Competition Closed: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Midnight Poe and The Happy Prince...
**Competition Closed – Winners will be contacted** Summertime and the living is easy…local towns and villages are coming up trumps with the usual round of summer festivals and this year there’s a brand...
View ArticleGet down here! Galway Arts Festival 12-25 July 2010
Summer heralds Galway at its most attractive: the city’s waterways achieve colours of an almost impossible intensity for the short duration of the warmest season. White swans swarm the Claddagh and...
View Article300 Years of Smithwick’s
The following is a guest post by Christian Hughes. Christian is a social media advocate and enthusiast and runs the popular digital marketing blog, Digitology. He can also be found on Twitter:...
View ArticleEvent of the Week: 25th April – 1st May
One for all the unsuspecting tourists who happen upon Culch.ie expecting a site full of leprechauns and whimsy, and of course those natives who are fond of a bit of tra, this week we’re giving the...
View ArticleEvent of the Week: 16th – 22nd May
Got a taste for adventure? This week’s Culch.ie highlight is The Adventure Weekend at the RDS from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd. Showcasing the best of Irish outdoorsy pursuits, the event will offering...
View ArticleCompetition CLOSED: Ragús and a night at The Burlington
***COMPETITION CLOSED. Congrats to Amy. Winner selected via Twitter*** It’s competition time again! Ragús, The Burlington Hotel’s summer show, kicked off at the start of this month and is running until...
View ArticleThe Jeanie Johnston
I’d been on this boat recently for the launch of The Henrietta Game album, but it’s come back up in conversation for very different reasons. Howth Peninsula Heritage Society – Our next lecture is:...
View ArticleEvents: Opera at the Orangery
While the Temple House Festival was brought forward from its September date last year to beat Oxegen to the punch as the first Irish festival of the summer, those of you who want music without mud will...
View ArticleReview: Opera at the Orangery
Opera – especially in a country as small as Ireland – is a closeknit community, one that is often seen as being exclusive or elitist. Because of that perception and having not yet been to one of Ronnie...
View ArticlePreview: Absolut Fringe Festival 2011
Always doing things a little bit differently, Dublin’s Fringe Festival (which continues its partnership with Absolut this year), launched this morning with a breakfast buffet rather than the usual...
View ArticleGalway Races: 2nd Leg of the Budweiser weather presenter auditions and Scott...
In Galway for the races? Even if you’re not, read on for the chance of a free pint! There’s an open invite to the Galway Races Budweiser Ice Cold Index party at The Skeffington Arms Hotel in Eyre...
View ArticleEvents: Christmas Fairs in Dublin Town
We’ve received a few press releases about upcoming Christmas fairs in the capital so here’s the rundown, if you like that sort of thing: Powerscourt Gallery Christmas Market is happening this Saturday...
View ArticleReal Trad Irish Session: Fingal Folk Club Returns for 2012
Returning for 2012 this Friday January 20th… In what looks like from the outside [and is if you must know] an old Irish national school hall, every Friday takes places what can only be one of...
View ArticleDiscover Ireland Search for YouTube Sensation
This isn’t normally our sort of thing, but we’re feeling patriotic for the week that’s in it, and we’re always in the mood to alert Culch.ie readers to how they can win prizes. The folk at Discover...
View ArticleTitanic Festival Belfast
A horrific disaster that took the lives of over 1500 souls isn’t exactly the ideal inspiration for a festival of events. To many, the treatment of the RMS Titanic can often make the teeth itch,...
View ArticleThe Format: Sea Sessions Launch 2012
We recently headed down to the Workman’s Club for the launch of this year’s Sea Sessions Surf & Music festival. The Bundoran beach fest takes place from June 29th to July 1st and this year features...
View ArticleGlasnevin Cemetery and Museum
Invitations to cemeteries don’t come along all that often, thankfully, but when it’s Glasnevin Cemetery and Museum, you’d do well not to decline. Established in 1828 by Daniel O’Connell, the cemetery...
View ArticleOfficial State Commemoration of the Asgard Landing at Howth 100 years ago
This in from Dermot Quinn, Hon. Secretary of The Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, who says…. I attach a notice from Cllr. Cian O’Callaghan of the commemoration ceremony for the centenary of the Howth...
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