Events

Pretty Happy, Arn. + Lunch Machine/Tuath (Earagail Arts Festival)

Pretty Happy is a 3-piece sister-brother-best friend art-punk band from Cork known for intense theatrical live performances and embracing the idioms and energy of their home city.  2022 was an eventful year for sister-brother-bestfriend Cork City art-rock trio Pretty Happy.  They released their debut vinyl EP Echo Boy on the Foggy Notions label to great …

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Anna Mieke (Earagail Arts Festival)

RTÉ Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year) award nominated Anna Mieke’s deft songwriting and enveloping compositions have asserted her as a vital voice amongst Ireland’s alt-folk genre. The Irish multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Wicklow toes the line between folk forms and vivid dreamscapes, drawing on traditional and contemporary motifs. The lyrically ornate …

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Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta + Roisin & Ella McGrory (Concert)

Presented in partnership with Ceol na Coille 2023 Born into a musical family, siblings Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta hail from the village of An Áird Mhóir in the Gaeltacht region of Connemara, County Galway. They are noted for their sean nós singing (unaccompanied traditional Irish vocal performance in the Irish language) and their unique arrangements of both Irish and English language songs.  They take a particular interest in vocal …

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RCC Lecture Series: Icons; The Photography of Martin Parr and Sophie Calle by Christina Mullan

‘Icons; The Photography of Martin Parr and Sophie Calle’ “Apparently trivial matters…when peered at carefully, reveal crucial expressions of private and social identity.” – Nicholas Bunker, ‘Sign of the Times’ Photographers Martin Parr and Sophie Calle take photographs of the very ordinary. They are described as being ‘social documentary’ photographers with subject matter focusing on …

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Irish National Opera present: Out of the Ordinary – A Virtual Reality Opera

Composed by Finola Merivale, with libretto by Jody O’Neill, directed by Jo Mangan. Experience the world’s first virtual reality community opera! Ecology, nature and flight from danger fire up this new work developed with communities from Inis Meáin, Tallaght and rural Ireland. Become Nalva as she and her people flee a land that has been …

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