz Schubert and Rufus Wainwright
  • 12 August 2022
  • St Canice's Cathedral
Book Tickets

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