The James Connolly Festival is an annual, week-long series of events in radical arts, culture and politics. This community-centred celebration of music, film, theatre and debate brings together figures and organisations from across Ireland and beyond.
Our aims are to; promote progressive arts, culture and politics; provide a platform for those seeking alternatives in a world that sees the lives of the many, dominated by the few; challenge existing class barriers within the arts and encourage establishing a new narrative.
We celebrate the rich working class culture that exists in Ireland and provide a space for the people of our ever-evolving island to express the wealth of their culture and articulate their experience of life. James Connolly remains Ireland’s foremost working class hero and founder of the Irish trade union movement. It is in his revolutionary spirit and recognition of the importance in culture to transcend society that the festival centres its ethos.
Booking Info
Monday 09/05, 7pm – Debate
IRELAND’S HOUSING CRISIS – PUBLIC HOUSING THE SOLUTION
Eoin O’Broin (Sinn Fein)
Rory Hearne (Maynooth University)
Orla Byrne (CATU Ireland)
Jimmy Doran (Communist Party)
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irelands-housing-crisis-public-housing-the-solution-jcf2022-tickets-308841732937
Tuesday 10/05, 7pm – History & Culture
IRISH TRAVELLER HISTORY, CULTURE & MOVEMENTS
In Association with The New Theatre
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-traveller-history-culture-movements-jcf2022-tickets-308857480037
Wednesday 11/05, 7pm – Discussion
OVERCOMING SECTARIANISM
In association with Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum
Gerry Carroll (People Before Profit)
Caoimhe Ni Loinsigh (Peadar O’Donnell Forum)
Rev Mark Gray (Presbyterian Church)
Gearoid O’Machail (Communist Party Ireland)
Phil Kelly (Communist Party Ireland)
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/overcoming-sectarianism-jcf2022-tickets-308860649517
Thursday 12/05, 7pm – Discussion
PEACE & IRISH NEUTRALITY
In association with Peace And Neutrality Alliance
Edward Horgan (Shannonwatch)
Clare Daly (MEP)
Roger Cole (PANA)
Jimmy Corcoran (Communist Party Ireland)
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/peace-irish-neutrality-jcf2022-tickets-308868854057
Friday 13/05, 8pm – Music & Q&A
GAZELLEBAND Live with Q&A afterwards
In association with Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Louis (Gazelleband)
Reem (Gazelleband)
IPSC (Chair)
Tickets €15: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/palestinian-culture-as-a-form-of-resistance-w-gazelleband-jcf2022-tickets-308898603037
Saturday May 14th, 4pm – Lecture
James Connolly Memorial Lecture w/ John Bellamy Foster
‘Capitalism & The Environmental Crisis’ followed by Q&A
John Bellamy Foster
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-connolly-memorial-lecture-john-bellamy-foster-jcf2022-tickets-308905764457
Saturday May 14th, 7pm – Film Screening
‘Keyboard Fantasies’
In association with Small Trans Libray
Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/film-screening-keyboard-fantasies-jcf2022-tickets-308908492617
