Exhibitions & Events

Following award-winning runs in Ireland, Australia, New York, Los Angeles and London, Fishamble returns to the CCI with this blackly comic tale of a life lived in secret.

Centred around the wizardry of concertina player and electronic sound designer Pádraig Rynne, Notify seamlessly fuses musical tradition with forward-looking innovation.

Throw on a touch of green and come and join us! Events on Sunday for all the family... and Irish food on sale.

Turning pop, dance and entertainment into circus, acrobatics and comedy, brothers Seamus and Sean-tastic will have all age groups in stitches!

A founding member of The Frames and master of trad, Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s musical authority springs from the creative tension in his early life, a place of naturally occurring opposites… Irish and English, rural and urban, classical and traditional, old and new.

Three pioneers in the world of Irish traditional music united with two of their leading heirs quite simply make Usher’s Island a ‘supergroup’.

Love is madness. When Patrick, a young man with mental health issues, becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

Mná a’ ti Lasairfhíona is a singer-songwriter deeply rooted in the sean-nós singing style of her home on Inisheere, and equally, her innovative approach to Irish music and her new slant on traditional singing makes her endeavors more appealing.

Veritable path-breakers, these three poets continue to find new ways to tell truths of femininity, language, sexuality and culture.

Writing or drawing in the margins of a book was quite acceptable up to the 19th-century. Emmanuelle Chapron discusses the wonderful variety of marginalia in works held in our Old Library collection.

Award-winning Irish and French writers will engage in a series of debates and talks about the preoccupations, styles and dynamics of contemporary literature.

Enjoy this trio’s truly eclectic mix of traditional songs and tunes ranging from whaling songs to murder ballads!

Edna O’Brien’s famous rite-of-passage story is brilliantly adapted for the screen by director Desmond Davis who succeeds in presenting each little act of rebellion and stolen moment of innocent passion as something exhilaratingly new.

This Irish orchestra of outstanding young string musicians is joined by the great solo pianist Míċeál O’Rourke whose musical presence has gripped audiences worldwide.

This evening, in the candlelit surroundings of the Old Library, Marc Roger will read from 'The Battle of the Books' by Jonathan Swift.