Cúirt 2023

Take a look back at all our events from the 2023 festival!

2023 Programme

Browse through our events from our 2023 programme here.

Making a Story World with Mary Watson

Galway City Library

The Lifeboat Pamphlet Launch with Dane Holt and William Keohane

Galway City Distillery

An Evening with Anne Enright and Louise Kennedy

Town Hall Theatre

The Arts and Culture of Galway since 1820

Nuns Island Theatre

Sentimental Garbage: Podcast Live

Town Hall Theatre

Poor Little Sick Girls: Ione Gamble

Nuns Island Theatre

Common Decency is Nothing Special: Susannah Dickey and Nicole Flattery

Nuns Island Theatre

The Raven’s Nest: Sarah Thomas

Outset Gallery

Old God’s Time: Sebastian Barry

Town Hall Theatre

Poetry Reading with Eva Bourke, Tara Bergin and Padraig Regan

An Taibhdhearc

Benjamin de Burca and Bárbara Wagner: Film Screening

Nuns Island Theatre

Donal Ryan & Wendy Erskine

Town Hall Theatre

The Wonderful World of YA

An Taibhdhearc

Michael Magee: Close to Home

Nuns Island Theatre

A Changing Climate: Writing, Activism and the Environment 

Town Hall Theatre

Bay Views: Writers on Wild Swimming with Chantal Thomas, Emily Hasler, Vanessa Earl

An Taibhdhearc

well I just kind of like it with Wendy Erskine, Susannah Dickey, Jan McCullough, Nathan O’Donnell

Outset Gallery

Kids Story Hour

Charlie Byrne's Bookshop

Shore Lines: Blackrock Readings and Sea Swim

Blackrock Tower

Max Porter: Shy

Town Hall Theatre

Boxing Day with William Keohane

Nuns Island Theatre

The Land, The Self: Memoir and Nature with Manchán Magan, Seán Hewitt, Amanda Thomson

Town Hall Theatre

How to Build a Boat Book Launch: Elaine Feeney

Kennys Bookshop

Dinnseanchas: Lore of Places

An Taibhdhearc

Suad Aldarra and Derek Owusu

Nuns Island Theatre

Irish Writers Centre Young Writer Delegates Showcase

Charlie Byrne's Bookshop

Motherhood and Madness with Alice Kinsella and Jessica Traynor

An Taibhdhearc

Lessons in Kindness: a workshop with Dani Gill

Coffeewerk & Press

Frames of Reference: Editing Fiction with Tice Cin, Max Porter, Tara McEvoy

Nuns Island Theatre

Bodies of Work : Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson

An Taibhdhearc

Travis Alabanza – None of the Above

An Taibhdhearc

Night Music : Fergus Cronin

Galway City Distillery

Writing Collapse: Eco-poetry with Daisy Lafarge,  Emma Must and Selina Nwulu

Nuns Island Theatre

New Writing Showcase

An Taibhdhearc

Debut Fiction: Maddie Mortimer, Luke Cassidy and Tice Cin

Nuns Island Theatre

Kevin Higgins Memorial

An Taibhdhearc

Frames of Reference: Art Writing with Nathan O’Donnell, Padraig Regan, Meadhbh McNutt

Nuns Island Theatre

Haunting Fiction: Carmen Maria Machado, Sophie White, Camilla Grudova

Nuns Island Theatre

Telling Tales: Irish Emigrant Women in the 19th Century

Nuns Island Theatre

Too Much of Nothing

Tigh Neachtain

ROPES Launch

Nuns Island Theatre

Fiction Masterclass with Carmen Maria Machado

Áras na nGael

Poetry Reading with Vona Groarke, Rachael Allen, Will Harris

Nuns Island Theatre

Frames of Reference: Editing Poetry with Colette Bryce, Rachael Allen, Stephen Connolly

Nuns Island Theatre

Cúirt Festival Opening Party with Elaine Feeney and Paul Maddern

Galway City Distillery

Queering the Green: Toby Buckley, Sarah Clancy and Colette Bryce

Nuns Island Theatre

Poetry Masterclass with Colette Bryce

Áras na nGael

Poems for Patience

University Hospital Galway

The Hardiman: An Amazing Story

The Hardiman

Minimal Human Contact at An Taibhdhearc

An Taibhdhearc