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.

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.

Christmas Kingdom is a new Christmas event by Dublin City Council.

There is lots of entertainment for kids, but most attractions are not free (e.g. a Christmas circus, the North Pole play area, a festive train, face painters, balloons and children entertainments.

The free element of Christmas Kindom is a Live Crib and a market area consisting of 14 stalls selling food and crafts.

Initially it will open every weekend Fri 14:00-20:00 & Sat/Sun from 10:00 to 20:00. From 19-23 Dec the market will be open daily from 10:00-20:00 between 23 and 03 and will them continue until 04 Jan.

A new market is coming to Drumcondra: The Drumcondra Village Market is a mixture of farmers’ market and arts and crafts fair. Admission is free.

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).

At the conference “If you want peace, prepare for war – Poland and Ireland World War I”, a series of four lectures, presented by Dr. Gabriel Doherty, Dr. Bo?ena Cierlik, David McCallion and Jakub Kacprzak, will showcase political and military situation of Poland and Ireland during the first armed conflict that spread on three continents, and its casualties are counted in millions.

Presented materials will highlight the differences and similarities between Poland and Ireland, which both stepped into this war as parts of mighty empires, and at the end of it marched towards their independence and a chance of reappearance on the maps of the world.

The lectures will be accompanied by an exhibition of memorabilia from that period, coming from the collection of a private museum ‘War Years Remembered’ in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland.

The lectures will last 45 minutes each and they are followed by questions & answer sessions. At 12:30 there will be half-hour break for lunch with a traditional polish dish.

Admission is free.

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.

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.

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.

BLOOD is the title of the new Science Gallery exhibition that will run from 24 Oct – 25 Jan.

25 exhibits explore the symbolic, scientific and strange nature of blood and there are certainly some “out there” contributions. For example the video and relics from a bio-art performance where an artist had a blood transfusion form a horse. Or a spoof brand that uses bloodstain-formed fashion accessories addressing the stigma about men strual blood.

But there are quirky things as well, like the Jukebox that will guess your age by taking your pulse rate and playing a song from your teenage years. And there are some practical aspects: You can take a test that will determine your blood type and you can find out what happens to to donated blood in Ireland.

An interesting exhibition, but different than what you have seen before in the Science Gallery and that is reflected by the recommendation that the exhibition is only suitable for over 15 year olds.

If you are ok with the focus on this red substance that makes some of us a bit queasy when we think about it, you should definitely go to the exhibition (and bring an open mind ;-) ). But if blood makes your knees wobbly, then it might not be for you.

Admission to the exhibition is free

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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

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.

“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

The Coronas will play a live gig & sign copies of their new album on Saturday 22 November at 19:00 in HMV Dundrum.

The condition was that to get a (free) ticket, you have to buy the Corona’s new album ‘The Long Way’ on Friday 21 November at hmv Dundrum, hmv Liffey Valley, hmv Henry Street or hmv Grafton Street. It is unfortunately too late for that, but depending on how many people turn up in Dundrum, you might be able to broker a deal locally! ;-)

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.

Every Saturday until 22 Nov Rober Coyle will bring his One-man Comedy show to Accents Cafe. Admission is free.

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.

Four acts are playing 4 different genres of music at this “A Taste of Music” event. The performers are
+ Jem Mitchell with Ken Browne (Folk Roots Americana)
+ Jona Xhepa (Irish/American/English ballads and blues/jazz)
+ Ciara Moran (Mellow Jazz)
+ Jasper Rua (New Age / Experimental / Instrument)

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.

One Horse Pony, the Irish-French-Polish acoustic blues band from Cork will perform in Whelan’s. Admission is free.

Popular Dublin Soul Band “Santoria” will play in The Inn in Raheny. Admission seems to be free.

Night Howl in Whelan’s is featuring the bands Future Phantoms and Makings. Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list. The gig will starts at 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.

Christmas Kingdom is a new Christmas event by Dublin City Council.

There is lots of entertainment for kids, but most attractions are not free (e.g. a Christmas circus, the North Pole play area, a festive train, face painters, balloons and children entertainments.

The free element of Christmas Kindom is a Live Crib and a market area consisting of 14 stalls selling food and crafts.

Initially it will open every weekend Fri 14:00-20:00 & Sat/Sun from 10:00 to 20:00. From 19-23 Dec the market will be open daily from 10:00-20:00 between 23 and 03 and will them continue until 04 Jan.

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.

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.

A Christmas Craft Fair takes place at the Green Door Market in Dublin 8 (near the Dublin Food-Coop). There will be Hand Made Crafts and Hot Food Stalls. Admission is free and the event is Family Friendly.

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.

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.

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.

BLOOD is the title of the new Science Gallery exhibition that will run from 24 Oct – 25 Jan.

25 exhibits explore the symbolic, scientific and strange nature of blood and there are certainly some “out there” contributions. For example the video and relics from a bio-art performance where an artist had a blood transfusion form a horse. Or a spoof brand that uses bloodstain-formed fashion accessories addressing the stigma about men strual blood.

But there are quirky things as well, like the Jukebox that will guess your age by taking your pulse rate and playing a song from your teenage years. And there are some practical aspects: You can take a test that will determine your blood type and you can find out what happens to to donated blood in Ireland.

An interesting exhibition, but different than what you have seen before in the Science Gallery and that is reflected by the recommendation that the exhibition is only suitable for over 15 year olds.

If you are ok with the focus on this red substance that makes some of us a bit queasy when we think about it, you should definitely go to the exhibition (and bring an open mind ;-) ). But if blood makes your knees wobbly, then it might not be for you.

Admission to the exhibition is free

Film Director Pascale Ferran will be hosting a masterclass on “Literary Adaptation and Visual Effects” moderated by Dr. Brigitte Le Juez (DCU) and Dr. Patrick Brereton (DCU).

Admission is free, but booking is required: Contact the Box Office on 01-6793477

The event is part of the Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival 2014 (19-30 November).

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

The Smithfield Market Fair will take place again in the Generator Hostel at Smithfield Plaza.

There will be Live Music from 12:00 and Live Comedy with Andrew Stanley and Totally Wired.

And over 40 market stalls will be selling Vintage Clothes, Food, Vinyl records, Contemporary Arts, Jewellery pieces and much more.

Admission is free.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

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 The Piano Sonatas of Muzio Clementi performed by Fionnuala Moynihan, piano

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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

Sunday Sketching for the whole family takes place every Sunday and admission is free.

“During these workshops we explore paintings, sculpture and some of the architectural features of Charlemont House through discussion and drawing.”

No booking is required although numbers may be limited.

The yearly crAFTERnoon Tea is back. It is an event to help the Daycare Centre for the Elderly in Donnybrook, but for you it is an afternoon of Craft Workshops (crochet, knitting, origami, smart-phone photography, beading, weaving, stitching, pottery etc). There will also be craft sales and lots of cake.

The afternoon is a fundraiser for the day care centre, so a donation is expected but it is up to you how much you want to give.

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 National Museum is continuing the screening of this French television series about World War I with episodes 3 Hell: September 1915 – December 1916 and 4 Rage: January – November 1917. Presented by the Museum in partnership with the French Embassy. Each episode is 60 minutes in length. No booking required, admission is free.

Discover Viking Age Dublin, what a warrior brought to his grave, where people lived and how to spot a real Viking sword, on this guided activity sheet trail of the Viking Ireland exhibition. Meet at Reception.

Admission is free and no booking required, but places are limited to 20, allocated on a first come first served basis.

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.

House Dublin is a restaurant and bar in Leeson Street. On Sundays the Nova Collective is playing in their Glass House from 17:00-19:00. Expect Jazz and Latin Bossa Nova. 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.

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).

The guys from Saucy Sundays must have been a little tipsy when they set up the Facebook Event page for their next event, because at the time of writing this it claims that the event will take place on Wednesday 26 Nov. Maybe they still have the wrong month on the calender? 26 Oct was a Sunday. Well, I think it is a mistake and Saucy Sundays takes place on Sunday as normal.

The line-up is: Modify, Kiruu, Penrose, The Raphaels, Tecimerico

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! ;-)

Earthship Funk Band is a 5-piece band from the West of Ireland. They will perform their funk, jazz-funk and fusion on Sunday in Sweeney’S Admission is free.

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: Those Creeps, Sinéad White, Rosco Flanagan Music

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).

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 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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

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.

The DIT Irish Traditional Music Ensemble is inviting to four lunchtime concerts on the four Mondays in November (03+10+17+24 November). Admission is free, but booking is required via conservatory@dit.ie

“Enjoy some of Ireland’s finest young musical talent studying on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.”

A lunchtime recital of Cellist Yue Tang will take place. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

“Eighteenth-Century Trinity: a Quarrelsome Provost” by Peter Boyle (TCD), is the next lecture in the Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series. Admission is free.

The second of six bi-monthly Experimental Film Society (EFS) screenings takes place at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Seven shorts will be shown from Ireland, Iran, France, Spain and the UK and all details are on the website below.

Admission is free.

The Folklore Society of Ireland is hosting a screening of the feature film “Silence”. Film-maker Pat Collins will be available for Q&As after the film and to discuss what inspired this film.

Admission is free.

As part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative, the UCD School of Philosophy will hold an open panel discussion at the RIA about Whistle-blowing.

Admission is free, but booking is required via conscienceproject2014@gmail.com

The monthly Film Debate “Critical Take” focuses on Biopics this month.

Join the panel of Dr Tom Walker (Ussher Lecturer in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin), Dr. Zélie Asava (Programme Director of Video and Film at Dundalk Institute of Technology) and Anja Mahler (Collections Assistant at the IFI) for a special edition of The Critical Take.

The panel will discuss Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (from Nov 1st), Andy Goddard’s depiction of Dylan Thomas’ tour to America in Set Fire to the Stars (opens Nov 14th) and the compelling story of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (opens Nov 14th). This event will look at how these three films conform to and deviate from standard biopic conventions.

Admission is free, but you have to book your seat by contacting the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477.

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 Cosmic Microwave Background: New Views of the Early Universe” by Dr Creidhe O’Sullivan (Department of Physics, Maynooth University) is the lecture of the Irish Astronomical Society on Monday. Admission is free.

“This is an exciting time for cosmology. Our understanding of the Universe has been transformed in the last 15 years and we now believe that while it contains only 5% ordinary matter almost two-thirds of it is made of a mysterious ‘dark energy’. The cosmic microwave background (CMB), relic radiation from the Big Bang, has been one of our most important sources of information about the early Universe and many believe that we have, for the first time, detected the signature of the gravitational waves produced by an early rapid expansion of the Universe. In this presentation Dr. O’Sullivan will talk about our current understanding of the contents and structure of the Universe as well as the origin and importance of the CMB. She will describe some of the recent results from satellite and ground-based experiments such as Planck and BICEP2.”

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.

Every Monday 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 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.

Sillybilly.ie will be in the Shopping Centre with their Music & Magic Show with Balloon Modeling. Admission is free.

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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

Admission is free.

As a tribute to the Italian actor and director Nino Manfredi, his films will be shown at 13:15 and 18:30 on Thursdays between 02 Oct and 04 Dec. The next screening is on Tuesday: “Le avventure di Pinocchio” (part II) by Luigi Comencini (1972). (In Italian with English subtitles.)

Admission is free,

Dubstarts is a job fair specifically for start-ups. Up to 30 companies are offering jobs.

Admission is free, but registration via the Eventbrite site here is required.

Nuala Lyons novel “The Shooter”, a story of love, family, and the devastation that dru g addiction can cause, will be launched in the Gutter Bookshop. Admission is free.

The Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association is inviting to a public interview with Dr. Enrico Terrinoni, one of the leading translators. Enrico Terrinoni has translated James Joyce’s Ulysses into Italian (2012) and is currently working on translating Finnegans Wake with Fabio Pedone (to be published in 2019).

He has also translated other Irish authors (Brendan Behan, James Stephens, Francis Bacon, and Mannix Flynn) as well as the contributors to the recent Dubliners 100 project. In addition he has translated works by Muriel Spark, Nathaniel Hawthorne, B.S. Johnson, John Burnside, Miguel Syjuco, and Simon Armitage.

Admission is free and there will be a wien reception.

“Dublin at War 1914-1918” is a panel discussion about Dublin during the first “total war”.

Entire populations were mobilized for the war effort. Dublin was no exception. The discussion will focus on recruitment amongst Dubliners, where they fought and how many died. Within eighteen months, Dublin would be the scene of the Easter Rising 1916. What was the Rising’s relationship to the wider conflict?

The panel is made up of Tommy Graham (History Ireland editor), Prof David Fitzpatrick (TCD and editor of Terror in Ireland: 1916-1923), historians Brian Hanley and Ann Matthews and Padraig Yeates (social and labour historian and author of A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18).

Admission is free and no booking is required.

An Indoor Car Boot Sale for the Irish Cancer Society will take place in the Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute. Vendors can rent tables for EUR 10 (Students: EUR 8). Admission for buyers seems to be free.

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 Plateau Sessions is an open mic night that features some special guest acts from all over Ireland. This Tuesday the featured acts are Madra and The Shrubs and more may be announced.

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.

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 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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

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.

“‘There was a Lord who lived in this town’: Early Classic Ballads in the Irish Song tradition” is a lunctime talk by Jerry O’Reilly.

The talk will focus on a comparison of versions of various ballads collected in Ireland in the last fifty years with the corresponding versions in Francis James Child’s 1882–1898 collection of 305 ballads, which has been described by some commentators as the “canon” of folk music.

It will also set the scene for the four performances of Child ballads that will take place over four Wendesdays beginning on 26 November and continuing on 03+10+17 December.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

In the lunchtime event series “First Up: Creative entrepreneurs on breaking through”, First Up has invited James Morris (founder of Windmill Lane Post Production) to talk about his path to success.

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

Pembroke Library are inviting to the talk “Local War Memorials” by Michael Pegum, which is hosted in association with Ballsbridge, Donnybrook & Sandymount Historical Society. Admission is free, booking is required via 01-6689575

The lecture “Miscellaneous Manuscripts in the Medieval Germanic World” by Dr Rosella Tinaburri (University of Cassino) offers a methodological introduction to the questions related to the production and circulation of miscellaneous manuscripts in the Middle Ages and a description of the project MiMa developed at the TCD by Dr. Rosella Tinaburri.

The main goal of the project is to identify the list of miscellaneous manuscripts containing texts written in Latin and Germanic vernacular languages in the Middle Ages in order to have an overview of their transmission according to a plurilinguistic perspective.

Admission seems to be free.

Three of Dublin’s city centre contemporary art galleries, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and The Douglas Hyde Gallery are joining forces to offer a guided walking tour that visits these venues.

The tours introduce the current exhibitions to everybody who is not so familiar with contemporary art and offer an interesting insight into the work for everybody who is into art.

The tour will take about 60 minutes, with 15-20 minute tours taking place in each gallery.

Admission is free but booking is required and places are limited.

At this event, you will get Tips on how to Find a Job in 2014 presented by Peter Cosgrove, CPL Recruitment. Admission is free, but booking is recommended: 01-8733996

“A repeat of the Irish show? – The Black and Tans in Palestine, 1922-48” by Dr Seán Gannon (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) is the next talk in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Admission seems to be free.

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.

This is an open evening for professionals with work experience at the UCD Smurfit School. Admission is free.

The Contemporary Music Centre is inviting to a free new music::new Ireland Salon Concert in the Kevin Barry Room in the NCH. Works by Greg Caffrey and Piers Hellawell will be performed.

Admission is free, but booking is required here: www.nch.ie/Online/Contemporary-Music-Centre-26Nov14

In the “Black and White” cinema series in the Instituto Cervantes the 1958 film “El Cebo” will be screened (In Spanish with English subtitles). Admission is free.

Based on the concept of TedTalks, VitalTalks is a platform for young people to have their voices heard and listened to.

There will be 4 talks in the series On 26 Nov the first VitalTalks will be about the Social Situation (Homelessness, Community & Poverty) and subsequent talks are about Living (03 Dec), Identity (10 Dec), Employment/Education/Finance (11 Dec). There will be 4 speakers per talk and a panel of 4 experts.

Each VitalTalks will finish up with a ‘proactive change workshop’ that will challenge perceptions and start the conversation for change.

Admission to VitalTalks is free and there will also be a free wine receptio, but registration via the the Eventbrite website here is required.

VitalTalks as part of VitalSigns (www.irelandsvitalsigns.ie) aims to empower young people by sharing experiences, challenges and achievements. Creating an environment for proactive change.

Following from from the 2013 research and performance project based on the Child Ballad Collection at the NLI – a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J Child in England and Scotland between 1882 and 1898 – another series of concerts will take place from Wednesday and continuing on 03+10+17 December.

This year’s performances will feature traditional singers: Sandra Joyce, Grace Toland, Fergus Russell, Jim McFarland, Hammy Hamilton, Roisin Gaffney, Roisin White and Len Graham. Each evening a male and female will introduce and perform a selection of the Child ballads, hence the project title: Man, Woman and Child.

Although many of the songs, or variants of them, are sung in the Irish tradition, no comprehensive study or performance of the ballads had been undertaken in Ireland prior to this project. This project is devised and co-ordinated by Wexford artists, Michael Fortune and Aileen Lambert and funded by the Arts Council with support from the NLI, Bealtaine festival and the ITMA.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

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.

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.

The Jazz Pigs with a classic multi-brass front line play a mix of Lounge, lively sixties Jazz and driving Funk. Every Wednesday downstairs in 4 Dame Lane. Admission is free.

The Jazz Pigs with a classic multi-brass front line pay tribute to the Blue Note era with a mix of Lounge, lively sixties Jazz and driving Funk every Wednesday night from 9.30pm, downstairs in 4 Dame Lane, Dublin 2. Free Entry.

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.

A Craft Fair with 35 tables of local crafts takes place from Thursday until Saturday during library opening hours. There will also be school choirs, bread baking competition, a visit by Kenneth Egan and by Santa. Admission is free.

“The Challenges of Delivering a World Class (Inner) City” is the title of the morning symposium presented by Beyond Pebbledash in association with the National Museum of Ireland. Speakers are: Emily Logan, Frances Ruane, Jim Keogan and Annraí O’Toole and chaired by Kieran Rose.

Admission is free, but places are limited. To book contact beyondpebbledash@museum.ie

On Thursday a free tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue takes place. Meet inside the Cemetery Gates. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Region Adult Education Fair provides information on the many higher education options available to Adults and Mature Applicants in the Dublin region.

Over 20 education providers will be there to advise Adult Learners and Mature Applicants on programmes and processes. There will also be talks on making a CAO Application as a Mature Applicant and Financing a Return to Education, among other topics.

If you are thinking about returning to education, you can talk to current and recently graduated mature students who have ‘been there and done that’ in the Mature Student Café.

Admission is free.

Yes, you are reading correctly! Lidl have their own Christmas Market. It will take place in the chq Building from Thurs 27-Sun 30 November. You can sample lots of Lidl products and buy some as well and there will be a Santa.

Opening hours are Thurs-Fri 15:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-20:00. Admission is free.

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Girl Geek Dinners are a chance for ladies in technology to get together, enjoy some nice food and drinks, and have fun meeting other women in their field.

Find out more information on GGD and to book your place at this event here.

Men are also welcome to attend, but only at the invitation of a woman – if you are bringing someone or are looking for an invitation, please send an email to Ireland@girlgeekdinners.com.

In the “Black and White ” cinema series in the Instituto Cervantes, the 1951 film “Cielo Negro” will be screened (In Spanish with English subtitles). Admission is free.

The launch of the exhibition “The Grand Scheme” by Dublin based artist Vera Klute takes place on Thursday and the exhibition will continue until 10 January.

It includes kinetic sculptures, a 5m high video projection, tapestry and drawing. Themes are inspired by everyday life and utilize familiar objects and imagery.

Vera Klute’s art describes the individual within its sociological environment and the behaviour particular to groups. While playfully exploring concepts of group intelligence and individuals merging into a mass, it sees the human subject in a fine balance between herd instincts and the formal confines of social constructs such as the family, sports club or school class.

Admission to the exhibition and to the launch event are free.

“Exploring the fascination of Irish folklore and storytelling for collectors, scholars, writers and readers, Folklore and Modern Irish Writing offers a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between oral traditions and literary practices in Ireland.”

Anne Markey and Anne O’Connor are the editors of the book “Folklore and Modern Irish Writing”, a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between oral traditions and literary practices in Ireland. And the book launch takes place on Thursday.

Admission seems free.

“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

At the Uptown Shed Session in 4 Dame Lane, there will be “Art, Music and lots of surprises”. The music side is headlined by “Staring at Lakes” and Live Painting and an art show will be the main features of the Art aspect of the event.

Admission is free, but you are invited to join the guest list on the website below.

The event is brought to you by Picture This!

The 20th Annual Schrödinger Lecture is entitled “Bio-mimicking Energy Conversion: From Organic Solar Cells to CO2 Recycling” by Professor Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci (Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Linz).

It will be in the Schrödinger Lecture Theatre. Admission is free, but you have to book your place with Una Dowling via dowlingu@tcd.ie.

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.

Irish Trad Music 3-piece “Walsh, Farrell and Garvey” are performing in Mother Reilly’s. Admission is free.

The Cabin Crew with Spats Davenport (guitar), Con Butler (bass), Gerry Fitzpatrick (dobro), Cathy McEvoy (fiddle), Christian Volkmann (harmonica), Dave Hardy (sax/clarinet) will perform and has Special guests: Stomptown Brass, Caitlin Jemma (from California) and The Hat Trick String Band.

Admission is free.

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.

Pete Pamf will perform in Whelan’s and admission is free.

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.

A Craft Fair with 35 tables of local crafts takes place from Thursday until Saturday during library opening hours. There will also be school choirs, bread baking competition, a visit by Kenneth Egan and by Santa. 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.

From 13 November until 23 December Dublin’s first ever City Centre Christmas Market takes place on one side of St. Stephen’s Green in the form of a lon row of wooden huts. Approx. 60 traders will be at the market selling handcrafted items, art, Christmas presents, food products etc. and there will also be food and drinks stands.

Admission is free.

At the IMMA Lunchtime Talk “Falsifying Narratives”, Sarah Durcan (MFA Coordinator, NCAD) explores the intersection of the fictional with the real in the film work of contemporary artists.

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

Yes, you are reading correctly! Lidl have their own Christmas Market. It will take place in the chq Building from Thurs 27-Sun 30 November. You can sample lots of Lidl products and buy some as well and there will be a Santa.

Opening hours are Thurs-Fri 15:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-20:00. Admission is free.

David Leigh (organ) and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Karg Ellert in the Main Auditorium of the National Concert Hall.

Admission is free, but booking is required here: www.nch.ie/Online/RTENSO-Pipeworks-28Nov14

Hunt & Gather are inviting to this Print Exhibition and the launch of the new Hunt & Gather website.

Find out all details on the Facebook Event Page below.

Admission is free.

Takin’ The Mic Open-Mic Night is an open mic night at the Irish Writers’ Centre, taking place one Friday every month. Writers, spoken-word artists and musicians are all welcome to perform. Names of contributors are taken from 19:00, so arrive early if you want to perform. Admission is free, with a sugested doantion of EUR 5. BYOB

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.

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

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

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet at the Martello Tower car park in Sandymount for a public star-gazing. Members bring along their telescopes and share the wonders of the night-sky with you. Admission is free.

The event is weather dependent, so check www.irishastrosoc.org/events/events.htm after 18:00 on the night in the case of poor weather, to check if it is going ahead.

The D-Riculous All Stars are playing covers from the finest rock blues back catalogues. Admission is free.

“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.

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 Brady’s Sessions is a monthly singer/songwriter night in Gub Dandy’s at Brady’s Pub Terenure. Admission is free and this month’s Line-Up is:

Susan Mary Ward, Jill Fools, Callum Keaveney, Jimi Cullen, James Daly, Tania Notaro

The Doggy Few are a band of friends from the North of Holland, playing traditional Irish and Scottish music. They are based in the north of Holland in the town of Groningen,

Rock ‘n’ Roll band “The Guilty Party” will perform in Whelan’s and admission is free.