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SUMMARY:Free admission to Kilkenny Castle for Culture Night
DESCRIPTION:Kilkenny Castle is delighted to take part in Culture Night once more.\n\n\nTo celebrate Culture Night\, the period rooms and exhibitions of Kilkenny Castle will be open to the public free of charge from 6pm to 9pm on Friday 19th September 2025\n\n\nPlease note last admission will be 8:30pm.\n\n\nNo advance booking required. Admission will be on a first come\, first served basis\n#CultureNight #OPW #HeritageIreland #IrelandAncientEast #VisitKilkenny #Kilkenny #KilkennyCastle
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/free-admission-to-kilkenny-castle-for-culture-night-2/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260926T193000
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SUMMARY:Music in Kilkenny Series: The Lir Quartet
DESCRIPTION:OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org \nThe first of the concerts to take place at the Parade Tower\, Kilkenny Castle will be on Sunday 26 September at 7:30pm. \nThe Lir Quartet : Siobhán Doyle – violin | Sophie Williams – violin | Ed Creedon – viola | Killian White – cello \nYoung at Heart \nJoseph Haydn String Quartet in G major\, op. 76 no. 1 \nLinda Buckley ‘Bullens Bay’ (2026) \nFelix Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor\, op. 13 \n 
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/music-in-kilkenny-series-the-lir-quartet/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261004T160000
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SUMMARY:Music in Kilkenny: Musici Ireland
DESCRIPTION:OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org \nThe next of these concerts will take place at the Parade Tower\, Kilkenny Castle on Sunday 4 October at 4:00pm. \nPerformers: Róisín O’Grady – soprano | Sharon Carty – mezzo soprano | Eamon Mulhall – tenor | Kerenza Peacock – violin | Beth McNinch – viola | Katie Tertell – cello \nProgramme:  \nArvo Pärt ‘Es sang vor langen Jahren’ mezzo-soprano\, violin and viola \nLibby Croad ‘To Have Body’ from Chronically Hopeful (with voices) \nHenry Purcell ‘Music for a while’ soprano & strings \nLinda Buckley ‘Fiol’ for string trio \nDeborah Pritchard ‘Stabat Mater’ (World Première) \nArvo Pärt ‘Stabat Mater’ \n \nThis programme centres around two settings of ‘Stabat Mater’ a 13th century Latin hymn which translates as ‘the mother stood’ depicting the Virgin Mary’s sorrow as she stood at the foot of the cross as her son Jesus \nChrist was crucified. Written in 1985 Pärt’s Stabat Mater is composed in what he calls his ‘tintinnabuli’ style and bring us back to the liturgical roots: the purity of the thirteenth century. \n \nMusic critic Robert R. Reilly wrote ‘It is not a study in musical archaism\, but a living testimony of belief. This is music to listen to on your knees’. \n \nDeborah Pritchard says of her setting entitled ‘Vision’: ‘The vision was to create a companion piece to the Pärt\, responding to the sublime meaning illuminated in this 13th century hymn to Mary…… ‘
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/music-in-kilkenny-musici-ireland/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Music in Kilkenny : Ora Quartet
DESCRIPTION:OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org \nThe next of these concerts will take place at the Parade Tower\, Kilkenny Castle on Sunday 18 October at 4:00pm. \nPerformers : Siun Milne – violin | Molly O’Shea – violin | Ali Comerford – viola | Yseult Cooper Stockdale – cello \nProgramme:  \nJoseph Haydn String Quartet in F major\, op. 50 no. 5 ‘The Dream’ \nAlex Dowling Breathers (selection) 2026 \nDmitri Shostakovich String Quartet in F minor\, no. 11 \nRobert Schumann String Quartet in A minor\, op. 41 no. 1 \n \nThe Ora Quartet is one of a new generation of fine quartets performing regularly and building a strong following. Their programme for this tour offers four strikingly contrasted quartets.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/music-in-kilkenny-ora-quartet/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Toil & Trouble 2026: Bright I Burn - Molly Aitken hosted by Anya Bergman
DESCRIPTION:Seven hundred years ago\, a Kilkenny woman was condemned as a witch. The records that survive were written by the men who prosecuted her. Alice Kyteler’s own voice is nowhere in them. \nBright I Burn gives it back to her. Molly Aitken’s novel\, a New Yorker and BBC Best Book of 2024\, and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Prize\, imagines Alice from the inside: an innkeeper’s daughter who took over her father’s trade and grew it\, built a fortune in a city that had no place for a wealthy woman\, married four times and outlived three husbands\, and found that the gossip trailing her money could harden\, in the end\, into a charge that carried a death sentence. \nIn this intimate reading and conversation in the Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle\, hosted by novelist Anya Bergman\, Aitken brings medieval Kilkenny to life and opens up the questions underneath the story. How does a community decide that one of its own has become dangerous? What is the difference between a woman with power and a woman to be feared? And what does it take to recover a voice that history worked hard to erase? Look deeper. Ask why. Challenge the story. \nPrice: €10 + €1.50 booking fee.\nAge: 16+ (Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.)\nAccessibility information: This venue is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/toil-trouble-2026-bright-i-burn-molly-aitken-hosted-by-anya-bergman/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Toil & Trouble 2026: Burning Woman
DESCRIPTION:On 3rd November 1324\, Petronilla de Midia became the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for the practice of witchcraft in a dark episode of Kilkenny’s history that would have reverberations around the world for centuries to come. Burning Woman takes that story and asks: why is this story still relevant today? This new seminar\, the first in an annual series\, brings together historians\, feminist voices and storytellers to dig into the Kilkenny Witch trial and the bigger themes hiding inside it – power\, wealth\, status\, church and state\, and who gets blamed\, excluded or pushed to the margins. \nJoining the panel are Dr Andrew Sneddon\, Senior Lecturer in International History at Ulster University and a leading historian of witchcraft and magic in Ireland; Dr Celeste McNamara\, Assistant Professor in Early Modern European History at DCU; and Mary McAuliffe\, Director of Gender Studies at UCD. \nWith Ireland holding the EU Presidency this year\, we’re widening the lens to ask how far women’s rights and treatment have really come across Europe since. Part history\, part hard conversation\, Burning Woman connects a 700-year-old trial to very present-day questions about power\, gender and belonging. \nThis event is funded as part of Cultúr 2026\, the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026. \n\nPrice: FREE but ticketed event.\nAge: 16+ (Under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult)\nAccessibility information: The Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/toil-trouble-2026-burning-woman/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261206T153000
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SUMMARY:Irish Sign Language Interpreted Guided tour
DESCRIPTION:As part of the OPW programme of Irish Sign Language interpreted tours at Heritage sites around the country\, Kilkenny Castle is offering free ISL interpreted tours on several dates in 2026.\nOne of our experienced guide accompanied by an ISL interpreter will lead you throughout the restored Period Rooms of Kilkenny Castle and will put the spotlight on fascinating characters and hidden gems.\nThe guided tours give a unique opportunity to learn more about Kilkenny Castle and its Collections.\nThe tours are free of charge but places are limited so participants are asked to book early by emailing kilkennycastleinfo@opw.ie
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/irish-sign-language-interpreted-guided-tour-6/2026-12-06/
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