OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2024 All talks are free and on a first come first serves basis. Doors open at 7.30 pm each Tuesday. Talks start at 8pm sharp. Tues 30 April at 8pm: Paul Maher: ‘Good Garden Design’ Having spent […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2024 All talks are free and on a first come first serves basis. Doors open at 7.30 pm each Tuesday. Talks start at 8pm sharp. Tues 23 April at 8pm: Kitty Scully: ‘The Road to Great Kitchen […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2024 All talks are free and on a first come first serves basis. Doors open at 7.30 pm each Tuesday. Talks start at 8pm sharp. Tues 16 April at 8pm: Karl Flynn: ‘The Evolution of a Garden’ […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to present our Garden Talks once again as part of our Spring Programme 2024 All talks are free and on a first come first serves basis. Doors open at 7.30 pm each Tuesday. Talks start at 8pm sharp. Tues 9 April at 8pm: Paul Smyth: ‘Bellefield Garden, Angela Jupe and […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is pleased to support Music in Kilkenny's Concert Series once again. These wonderful concerts take place at various venues in Kilkenny city and county and we are delighted to host some of them at the Parade Tower. The Piatti Quartet will be the next of these on Friday 24 November at 8pm […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to host the John Bradley Memorial lecture once again on Friday 27 October at the Parade Tower. The speaker this year will be Gerard Crotty, a retired teacher who has been interested in heraldry for many years. Talk: Making Sense of Heraldry : Coats of arms have been borne by […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is pleased to support Music in Kilkenny's Concert Series once again. These wonderful concerts take place at various venues in Kilkenny city and county and we are delighted to host some of them at the Parade Tower. The Marmen Quartet will be the first of these on Friday 20 October at 6pm […]
The King's Harper: The Irish Harp at the 17th-century English Court In 1605, King James I of England employed the first ‘royal’ Irish harper to work at the court in London: Cormac MacDermott. This gave rise to an extraordinary ensemble in which the melting sound of his early Irish harp’s brass-wire strings was woven together […]
Gala Concert: Masters of Irish Music This concert—in the setting of the medieval tower of Kilkenny Castle—is a rare gathering of some of the world’s leading performers on early Irish harp and pipes, together with a prize-winning sean-nós singer, in a programme of evocative and lively instrumental music, solo singing, and harp songs, some of […]
To celebrate Pride Month, OPW-Kilkenny Castle is delighted to host a talk by Dr Anthony Delaney on Saturday 10th June at 3pm in the Parade Tower. This talk explores ideas of gender and sexuality in the Georgian and Victorian Ireland, initially by centering Kilkenny Castle's inherent queerness, before zooming out to consider Kilkenny, and then […]