Six For Your Radar: Irvine Welsh in Kinsale, Tom Cruise in Digger...
Irvine Welsh and Tom Cruise.
Words by Water is a not-for-profit festival, committed to promoting the best in Irish and international writing to all sections of the local and wider community. Highlights include an in-conversation event with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, journalist Lara Marlowe discussing her work with Mary Wilson, and a panel featuring Martin Doyle, Ken Murray, and Eugene Reavey on identity and division in the North. The programme also includes storytelling events, children's activities, and workshops led by John Spillane and Regina Crowley.
An unrecognisable Tom Cruise, in a long-awaited move, turns away from his all-action persona of and for the latest film from Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Inarritu ( , , ). He plays Digger Rockwell, the most powerful man in the world, on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour, before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.
Muldoon's Picnic makes a rare Irish appearance at the National Concert Hall, bringing together an impressive line-up of music and literature curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. Joining him for the one-night event are Paul Brady, Anne Enright, Neil Jordan, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Horslips members Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart, for an eclectic mix of poetry, storytelling, conversation and live music that has sold out audiences for years in New York.
Wanjiru Kamuyu’s is heralded as a bold, brave and uncompromising universal narrative that investigates and explores the idea of the dominant standard of beauty. A post-show discussion will follow as Uillinn Dance Season kicks off, with a series of performances running through November 11.
Local comedian Kyla Cobbler returns to Cork Opera House with the Not My Lemons tour. One of the fastest-rising names in Irish comedy, she has built a huge following through her sharp observational humour and viral clips. She’s also just released a memoir, . The Not My Lemons show explores fresh territory, from finding love to the complexities of family life.
Raised in Georgia and now based in North Carolina, singer songwriter Jake Xerxes Fussell has earned acclaim for reinterpreting traditional songs with warmth and a deep understanding of folk traditions. His latest album, , was released last month underpinned by a simple ethos: Documenting musicians playing live together in a room, dwelling less in atmospherics and musical elaboration. Fussell is also at Róisín Dubh in Galway on October 9 and Dublin’s Button Factory on October 10.
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