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Welcome! The Midsummer Festival keeps going until Sunday, so there’s still plenty to catch before it wraps.
A few events that stand out for me this week: Ten Thousand Hours at City Hall, St Peter’s Arts Night, the Solstice Céilí and the short-run Mexican pop-up in Kinsale.
There’s also a quick poll at the end. It would be a big help if you could answer it.
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✈️ Cork Airport Flight Deals Found This Week
Pisa - €84 (usually €134+)* | 📅 Sept 18–21 | View fare →
Alicante - €77 (usually €195+)* | 📅 Sept 20–24 | View fare →
*Usually = the average return price from Ryanair’s month-view fares.
Pop-Ups & Openings
🌮 Mexico by the Wild Atlantic (Now Open At Blacks Brewery, Kinsale) | 17 June – 4 July |
Short-run Mexican pop-up from chef Caitlin Ruth, with four-course menus using West Cork ingredients.
What’s On This Week
Wednesday June 17
🎭 Healed | Cork Yoga Studio | 5pm | 🎟 €5 |
Work-in-progress dark comedy about therapy, groupthink and healing culture.
🍸 Side Hustle Guest Shift | Cask | 7pm–11pm | 🎟 Various |
London cocktail bar Side Hustle takes over Cask for a guest shift, serving agave cocktails.
Thursday June 18
💕 Date My Mate 21- 45 years | Kino Events House | 7pm | 🎟 €15.00 |
Speed-dating event where you pitch your single friends via PowerPoint presentation or they present themselves to potential matches.
🎸 Other Mother | Wavelength Rooftop Bar | 8pm | 🎟 From €11.00 |
Other Mother perform with support from Bode Lash and Martina & the Moons, blending 90s alternative rock and indie-pop.
🎶 Songs Through a Stained Glass Window | Honan Chapel | 8pm | 🎟 From €22.42 |
Songs inspired by Harry Clarke's illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen fairytales.
🎭 0800 CUPID | The Everyman | 18–19 Jun, 8:30pm | 🎟 €26–€32 |
Cabaret and musical theatre work by Emer Dineen and Phillip McMahon
💃 1975 / Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig | Opera House | 18–20 Jun, 8:30pm | 🎟 €32 |
Dance-theatre work set to The Bothy Band’s 1975 album.
Friday June 19
🎵 F.L.I.R.T presents..Pre-CMAT Boogaloo! | The Pav | 7pm | 🎟 From €11.70 |
Line dance and DJ takeover inspired by CMAT.
🎶 The Turfmen | Sea Church, Ballycotton | 7pm–10:30pm | 🎟 €10 |
Cork folk band perform trad-inspired songs, storytelling and original music.
📚 Betweenness (On Loop) | The Savoy | 7pm–11pm | 🎟 €15 |
Live performance combining spoken word, music and installation about love and memory.
🤹 Ten Thousand Hours | Concert Hall, City Hall | Fri 19 June 7pm, Sat 20–Sun 21 June 3pm | 🎟 €18–€20 |
Award-winning Australian circus show with eight acrobats, live drumming and audience interaction.
🎭 St Peter’s Arts Night | St Peter’s Cork | 7:30pm | 🎟 €9.55 |
Arts night with poetry, music and short films from Cork artists.
🎸 show ponies | The Roundy | 8pm | 🎟 From €11.70 |
Folk-pop trio Show Ponies perform with support from Gráinneog.
🎸 Bell X1 | Live at the Marquee | 8pm | 🎟 From €39.40 |
Irish rock trio perform fan favourites and tracks from upcoming album Good Bones.
🎻 The Meliora and Olympia Quartets | St Catherine’s Cultural Centre, Kinsale | 8pm | 🎟 €17.07 |
String quartet and octet concert featuring Mendelssohn, Borodin and Janáček.
Saturday June 20
🎪 Cork Summer Show | Cork Showgrounds, Curraheen | Sat 20–Sun 21 Jun | 9am-6pm | 🎟 €25 |
Family agricultural show with livestock, food, entertainment and trade stands.
📅 Clothes Swap at St. Peter's Cork | St. Peter's | 11am | 🎟 €5.00 |
A monthly clothes swap where you exchange up to five items of good quality clothing.
🎖️ Bere Island Military Festival | Drill Hall, Rerrin, Bere Island | 11:30am | 🎟 Free |
Military history festival with talks, exhibition and guided gun battery tour.
🍽️ Singalong Brunch Goes Country | Sky Bar Cork | 1pm | 🎟 €43.87 | Singalong brunch with 90 minutes of bottomless prosecco.
🎭 Everyman Up Front | The Everyman | 20–21 Jun, 1pm + 4pm | 🎟 €8 |
Readings of new plays by commissioned Everyman writers on the forestage.
🚴 Social Cycle along Cork Harbour Greenway | Cork Marina Market | 2pm | 🎟 €17.07 |
A social 22km cycle along the Cork Harbour Greenway from the Marina to Passage West and back with bike hire available or personal bikes welcome.
🎵 Move Your Soul | The Aye | 4pm | 🎟 From €54.60 |
Meditation, breathwork and ecstatic dance session led by DJ Danilo Milk and yoga teacher Brigid to mark the summer solstice.
🎤 Zach Bryan | SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh | 5pm | 🎟 €107.75 |
Zach Bryan brings his With Heaven On Tour to Cork.
🍷 TIGER BALM CLUB | The White Horse | 20–21 Jun, 6pm | 🎟 €53.63 |
Tiger Balm Club operates a two-night Southeast Asian BBQ takeover, serving grilled dishes and small plates from Thailand, Vietnam and beyond.
😂 Al Porter : Algorithm | Cyprus Avenue | 7pm | 🎟 €30.26 |
Stand-up comedy show about social media, relationships and family life.
🎻 Frankie Gavin & Catherine McHugh | St Catherine’s Cultural Centre, Kinsale | 7:30pm | 🎟 €29.44 |
Traditional Irish music concert with fiddle, piano and storytelling
🎷 Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet | Triskel Christchurch | 8pm | 🎟 €18–€20 |
Jazz quartet led by Mongolian pianist and composer Shuteen Erdenebaatar.
🎵 PolyAmber Presents Amber Nights: Danny Howells | Kino Events House | 9pm | 🎟 €22.42 |
House music set with support from Amber Nights residents Nalón, R.E.E.V., Fitz and Electric Foxx.
🎶 CMAT After Party with Sing Along Social | Savoy | 10pm | 🎟 €13.80 |
CMAT After Party features a Euro Country inspired sing along social with DJs.
Sunday June 21
🏃 Breast Cancer Research 5km Fun Run | Dock Bar, Kinsale | 8am | 🎟 Donation |
A 5km fun run supporting breast cancer research, followed by a sea swim.
🍴 Féasta | Patrick’s Street | 11am–7pm | 🎟 Free |
Cork Midsummer Festival food and craft market with local makers and stalls.
🛍️ Summer Solstice Fair | The Fifth Quarter | 12pm–5pm | 🎟 Free |
Market with artisan stalls, vintage finds, crafts, food and oracle readers.
🎶 Fingerprints | Triskel Arts Centre | 2pm & 7pm | 🎟 €12–€15 |
Improvised performance where music, visuals and movement interact in real time.
💃 Latin Social Dancing | Crane Lane | 6pm | 🎟 From €10 |
Forró class followed by Latin social dancing, with proceeds going to charity.
💃 Solstice Céilí | Elizabeth Fort | 9pm | 🎟 €10–€15 |
Solstice céilí with ancestral-inspired dances, polkas, waltzes and reels.
🎵 Radio Solstice presents CHARLIE BONES | Savoy | 9pm | 🎟 From €20.27 |
DJ and radio host Charlie Bones performs at a Radio Solstice party with support from Cack Jollins.
Monday June 22
🧘 Move and Meditate | Ritual, St. Patrick’s Woollen Mills, | 6:30pm | 🎟 €17.07 |
Pilates, breathwork and guided meditation class.
🎬 Fugitives, Cops and Rock ‘n’ Roll | Triskel Arts Centre | 22–24 Jun, 8pm | 🎟 €11 |
Three-film Jim McBride season with Q&As featuring McBride after selected screenings.
Tuesday June 23
🎭 Secret Show | Kino Events House | 7pm | 🎟 €33.15 |
Magic show blending theatre, illusion and performances from a rotating lineup of magicians.
🎭 The Deeds of Lord Barnard | The Roundy | 8pm | 🎟 €5 |
Black comedy theatre play set in rural Ireland during The Great Hunger.
🎸 Two Door Cinema Club | Live at the Marquee | 8pm | 🎟 From €64.90 | Northern Irish indie rock band mark 15 years of debut album Tourist History.
Kids Events
🧸 Singing Garden | Graffiti Theatre | Thu 18 Jun, 11am | 🎟 €10 per baby |
Sensory baby session using lullabies, live music, textures and nature-inspired play.
🎨 Kids & Parents Cookie Workshop | Urban Pantry | Sat, June 20 | 2pm | 🎟 €43.87 |
Kids and parents decorate cookies during this father's day workshop.
🌿 Outdoor Adventure Camp For Teens | Stonewall Gardens Carrigaline | Mon 22- Wed 24 June | 10am | 🎟 €76.05 |
Outdoor adventure camp for teens covering fire cooking, shelter building, foraging basics, and team challenges.
Planning Ahead
🏉 Skibbereen RFC Summer Tag | Skibbereen RFC | Frid 26 Jun–17 Jul | 🎟 €200 per team |
Seven-a-side summer tag rugby with BBQ burgers and bar each night.
🎶 Love Is A Stranger | Ballyvolane House, Castlelyons | 17–19 Jul, 7pm | 🎟 From €85 |
Three-day music gathering from Another Love Story at Ballyvolane House.
🎶 The Wailers | Cyprus Avenue | Thu 20 Aug, 7pm | 🎟 €37.50 |
The Wailers perform reggae classics from across their catalogue.
🎸 The Tallest Man On Earth | Live at St Luke’s | Thu 27 Aug, 8pm | 🎟 €41.86 |
Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson performs with guitar, banjo and raw vocals.
Old Cork
The Fr. Matthew Statue on Patrick’s Street in the 1960s, with the old ‘hut’ in the foreground, once used as a firefighters’ shelter and later as a base for tram workers and generations of Cork bus crews.
Image attribution: Anthony Barry Photographic Archive
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