Skibbereen Arts Festival 2011

The official festival of us, MURPHY’S presents CORK X SOUTHWEST returns for a fourth outing on Saturday July 31st, in the gorgeous West Cork town of Skibbereen

The International World of Elvis Clones, Look-a-likes, Impersonators and Tribute Artists is quite a sight to behold, there are thousands from places as far off as Australia, India, Norway, UK and of course The USA, well we have our own here in Ireland..

Written by Belfast playwright Marie Jones, ‘A Night In November’ stars award-winning actor William Lyons as Kenneth McAlister, a working-class Protestant, during a fateful night in November, 1993 in Belfast when the Republic of Ireland soccer team plays against Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier

Protestant Minister, piper, Gaelic scholar and Trinity College professor; James Goodman, straddled two very different cultures in 19th century Ireland but it is the vast collection of tunes he transcribed from piper, Thomas Kennedy which James Goodman will be remembered for

Join us again this year in the atmospheric grounds of Abbeystrewery Church for our outdoor movie night! This year we are delighted to have David Puttnam to introduce his classic 1983 movie, Local Hero

In his writings, and particularly, in ‘The Third Policeman’, Flann O’Brien took scientific principles, extrapolated them to fantastic proportions, and set the outcomes in a bizarre context that is at once both logical and illogical

Tom French is one of the most interesting poets to emerge in Ireland in the last few years. He was born in Kilkenny in 1966 and raised across the border in Tipperary …

11 of the best up coming acts from all over Cork and beyond will be performing at different times in the bars and hostelries of the town – everything from funky Traditional to groovy Country and good old fashioned Rock’n'Roll will have the town buzzing for the whole weekend