What's on

Hailed by The Guardian as an Irish Edith Piaf, Lisa O’Neill combines highly original music and reinterpretations with charismatic stage presence - a raconteur in the truest sense of the word.

Leitrim dancer Edwina Guckian takes on the roll of caller for the CCI's springtime céilí.

Four members of ITMA will tell us more about their important work of preserving, disseminating and promoting Irish traditional music and will enliven their presentation with short performances.

Three members of the illustrious Begley family from West Kerry effortlessly combine accordion, fiddle and concertina for this special CCI performance with guest fiddler Liam O’Connor, director of ITMA.

Performers of uilleann pipes, Louise Mulcahy, unearths stories as far back as the 19th century of the remarkable women who came before her.

Documentaries, concerts, workshops and a céilí at the CCI before a stellar line-up at Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris

This documentary celebrates the invaluable legacy of a side street pub that became an institution of Dublin traditional music sessions over more than thirty-five years.

We celebrate the Celtic festival of light with the installation ‘Silva Lumina’, a colourful exhibition of paintings, and musical performances.

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.

The sonic experiments, discoveries and evolutions of Beckett’s radio play All That Fall (1956) are re-imagined by director Adrian Dunbar for the Beckett Unbound Festival.