Exhibitions & Events

From Prague and Brussels to New York and Manilla, Maria McManus’ Jukeboxes are bringing poetry out into the city to engage with contemporary society.

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).

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

Vocalist Síobhra Quinlan performs classical and contemporary pieces responding to the theme of Dublin’s Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2020 - ‘A Better World’ - together with readings in English, French and Irish.

Throughout 2020, visitors to CCI’s courtyard will be able to listen to Maria McManus’ judicious choice of poems relating to climate concerns as well as experiences of migration, exile and other themes related to our programme.

This reading of one of Beckett’s first texts written in French is presented as part of the national Nuit de la lecture, fifty years after the publication of ‘Premier amour’.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s death, this evening of readings and discussion looks at how the writer’s singular career brought him to write in the French language.

'Notes to Self’ is a personal, courageous collection of essays about what it is to be a woman.

A special candlelit reading in the Old Library by Théophile Choquet of the French translation of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift.

Ronan Ryan, a writer-in-residence at the CCI in association with The Well Review, will be reading from and discussing his debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice.

Informal discussion at the Médiathèque during this Café littéraire

Unleash your capacity to write freely during this workshop which will be taking to the parks and the streets as well as analysing excerpts from classic books.

Donal returns to the CCI to launch the French translation of his third novel “All We Shall Know”

Anne Griffin joins us in Paris tonight having just published her first book When All is Said to critical acclaim