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Heritage Week Talk by Commandant (Retired) Larry Scallan: 1st Battalion Kilkenny Brigade 1916-1923

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

As part of Heritage Week 2025 we are delighted to welcome Commandant (Retired) Larry Scallan to the Parade Tower: 1st Battalion Kilkenny Brigade 1916-1923 (Exploring the foundations and the development of the Order of Battle and Leadership of this active Battalion) The first recruitment meeting for the Irish Volunteers took place in Kilkenny City in March […]

Free

Kilkenny Arts Festival

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilkenny Arts Festival  Thursday 7 – Sunday 17 August OPW is very pleased to partner with the Festival in presenting a wonderful array of literary events in The Parade Tower,  a sneak preview of some of the chapters of the Alice Project in the Medieval Room and of course the wonderful Secret Garden Music returns […]

Biodiversity Week: Design By Nature: How to grow wildflowers in your garden, farm and community

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

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. Sandro'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 […]

Free

Music in Kilkenny Concert Series: Mark Anthony McGrath

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS Sonata No. 34 in D minor - Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) Divertimento à Solo in Bb major - S.L. Weiss Ciaconna in G minor - S.L Weiss Carolan’s Dozen - Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738)   In this recital Mark Anthony McGrath performs music by the legendary Irish harper/composer Turlough O’Carolan and the greatest […]

€5 – €20

Garden Talk Series: A walk and talk through Kilkenny Castle Park

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2025 The series comes to an end this evening with our very own Colm Mangan, Foreperson of Kilkenny Castle Park. Tuesday 6 May: Colm Mangan 'A walk and talk through Kilkenny Castle Park'  All talks are free […]

Free

Music in Kilkenny Concert Series: The Engegård String Quartet

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS Quartet Op. 95 No. 11 - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Quartet - Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 (Voces Intimae) - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Norwegian Folk Music   Formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2005, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one of Norway’s most sought after […]

€5 – €20

Garden Talk Series: My garden, past, present and future

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2025 As usual, there will be a wide range of speakers, covering a variety of topics. The series starts on Tuesday 25 March and runs until Tuesday 6 May. All talks are free and entry is on […]

Free

Garden Talk Series: Lessons learned in a lifetime gardening

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2025 As usual, there will be a wide range of speakers, covering a variety of topics. The series starts on Tuesday 25 March and runs until Tuesday 6 May. All talks are free and entry is on […]

Free

Garden Talk Series: Growing unusual and special annuals

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2025 As usual, there will be a wide range of speakers, covering a variety of topics. The series starts on Tuesday 25 March and runs until Tuesday 6 May. All talks are free and entry is on […]

Free

Garden Talk Series: Eco-aesthetic gardening: Creating beauty and habitats

Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2025 As usual, there will be a wide range of speakers, covering a variety of topics. The series starts on Tuesday 25 March and runs until Tuesday 6 May. All talks are free and entry is on […]

Free