Rory Galagher's Guitar Event | 2026 Paula Meehan has been commissioned by the Tenement Museum, the National Museum and other institutions to write poems reflecting on 20th century Irish history, lived experiences and iconic artifacts. ...
Can Ordinary People Afford to Retrofit? Event | 2026 There are complaints that government schemes to make our houses warmer and less fossil-fuel dependent are both overly bureaucratic and skewed toward the better off. Sadhbh O’Neill, lecturer in clima...
The Room Where it Happened Event | 2026 Join acclaimed writer and former New York Times chief theatre critic Ben Brantley for a wide-ranging conversation on the craft of criticism, the shifting world of theatre and musicals, and the perform...
Strange Country - Ireland in America Event | 2026 Director, Garry Hynes and Designer, Francis O’Connor reflect on a creative partnership that has shaped the visual and dramatic language of Druid Theatre Company for over three decades. They will also ...
On Friendship Event | 2026 Andrew O’Hagan has written a book about one of the most important human relationships and its joys, rewards, conflicts and sadnesses. He will discuss the issues with psychiatrist Brendan Kelly, exper...
Partition, Independence, Assassination and Jazz; Ireland in the 1920s Event | 2026 Diarmaid Ferriter, Gearoid O’Tuathaigh and Ann Dolan will discuss an underexplored decade which saw a vicious civil war, the birth of a divided state, the growth of Catholic conservatism, fear and tre...
What Were We Like - The Pope in Galway Event | 2026 On September 30, 1979, Pope John Paul II visited Galway during his historic three-day trip to Ireland, celebrating a massive Youth Mass for approximately 300,000 people at Ballybrit Racecourse.
War, Tariffs, ICE and the Price of Gas Event | 2026 Fintan O’Toole and Marion McKeone, two of the best-informed journalists on US affairs, discuss the appalling developments in the US and beyond, Trump’s seemingly unfettered onslaught on democracy and ...
Singing Event | 2026 Novelist Colm Tóibín loves Irish traditional singing. Iarla Ó Lionáird is one of the foremost exponents of the art.
AI: So What Happens Next? Event | 2026 AI is rapidly reshaping the world around us — expanding capability, accelerating risk, and raising urgent questions about power, control, and accountability. We are building a high- powered technologi...