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Article: Kilkenny Arts Festival.(music and theater, Kilkenny, Ireland)
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- World of Hibernia
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- December 22, 2000
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What better way to brighten up these long winter evenings than by taking a look at the energy and vibrancy that was this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival?
First staged in 1973, the Kilkenny Arts Festival has developed to the position where it is one of Ireland's leading cultural events. For ten hectic days each year, the medieval city, which attracts thousands of visitors all year round to its ancient historic buildings and atmospheric streets, plays host to scores of artists from around the world.
Exhibitions, recitals, plays, readings and concerts as well street performances turn the city, which is approximately 75 miles to the south of Dublin, into a ...