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Tranquil effigy of the Cantwell Fada conceals his tragic death

Concealed down the end of a peaceful country lane in south Co. Kilkenny is the ruin of a 14th-century church. Tumbledown yet charming, the church itself is picturesque and interesting but within its walls stands something truly unique, and ...

17 Aug 2022 at 23:00

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Hubert Butler Annual Lecture 2022 by political analyst Masha Gessen

For many years, Masha Gessen has been one of the most respected political analysts in the US. In 2020 their special 'in conversation' event about the Trump administration, streamed online at the Festival, was essential viewing in advance ...

05 Aug 2022 at 20:00

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Tranquil effigy of the Cantwell Fada conceals his tragic death

25 Dec 2022 at 10:30

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Big questions loom for Europe - and for us all, hears Kilkenny's annual Hubert Butler Lecture

The world has entered a new era that will see great and vying-to-be-great powers seek to carve out new political realities, and the future of Europe may well be in the balance. What that future could be —and indeed, what Europe even ...

28 Aug 2023 at 10:02

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A local Kilkenny hero with an international outlook

Hubert Butler was born in a very small place, Bennettsbridge in County Kilkenny, yet his outlook was utterly international. Born to an Irish Protestant family on October 23 in 1900, he arrived with a new century that would be ...

29 Oct 2022 at 19:00

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A local Kilkenny hero with an international outlook

02 Jan 2023 at 11:00

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A local Kilkenny hero with an international outlook

18 Nov 2022 at 18:08

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A local Kilkenny hero with an international outlook

26 Oct 2022 at 20:00

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Kilkenny Arts Festival congratulate winner of Hubert Butler Essay Prize

The recipient of the renowned international Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2020 was recently announced by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The award, which encourages the art of essay-writing across ...

25 Nov 2020 at 10:50

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Can you write a prize essay? Enter the Hubert Butler Essay competition

A European literary essay competition in honour of Kilkenny’s Hubert Butler will be presented in the city, this October. If you’ve exhausted your book supply have no space for planting left in your garden,...

07 Jun 2020 at 17:04

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Bodacious - The Kilkenny cat who wrote his own book is dead

Bodacious, the Shepherd Cat from Kilkenny who wrote his own book, has passed away. The much loved feline died on the first day of spring, February 1 after taking ill three weeks previously. His owner, ...

07 Feb 2019 at 10:47

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Kilkenny All Time Greats - Profile: Hubert Butler

Born at Maiden Hall outside the village of Bennettsbridge, Butler was a man of many talents. We remember him as a human rights campaigner, activist, writer, fluent Russian-speaker who translated the ...

22 Jan 2019 at 16:31

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