Culture Night | Oíche Chultúir
One Night For All
19 September 2025
All-island, for all, and always free! One of the country’s largest cultural events, Culture Night invites people all over Ireland to celebrate the arts and experience something special. Culture Night showcases the quality of Irish arts and culture, connecting people of all ages to activities and nurturing new opportunities to engage with the arts.
Treasuring the richness of our culture
A huge success since its inception in 2006, Culture Night is held annually on the second-last Friday of September. Run in partnership with local authorities, institutions and individuals across the country in the arts and culture sector, it creates significant strategic opportunities for audience development year-round.
With in-person, online and broadcast events, Culture Night celebrates openness, exploration, imagination and Ireland’s unique creative talent. Doors stay open late, and activities are free.
Read Mór
An annual Culture Night event, the Read Mór book gifting project was created to include people who may not be able to participate in Culture Night activities.
Since 2022, Read Mór has brought the joy of reading to passengers travelling on Irish Rail Intercity and Bus Éireann Expressway services, patients in selected hospitals across the country, and to 13 prisons nationwide.
Culture Night: Past and Future
In 2023, 1,205,834 people engaged with 1,700 Culture Night events. In response to public interest in late events and the Report of the Late Night Economy Taskforce (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, 2021), 19 flagship late night events took place in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Limerick, Athenry, Clonmel, Claremorris, Carlow, Ballina, Listowel, Tralee, Balbriggan and Bray.
Informing the Future of Culture Night (the Arts Council, 2021) is an evidence review, research and consultation report by Janice McAdam, Annette Nugent and Heather Maitland. This report is the culmination of an extensive national research programme which used data up to 2020 to chart the evolution of Culture Night, understand Culture Night’s current and potential public value, and provide a benchmark and recommendations on its future evaluation, vision and delivery.
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