Latest Past Events

Donal Ryan in conversation with Shane Coleman

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork

Donal Ryan, from Tipperary, is the author of six novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and four Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in […]

€15

Peninsular People – Photographic Memories from the Old Head of Kinsale

The Lord Kingsale 4 Main St, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork

Local author Jerome Lordan presents a kind of visual genealogy and social history of the Old Head of Kinsale and the southern extremity of Courcey Country, from farming, seafaring and sports to local history, language and folklore. Over 450 photographs were collated by Padraig Begley and the late Eugene Dennis to make up this impressive […]

€10

An afternoon of storytelling with Alice Taylor

Friars Lodge Friars St. Rath More, Kinsale

The wonderful Alice Taylor needs no introduction and we are so pleased to be welcoming her to Kinsale to chat about her decades of writing on rural Ireland.  Who better to sit down with for a cuppa and a reminisce than this much-loved Irish writer, who has been a warm voice of Ireland since the […]

€10