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SUMMARY:Biodiversity Week: Native plants and their uses in medicine and cooking
DESCRIPTION:Giedre Dunphy will give a talk on native plants and their uses in medicine and cooking. \nMeeting Point: Kilkenny Castle Park (at the Copper Beech tree) \nThis is a FREE event. No booking required. \nPlease wear appropriate footwear and clothing as this is an outdoor event.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/biodiversity-week-native-plants-and-their-uses-in-medicine-and-cooking/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle Park\, Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Free Admission
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SUMMARY:Biodiversity Week: Dusk Chorus
DESCRIPTION:OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to collaborate with the Kilkenny branch of BirdWatch Ireland for another Dusk Chorus this year on Thursday 22 May. \nAll are welcome to come along to this FREE event. \nMeeting Point: Courtyard \nThis is a FREE event. No booking required. \nPlease wear appropriate footwear and clothing as this is an outdoor event. \n 
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/biodiversity-week-dusk-chorus/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle Park\, Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Free Admission,Tour
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SUMMARY:Biodiversity Week: Design By Nature: How to grow wildflowers in your garden\, farm and community
DESCRIPTION:OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to welcome Sandro Cafolla for this talk on wildflower growing\, from site prep to sowing and how to maintain a long-term ecology. \nSandro’s forty years of growing wildflowers simplifies the mystic and explains why there is a difference between nature and environment and how it affects what Irish gardeners buy and grow when they order wildflowers. Sandro’s talks always include a nod to the political activity needed to save species. \nThis is a FREE event and entry is on a first come first served basis. \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Parade Tower. \nThis event may also have an outdoor element (weather dependent) so it is advisable to wear appropriate footwear and clothing.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/biodiversity-week-design-by-nature-how-to-grow-wildflowers-in-your-garden-farm-and-community/
LOCATION:Parade Tower\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Free Admission
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SUMMARY:Free Admission for Culture Night
DESCRIPTION:Kilkenny Castle is delighted to take part in Culture Night once more.\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 20th September 2024\nPlease note last admission will be 8:30pm.\nNo advance booking required. Admission will be on a first come\, first served basis
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/free-admission-for-culture-night/
LOCATION:Kilkenny
CATEGORIES:Free Admission
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SUMMARY:Local link to the past
DESCRIPTION:Local Links to the Past ✨\nThe Office of Public Works and Transport for Ireland are collaborating to promote sustainable travel this National Heritage Week ????\nThis year’s theme is Connections\, Routes and Networks. Inspired by this\, OPW – Office of Public Works are incentivising visitors to use the Local Links rural public transport service to access twelve heritage sites across Ireland. This is the first year that the OPW and the Department of Transport are rolling out this initiative.\nKilkenny Castle  will grant free admission to visitors who take the Local Links service from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August. To avail of this offer\, present your Local Link ticket at our ticket desk\nsee www.heritageireland.ie for more information
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/local-link-to-the-past/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Free Admission
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SUMMARY:Free Admission to Kilkenny Castle
DESCRIPTION:As part of Heritage Week 2024 Kilkenny Castle is offering free admission on Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of August.\nDiscover the ancestral home of the Butler Family with a free self-guided visit to the magnificent Victorian period rooms of Kilkenny Castle.\nNo advance booking required\, tickets will be available from our ticket desk from 9:15am. We will have an outdoor que in operation. Please note that this is a very busy site and visitor may experience delays. Last admission is 5pm\nPartial wheelchair access\, children must be supervised.\nFree admission applies to individual visitors only\, tour operators and groups must book in advance by contacting bookingskilkennycastle@opw.ie
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/free-admission-to-kilkenny-castle/2024-08-18/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Free Admission to Kilkenny Castle
DESCRIPTION:As part of Heritage Week 2024 Kilkenny Castle is offering free admission on Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of August.\nDiscover the ancestral home of the Butler Family with a free self-guided visit to the magnificent Victorian period rooms of Kilkenny Castle.\nNo advance booking required\, tickets will be available from our ticket desk from 9:15am. We will have an outdoor que in operation. Please note that this is a very busy site and visitor may experience delays. Last admission is 5pm\nPartial wheelchair access\, children must be supervised.\nFree admission applies to individual visitors only\, tour operators and groups must book in advance by contacting bookingskilkennycastle@opw.ie
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/free-admission-to-kilkenny-castle/2024-08-17/
LOCATION:Kilkenny Castle\, OPW Kilkenny Castle\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\, R95YRK1\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Culture Night
DESCRIPTION:Kilkenny Castle is delighted to take part in Culture Night once more. \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 22nd September 2023. \nMusical guests\, duo Laoise O’Brien (Recorder) & Malcolm Proud (harpsichord)\, will entertain visitors with “Upstairs\, downstairs: popular tunes of the 16th & 17th centuries” in the stunning Picture Gallery from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. \nThis programme of staggered performances comprises melodies and songs that would have been familiar to all\, in settings that would have been heard in the highest echelons of society. Laoise and Malcolm Proud take us back in time as they explore the music that would have been popular both upstairs and downstairs in Kilkenny Castle. \nLaoise O’Brien is a musician and producer based in Kilkenny. She divides her time between her music production company and her career-long championing of the recorder. As a performer\, Laoise has appeared as a soloist and guest musician with numerous ensembles including the Irish Chamber Orchestra\, Irish Baroque Orchestra\, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland\, Resurgam\, Sestina\, The Irish Consort\, and Camerata Kilkenny. www.laoiseobrien.com \nMalcolm Proud is a harpsichordist and organist and performs regularly with the Irish Baroque Orchestra\, Camerata Kilkenny\, Resurgam and Sestina. His international career has included playing all six Brandenburg Concertos with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists at the BBC London Proms and at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. He has worked also with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment\, Academy of Ancient Music\, European Union Baroque Orchestra and Akademie für alte Musik Berlin. www.malcolmproud.ie \nPlease note last admission will be 8:30pm. \nNo advance booking required. Admission will be on a first come\, first served basis
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/culture-night/
LOCATION:Kilkenny
CATEGORIES:Free Admission,Music
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SUMMARY:Heritage Week: Free Admission to Kilkenny Castle
DESCRIPTION:As part of Heritage Week\, Kilkenny Castle is delighted to offer free self-guided admission on Saturday 12th  August 2023. \nDiscover the ancestral home of the Butler Family with a free self-guided visit of the magnificent Victorian period rooms of Kilkenny Castle \nComplimentary tickets only available on the day from our ticket desk.  Admission will be on a first come\, first served basis \nGuided tours will not be available on that day. \nPlease note last admission will be 5pm.
URL:https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/heritage-week-free-admission-to-kilkenny-castle/
LOCATION:Kilkenny
CATEGORIES:Free Admission
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