Arts & Entertainment

Corkonians are natural extroverts and so music and theatre, song and dance have always flourished here.

The city has a long list of busy theatres – Cork Opera House, Triskel, Cork Arts Theatre, The Firkin Crane Centre, The Granary Theatre and The Everyman Palace – and there’s always exciting drama, dance, live music, film or comedy running or about to raise the curtain.

The main venues for painting, sculpture and the visual arts in the city include the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Emmet Place, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork on Western Road, the Triskel Arts Centre on Tobin Street, the Fenton Art Gallery on Wandesford Quay and the Lavit Gallery in Fr. Mathew Street.

A new multi-million-euro Cork School of Music opened on Union Quay in 2007, and apart from a 500-seater auditorium and music IT lab, amongst many other cutting-edge facilities, it also houses the largest collection of Steinway pianos under one roof … in the world!