Exhibitions & Events

An illustrated lecture on the aesthetic of traditional Irish music and its socio-political contexts.

Arthur Beesley is Correspondent for The Irish Times; he will discuss the challenges for Ireland in post-Brexit Europe.

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.

Catherine Wilsdon sheds light on the people J.M. Synge encountered and the ideas to which he was exposed.

This conversation exploring the concept of ‘these Atlantic Isles’ aims at teasing out the shared and contrasting aspects of contemporary life and culture in Ireland and Britain.

This evening, Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland looks into contemporary reactions to ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘Salomé’.

Open to all, this conference explores the influence of Paris on the evolution of Irish political and cultural thought up to the 1916 Rising and the birth of the Irish Free State. It closes with a screening of the landmark documentary ‘1916’ shown on RTE television.

The highly inventive archictecture of the Maison du Peuple questions familiar constructions of the late 1930s.

Readings and discussion of the poetic works of three of the Easter 1916 revolutionaries.

This discussion looks at the origin and alternatives to the term ‘British Isles’

This evening launches the CCI’s series of events focusing on the Easter Rising of 1916 with an introductory lecture and music.

The impact of conflict revealed by world-famous portraitist Colin Davidson

Hear about the historical origins of the Irish College in Paris, in which the CCI is now situated, by a specialist on Irish migration to Europe in the early modern period

International environment and water specialists discuss the links between politics, economics and climate change as well as subjects concerning water as both primary necessity and energy provider

A chance to hear the personal reminiscence of one of the key actors who secured the restoration of the Irish College before its inauguration as the Centre Culturel Irlandais in 2002.

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