What's on

For anyone who loves traditional Irish music and poetry

A relaxed evening with our artists-in-residence: guitarist Benjamin Dwyer, actor and writer Sonya Kelly and filmmaker Alan Phelan.

Folktales, legends and myths are combined with more contemporary tales for two performances

Lia Mill’s will discuss her novel set in Easter Week 1916 with visual artist Gail Ritchie; both were influenced by time spent in Paris.

Our artist-in-residence will discuss his acclaimed first novel – a powerful account of the Chernobyl disaster

Poets Paddy Bushe and Caitriona O’Reilly read from their collections and discuss their current projects

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of Ireland’s most esteemed authors read and discuss her rich and sensuous prose in the elegant courtyard of CCI

This group show of some sixteen artists engaged in issues of climate change takes its title from a poem by Lemn Sissay ‘What If We Got It Wrong?’. Has progress as we know it led us down the wrong path, “weakened us as we got strong”?

Barnabas Kane returns home to Donegal in 1945… to be treated as a local stranger

Bring a picnic and enjoy an inspiring series of short plays set in a park followed by a special homage to W.B. Yeats on his 150th birthday.

A fascinating stage adaptation of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

Actor and singer Bronagh Gallagher discusses Irish society of the 1980s with writer Mia Gallagher.

John Boyne launches the French translation of The Absolutist, a powerful novel set in the First World War.

Mia Gallagher’s award-winning fiction has been published in Ireland and internationally.

On St Patrick’s day, CCI will set free 30 books in French and English from Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy… to be read and released in turn.

Acclaimed new writers Mary Costello and Donal Ryan launch the French translation of their first novels at the Embassy of Ireland.