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Dublin Theatre Festival 2015

Dublin Theatre Festival 2015

24 September - 11 October

Electric Picnic 15 September 4-7 2015

Clockwise from far left, a work from ‘Circle in the Square’ by Marilyn Lerner; Cloud Tyvek by Max Streicher at St Mary’s; O by Karen Donnellan; and Róisín de Buitléar’s blown-glass musical instruments

Kilkenny Arts Festival 14 8th - 17th August 2014

To Space, at the Science Gallery

Dublin Fringe Festival 2014 September 5 - 22

Dublin Fringe Festival 13 Sept 5th-22nd 2013

The Strypes. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire.

Electric Picnic 13 Aug 30th - Sept 1st 2013

Dublin Theatre Festival 13 Sept 26th - Oct 13th 2013

Tiger Dublin Fringe 15 September 8—17 2015

Electric Picnic: tailored entertainment. Reuters/Cathal McNaughton

Electric Picnic 14 August 29-31 2014

A print by Leonie King featured in her Inextricably Linked exhibition

Galway Arts Festival 14 14th - 27th July 2014

Four-year-old Ruadhan Collier explores Miracoco, a luminarium designed by Architects of Air UK as part of of the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Photograph: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

Kilkenny Arts Festival 13 August 8th-17th 2013

Nathaniel Mellors’s absurdist video installation series Ourhouse

Galway Arts Festival 13 July 14-27 2013

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