grapevvine

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Monday 14 July 2025

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6:30 pm

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An exciting platform for contemporary Irish storytelling, grapevvine places the Seanchaí tradition alongside modern forms like spoken word and stand-up to explore the art of telling stories in 2025. In the short few months since it launched, grapevvine has sold out a string of events in Kinsale and Cork City and was featured in the Weekend supplement of the Irish Examiner. grapevvine’s founder Daniel Galvin is joined by fellow storytellers Holly Hughes, Joe Murphy, Paddy O’Brien, Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil and Niamh Prior.

Running time: 90 minutes

Admission: €15

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Writers

Daniel Galvin

Daniel Galvin is a writer, storyteller and founder of grapevvine. His work has been published in The Moth, Channel, Honest Ulsterman, A New Ulster, ROPES, Skylight 47, Acumen, The West...

Holly Hughes

Holly Hughes is an Irish poet and storyteller. She premiered her first one-woman show at Scene + Heard in 2025, was runner-up in the 2024 All Ireland Poetry Slam, and...

Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy is a writer and storyteller. He has performed at All Together Now festival and in venues including Connolly's of Leap, St.Luke's Cathedral Cork, St. Catherine’s Cultural Centre Kinsale...

Paddy O’Brien

Paddy O’Brien is one of the three Storytellers in Residence for the West Cork islands in 2025. He specializes in traditional Irish folklore, seanchaí-style stories, Irish poetry, and ballads, both...

Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil

Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil has performed at the Cape Clear Storytelling Festival and, in 2025, sold out three consecutive shows at Coughlan’s, Cork City. As a writer, historian, and storyteller, he...

Niamh Prior

Niamh Prior is from Kinsale in Co. Cork. She studied English with Film and TV Studies at Brunel University London, and later Creative Writing at UCC, where her postgraduate work...