
Night Market
The city’s streets will come alive for a special Night Market – a vibrant, open-air celebration of local creativity, food, and community.
Free
St. Patrick's Street (subject to licence)
An intimate, one-to-one installation that invites you to step into a world lost to war—but still alive in memory.
One Home. One Thousand Memories.
Created by Palestinian artist Basel Zaraa for his young daughter, this powerful experience reconstructs his childhood home in Al Yarmouk refugee camp, Damascus.
Through objects, sounds, photos, and scent, the installation shares the story of a family shaped by displacement, resistance, and enduring love. As you explore the home, you’ll inhabit Laila’s perspective—touching the traces of lives once lived in a place that no longer exists.
Basel Zaraa is a UK-based Palestinian artist whose work explores exile, memory, and identity through the senses. Dear Laila has been shown at over 15 international festivals, translated into six languages, and was awarded the ZKB Audience Prize in 2023.
Supported by MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, Crawford College of Art & Design, and MTU Arts Office.
The city’s streets will come alive for a special Night Market – a vibrant, open-air celebration of local creativity, food, and community.
Free
St. Patrick's Street (subject to licence)
Patrick McCabe with accompaniment from David Murphy and Michael Lightborne present Howl On. Part soundtrack, part poetic memoir, a fever dream in which Patrick Kavanagh flirts with psychedelia, communes with John Lennon and ponders notions of town and place.
€15
Theatre
The iconic Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, with a very special instalment for 2025.
Free, just join the queue
Spectacle
The Shenanigans are back — and more gloriously doolally than ever!
Free
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