Dilemma and Delusion: An introduction to the short story form with Writing Coach Niamh Mulvey, Saturday, 12th October at 10am-1pm, Nenagh Tourist Office, Tickets €30 This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about how to write a short...

For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these were lighthearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their closest family and friends, they felt that they could trust Gay. And, so, they wrote in droves... Lovingly compiled by Gay's daughter, Suzy, Dear Gay is a sweeping handwritten history of a radically changed Ireland and a fitting Suzy will be in conversation with Evelyn O'Rourke.

'All Day Do Dance' provides a vibrant platform for Tipperary dance enthusiasts, welcoming participants from ages 8 to 88! This event is a wonderful opportunity to come together, draw inspiration from a movement workshop and celebrate the incredible dance films created by our community. It promises to be a joyous celebration.

Get ready for our Spooktacular celebration of the 25th anniversary of Spleodar Halloween Arts Festival! Get ready for 5 days full of eerie arts, haunting performances, and spine-chilling fun for all ages. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details coming soon!

Embark on a unique creative journey with our outreach artist, Lynn Kirkham, where your hands and mind will explore the beauty of sustainable, natural materials. In this immersive workshop, you'll learn and develop a range of new skills, crafting stunning mandalas and mobiles inspired by the profound theme of the circle of life.

Calling all artists working and living in North Tipperary. We would love to welcome you to Nenagh Arts Centre the first Friday of every month for an Artists Coffee Meet-up at 10am. The coffee meetup is an opportunity to meet other artists in the area, connect and share ideas in a relaxed setting. It is also an opportunity to discuss artist's objectives, goals and needs.

The simple art of painting rocks! Make animals, create messages, or design an abstract creation on a beach pebble using acrylic paints and Posca Pens. These whimsical artworks can be enjoyed as a home décor piece or as a colourful addition to your garden. Let's get ready to Rock!

Rory Makem and Dónal Clancy continue the legacy and pay tribute to their fathers, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy. Their show is a trip down memory lane with songs and stories from the early days of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem through to more contemporary hits such as The Dutchamn and Makem’s self-penned anthem, Four Green Fields.

LGBTQ community meet-ups provide safe and inclusive space for connection and celebration with mutual support and a sense of belonging. Join us for engaging discussions and fun activities such as game nights, hikes, coffee catch ups and much more!

Every first Tuesday of the month! Join us for photography meet up. Are you passionate about capturing moments, exploring new angles, and sharing your love for photography? We invite shutterbugs of all levels to come together to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and simply indulge in the joy of photography.

Local artist Giulia Coli invites you on a journey across Ireland. Discover the journey, the search for a new home and the enchanting spirit of Ireland through these works of art.

Join members of Mná na nEalaín collective Sibéal Riordan and Carol Kennedy for their final workshop! Time for the celebratory culmination of creativity, where participants will collaborate on assembling the breathtaking posters they've crafted throughout the year!

This opening event brings together lyricism and music from Helen Hutchinson, Linda McKenna, Michael Dooley and Bríd Kenny.

Diarmaid Ferriter’s new book The Revelation of Ireland demonstrates how we live in a very different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation.

In this event 3 brilliant contemporary Irish writers will discuss their recent debut novels.

To mark his 70th birthday, Michael Harding took a holiday in Spain, walking a short part of the Camino de Santiago in the early summer of 2024. But as he set off on this pilgrimage, Harding wasn’t alone. Accompanying him was his father, who passed away when Michael was just twenty-two. A man who was distant and aloof, but who had a profound effect on the writer’s life. In his new memoir, Harding travels back in time to the Ireland of his youth, to the Holy Wells and pubs he visited in a search for a sense of connection and he begins to unpack the long ago trauma of losing a father he never really knew

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Poet Jane Clarke will lead a workshop exploring how poetry helps us fine-tune our senses and pay attention to the wonders and realities of our threatened world.

Fred & Alice is a quirky love story about 2 amazing mischievous characters who meet in a home. It wasn’t really a home but Fred always called it a home because that was where he lived, and if you are not living at home then where are you? It was love at first sight for Alice. Fred didn’t talk to her again for years but then eventually Fred got used to her and it was love at first sight for him too.

Mark Moriarty has been an inspiration to many home cooks with his books, TV shows and Irish Times Columns. Denis Cotter has been at the avant garde of vegetarian and seasonal cooking since he opened his acclaimed Cork restaurant PARADISO in 1993. In this event both chefs will discuss food, recipes, the best way to eat and their latest books with Peter Ward of Nenagh's Country Choice.

A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices Donal Ryan's Heart Be at Peace is a stunning, standalone literary novel in its own right, and a sequel to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning bestseller, The Spinning Heart. Donal Ryan will be in conversation with writer and radio producer Paula Shields. The event will open with a reading by Geraldine Mitchell from her latest book Naming Love.

This event brings together nature writer Eoghan Daltun and poet Jane Clarke to explore the connecting themes of restoration and hope in their work.

The sea has always been a part of Nuala Moore’s life: her earliest memory is of jumping off her father’s fishing boat in Dingle Harbour and swimming back to shore. Since then, she’s swum in some of the coldest, most remote and dangerous waters in the world, from the Bering Strait to the Drake Passage. After years of marathon swimming, Nuala struggled to balance sacrifice and achievement. Her work–life balance, coupled with caring for her father, forced a change in her pathway. She turned to ice swimming. For Nuala, these extreme situations offered freedom and a chance to find her true north. This special talk will be on board the Ku-Ee-Tu. Nuala will be in conversation with Nathan O'Donnell a Nenagh native and author of The Book of Invasions an exploration of swimming in Lough Derg.

Inspired by his passionate interest in Ireland’s architectural heritage and its preservation, in 2012 writer Robert O’Byrne established The Irish Aesthete, a blog and social media phenomenon dedicated to sharing and showcasing the treasures of Ireland’s built environment. His new book, The Irish Aesthete: Buildings of Ireland, Lost and Found was born from O’Byrne’s tireless work charting the hidden glories of Ireland’s buildings. In this true everyman’s guide, Robert has set out to highlight these landmarks, and to demonstrate how readers young and old can enjoy them.

John McKenna's book Absent Friend is a meditation on a thirty year friendship between Leonard Cohen and Irish writer John MacKenna. Through their letters, emails and MacKenna's exploration of his favourite Leonard Cohen songs, the book builds a picture of a comradeship that culminated in their creating. Between Your Love and Mine, a requiem Mass for theatre, in the months before Leonard's death. This afternoon Leonard Cohen’s songs will be performed by Katie Jacques with readings and reflections by John McKenna on a very important and unique friendship.