OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new 2026 programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org The first of these concerts takes place at the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle on Sunday 25 January at 4pm. Music in Kilkenny’s opening concert of the 2026 Spring season has […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The programme is available now at www.musicinkilkenny.org Keith Pascoe - violin / Marja Gaynor - violin / Simon Aspell - viola / Ed Creedon - viola / Christopher Marwood - cello / Maria O’Connor - cello PROGRAMME & […]
The annual John Bradley Memorial Weekend will take place on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November 2025.This year’s theme focuses on William Robertson (1770–1850), Kilkenny’s first architect.The keynote address will be delivered by Mr John Lucey on Friday night at the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle. Friday: Reception at 6pm, Lecture at 7pm followed by […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new autumn schedule is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org The Banbha Quartet was founded in 2020 and is made up of four of our most celebrated musicians who all work with orchestras in Ireland. They return for this, their […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]