A weekly car boot sale, one of less than a handful that is still reliably taking place, has up to 200 cars/sellers. The stadium is just a few minutes walk from the Red LUAS line stop and numerous bus stops. For traders the Car Boot Sale opens at 06:30 for buyers from 08:00. If you are interested in selling, check the details and register on their website.

Sports History Ireland was set up in UCD in 2005 to promote the study of the history of sport in Ireland and a yearly public conference takes place on Saturday 20 September in St Patrick’s College Drumcondra. The event is free and open to everyone.

The nine sessions around themes on Irish and international sport are:
+ The Effects of the Great War on Irish Sport, 1914-1918
+ Sports, Politics and Identity in Irish sport
+ Sport, Masc ulinity and Conflict in the 20th Century
+ The Development of Irish Sports Networks between 1880 and 1939
+ The Impact of International Developments on Irish Sport

If these themes interest you, check out the conference website at www.spd.dcu.ie/site/news/SportHistoryIreland.shtml
Registration doesn’t seem to be required. Admission is free.

The weekly Honest2goodness food market in Glasnevin has fresh meat, vegetables, fish, baked goods, and wines. It is open from 09:30-16:00. It is behind Lidl in the Industrial Estate just after the Glasnevin Cemetary coming from the City Centre.

Parkrun Ireland is organising free weekly runs in parks. It is a timed run over 5km and participation is completely free, but registration before your first parkrun is required.

The SuperNatural Food Market is taking place every Saturday from 09:30-15:30 in St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

This event is not free and while you can cheer on the participants, it is not the most sociable/fun event. This Half Marathon is mainly a preparation for the full Dublin City Marathon at the end of October and it is part of a whole series of preparational runs. Start is at 10:00 on Chesterfield Avenue.

So why does it get mentioned here? Because Farmleigh Estate is closed from 10:00-12:00 on Saturday.

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

Celebrating the work of eight ceramic artists who have worked on the Design & Craft Council of Ireland’s primary schools CRAFTed programme, come with your kids to The Ark to discover how artists come up with their ideas.

Make|Shape leads playfully through techniques, processes and explorations of clay and provides artists, children and teachers with the unique opportunity to share skills and ideas, and collaborate on new projects.

Join The Ark’s investigation of clay, from rolling and shaping, marking and making to glazing and firing. Then roll up your sleeves and get making yourself. A hands-on experience perfectly made for kids.

Admission is free and no booking required. Suitable from Age 4.

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

Sculpture in Context is a brilliant exhibition in the Botanic Gardens from Thurs 04 Sept – Fri 17 Oct and it is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition.

Every year a panel of selectors chooses sculptures from established and from upcoming artists and they will then be expertly placed in the garden setting of the Botanic Gardens and it makes a visit to the Botanic Gardens even more interesting then at other times.

Admission is free and I strongly recommend Sculpture in Context!

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

The Temple Bar Markets (Food Market on Meeting House Square, Book Market on Temple Bar Square and the Designer Mart near Cow’s Lane) are taking place every Saturday from 10:00-16:30.

“Who Dares Wins” is only for the bravest. Come along and take up the challenge of eating weird and yucky things found growing or crawling from the woodland floor.

Leader: Andrew Fleming. Booking required: Contact Andrew on 087 3299936 or email info@owls.ie.

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30, and Sundays: 12:00-17:30.

Thrift, Vintage, Art, Crafts & Collectibles will be sold at the Martcade’s Thrift Market, every 1st + 3rd weekend of the month.

Up to 10 stalls will sell their wares.

Six times this year the “People’s Art 2014″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free.

Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

This is the fifth year for “Yoga in the Park”, a brilliant initiative for a very worthy cause: From May until September, Tine from www.aditiyoga.org/ and her team of teachers invite to an hour of Yoga in Phoenix Park every Saturday. No booking is required.

The class is donation based, but all proceeds go to the Dublin Simon Community, a charity that does invaluable work for the homeless people in Dublin and the suggested donation for this very good cause is EUR 5.

Just bring a mat or a towel, some water and (hopefully) even some sun protection to the class. Should the weather be bad, the bandstand will be shelter or even training location. The training is suitable for all levels, so even total beginners are very welcome.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The BlueFire Street Fest is a free arts and music festival on Smithfield Plaza. It is suitable for all ages and nationalities.

On the Main Stage you can listen to top Dublin Bands:
Mutefish, Dublin Afrobeat Ensemble, North Strand Kontra Band, Justine Nantale, Gypsy Rebel Rabble, Manden Express, Tig Linn, Markas Carcas (Mark Flynn), Aztec Jackal and Leading Armies.

There are workshops for
African Drum and Dance by West African Percussion and Dance, Ireland, Circus tricks by Dublin Community Circus, Creative writing by Big Smoke Writing Factory, Tai Chi, Trade School, Djembe drumming by Drum Nature and more.

A Live Graffiti Jam will take place:
Graffiti artists will be creating street art throughout the day of the festival, drop by and watch the paint come to life.

Street Performers will be all over Smithfield Plaza:
Dublin Community Circus, Dublin City Bboys, Jack Doyle Bucket drumming, Samba Dance Brazil, Freaks & Fraziers, Samba Drumming Soc DIT, ShamrockBhangra, Aido Mac, Rosa Kearns, Mikey McDonnell, Choro Hy-Brasil and more.

Markets & Stalls:
with food and crafts from around the world.

VitalTalks:
Based on the popular concept of TedTalks, #VitalTalks gives a platform for young people to talk about their experiences, achievements and challenges in today’s Ireland. Dermot Whelan, from Today FM, will be opening the very first #VitalTalks from 13:00 in Smithfield Square.

The website at bluefiredublin.ie/ lists the artists/performers and provides lots of other interesting information. A schedule/timetable, however, is unfortuantely not there and is definitely missing. Maybe it will still be posted in the next few days.

It is a unique and multifacetted festival that definitely deserves your support! I will be there and I hope you can make it too!

The weekly Ha’penny Flea Market is an indoor market in the Grand Social Pub, which offers vintage Men and Women’s clothing, contemporary crafts, books, DVDs, vinyl records, vintage and handmade jewellery, vintage hair styles, art, photography and much more. Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

Find out more about what goes on in the Irish Writers’ Centre at their Open Day. There will be writing clinics with established writers, open writers’ groups, tours and more.

Admission is free.

Playwright and novelist Michael Harding signs copies of his new memoir “Hanging with the Elephant” in Dubray Books, Admission is free.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity). Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that, but I never had to get a wristband in a pub to ensure that I have something to eat when I am there.

I get my yearly fix of Bavarian food at the Oktoberfest. The Schweinshaxn (pigs trotter) is a must for me, but just once a year. ;-)

The Science Gallery Summer Exhibition “Strange Weather: Forecasts from te Future” has opened on 18 July and will run until 05 October.

The exhibition explores how we understand, adapt to and control the changing weather and shows also a lot educational and even quirky bits around weather: A Raindrop hovering in mid-air, a Tornado Diverter, a Cloud Collector, Weather Models, a machine making house shaped clouds and an archive of old events from around the world that were (or are) impacted by weather and of new events emerging because of weather.

There are 26 exhibits and – like all Science Gallery exhibitions -, it is a really interesting exhibition. Well worth a visit with the whole family.

You can even be a TV weather man/woman in a professional studio set-up! An interesting experience!
Here is me giving it a go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjHHfRdco …I know, I better not give up the day job. ;-)

The Science Gallery is open Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and on Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00. Admission is free.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

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Trade School Dublin is back with four classes during the BlueFire Fest. Check it out on their website below and register if you are interested. Participation in the classes is free but a reward for the teacher in form of a present is requested.

If there is any topic you would like to teach at one of the upcoming Trade Schools, contact them and tell them. Enthusiastic teachers are always required.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run every Saturday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

“TiN” by Chris Judge will be read in 27 Eason’s stores all over Ireland. In O’Connell Street the reading takes place at 14:00. In the other Eason Stores, the times vary between 11:00 and 15:00 (see website below).

Admission is free.

The documentary “Microbirth” will be screened on Saturday at 14:00, 16:00 and 18:00. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

The description if the film says: “Microbirth – Revealing the Microscopic Events during Childbirth that could hold the key to the future of humanity.”

The screening in Dublin have been organised by TRE (Trauma Releasing Exercises) Ireland.

Find more details and a trailer on the website below.

A Big Beach CLean takes place on Donabate Beach. If you have a little time or a lot of time, help either way.

The next Let’s Talk & Walk Historical Walk will take place on the North Side on Saturday.

This Historic Walk with Pat Liddy will take in some of the oldest Streets on the North side of the city including Stoneybatter, Brunswick St, North King St. entering St. Michan`s Church on Halston Street examining its historical significance and also passing the site where Kevin Barry was arrested. There will be complimentary Tea / Coffee in the M.A.C.R.O. Community Centre.

Meeting point is the Stoneybatter Monument, but I have to admit that I have NO clue where that might be. I hope you know or find someone (in Stoneybatter?) you can ask!

Admission is free.

A free dance performance by Aoife McAtamney takes place in the RHA Gallery. The event is part of the Fringe Festival, but doesn’t require a ticket.

During the Sculpture in Context exhibition, a rare opportunity will be availble every Saturday: At 15:00 every week, you can join the artists for a guided tour to gain an insight into this exciting contemporary art exhibition.

Admission is free.

Song Book is a music night that is part of the BlueFire Street Fest and it will focus in the art of songwriting and the integration of cultures in Ireland.

Brendan Carvill, Julian Müller, Giuliano Nistri and Vetra will play original songs and covers.

Admission is free. More details about the performers on the Facebook Page below.

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant host live music three evenings a week (Thurs, Fri and Sat). The restaurant is a Wholefood & Vegetarian Restaurant and is open until 22:15.
+ Every second Thursday N.C Lawlor, a songwriter, session player and troubadour plays a mix of country, bluegrass & blues from 19:30-21:30.
+ Every Friday (19:30-21:30) Junshi Murakami plays Irish Harp.
+ Every Saturday (19:30-21:30) Nollaig Mann plays a collection of popular and jazz classics.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event event in the basement Wine Cave of KC Peaches wholefood restaurant/café. Food will be served until 22:00 and wine, minerals & music will be available until later. Admission is free and a donation into a hat at the end of the evening is appreciated.

The Devils Jukebox is live music from 20:00-23:00 and DJs with Alternative, Punk, Rock, Metal & Garage after that. Every Saturday! Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

The Black Overtones launch their EP in Arthur’s Pub. Admission is free.

Acoustic blues band “One Horse Pony” from Cork will peform in Whelan’s

“Franko Franko” and “Million Little Gods” are the lineup for the midnight hour in Whelan’s. The gig starts at midnight. Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sing up for the guest list.

Every Friday and Saturday night, the resident band “Living Proof” will play in Buck’s Townhouse. Admission is free before midnight.

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

The Farmleigh House food market takes place and provides a selection of artisan foods from around Ireland.

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

Every Sunday, the Merrion Square Open Air Art Gallery takes place. Up to 200 artists exhibit their paintings on the railings on three sides (West, North and East) of Merrion Square and you can just enjoy the exhibition or even buy.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

Sculpture in Context is a brilliant exhibition in the Botanic Gardens from Thurs 04 Sept – Fri 17 Oct and it is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition.

Every year a panel of selectors chooses sculptures from established and from upcoming artists and they will then be expertly placed in the garden setting of the Botanic Gardens and it makes a visit to the Botanic Gardens even more interesting then at other times.

Admission is free and I strongly recommend Sculpture in Context!

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

The Brocante Market will take place on Sunday. It is a collection of antiques, furniture, vintage jewellery, collectables and curiosities from the past and present, second-hand, refurbished, antique and hand-crafted stuff for your house and garden.

If you are an interior designer or just have and eye for style and are looking for a special piece or maybe a bargain then this is the market for you. The market is held every 3rd Sunday of the month.

Admission is free.

A weekly market with lots of food, but also many other products (art & crafts, books, etc) takes place every Sunday in the beautiful People’s Park in Dun Laoghaire. It is a very popular market and with around 50 vendors also one of the bigger markets.

Thrift, Vintage, Art, Crafts & Collectibles will be sold at the Martcade’s Thrift Market, every 1st + 3rd weekend of the month.

Up to 10 stalls will sell their wares.

The well known Palestrina Choir sing every Sunday at the mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. They sing complete masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Palestrina, de Victoria, usually accompanied by Prof. Gerard Gillen on the organ, who often also plays a solo piece.

Six times this year the “People’s Art 2014″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free.

Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The Terenure Village Market will take place again on Sunday. There will be music and kids entertainment (e.g. face painters, balloon makers or magician) and approx. 24 food and craft stalls. The market takes place every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month.

Admission is free.

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Sundays: 12:00-17:30. Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30.

The People’s Climate Picnic in St Stephen’s Green is our chance to be part of the largest ever global call to action on Climate Change.

On 23 Sept world leaders are meeting in New York for a UN crisis summit on climate change. On Sunday millions are asked to come out to send our leaders a clear message: we need action on climate change, now.

At the St Stephen’s Green bandstand this family-friendly event will bring you live music, games, face-painting and more and don’t forget to bring your picnic. For more information, visit www.peoplesclimate.ie

The Live music All-Stars band will be:
Paul Byrne and Jack Dublin of In Tua Nua will be performing tunes from the 70s and 80s with The Guilty Party, featuring a host of special guests including Nick Kelly (Alien Envoy), Shelly Buckspan, Doctor Millar, Vid Licious (Gary Cooke of Après Match), Paddy Cullivan (The Late Late Show House Band), Megan Burke (X – Factor) and Neil Bailey (Sundogs).

“Made by Hand” or “Hecho a manos” is a new Sunday weekly market in Viva, Portobello with most things made by hand and some vintage clothing and curiosities too. Admission is free.

An indoor market in Coolock with over 40 traders with a wide range of goods and a café on site as well.

Nepal Day will be celebrated on Farmleigh Estate on Sunday. Experience the Culture, Food and Art of Nepal with Nepalese Handcraft, Food, Cultural Performance and a Photographic Exxhibition.

Admission is free.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity). Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that, but I never had to get a wristband in a pub to ensure that I have something to eat when I am there.

I get my yearly fix of Bavarian food at the Oktoberfest. The Schweinshaxn (pigs trotter) is a must for me, but just once a year. ;-)

The Science Gallery Summer Exhibition “Strange Weather: Forecasts from te Future” has opened on 18 July and will run until 05 October.

The exhibition explores how we understand, adapt to and control the changing weather and shows also a lot educational and even quirky bits around weather: A Raindrop hovering in mid-air, a Tornado Diverter, a Cloud Collector, Weather Models, a machine making house shaped clouds and an archive of old events from around the world that were (or are) impacted by weather and of new events emerging because of weather.

There are 26 exhibits and – like all Science Gallery exhibitions -, it is a really interesting exhibition. Well worth a visit with the whole family.

You can even be a TV weather man/woman in a professional studio set-up! An interesting experience!
Here is me giving it a go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjHHfRdco …I know, I better not give up the day job. ;-)

The Science Gallery is open Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and on Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00. Admission is free.

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery.

This series of free (mainly classical) concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians. Concerts run from September to June.

The next concert will feature Deirdre Moynihan (soprano) and Alec O’Leary (guitar) performing their “From The Olive Tree” programme of Mediterranean pieces.

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Buy your books from The Book Depository and get better prices and free (!!) delivery for all orders independent from the volume and when you click on the picture here before you buy, then 5% of what normally The Book Depository would get, they give back to the Dublin Event Guide. Everybody wins!

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“Ek Tha Tiger” (12A, 132min – Hindi with English subtitles) is an Indian romantic action thriller shot in five countries, including Ireland. It is the first Bollywood blockbuster that was shot in Dublin, featuring scenes of Trinity College Dublin as it has never been seen before.

Admission is free and no booking required.

The “Dublin Sketchers” is an informal group of (hobby) artists who go somewhere different in Dublin every Sunday (e.g. National Museum, Maritime Museum, Dublin Flea Market, Farmleigh, Botanic Gardens, Dublin Castle, Science Gallery, …), sketch for one to two hours and then meet up for coffee afterwards and discuss their sketches.

There are some hugely talented people among them and it is a great idea to meet up with others who have the same hobby. Find out on their website below or on their Facebook Page where they will meet and join them if you do some sketching/drawing yourself. I know that the Dublin Sketchers often use the Dublin Event Guide to find interesting free events and I am delighted to be able to help!

Afternoon Jazz in Café en Seine. The Stella Bass Jazz Trio play every Sunday from 14:00-16:00 in Café en Seine in Dawson Street. Admission is free. A video is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aKqtOB5S8

Come to the Family Drawing Sundays in the RHA. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Admission is free. For further information, contact Ruth Carroll on 01 6612558 or via ruth@rhagallery.ie

The talk “Irish Birds and their Habitats” by Glynn Anderson will take place and admission is free.

Unlike the three branches of the National Museum, the National Print Museum is normally not free, but every Sunday there is a free public tour for the next few weeks. Every visit begins with a short audio-visual presentation where the audience can observe active retired printers providing practical demonstrations of machines from the Museum’s collection.

Brian Keary is a classically trained guitar player who also has experience of different styles / genres of music ranging from ragtime and folk to baroque and contemporary. He will perform in Sweeney’s (Ground Floor) on Sunday afternoon.

To celebrate the International Day of PEace, a Peace Party will take place in the Grand Social with Live Music, Film and videos. It starts at 16:00 with a screening of the documentary “Peacemakers” and from 18:30 there will be videos and live bands.

Admission is free.

House Dublin is a restaurant and bar in Leeson Street. On Sundays the Camembert Quartet is playing in their garden from 17:00-19:00. Admission is free.

The wedding and party band The LJJ Band play every Sunday evening in Café en Seine. Admission is free.

The Sweeney’s Dixeland Jazzmen play their weekly gig on the ground floor in Sweeney’s. Admission is free.

THe next Saucy Sunday will be on 28 September. This week the guys are taking a break again.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. The line-up and links to all bands/performers are available via the Saucy Sundays Facebook Page (see link below).

This weekly Latin Music event will take place every Sunday. You will be able to dance salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbia and reggeaton. Live music, food tasting and free admission, what more could you want?

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass is back after the summer break and invites you to a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street every Sunday at 19:30.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, one of the best known gospel choirs in Ireland will give you a chance to experience a mass with a difference. It is uplifting and inspiring and everybody is welcome independent from your level of religiousness.

Disclaimer: I am involved with the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, so the description above MIGHT not be totally unbiased. But just take it from me, they are brilliant! ;-)

The weekly Sunday Roast is a free event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The line-up for the upcoming Sunday Roast is available via the Sunday Roast Facebook Page (see link below).

In short, the line-up is Jelly Mouth, Cathryn Green, Ayala, Ruby Smyth, Lowlight Gathering

Every Sunday this singer-songwriter night takes place in the Bleeding Horse in Camden St. from 8.30pm. It is an Open mic night and performers can just turn up and put their name on the list for that night.

At the Jawbone Gig night in Sin É, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free. For the line-up check here www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy downstairs in Stag’s Head, Dame Lane from 21:00 every week on Sun+Mon. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of that there is some free ice cream. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

John Colleary from RTE’s The Savage Eye will headline the Comedy Crunch on Sunday.

Rogério from the Brazilian dance project “Forró de Lampião” in Dublin tells me: Forró de Lampião is Brazilian music that has the same roots as Samba and there is a whole culture that has developed around “forro”. Every Sunday, free dance classes take place in the Grand Social (new loation!) and if you are interested, just turn up one Sunday.

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe. Admission is free.

The Pavement Kings play Rockabilly from 21:00 and
DJs Popocorn Peete and Little Dakota follow from 23:00-01:30 with a white variety of styles (Rockabilly, Calypso, Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, etc).

Billy Treacy & The Ha’Penny Heads are playing Ballads, Folk, Trad and Classic Country every Sunday. Featuring Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle and Banjo.

Every Sunday (except at Bank Holiday weekends), the Ragtime, Roots and Country Blues Band “Cool Hand Dukes” play in the Porterhouse near Grafton Street.

The Dublin Blues Cartel will be in Whelan’s again and will perform mostly a version of New Orleans R’n’B with a classic rock twist, sandwiched with swing, Rock’n’Roll, Soul, Funk, Blues and rap of all eras. Admission is free.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 a wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity).

“Angels in the Park” is a series of five 10-minute plays set in a park by new and established Irish writers. It will be performed as part of the Ranelagh Arts Festival at lunchtime daily from 22-27 September (Mon-Sat).

Meeting point is the open space at Ranelagh Triangle (outside Spar) at 13:00. Admission is free and no booking is required.

Directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, this year the Shiva Theatre Company will present three brand new plays: Footfall by Marisa O’Mahony, Secrets by Lorna Kelly Dalton, Life After Fred by Colum Kavanagh, alongside two favourites from last year, Across the Pond by Shane Fallon, and Nobody Smokes Anymore by Peter Sheridan. The show goes on rain or shine so bring your umbrella.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

This is an open mic night with Special Guests every Monday. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play. Admission is free.

Song Cycle is a weekly Singer/Songriter showcase. The line-up is not always easily findable on the Whelan’s website, but admission is always free.

The Monday Echo is a weekly songwriter and poetry live showcase held on Mondays in the basement of The International Bar. Usually, the show has 3 songwriters and 3 poets who perform for roughly 20 minutes each. Admission is free.
The weekly line-up can be found via the Facebook Page below.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

The Crafty Monday Sessions is an Open Mic night for acoustic singer/songwriters and original bands. Admission is free.

The 4-piece band Loose Trad are performing every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. www.loosetrad.com/ Admission is free.

Patrick Mahony sings songs from Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Matt Monro and many more every Monday in the Cafe en Seine. Admission is free.

The Pyro Blues Executive play in the Leeson Lounge every Monday and admission is free.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 a wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity).

“Angels in the Park” is a series of five 10-minute plays set in a park by new and established Irish writers. It will be performed as part of the Ranelagh Arts Festival at lunchtime daily from 22-27 September (Mon-Sat).

Meeting point is the open space at Ranelagh Triangle (outside Spar) at 13:00. Admission is free and no booking is required.

Directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, this year the Shiva Theatre Company will present three brand new plays: Footfall by Marisa O’Mahony, Secrets by Lorna Kelly Dalton, Life After Fred by Colum Kavanagh, alongside two favourites from last year, Across the Pond by Shane Fallon, and Nobody Smokes Anymore by Peter Sheridan. The show goes on rain or shine so bring your umbrella.

At the talk “Remembering the Reformation: Challenges of the 2017 Centenary”, Margot Käßmann talks about the Reformation and Politics.

The role of religion in German and Irish society is subject of a series of events during the following weeks and months. The first of these is a lecture by Margot Käßmann, Ambassador for the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. She was invited by the Lutheran Church in Ireland. ”.

The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Justice Catherine McGuinness and Dr. Duncan Morrow. Moderator is Prof. Linda Hogan, Vice-Provost, Trinity College Dublin.

Margot Käßmann is a theologian who has strong opinions on political questions in Germany such as its military presence in Afghanistan. From 1999 to 2009 she was Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Hanover.

All are welcome and admission is free.

Chris Judge will launch his children’s picturebook “TiN” in the Gutter Bookshop. Admission is free.

A group of trainee Yoga instructors got together and they are running free Yoga classes every Tuesday evening at 19:00 in Berlin Cafe (yes, it is in the Cafe!).

(This is the same people that ran the Early Morning Yoga at 07:30 for a while. The event now has moved to the evening. )

You just need to bring a Yoga mat and wear suitable clothing and then enjoy the Yoga to relax after your work day.

Every Tuesday an informal sing along with Ukulele and Toy Musical Instruments takes place in the Stag’s Head. Just bring your instrument and come along. Beginners are welcome. Admission is free and further details (and a big book of songs) are available on the Facebook Page below. The get-together meets in the “snug” in Stag’s Head.

Ben Prevo & friends play saucy Blues & soul every Tuesday

Rumours have it that the Bluegrass Collective will perform in Sin É on Tuesday and there might even be an open Bluegrass Jam! Admission is free.

The Folk Club in Whelan’s will bring you the best in Trad, Ballads, Americana & World Music every Tuesday. The line-up this week is on the Facebook Page below. Admission is free.

Every Tuesday a Jazz Jam Session will take place in the Grand Social and you are invited to listen or even to participate. Admission is free for musicians and audience.

Instruments are supplied (drums (no cymbals), double bass, guitar amp, bass amp, PA system) and ideas and themes will be proposed prior to the session to the musicians who join the event on Facebook (see Facebook Page below).

The Phoenix Big Band is a 16 piece band playing songs of the 1930s, 1940s and other big band arrangements and they are playing every Tuesday in the Tara Tower Hotel (since 2012!) for adult dancing. If you like to waltz, cha cha or foxtrot, come and enjoy their performance.

Admission is free.

The band plays in the main function room which is occasionally booked, so to confirm that they are playing, please ring the hotel on the day: Phone 01-2694666

A totally unplugged Singer/Songwriter night (no PA, no microphones) with original music is taking place upstairs in Anseo every Tuesday from 21:30.

Please check on the Facebook Page below if the event is going ahead as it seems to get cancelled every now and then and if you want to play a 15-30 min set or just want to play one song make yourself heard via the same Facebook Page.

Admission is free.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

“Education through Television: Learning from the Story of Adult Literacy” is a seminar as part of National Adult Literacy Awareness Week (23-27 Sept). The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) and the IFI will present this seminar to showcase some of the literacy content produced by NALA and the BAI over the last few years, to hear the experience of programme producers and participants, and explore new opportunities for collaboration. It will have particular interest to producers and organisations with a public education remit. Book your free seat at the IFI Box Office 01-6793477

Wednesday Walks will take place in and around Phoenix Park from every Wednesday from June to December. Weather permitting, walkers will meet at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (VC) or Farmleigh House (F) at 11:00. Each walk takes about 90 minutes.

Please check the website below for updates or ring the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (01 677 0095) or Farmleigh House (01 815 5914) for further information. Admission is free,

The upcoming walks are:
03 Sept: Phoenix Park Murders of 1882 (VC)
10 Sept: Guided Tour of Arbour Hill Cemetery (A)
17 Sept: Gate Lodges of Phoenix Park from Ashtown Castle to Castleknock (VC)
24 Sept: Guided Walk to Knockmaree Cist/Cromlech (F)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The first workshop in this series takes place in the Royal Irish Academy and is jointly hosted by the Irish Humanities Alliance and the Royal Irish Academy. Speakers will discuss their supervision experiences, best practice and the latest developments in the area of ‘Doctoral Supervision and Career Mentorship’.

Find out more and register for this event on the website below. Admission is free.

The Little Museum of Dublin secured sponsorship from Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien until October 2014 and will therefore be able to continue the Big J Wednesday: Every Wednesday from 12:00-17:00 admission into the museum is free thanks to the bread company. There are free guided tours every hour.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 a wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity).

Lar Joy will talk about “1914 Donnybrook Volunteers”. Lar Joy is curator of Irish Military History at the National Museum of Ireland and curator of the award winning Soldiers & Chiefs exhibition at Collins Barracks.

Admission is free, booking is recommended via 01-6689575

“Angels in the Park” is a series of five 10-minute plays set in a park by new and established Irish writers. It will be performed as part of the Ranelagh Arts Festival at lunchtime daily from 22-27 September (Mon-Sat).

Meeting point is the open space at Ranelagh Triangle (outside Spar) at 13:00. Admission is free and no booking is required.

Directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, this year the Shiva Theatre Company will present three brand new plays: Footfall by Marisa O’Mahony, Secrets by Lorna Kelly Dalton, Life After Fred by Colum Kavanagh, alongside two favourites from last year, Across the Pond by Shane Fallon, and Nobody Smokes Anymore by Peter Sheridan. The show goes on rain or shine so bring your umbrella.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

The Centre for Contemporary Irish History invites everybody interested, inside and outside TCD, to their new seminar series.

The first talk is by Tim Pat Coogan and is entitld “What’s wrong with Irish historians?”

It is not explicitly declared, but I assume that admission is free.

RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education)) performed “Source” at the Fringe Festival and they are adding another three free (with donation) performances on Wed 24, Thur 25 and Fri 26 Sept at 14:30.

“As two contrasting worlds are presented simultaneously, performers bounce from stage to screen, from reality to fantasy, struggling to escape the linear patterns and habits that shape their everyday lives.”

Admission is free, and a donation of EUR 5 is suggested. Because space is limited, please book your place via sine@rade.ie or 01 4548733

Musical Theatre classes for 6 – 12 Year olds takes place. This is a free taster class!

The classes by the Jill Anderson School of Speech and Drama are designed to provide an introduction in voice training and improve confidence in singing and acting in front of an audience. The focus is on building confidence, socialisation and cognitive skills along with developing the voice. Each class consists of Drama, singing and dancing.

+ Wed 24 Sept – 15:00-17:00 in Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre, Foxrock
+ Thurs 25 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Howth Road National School, Clontarf Road, Dublin 3
+ Fri 26 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Rathfarnham Parish Centre, Rathfarnham Village, Dublin 14

For more information about the school or to book your place contact Jill on 087 2196516

The “Havana International Language Exchange” is taking place every Wed from 16:30-19:30 in Havana Tapas Bar in George’s Street. There are many Spanish speakers and English-speakers are explicitly invited, but everyone else is certainly very welcome too, to meet for a chat to improve your Spanish or English.

Poet James Conway will read a selection of his poetry . He will be accompanied by two traditional Irish musicians, Marion Kerrigan on fiddle and Michael Thurlow on guitar.

The screening of “Mapa” by Leon Siminiani (in Spanish with English subtitles) takes place and admission is free.

2014 is the centenary of the birth of the American poet John Berryman who once spent one year in Dublin.

On Wednesday a reading from “Berryman’s Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse” edited by Philip Coleman and published by Arlen House will take place. Berryman’s Fate has contributions from over 50 contemporary poets and this reading will include many of them.

More details on the website below. It is most likely that admission is free, but the Irish Writers’ Centre is not so forthcoming with this information.

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in the Mercantile. Each week 6-7 bands/solo artists play three songs each. At the end of all the performances a clap-off with the King Kong Club Clap-o-Meter takes place and the winner goes through to a semi-final and it all culminates after six months of competition with The Grand Final, held in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

“The Song Room” is another open mic event. It takes place in The Globe in George’s Street at 20:30 every Wednesday.

“The Zodiac Sessions” is a regular open mic event from 20:30 in Bruxelles (between Grafton Street and Westbury Hotel) for unsigned musicians. Admission is free and there is a different line-up every week.

Bad Boy Jake are every Wednesday in the Gypsy Rose Rock & Blues Bar playing their rock, blues and American.

An Irish Music, Ballad and Pub Classic session is taking place every Wednesday in Ryan’s of Camden Street. Admission is free.

A banjo, a guitar and two singers are the foundation and on top of that, you are allowed/invited to bring your own instrument and join in.

Every Wednesday a Singer Songwriter Night will take place in Mother Reilly’s in Rathmines. This is YOUR chance to show everyone what you can do, alternatively you can just listen to the talented Singer/Songwriters. Admission is free.

Swedish Singer Songwriter Sofia Talvik will perform in Arthur’s Pub. Admission is free.

Traditional Irish Music Session in Hedigan’s (The Brian Boru) in Phibsborough from 21:30 every Wednesday. If you play an instrument you are especially welcome (all levels are welcome).

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 a wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity).

Sillybilly.ie will be in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre to entertain children with Face Painting, Balloon Modelling and hourly Magic Shows. Admission is free.

“Angels in the Park” is a series of five 10-minute plays set in a park by new and established Irish writers. It will be performed as part of the Ranelagh Arts Festival at lunchtime daily from 22-27 September (Mon-Sat).

Meeting point is the open space at Ranelagh Triangle (outside Spar) at 13:00. Admission is free and no booking is required.

Directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, this year the Shiva Theatre Company will present three brand new plays: Footfall by Marisa O’Mahony, Secrets by Lorna Kelly Dalton, Life After Fred by Colum Kavanagh, alongside two favourites from last year, Across the Pond by Shane Fallon, and Nobody Smokes Anymore by Peter Sheridan. The show goes on rain or shine so bring your umbrella.

RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education)) performed “Source” at the Fringe Festival and they are adding another three free (with donation) performances on Wed 24, Thur 25 and Fri 26 Sept at 14:30.

“As two contrasting worlds are presented simultaneously, performers bounce from stage to screen, from reality to fantasy, struggling to escape the linear patterns and habits that shape their everyday lives.”

Admission is free, and a donation of EUR 5 is suggested. Because space is limited, please book your place via sine@rade.ie or 01 4548733

Musical Theatre classes for 6 – 12 Year olds takes place. This is a free taster class!

The classes by the Jill Anderson School of Speech and Drama are designed to provide an introduction in voice training and improve confidence in singing and acting in front of an audience. The focus is on building confidence, socialisation and cognitive skills along with developing the voice. Each class consists of Drama, singing and dancing.

+ Wed 24 Sept – 15:00-17:00 in Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre, Foxrock
+ Thurs 25 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Howth Road National School, Clontarf Road, Dublin 3
+ Fri 26 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Rathfarnham Parish Centre, Rathfarnham Village, Dublin 14

For more information about the school or to book your place contact Jill on 087 2196516

Drama, Movement and Music Classes for 3 – 5 year olds will take place. This is a free taster class!

This class by the Jill Anderson School of Speech and Drama is designed to provide children with a solid foundation of speech and drama in a fun and enjoyable environment. Performance art is used to maximise the enjoyment for kids to build their vocal and co-ordination skills, along with their confidence.

For more information about the school or to book your place contact Jill on 087 2196516

“Connemara and Elsewhere” – A conversation with Tim Robinson, John Elder and Nicolas Fève, chaired by Vincent Woods.

To launch the publication of “Connemara and Elsewhere”, an informal evening of conversation with the authors will take place.

“About the book: This photographic essay by Nicolas Fève is a response to Tim Robinson’s work on Connemara. The book includes an introduction by John Elder discussing both Robinson’s work and Fève’s photographic response. The book also features three new previously unpublished essays by Tim Robinson.”

Admission is free, but booking is required on the website below.

Garth Nix is coming to Eason’s in O’Connell Street. Nix is the creator of the “Old Kingdom” series (Sabriel, Lirael & Abhorsen) and will be in Eason’s to promote “Clariel”, the fourth book in the series, set 320 years prior to Sabriel.

Admission is free, but places have to be booked at the O’ Connell Street Information Desk or via 01-8583815.

Dublin City Libraries and the Local Enterprise Office – Dublin City invite to a series of six business lectures designed to empower potential entrepreneurs. Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-873 3996 or businesslibrary@dublincity.ie

The 6 lectures are:

11 Sept: An Introduction to Self Employment
18 Sept: Ideas Generation & Market Research
25 Sept: Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship
02 Oct: Digital Marketing Strategy 5 big players (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype, YouTube)
09 Oct: Financing your Business
16 Oct: Writing the WINNING Business Plan

More information about the lectures and about the speakers can be found on the website below.

The North Sea will perform in Tower Cafe on Thursday. Admission is free.

It is Guitar driven rock from this 5-piece from the Northside.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run next Thursday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

“Yes But Are We Enemies – English and Irish Poets Having Words” is an exploration of contemporary writing by six poets from Ireland and England.

The readings at the Irish Writers Centre will be preceded by a panel discussion (19:00-20:00) exploring the collaborative process and other experimental writing approaches.

Details are on the website below. Unfortuantely it doesn’t state there if the event is free or not, but there are strong indications that it is a free event.

“Fighting Ebola on the front line” is a talk by Dr Gabriel Fitzpatrick (Chairperson, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)). He will talk about his recent experience in Sierra Leone working as a doctor in MSF’s Ebola Treatment Centre and as an epidemiologist travelling to remote villages to trace new cases of the disease.

Admission is free, but places are limite and therefore booking is required via events@dublin.msf.org.

The Public Lecture “How Censors Worked: A Comparative History” with Robert Darnton (Carl H Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University) takes place.

Admission is free, but booking is required via booking@nli.ie

The weekly European Folk Dance Workshop/Session takes place in the Tap Bar every Thursday.

The dances are French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese folk and traditional dances and everybody interested to join in or to learn is welcome. Admission is free, but donations (suggested: EUR 3) are very welcome

Dimestore Recordings run a weekly event in Sweeney Mongrel’s with a variety of bands and performers. It starts at 20:00, follow the link for the line up.

The Max Zaska group and the Patrick Groenland group will perform on alternating Thursdays from 21:00 in the International Bar on 23 Wicklow Street.

Every Thursday “Left Right & Centre” play a mix of blues & soul with a bit of rock&roll.

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing.

The Moonlight Cinema Club is a new event in The Grand Social that will provide a communicative, celebratory and social space for emerging Irish filmmakers and artists to screen their work. The organisers are inviting submissions (independent features, documentaries, animations, photographic work and short films of all kinds) and if you have a piece of work you would like to submit, or any queries or questions about the Moonlight Cinema Club , contact moonlightcinemaclub@gmail.com

More details at www.facebook.com/moonlightcinemaclub

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

The Ranelagh Arts Festival takes place from 12-28 September. Lots of events will take place and a good few of them are free.

Check the Events section on www.ranelagharts.org/
(Don’t check the Calendar section on the website, the free/non-free details there are unreliable and incomplete.)

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 18 Sept – 05 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Thurs 12:00-23:30, Fri+Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues because of the severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event. Pre-booking is possible, but check the cost.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd wristband system kicks in whereby you have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a EUR 5 food voucher (and 1 Euro goes to charity). Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that, but I never had to get a wristband in a pub to ensure that I have something to eat when I am there.

I get my yearly fix of Bavarian food at the Oktoberfest. The Schweinshaxn (pigs trotter) is a must for me, but just once a year. ;-)

Sillybilly.ie will be in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre to entertain children with Face Painting, Balloon Modelling and hourly Magic Shows. Admission is free.

“Angels in the Park” is a series of five 10-minute plays set in a park by new and established Irish writers. It will be performed as part of the Ranelagh Arts Festival at lunchtime daily from 22-27 September (Mon-Sat).

Meeting point is the open space at Ranelagh Triangle (outside Spar) at 13:00. Admission is free and no booking is required.

Directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, this year the Shiva Theatre Company will present three brand new plays: Footfall by Marisa O’Mahony, Secrets by Lorna Kelly Dalton, Life After Fred by Colum Kavanagh, alongside two favourites from last year, Across the Pond by Shane Fallon, and Nobody Smokes Anymore by Peter Sheridan. The show goes on rain or shine so bring your umbrella.

RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education)) performed “Source” at the Fringe Festival and they are adding another three free (with donation) performances on Wed 24, Thur 25 and Fri 26 Sept at 14:30.

“As two contrasting worlds are presented simultaneously, performers bounce from stage to screen, from reality to fantasy, struggling to escape the linear patterns and habits that shape their everyday lives.”

Admission is free, and a donation of EUR 5 is suggested. Because space is limited, please book your place via sine@rade.ie or 01 4548733

Musical Theatre classes for 6 – 12 Year olds takes place. This is a free taster class!

The classes by the Jill Anderson School of Speech and Drama are designed to provide an introduction in voice training and improve confidence in singing and acting in front of an audience. The focus is on building confidence, socialisation and cognitive skills along with developing the voice. Each class consists of Drama, singing and dancing.

+ Wed 24 Sept – 15:00-17:00 in Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre, Foxrock
+ Thurs 25 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Howth Road National School, Clontarf Road, Dublin 3
+ Fri 26 Sept – 15:30-17:30 in Rathfarnham Parish Centre, Rathfarnham Village, Dublin 14

For more information about the school or to book your place contact Jill on 087 2196516

Trinity College Dublin, in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons invite to the second yearly “Discover Research Dublin” event. It is an awfully boring name, I agree, but the event sounds great: Think of a type of Culture Night that focuses on Research themes only!

On the evening of 26 Sept, you will have access to over 50 fun, interactive and free events and activities which will give you direct contact with researchers and a chance for discovery, questions and participation. The night is meant to challenge your perception about researchers and show you the creativity and innovation that exists in research across all disciplines. Activities are in four categories: Body Parts, Creativity in Research, Meet the Researchers and Living Thought/Thinking Life.

All events take place in Trintiy College or very nearby and some of the events are

+ Buff your Brain – Talk on how to keep your brain healthy
+ The Science behind the Smile – Meet Researchers in the Dental Hospital
+ Demonstration of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – Brain Stimulation
+ Helping the Body to Heal Itself
+ Trinity Medical Graduates and World War 1
+ Robots with Personality
+ An Astronomical View
+ Meet the Researchers
+ Translation Slam
+ Dublin Language Garden
+ Skulls, Scripts and Censorship

The talks and demonstrations and performances look really interesting and if you have the slightest bit of interest in research and learning, check the Dublin Research Night out.
The website lists all events, but unfortuantely not sorted by time. Instead the events are subdivided by theme or catgory and then listed in what seems to be a random order.

The Dublin History Festival from 26 Sept – 08 Oct will offer you lots of talks about historical topics. The main event will be in Dublin Castle (Printworks) on 26-28 September. There will be three talks on Friday evening and more on Saturday and Sunday. The talks on Friday are:

+ Altered Pasts: counterfactuals in history – Sir Richard J. Evans in conversation with Diarmaid Ferriter at 17:30
+ Dublin: the making of a capital city – with David Dickson, Mary E. Daly, Colm Lennon and moderator Raymond Gillespie at 19:00
+ Killers of the King – Charles Spencer in conversation with Jane Ohlmeyer at 20:30

All talks are free, but ticketed and tickets are limited. So, if you are interested in history, go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ and look through the long list of talks and then book as soon as possible.

Nutgrove Arts Festival is an annual celebration of community arts and culture, taking place in the unique setting of Nutgrove Shopping Centre.

On Friday an Opening Ceremony with African Dance, Latvian Dance and a Corus Choir performance. Admission is free.

The festival brochure can be downloaded here,

The Street Stories Festival will take place from Fri 26 – Sun 28 Sept in venues in Smithfield. There will be talks, live music, walking tours, stalls, films and exhibitions.

The event will start on Friday evening with a talk by David Jazay about his photographic story of inner city Dublin in the 1980s and ’90s. This will be followed by a music session in the Cobblestone.

You would like to know where the talk is taking place? Yes, me too! But I wasn’t able to find any details. Maybe it will be in the Cobblestone? And i am not even sure if the talk is free.

With some luck more information will become available on www.facebook.com/StoneybatterSmithfieldPeoplesHistoryProject

On Saturday there will be talks throughout the day on a whole range of subjects from the Mother and Baby homes, to Dublin in World War I, from Life in Medieval Smithfield to the Massacre in North King Street during the 1916 Rising and lots more.

On Saturday night ska/reggae band The Bionic Rats will perform in the Back Room of the Cobblestone, followed by a DJ.

Then on Sunday there will be walking tours and film screenings.

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant host live music three evenings a week (Thurs, Fri and Sat). The restaurant is a Wholefood & Vegetarian Restaurant and is open until 22:15.
+ Every second Thursday N.C Lawlor, a songwriter, session player and troubadour plays a mix of country, bluegrass & blues from 19:30-21:30.
+ Every Friday (19:30-21:30) Junshi Murakami plays Irish Harp.
+ Every Saturday (19:30-21:30) Nollaig Mann plays a collection of popular and jazz classics.

“Electric Fridays with DUB” is a weekly gig/open mic night in the basement of The International Bar. Admission is free.

Musicians, artists, bands who want to play a 25 min set should contact the organisers via the Facebook page below. A PA and some equipment is available.

Helena Byrne will launch her debut album ‘Ceol’ on Friday. She will perform tracks from ‘Ceol’ and will also perform a selection of self-composed songs and classic Irish folk songs. Josh Johnston (piano) and Amy Ryan (Cello) will be joining here and there will also be some special guests. “Ceol” is a collection of her favourite Irish songs.

Left, Right & Centre will play their Blues+ Soul in Arthur’s Pub. Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

“Ska ‘n’ Reggae” is the theme in the Dive Bar (downstairs in Turks Head) every Friday. The Bionic Rats play live and the DJs Tommy Rash and Fukszy are on the decks until late. Admission is free.

The Dublin CIty Rounders are in Mother Reilly’s for a gig. Admission is free.

Guilty Party will play in Whelan’s and admission is free.

This gig with Night Howl, Tell No Fox and Little Xs for Eyes starts at midnight. Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list.