IDEATE is a multi-disciplinary mini-festival about making. It explores and celebrates craft, design and creativity through experimentation and collaboration and aims to build a community of practice actively engaged with innovation, technology and design. The festival has been devised and produced by the Crafts Council of Ireland and the National […]
Ireland’s best Comedy Festival returns to the medieval city bringing an exciting new programme and a great new creative partner in Sky. We’re delighted to present the world premiere of series two of Sky 1 HD’s award-winning comedy, Moone Boy, in the company of its co-writers Chris O’Dowd and Kilkenny […]
Since 1998, The Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots Festival has attracted some of the finest names in the Americana canon; acts like Calexico, Giant Sand, Ryan Adams,Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Guy Clark, Chuck Prophet, Ray LaMontagne,Richmond Fontaine, Rodney Crowell… The list is very long, and these are but a small few names who have been drawn to the magnet […]
Two hundred and seventy four members of the extended Harper family, ranging in age from 9 weeks to 96 years gathered in Kilkenny College last weekend for The Harper Reunion This was the 4th reunion of the descendants of Samuel Harper (1881-1957). The previous reunions took place in 1990, 1999 and 2006. The […]
The ‘Then and Now’ project used the local history collection available to libraries to create an exciting and unique Gathering Ireland 2013 invitation. Kilkenny County Library Service has prepared a series of six such postcards featuring pictures of Kilkenny, past and present. The original postcards were published in the early 1900’s and the ‘now’ […]
The Easter holiday will be a busy time in County Kilkenny, with gathering events taking place around the county. Emigration through the centuries Rothe House & Garden will be hosting ‘Emigration through the centuries’ a three day series mix of lectures, day trips, and social entertainment exploring factors […]
Law Enforcement officers from around the globe will be coming to Ireland to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Special Olympics World Summer Games held here in 2003. They will be walking in the parade with the Special Olympics Team Ireland Athletes who will be took part in […]
We had our Brochure Launch in Stathams Bar at the Pembroke Hotel here in Kilkenny on Wednesday night. You can read the event here, and download the brochure here.
Throughout 2013, Ireland and Kilkenny will open their arms wide for friends and family from around the world, and invite them to gatherings in homes, villages, towns and cities. Thousands of events are planned for the year ahead with the aim of bringing hundreds of thousands of extra visitors to […]
You can take inspiration from some of the events others have planned, or perhaps you have your own unique idea. Either way, you should make use of A gathering can be as small or as large as you like. Whether you are an individual, a business or a community or sporting organisation, […]
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