Cultúrlann Sweeney holds a 108 seat theatre, gallery space and library in Kilkee, County Clare.
Gallery and Library Opening Hours:
The library and gallery are open as follows:
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Box office opening hours are:
- Wednesday 1.30 – 4.30pm
- Thursday: 1.30 – 4.30pm
- Friday: 1.30 – 4.30pm
Outside these hours you can book anytime ONLINE or by calling glor from 10 am – 3pm Monday – Saturday. Tel: 065 6843103
Booking fee: Booking fee of €1 per ticket applies to all tickets.
Refunds: We are unable to give refunds on tickets purchased.
Exhibition information:
There is currently a very long waiting list to exhibit at the gallery. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list please read the gallery guidelines and return the booking form to us.
Cultúrlann Sweeney Exhibition Guidelines 2024
Library Information
Information on all library services and details are here
Contact us
For general queries / theatre bookings you can contact us at cst@clarelibrary.ie Tel: 065 9060769
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What’s on
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- Art Exhibition
- Visual Art
“Holding it together” Art Exhibition by Marijke Jordens
Art Exhibition, Free, Culturalann Sweeney, Marijke Jordens
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- Entertainment
- Film
King Frankie
During the Celtic Tiger years,Frankie was a successful, wealthy and ostentatious businessman. After losing almost everything in the economic collapse,…
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- Film
Didi
Fresno, California, 2008. 13-year-old Chris (also called Didi by his mother) faces into his last summer before entering high-school. As…
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- Film
The Outrun
After 10 years of spiralling into addiction in London, Rona returns home to the far-flung Orkney Islands in Scotland, hoping…
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- Film
Touch
Iceland, early 2020. Widower Kristófer’s memory has started failing, and he decides now is his last chance to track down…
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- Film
Small Things Like These
New Ross, 1985. Bill Furlong is a hard-working coal merchant, doing his best to support his family amid the challenging…
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Information

Photo courtesy Matt O'Mahony & Associates
History
The Sweeney Memorial Public Library, Kilkee, was founded in the 1950s with money bequeathed from Dr. William J. Sweeney, Union City, New Jersey whose grandfather was born in Kilkee in 1833. A newly refurbished library, theatre and gallery, renamed as Cultúrlann Sweeney, was opened on the 27th of February 2012 by Jimmy Deenihan, T.D., Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs.Theatre
Culturlann Sweeney Kilkee runs a Film Club all year round with a special children’s programme in July and August annually. Occasional events take place throughout the year with a full summer line up in July and August that features film, theatre, music concerts and supports local events such as the Kilkee Civic Trust talks and the Kilkee Playwrights Festival.Gallery
We run a year round gallery programme. If interested in exhibiting please read our gallery guidelines and contact arts@clarecoco.ie to be placed on a waiting list. A permanent collection of watercolours by the Rev. William O'Brien are on display in the meeting room.Kilkee
Co. Clare
V15 P960
Ireland