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Kilkenny Arts Festival 10 - 20 August 2023
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Timisien

Timisien

  • Fri 11 – Sat 19 August
  • Kilkenny Castle Parklands
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Ben Judah

Ben Judah

  • 20 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Caoimhin O Dan T

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman

  • 20 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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John D Kelly

Martin Hayes & Friends

FESTIVAL FINALE
  • 19 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Manchán Magan Other World

Manchán Magan & Other World

Slí na Samhlaíochta
  • 19 — 20 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Broken Chanter RCS

Broken Chanter

  • 19 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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The Local

The Local

Asylum & Kilkenny Arts Festival in association with Once Off Productions & Watergate Theatre
  • Thurs 10 - Sat 12 & Mon 14- Sat 19 August
  • Sheridan's, Ennisnag, Co. Kilkenny R95 YT93
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The Local

The Local Bus

  • Thurs 10 - Sat 12 & Mon 14- Sat 19 August
  • The Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde Street, Kilkenny
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Bench Tales

Bench Tales

Barnstorm Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • Mon 14 - Sat 19 August
  • Meeting point is the Duck Pond in Kilkenny Castle Parklands
Contact the Box Office to be added to the waiting list
Kwame Dawes 2

Poetry Masterclass

Kwame Dawes leads a masterclass for poets
  • 19 August 2023
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Poetry Ireland review cover

Poetry Ireland Review Launch

  • 19 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Deirdre Frost

Deirdre Frost

Big Crush
  • Fri 11 - Sun 20 August
  • Festival Gallery, St Kieran's College, via New Street
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Colm MacAthlaoich. Sprinting woman, right to left. Acrylic, oil on canvas (Detail)

The Art of Sport

Curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery Director
  • 12 August — 8 October 2023
  • Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home
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KAF50 Ex Web

KAF50 Exhibition

Echoes of a Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 11 — 20 August 2023
  • The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street
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Extinctionevents dawnchorus craigcarry

Unfold

Exhibition by Craig Carry celebrating 25 years of Crash
  • 11 — 20 August 2023
  • The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street
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Dumbworld Where we bury

Where We Bury the Bones: a round-table discussion

Dumbworld
  • 19 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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KCAT Declan Byrne Untitled

The Dance of Life

A KCAT Trio exhibition by Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne & Sinéad Fahey
  • 3 — 25 August 2023
  • KCAT Arts Centre, Mill Lane, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, R95 XN35
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Returning to Earth Deirdre O Mahony

Returning to the Earth / Ag Filleadh ar an Talamh

Curated by Shannon Carroll as part of Kilkenny Arts Office Emerging Curator Development Programme
  • 11 August 2023
  • Rothe House
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DCCI gallery

Made in Kilkenny/Made Local:

A celebration of excellence in craft
  • 12 August — 28 October 2023
  • National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
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ICO Phil Selway

Philip Selway

with Irish Chamber Orchestra
  • 11 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Oumou Sangare

Oumou Sangaré

  • 10 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Taken for a ride

Taken for a Ride

Radical Acts and the Banshees
  • 10 — 11 August 2023
  • Starting point: Bus stop opposite Kieran’s College, College Road, Kilkenny
Sold Out
Liz Nugent and una Mannion

Liz Nugent & Úna Mannion

In conversation
  • 11 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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John Scott's Migration Sonata

Migration Sonata

Irish Modern Dance Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 11 — 12 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Hubert Butler

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2023

  • 13 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme 1: Haydn & Beethoven
  • 13 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Cormac Begley

Cormac Begley & Friends

  • 12 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Donal Dineens Backstory

Dónal Dineen

Dónal Dineen's Backstory
  • 11 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Camerata

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme II; Bach, Purcell, Couperin & Franz Biber
  • 12 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Camerata

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme I; Bach, Purcell & Clérambault
  • 11 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Deirdre Frost

Deirdre Frost

In conversation with Cristín Leach
  • 12 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Iarla Cormac Matthew

Iarla Ó Lionáird, Cormac McCarthy & Matthew Berrill

  • 13 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Martin Hayes and friends Kate Ellis

Martin Hayes & Kate Ellis

  • 14 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Barry Douglas

Barry Douglas

Schubert & Liszt
  • 14 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme II; Mendelssohn & Haydn
  • 14 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: The Testament of Cresseid

Vona Groarke with Olivia O’Leary
  • 14 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Fergus Cronin Kevin Doherty

Fergus Cronin with Kevin Doherty

Night Music
  • 13 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Chamber Choir Ireland

Chamber Choir Ireland

In Paradisum; Pärt, Clarke & Shaw
  • 15 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Katie Kim

Katie Kim & Elaine Howley

  • 15 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Dave Holland RCS

Dave Holland

Wicked Little Atoms in the Fragments of the Long Waves
  • 14 — 15 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Lixsania Fernandez

Lixsania Fernández

  • 15 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: Beowulf

Mary Clayton with Olivia O’Leary
  • 16 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme III; Clarke, Shaw & Dvořák
  • 15 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme IV; Glass, Ravel & Piazzolla
  • 16 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Crash Ensemble Diamanda and Sam Amidon

Crash Ensemble with Diamanda La Berge Dramm & Sam Amidon

  • 16 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Sweeney

Sweeney

RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Ciarán Hinds
  • 16 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Crash Ensemble AOBA ICHIKO

Ichiko Aoba

with Crash Ensemble
  • 17 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Encounters

Encounters

  • 15 — 17 August 2023
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Josienne Clarke RCS

Josienne Clarke

  • 17 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Aoife Ni Bhriain And Colin Dunne

Aoife Ní Bhriain & Colin Dunne: Open Rehearsals

  • 16 — 17 August 2023
  • Barnstorm Studio at The Home Rule Club
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Crash5 Andrew Hamilton

Crash Ensemble with Andrew Hamilton

Friendly Piece
  • 18 August 2023
  • The Watergate Theatre
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Malcolm Proud and Darren ornish Moore

Malcolm Proud & Darren Cornish-Moore

Dowland, Sweelinck, Jeep, Bull, Byrd, Pierluigi da Palestrina & Farnaby
  • 19 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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ICO Thomas Zehet

Irish Chamber Orchestra

with Thomas Zehetmair
  • 18 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Dawes8

Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet Launch

  • 18 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
SOLD OUT
Ta ta tum

Ta Tum Tum!

  • 18 August 2023
  • Barnstorm Studio at the Home Rule Club
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Benched

Benched

Created and performed by Tink Flaherty
  • 18 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Brighde Chaimbeul by MCS

Brìghde Chaimbeul

  • 18 August 2023
  • Tudor Kitchen, Rothe House
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: The Midnight Verdict

Peter Fallon with Olivia O’Leary
  • 18 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes in conversation with Olivia O'Leary

Poet in Residence
  • 18 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Colm MacAthlaoich. Sprinting woman, right to left. Acrylic, oil on canvas (Detail)

The Art of Sport - Artist Panel Discussion

With Colm Mac Athlaoich, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Mandy O’Neill
  • 15 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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