Exhibitions & Events

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

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

A special launch of the last volume of Beckett’s letters which covers the final period of his life from 1966 to 1989.

Writer-in-residence Pat Boran is best known as one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets.

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.