What's on

Culture Night 2020 is a lovely opportunity to combine the opening of CCI’s new exhibition with open studios and poetry readings and the chance to take part in The Live Drawing Project all evening!

Le rat et le serpent is a twenty minute theatre work based on a text by Jean Pierre Brisset. Brisset’s resulting invention is surprising, humorous and poetic.

CCI is delighted to be joining with Dublin Fringe Festival 2020 to commission three manifestos from three sets of trailblazing Irish artists in response to a curatorial call for radical and unapologetic work

This year, instead of trying to replicate the Fête de la Musique online, CCI is offering 20 people the opportunity of a private serenade by a top Irish musician!

For Nuit de la littérature's special on-line edition this year, CCI has chosen to highlight Emilie Pine's “compulsively readable” Notes to Self (The Guardian).

Two master musicians weave wonders in the chapel with their ten-string hardanger d’amore fiddles - “a luscious soundscape” (Martin Hayes) not to be missed.

An opportunity to learn more about the collection in our Old Library!

This wonderful cycle of musical readings was originally commissioned by the National Library of Ireland for the ‘Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again’ exhibition in Dublin.

Listen to Maria McManus’ judicious choice of poems relating to our current exhibition and themes of migration and exile

2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. His string quartet Op.127 is performed this evening as part of a recital by the impressive Lir Quartet.

Bringing together some of Ireland’s most exciting young musicians, this septet draws on a wealth of creative sources to perform arrangements of Irish traditional music rooted in the repertoire of West and North County Clare.

This five-piece band from the North of Ireland are tearing up the rule book with their bold approach to their native musical tradition and have taken both sides of the Atlantic by storm.

Inspired by a myriad of musical influences, this impressive eight-member trad band has built its international reputation on three decades of energetic innovation.

Come and find out more about the precious collection in the Old Library and admire our three illuminated manuscripts up close.

A hilarious comedy based on a true story about an ex-Trappist monk who hijacked an Aer Lingus plane with extravagant claims...