Cork Midsummer Festival: French star revealed among the highlights for June event 

The full programme for Cork Midsummer Festival is being revealed on Thursday 

French actress Isabelle Huppert will read at UCC as part of Cork Midsumer Festival. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images)  

French star Isabelle Huppert is set to make her debut Irish performance at the opening weekend of Cork Midsummer Festival this summer.

Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, the Elle actress brings her voice to a live reading of a selection of work from a defining figure of French literature, Guy de Maupassant.