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Médiathèque favourites!

Three days to enjoy this year's designs in textiles, jewellery, cosmetics, ceramics, works on paper... and bring home something created by innovative arts and crafts practitioners working in Ireland and France.

From 25 to 29 June, we'll be welcoming composer and performer Anna Mullarkey for lunchtime concerts at 1:15pm as part of our pop-up café.

Indie-folk, trad-rock and trad/hip-hop… wonderful energy and sounds direct from the Irish music scene for CCI’s Fête de la Musique 2024!

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' brought to all audiences through a combination of live performance, intricate paper design and an original score.

Where can you go when there’s nowhere to go? ‘Rothar’ is Branar’s joyful production of mime and theatre that celebrates the places your imagination can take you… on your bike!

Un numéro spécial Irlande pour la revue littéraire Ex-Nihilo !

From 11 to 15 June, we'll be welcoming musician and songwriter Jamie Duffy for lunchtime concerts at 1:15pm as part of our pop-up café.

With Pas Moi / Not I, actor Clara Simpson takes Beckett’s notorious monologue and performs it in both French and English back-to-back, reflecting Beckett’s bilingual journey as well as her own.

Rough for Radio II is a radio play by Beckett written in French as Pochade radiophonique and first published in 1975. This festival version is recorded in situ by inmates of HM Prison Liverpool.

Irish photographer John Minihan photographed the great playwright Samuel Beckett many times in Paris and London. In this illustrated talk, John Minihan speaks about his encounters with one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

This special festival concert responds to the theatre and dance programme via six contemporary works, featuring three world-première commissions and two UK / France premières.

C’est Moi Dans la Poubelle is a film rendition of the meeting between Beckett and Ezra Pound, according to Beckett's account, with treatment by James Lever and directed by Michael O’Neill (Armchair & Rocket).

Having collaborated with emblematic French actor Denis Lavant on a number of Beckett's monologues, Jacques Osinski has taken on a new, exciting andfrightening challenge: his favourite play, Beckett's Fin de partie.

This dance piece is a Beckett Unbound 2024 Festival commission created by choreographer Liz Roche in collaboration with performer / composers Nathalie Forget and Nick Roth.