Siobhán Armstrong is one of Europe’s foremost harpists playing medieval to 18th-century music on reconstructions of historical harps. She performs and records with prestigious vocal soloists and instrumentalists, period-instrument ensembles, […]

Sheep were a vital component of the early modern economy in Britain and Ireland, and in this lecture Professor Andrew Hadfield talks about the poet Edmund Spenser’s representation of sheep […]

Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 3rd September 2023 • 4pm €20, from www.eventbrite.ie The Irish harpsichordist Malcolm Proud will give a recital at Doneraile Court, Co. Cork at 4pm on […]

Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 17th September 2023 • 4pm €6 An illustrated talk by Professor Jane Grogan The sixteenth-century English poet Edmund Spenser is a disturbing presence in […]

Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 1st October 2023 • 4pm Aoibhe Kettle, Naoise Kettle and Senan Shortall are a trio of multi-instrumentalists from Co. Laois. With strong roots in Irish […]

An illustrated talk by Dr Ciarán Reilly.  In September 1851, towards the end of the Great Famine, the Waterford News and Star newspaper reported on the ‘public rejoicings’ in Tramore, County […]