Did you ever want to give drawing a go? Or maybe you are a budding artist looking for like-minded people to draw with? The Creative Den in Rua Red runs free weekly drawing sessions on Wednesdays at 11:00.

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.

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week (and if you know some more, please tell me):
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin

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.

The Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are 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 County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

Maths Week Ireland takes place from 10-18 October, there are a good few events for pupils, but for adults the number of events is limited. I found just a handful and they are listed separately and individually in this Dublin Event Guide.

The Nutgrove Arts Festival (09-17 Oct) is a yearly festival in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. A variety of events will take place and all details are on the PDF brochure here: www.nutgroveshoppingcentre.ie/_fileupload/Artsfestival15.pdf

The main events are:
Sat 10 Oct (10:00-17:00): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sat 10 Oct (12:00-17:00): Eco Art Workshop
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Sun 11 Oct (12:30-17:30): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-14:30): Life Drawing Class
Sun 11 Oct (14:00-17:00): Food Art Workshop for kids
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Mon 12 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sinead White (Singer/Songwriter)
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Tue 13 Oct (12:45-14:15): Hugh Buckley (Guitarist)
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Fri 16 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sarah Ivy Guy (Singer/Songwriter)

Admission to all events is free.

This is the last weekend of Scultpure in Context 2015!!

Sculpture in Context is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and it is a brilliant exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of the National Botanic Gardens, Some of Ireland’s best artists are showing new work and the sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the in the gallery in the Visitors Centre.

On Saturday at 15:00 you will have the opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour through the exhibits.

The exhibition opened on 03 Sept and will run until Fri 16 October.

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.

Today is World Mental Health Day and we are reminded to reach out to others that might need our help or just the assurance that you are there if they need you, that they are not alone.

Find out more on www.facebook.com/Mental.Health.Ireland and www.mentalhealthireland.ie/

Discover the beautiful restored Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden and learn about growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbs and lots more. Meet OPW professional gardeners Brian and Meeda at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden. They have lots of advice to plan your perfect garden for the Autumn months ahead. Admission is free and car parking is available.

The Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden is located next to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, and the Phoenix Café. The OPW professional gardeners are on site on the second Saturday of every month.

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 Terenure Village Market has moved to Bushy Park and is from now on a weekly market.

The market has now grown to 40 stalls offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

Train Your Brain is an interactive workshop on Learning Through Play for parents and children on Saturday. There will be four sessions throughout the day starting on the hour with 30 places available per session. Admission is free and no booking required (first come first served)

The philosophy of educational expert Ruth Brady and Cogs The Brain Shop is ?“Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning”

Ruth is a primary school teacher and in the workshop she will discuss the importance of play in children’s development. The interactive play area will allow children and parents explore how motor skills, verbal skills, visual perception, memory and critical thinking can be enhanced through play.

The Irish Record Fair market is back in Thomas House. There will be lots of vinyl but also CDs and DVDs of all music genres. Admission is free.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 12:00, 13:00 and 14:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 11:00-12:00
+ 12:00-13:00
+ 13:00-14:00

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome. The Yoga Union is run by Love8.

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.

A truck load of Jackets (fabric, denim, leather, under & over) will be sold at this event in aid of Oxfam Ireland. And for your entertainment the following live music line-up has been put together:
12.00 – Kate Dineen
13.00 – The Needables
14.00 – Neev Kennedy
15.00 – Mark Campbell
16.00 – 13
17.00 – Elephant

Admission to the event 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.

Maths in the City in the Grafton Street area directly engages with the you while out shopping, featuring puzzles, games, activities and personalities all designed to help make maths engaging and fun for people of all ages and abilities.

Look out when you are on Grafton Street and near St. Stephen’s Green.

All activities are free.

The current exhibition in the Science Gallery (08 Aug – 01 Nov) is called “SECRET – Nothing To See Here” and explores Privacy, Surveillance and Espionage.

Once again it is a really interesting exhibition, that has some intriguing, fascinating and revealing exhibits. Be prepared to do a good bit of reading to understand the background of the exhibits OR get one of the well informed and extremely helpful mediators to explain the details to you.

I would say that SECRET is for a slightly older audience (maybe 16+), but there are plenty of things that younger children will get as well if you make the effort to explain it to them.

From an airport-style security conveyor belt that records what you have in your pocket; via a Wifi traffic eavesdropping device (Transparency Grenade); a secret handshake training device; books full of stolen passwords (you might find yours!?); a Crypto Bar where you can download cryptographic software, a privacy wall that hides your identity to an installation with notepads where the lines are microprinted lists of Iraqi civilian victims of the Iraq war, you will find lots of interesting secrets.

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00, so there are no excuses! ;-) 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.

An Intercultural Tour in Arabic Langauge with Community Ambassador Karma El Shawa will take place.

Meeting point is in the atrium of the Library. Admission is free and no booking required.

Magicians never reveal their tricks, but mathematicians do!

In this talk, David Conlon will perform several mathematically-inspired magic tricks and reveal the secrets behind many of them.
The talk is pat of Maths Week Ireland and will be suitable for adults and children from Age 8.

Admission is free.

Do you want to discover the secrets of animal camouflage or how animals dive so deep into the ocean? Come to the Natural History Museum (the Dead Zoo) to learn about the secret science of these super animals and the scientists that research them in Ireland and around the globe.

Admission is free and no Booking required, first come first served. Suitable for Ages 7.

The tours take place at 14:15 and at 15:30.

A series of fun drop-in workshops will take place on Saturdays during the Sculpture in Context exhibition in the new Children’s Garden. Children from 6 years of age can make a dragonfly, butterfly or unique piece of their own, using simple, natural and recycled materials.

Admission is free. The event takes place in the Education Garden.

“Neptune’s Banquet” is the theme of this week’s Family Workshop in the National Gallery for 4-10 year olds.

Admission is free and no booking necessary, but places are limited.

The talk “Revolutionaries in Khaki: Irish Great War Veterans in the War of Independence” is part of the Dublin History Festival. Dr. Steven O’Connor will talk about Irish WWI veterans who fought in the Irish War of Independence.

Admission is free, but booking is required via (01) 831 5521.

This is a special tour exploring the role of the National Botanic Gardens in native and global plant conservation. Hear the stories behind some of the world’s rarest plants, exotic oddities and species of national significance.

Admission is free. Meet at the visitor centre.

“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 myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Never Meant Records is launching an EP with a gig by the Homecomings and a shared 7″ vinyl with the four contributors Anna’s Anchor, Hostile Smiles, Mide Houlihan and Dream State.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event event downstairs in the Wine Cave of KC Peaches Cafe. Food will be served until 21:30 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 Rockets will play vintage 50s Rock ‘n’ Roll at this gig in the Harbour Bar. Admission is free.

Robert Coyle is performing his new show “Being Wrong is Right with Robert Coyle” in Accents Cafe.

Doors open at 20:00, the show starts at 20:30 and finishes at 22:00.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

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.

NC Lawlor will be in Mezz for the 21:00 gig on Saturday. Admission is free.

Jazz on the Green is now provided every Saturday in the bar of the Fitzwilliam Hotel. Admission is free.

This week Lisa Jameson (vocals) and James Mullen (piano) will perform.

Nighthowl is back in Whelan’s with 3 bands: Loo Culture, Fun with Ropes and Kinds are performing. Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list.

The Lee Mahon Band will play the midnight gig in the Mezz on Saturday.

Admission is free,

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 Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are 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 County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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 Nutgrove Arts Festival (09-17 Oct) is a yearly festival in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. A variety of events will take place and all details are on the PDF brochure here: www.nutgroveshoppingcentre.ie/_fileupload/Artsfestival15.pdf

The main events are:
Sat 10 Oct (10:00-17:00): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sat 10 Oct (12:00-17:00): Eco Art Workshop
—–
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-17:30): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-14:30): Life Drawing Class
Sun 11 Oct (14:00-17:00): Food Art Workshop for kids
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Mon 12 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sinead White (Singer/Songwriter)
——
Tue 13 Oct (12:45-14:15): Hugh Buckley (Guitarist)
——
Fri 16 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sarah Ivy Guy (Singer/Songwriter)

Admission to all events is free.

The Pigsback Pink Run is a 5km or 10km fundraising run for the Mary Keating Foundation. It’s not a free event (but you could still sign up on Sunday morning) and there is no other entertainment etc happening in context with this event. But maybe you feel like supporting the runners by cheering them on.

This is the last weekend of Scultpure in Context 2015!!

Sculpture in Context is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and it is a brilliant exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of the National Botanic Gardens, Some of Ireland’s best artists are showing new work and the sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the in the gallery in the Visitors Centre.

On Saturdays you will have the opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour through the exhibits.

The exhibition opened on 03 Sept and will run until Fri 16 October.

Sunday is the Super Sports Sunday of 2015 with Ireland playing against France in the Rugby Woldchampionship. (The game is taking place in Cardiff and kick off is at 16:45.) and also Ireland playing against Poland in the soccer qualifier for the European Championship. (This game is taking place in Poland and kicks off at 19:45.)

If you are interested in Irish sport, your entertainment starts at 16:45 and won’t finish before 21:30. Nearly 5 hours of fun!

If you are not interested in sports, you have 5 hours of undisturbed quality time, that you can use productively to do something special! ;-) Don’t waste it!

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 next Fusion Sundays Market will take place this Sunday in the Dublin Food Co-op.

It is a world culture market, an ethnic Bazaar, that focuses on the diverse ethnic culture present in Ireland today. The Market features a huge array of International stalls, ethnic food, live music and entertainment for kids. You can buy handmade goods, arts and crafts, recycled products, jewellery, clothes and food. The market is held every second Sunday of the month.

There is always a great atmosphere and I definitely recommend this monthly market.

Admission is free.

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.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 12:00, 13:00 and 14:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 11:00-12:00
+ 12:00-13:00
+ 13:00-14:00

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome. The Yoga Union is run by Love8.

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 current exhibition in the Science Gallery (08 Aug – 01 Nov) is called “SECRET – Nothing To See Here” and explores Privacy, Surveillance and Espionage.

Once again it is a really interesting exhibition, that has some intriguing, fascinating and revealing exhibits. Be prepared to do a good bit of reading to understand the background of the exhibits OR get one of the well informed and extremely helpful mediators to explain the details to you.

I would say that SECRET is for a slightly older audience (maybe 16+), but there are plenty of things that younger children will get as well if you make the effort to explain it to them.

From an airport-style security conveyor belt that records what you have in your pocket; via a Wifi traffic eavesdropping device (Transparency Grenade); a secret handshake training device; books full of stolen passwords (you might find yours!?); a Crypto Bar where you can download cryptographic software, a privacy wall that hides your identity to an installation with notepads where the lines are microprinted lists of Iraqi civilian victims of the Iraq war, you will find lots of interesting secrets.

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00, so there are no excuses! ;-) 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 Concorde: Up Close with Music with special guests. (See website below)

How do you setup and run a community garden? Hear about the lessons learned from two inspiring community garden projects: one in Dublin city centre and the other in rural Co. Clare.

You will start with a talking tour of the NCAD Community Garden on Thomas Street, hosted by Rian Coulter and Fabian Strunden. There you will harvest some of the produce from the garden and head over to the Fumbally Stables (a ten minute walk).

At the Stables, Matt Smith and Fergal Smith from Moy Hill Community Garden will talk from their perspective about what community is, how to succeed in keeping it going, and the lessons learned overcoming challenges in setting up Moy Hill.

Meanwhile a chef will work with what you have harvested from Thomas Street, along with some fresh veg brought up from Moy Hill, to create a dish for everyone to share.

To celebrate the Festival of Inclusion and the 50th anniversary of the Sound of Music, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is hosting the free Big Sing.

Choirs of all ages and ability in the county are invited to join in. Songs and music to be learned will be provided for prior to the event. Sheet music and lyric music will also be provided for. The event will be led by Grainne O’Grady, Music Director of Music Matters- www.musicmatters.ie and the choirs will be accompanied by Newtown Senior Tours Orchestra!

And you are invited to listen to songs from the shows Oliver, Mary Poppins, and Sound of Music on Sunday afternoon.

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 Blue Orange Sunday in Sin É will feature the music/art showcase “All we need is love” at 15:00, the Sunday movie “Dirty Harry” at 18:00 and the Farewell Gig of “Mescalito” at 20:00 with support from the band “Groundburst”.

Admission is free throughout the day.

A talk on the life and work of Decimus Burton, 19th century architect and landscape gardener, whose influence can be seen in Phoenix Park today will take place in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on Sunday.

Admission is free.

This is a chance to explore some of the artefacts from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling with Museum educators – a fascinating drop-in handling session for all ages. No booking required.

The talk “Hugh Lane and the Portrait Commission” with Logan Sisley (Hugh Lane Gallery) takes place. This talk is part of a free lecture series, for the month of October, on the theme of ‘Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): A Centenary Perspective’.

No booking required.

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.

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

At the Jawbone Gig night in Arthur’s Pub, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir sings every Sunday from September to June at their “Gig in God’s Gaff”, a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street.

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 or your relationship with the Catholic Church in other contexts.

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! ;-)

Alex de Vree & Erwan Le Fichant will play a colorful repertoire combining folk and blues with ragtime and country accents.

Admission is free.

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.

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).

“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.

Soul band Santoria will play in the Mercantile, right after the Ireland vs Poland soccer match.

Admission is free.

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 Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are free.

Maths Week Ireland takes place from 10-18 October, there are a good few events for pupils, but for adults the number of events is limited. I found just a handful and they are listed separately and individually in this Dublin Event Guide.

The Nutgrove Arts Festival (09-17 Oct) is a yearly festival in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. A variety of events will take place and all details are on the PDF brochure here: www.nutgroveshoppingcentre.ie/_fileupload/Artsfestival15.pdf

The main events are:
Sat 10 Oct (10:00-17:00): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sat 10 Oct (12:00-17:00): Eco Art Workshop
—–
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-17:30): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-14:30): Life Drawing Class
Sun 11 Oct (14:00-17:00): Food Art Workshop for kids
——
Mon 12 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sinead White (Singer/Songwriter)
——
Tue 13 Oct (12:45-14:15): Hugh Buckley (Guitarist)
——
Fri 16 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sarah Ivy Guy (Singer/Songwriter)

Admission to all events is free.

The Red Line Book Festival takes place in venues across South Dublin County and is funded by South Dublin County Council. It is organised by South Dublin Libraries and Arts and consequently many of the events take plave in South County Dublin libraries.

There are free talks, readings, workshops, quizes, author meetings etc every day of the festival and a full list is available at www.redlinebookfestival.ie/programme-booking (Booking is required for the free events!) There are also many non free events, that you should check out.

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.

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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“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs on Tuesdays now as well. 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 myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The next lecture in the Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series is ‘The Great Blow’: Riot and Urban Governance in Civil War Norwich’ with Andrew Hooer (University of Leicester).

Admission is free.

“Unbound feet: the changing status of Chinese women, c. 1890-1950” is a public lecture by Dr Isabella Jackson as part of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies Public Lecture Series 2015-16.

“For almost one thousand years, most Chinese women had their feet bound to achieve an artificial smallness that corresponded to an ideal of beauty, but restricted movement and caused immense pain and suffering. The eradication of this practice in the early twentieth century was a huge achievement and stands as a symbol of both female emancipation and the end of the old imperial order with the fall of the last dynasty in 1911.”

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.

One of the greatest Beatles Tribute Bands, The Classic Beatles, will be in the Harbour Bar on Monday.

Admission is free.

Every Monday the Woolshed Bad hosts “Al Porter’s Comedy Shed”. Admission is free.

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).

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).

An Open Trad Music Session is taking place every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. Admission is free.

The Donal Kirk Band will be playing music from Lowell George Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Free, Bad Company, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Beatles, Bobby Bland, Vince Gill, Ray Charles, Etta James, Elvis, Ry Cooder, Dobie Gray, Guy Clarke, early ZZ Top, Dave Edmunds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson.

Admission is free.

Today the Irish Government will announce the Budget for 2016!

Some price increases (alcohol, cigarettes and fuel) usually are passed on immediately (by midnight of the night it has been announced on, so if there is any increase like that act fast to save a few cent or Euro. All other changes usually kick in on 01 January.

The live transmission on all radio and TV stations usually starts around 14;00 and all new websites keep you updated while the speech happens.

The Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are free.

The Nutgrove Arts Festival (09-17 Oct) is a yearly festival in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. A variety of events will take place and all details are on the PDF brochure here: www.nutgroveshoppingcentre.ie/_fileupload/Artsfestival15.pdf

The main events are:
Sat 10 Oct (10:00-17:00): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sat 10 Oct (12:00-17:00): Eco Art Workshop
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Sun 11 Oct (12:30-17:30): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-14:30): Life Drawing Class
Sun 11 Oct (14:00-17:00): Food Art Workshop for kids
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Mon 12 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sinead White (Singer/Songwriter)
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Tue 13 Oct (12:45-14:15): Hugh Buckley (Guitarist)
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Fri 16 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sarah Ivy Guy (Singer/Songwriter)

Admission to all events is free.

The Red Line Book Festival takes place in venues across South Dublin County and is funded by South Dublin County Council. It is organised by South Dublin Libraries and Arts and consequently many of the events take plave in South County Dublin libraries.

There are free talks, readings, workshops, quizes, author meetings etc every day of the festival and a full list is available at www.redlinebookfestival.ie/programme-booking (Booking is required for the free events!) There are also many non free events, that you should check out.

The talk “Hugh Lane: Dublin’s legacy and loss” with Barbara Dawson (Director, Hugh Lane Gallery)

This talk is part of a free lecture series, for the month of October, on the theme of ‘Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): A Centenary Perspective’.

Admission is free and no booking necessary.

George Boole was born in Lincoln on 2nd November 1815. He was the first professor of mathematics at Queen’s College Cork, from 1849 until his death in that city in 1864.

His seminal work “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought” (1854) laid the theoretical foundations for all the digital machines and gadgets that are used everywhere today.

A new edition of Des MacHale’s biography of Boole “The Life and work of George Boole: A prelude to the digital age” has just been published. And Des McHale will speak about George Boole.

Admission is free, a contact number is on the website below for further details.

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 City Hall Lunchtime Lectures in October look at “The irish Colleges on the Continent” and the remaining events are:

+ 13 Oct: The Irish College in Leuven/Louvain – Dr John McCafferty
+ 20 Oct: The Irish College in Rome – Dr. Ciran O’Carroll
+ 27 Oct: The Salamanca Archive & the Irish College in Spain – Susan Leyden

Admission is free and no booking required, but places are limited.

The Royal Irish Academy of Music invites to a Clarinet Masterclass and concert with Jesse Krebs (Associate Professor of Music at Truman State University).

The masterclass will start at 14:00, the recital/concert at 19:00.

Admission is free. Booking is required here.

This is a the last one in a series of three lectures by Sarah Pierce throughout 2015.

“The title of this lecture series, “I rebel — therefore we exist” draws upon key concepts in Pierce’s dissertation, where rebellion describes a way of knowing that rubs against regimes of legibility, efficacy and legitimacy.”

….and if that opener to the description interests you, then read the rest on the website below. I can’t promise that you will be much wiser about the content of this lecture, but it is worth a go. ;-)

Admission is free and tickets will be available on the door and will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis

The public lecture “Racialising Migration” by Prof. Tukufu Zuberi takes place in the Food Science (Agriculture) Building, Ground Floor, FS01 and is organised by the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice & Sociology.

Zuberi’s research focuses on Race, African and African Diaspora populations. He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public through various platforms such as guest lecturing at universities, television programs, and interactive social media.

Admission is free.

Raymond Lambert from TRE (www.treireland.ie) runs an event in Inchicore for children with ADHD from Age 6.

It is a play-based programme that focuses on Nervous System, Brain Creativity and also uses Young TaiChi to look after the whole body.

Admission is free. Bring a mat or blanket for your children.

“Here’s Looking at Euclid” is a public talk by Professor Robin Wilson for Maths Week Ireland 2015.

Little is known about Euclid, who wrote the most influential maths book of all time, but his “Elements” was the main geometry textbook for over two thousand years. In this talk Professor Wilson surveys the mathematical accomplishments of ancient Greece, from the Pythagoreans and Plato’s Academy to Euclid and Archimedes and their successors.

This is a free event, but booking is recommended here as there are limited seats.

Milk and Cookie Stories is a story telling event for for anyone who has a story to tell, or wants to hear a tale told well, in a relaxed, friendly environment – a place with tea, cookies and friends.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome and stories of all kinds are welcome. If you would like to tell a story, just come along and sign up on the night, or “if you feel inspired to share your own home-baked goods with Dublin’s friendliest audience, we’ll also be having our awesome Bake-Off.”

At the May event the theme is “The First Steps are the Hardest”.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany) presents new short films in Dublin. The films are in English or with English subtitles.

Admission is free, but tickets are required and can be booked here and more details about the films can be found on the website below.

“Francis Bacon in Your Blood – A Memoir” will be the talk by Michael Peppiatt. The talk will be followed by a book signing of Michael Peppiatt’s new memoir “Francis Bacon in Your Blood”.

Admission is free. For bookings contact ckinsella@repforce.ie

Dr Grainne Kirwan will give a talk for parents that will examine some of the dangers and risks that might exist online. These can include online predators; fraud and impersonation; websites which promote harmful behaviours; inappropriate disclosures; cyberstalking and internet gaming disorder (also known as online gaming addiction). Young people’s motives for engaging in, or putting themselves at risk of, these behaviours will be identified and proactive methods by which safer online behaviours can be promoted will be discussed.

Patricia Kennedy from Sticks & Stones Anti-bullying programme will deliver a short session covering areas such as
What is bullying? Cyberbullying, Cybersafety and how to protect your child’s online reputation? Who is likely to be involved in bullying? The characteristics of the child who bullies and how to support them in changing their behaviour? The effects and signs of bullying? Why children don’t tell? How to support the child who is being bullied and effect positive outcomes.

Entry to the event is free and no booking is required, first come first served.

Standard Lives is a series of talks about the “ignored and overlooked side of Irish architecture and design”. [I wonder what these ignored and overlooked sides are!?) Organised by 2ha magazine, the first talk uses the Open House Dublin theme “This Place We Call Home” and will get four speakers to discuss it.

Michael Pike (architect, GKMP), Conor Skehan (DIT / The Housing Agency), Shane Lynam (photographer), and Rob Doyle (Author, Here Are The Young Men) will talk about “This Place We Call Home” from their own perspective and discipline.

Admission is free, but booking is required via www.eventbrite.ie/e/standard-lives-tickets-18796567038?ref=devg

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.

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.

Live sessions with the Blue Moon Folk and Blues Collective are taking place every Tuesday at the Beerhouse. 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.

A improv comedy night with the Imps takes place. The 7 members of the Imps troupe are true improv professionals, so don’t miss it!

Tickes at the door are EUR 5, but if you book here, there is a limited number of free tickets available.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday AND Tuesday. 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).

Pete Cummins, Grammy award winning songwriter will play songs from his album “Crooked Highways”. Every Monday he and his band will be in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

Every week there is a free pub quiz in Sober Lane, the new-ish pub in Irishtown. There are lots of other weekly events happening there too, check them out here.

The Lounge Quintet plays this gig every Tuesday: Jazz Standards, Latin and Bebop. Often guest musicians and singers join them. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

There will be free comedy upstairs in the Wicked Wolf in Blackrock on every second Tuesday. New acts and surprise guests will entertain you and the event is organised by Maxine Jones.

The dates are 01+15+29 Sep, 13+27 Oct, 10+24 Nov, 08 Dec. Put the dates in your calender as I will probably not be able to include the event every week.

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.

Gerry Hendrick (guitar & vocals), John Quearney (bass & vocals) and Noel Bridgeman (drums & vocals) will play Blues, Rock and Soul at this gig in JJ Smyth’s. Admission is free.

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

The Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are free.

The Red Line Book Festival takes place in venues across South Dublin County and is funded by South Dublin County Council. It is organised by South Dublin Libraries and Arts and consequently many of the events take plave in South County Dublin libraries.

There are free talks, readings, workshops, quizes, author meetings etc every day of the festival and a full list is available at www.redlinebookfestival.ie/programme-booking (Booking is required for the free events!) There are also many non free events, that you should check out.

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.

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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“Dublin’s trees and wild flowers: legends and folklore” is an illustrated talk by Niall Mac Coitir. Niall Mac Coitir will look at the stories and folk uses of some of Dublin’s native trees and flowers and how the life of ordinary people was bound up with them until modern times.

The talk will take place in the nature room at St. Enda’s Park, which is situated just off the courtyard behind the Pearse Museum.

Admission is free, For bookings & further information on talks & events, email enquiries@iwt.ie

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.

Christine Broe will read from her new poetry collection “Lifting Light: Poems and Artwork”.The readings will be accompanied by a presentation of the artwork in “Lifting Light”.

Admission is free.

The new North Circular Clinic and the Healing Garden at 400 North Circular Rd (next door to new Mater Hospital entrance) will open next week and has an Open Day to celebrate this.

The open day is your opportunity to get a feel for the space and the people behind it and explore all the therapies & services are available. Come for a glass of wine (or fresh juice!) and nibbles, tour the Clinic and Healing Garden and participate in a raffle to win a therapy of your choice.

John Feehan (retired Senior Lecturer in UCD’s School of Agriculture and Food Science and author of numerous books about peatlands, farming and wildflowers) will talk about “A Drama in Three Acts: the Past, Present and Future of the Bogs of Ireland”.

“We have reached a crucial turning point in the story of Ireland’s peatlands, as the great bogs from which Bord na Móna has harvested peat for the last seventy years become depleted of their fuel reserves. The talk will review the history of the peatlands: their slow development over millennia, their ecological significance and their impact on culture and landscape, their exploitation in recent centuries: and the prospects for the future of the bogs of Ireland.”

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

This is an open mic night every Wednesday. Arrive, sign up and play. Admission is free.

“The Big Housing Debate: The Way We Build Now” is a discussion organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation.

Housing – the where, what, and how we build – is a crucial concern in the future development of Dublin. More than an issue of quantity and units, the way we build now will determine the quality of our city and its living standards for generations to come. This year’s Open Debate brings together a range of speakers and disciplines to discuss the designs, policies and practices we must pursue to meet our housing needs.
Doors open at 18:00 and the debate starts at 19:00.

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

Two play reading of freshly written plays will take place. This is followed by a conversation between the Playwright, Actors, Director and the audience to get a sense of what worked and what didn’t and how the play might be improved.

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

The Roots Band “Brand New Switcharoo” will perform in the Harbour Bar. Admission is free.

The Anseo Comedy Club, run by comedian Aidan Killian, takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

The Alchemist Cafe is back in Maths Week for a rare appearance (much too rare!!). At the event in the Mercantile Mathemagician Andrew Jeffrey will use maths to dazzle and amaze you. He will seem to read your mind, but can he?

Admission is free, no booking required, but space is limited.

“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.

Los Paradiso are playing Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Western Swing, Surf in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

Gotcha are playing Funk and Fusion at this free gig in JJ Smyth’s.

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.

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 Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are free.

The Red Line Book Festival takes place in venues across South Dublin County and is funded by South Dublin County Council. It is organised by South Dublin Libraries and Arts and consequently many of the events take plave in South County Dublin libraries.

There are free talks, readings, workshops, quizes, author meetings etc every day of the festival and a full list is available at www.redlinebookfestival.ie/programme-booking (Booking is required for the free events!) There are also many non free events, that you should check out.

Every Thursday until November 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 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 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.

Eamon Ryan, leader of the Green Party, will talk about how Ireland can become a centre for climate solutions. Can we make Ireland a centre for climate solutions rather than a source of the problem and is our political system ready for the great leap towards a low carbon society?

Admission to this lunchtime talk seems to be free.

The lunchtime lecture “Hunting for Ogres: the Conservation of ‘The Tale of Oeyama'” with Sydney Thomson (Conservator of Japanese Paintings, Restorient, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands) will take place.

Admission is free.

The Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Patrick Prendergast, and the School of Mathematics, are inviting you to the launch of the book by Dr David Attis: “”Mathematics and the Making of Modern Ireland: Trinity College Dublin from Cromwell to the Celtic Tiger”

Attis will talk about Ireland’s mathematical achievements

The Spanish thriller “No habrá paz para los malvados / No rest for the wicked” will be screened in the Spanish Film Club film series in Pearse Street Library with English subtitles.

Admission is free.

A weekly Forro Night (Brazilian Dance) with a Forro Live Band takes place in the D-One Bar & Brazilian Grill every Thursday.

Admission is free.

On Thursdays from 18:00-20:00, the Little Museum of Dublin waives all admission charges thanks to sponsor Guinness.

Visit the museum and find out lots more about Dublin.

This lecture in Spanish (with simultaneous translation) by Milagros Muina will tell you all about Santiagos connection with the sea and we are talking here about Santiago after which Santiago de Compostela is named.

The talk will be preceded by a presentation about the University of Santiago de Compostela’s courses.

Admission is free.

Twice every year, the Central Library together with the Local Enterprise Office in Dublin City are running a series of six free Business Lectures for everybody who wants to start or grow a business. The lectures will cover subjects such as the characteristics needed to run and fund your business. Digital marketing strategies and writing business plans will also be included.

They will take place on Thursdays from 18:30-20:00 between 24 September and 29 October.

Admission is free, but booking is required here. All topics and speakers are listed on that same website, but to make it easier for you, they are also here:

24 Sept: Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur – How You Can Create and Produce Ideas
01 Oct: Creating the best Business Plan for your Business
08 Oct: Market Research Skills – What You Need To Do To Be Successful
15 Oct: Business Online – Having A Digital Plan To Help You Increase Sales
22 Oct: Financial Grants, Supports and ServicesTo Assist Your Start Up Business
29 Oct: Essential Supports for Entrepreneurs – Who’s Out There To Help You

“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 myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Every Thursday, the Xchange invites to a Language Exchange (19:00-20:30). Admission is free.

This music showcase is bringing 9 bands and performers from music college BIMM Dublin to Sin É.

On the Electric Saloon Stage the line-up is:
Thumoer, Late Night Troubles, Buzz Cagney, Laura Keane, Queeva

and in the Acoustic Basement the line-up is:
Jen Jermane, Jackal, Paddy Fitz, Brona Keogh

Admission is free.

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.

“Growing Lilies and Relatives in Scotland” is a lecture by Susan Brand, who has run an Alpine Nursery for thirty years in Perth, Scotland, raising and selling alpine plants.

Admission is free.

A new weekly Table Quiz takes place in the Grand Social. Every Thursdayteams of 4 people (or at least 2 people) will compete against each other over questions from the areas of General Knowledge, Music, Film, Sports & Entertainment.

Admission is free.

The Whipper Wills will play Blues, Americana and Country.

Admission is free.

Every Thursday 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.

A Fun Pub Quiz takes place in Brady’s in Terenure on Thurs. The quiz will be on every Thursday night in the Lounge at Brady’s. Keith McLoughlin is the Quiz Master.

There will be six rounds of the quiz with picture questions, audio questions and general knowledge questions. Admission to the quiz is free and therr will be free drink vouchers for the winning and runner up teams. (No phones to get answers allowed.)

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

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

A weekly Trad Music Night is taking place in McLoughlin’s in Dun Laoghaire. It is an acoustic night and all musicians are welcome. Admission is free.

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

The Tommy Halferty Trio around Jazz guitarist Tommy Halferty will play a Jazz gig in JJ Smyth’s. Special guest is sax player Richie Buckley. Admission is free.

The Woolshed Karaoke is happening every Thursday from 21:30. Anyone can participate! Admission is free.

The Dublin Animation Film Festival is most likely back (“most likely” because the website doesn’t seem to be fully up-to-date) on Friday and Saturday 16+17 October. The film screenings and award ceremony are not free, but if I remember it right, then there were some free talks on the Friday in the IADT in previous years.

My suggestion: If you are interested in maiking Animated Films, check out the website below on Monday or Tuesday. If it hasn’t been updated, maybe this year’s festival is not taking place and if it is updated, you should find all relevant information.

The Festival of Inclusion in Dun Laoghaire (10-17 October) really includes just everything and doesn’t seem to focus on anything at all.

There are events for Refugees, Men, Women, History Lovers, Alcoholics, Older People, Childcarers, Africans, Cancer Sufferers, Blind people, Grandparents, Ga y people, Holistic medicine followers and you wonder if some of the groups that are involved in the Festival of Inclusion were even ever EXcluded, considering that the events suggest that we have to INclude them again.

There are plenty of events taking place and they are all listed on this website. It seems that all events are free.

In conjunction with the current exhibition “Sir Hugh Lane: Dublin’s Legacy and Loss” a morning of lectures will take place in the Hugh Lane Gallery. The full programme is on the website below.

Admission is free.

The Nutgrove Arts Festival (09-17 Oct) is a yearly festival in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. A variety of events will take place and all details are on the PDF brochure here: www.nutgroveshoppingcentre.ie/_fileupload/Artsfestival15.pdf

The main events are:
Sat 10 Oct (10:00-17:00): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sat 10 Oct (12:00-17:00): Eco Art Workshop
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Sun 11 Oct (12:30-17:30): Face Creations (Face Painting as artform)
Sun 11 Oct (12:30-14:30): Life Drawing Class
Sun 11 Oct (14:00-17:00): Food Art Workshop for kids
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Mon 12 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sinead White (Singer/Songwriter)
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Tue 13 Oct (12:45-14:15): Hugh Buckley (Guitarist)
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Fri 16 Oct (12:45-14:15): Sarah Ivy Guy (Singer/Songwriter)

Admission to all events is free.

The Red Line Book Festival takes place in venues across South Dublin County and is funded by South Dublin County Council. It is organised by South Dublin Libraries and Arts and consequently many of the events take plave in South County Dublin libraries.

There are free talks, readings, workshops, quizes, author meetings etc every day of the festival and a full list is available at www.redlinebookfestival.ie/programme-booking (Booking is required for the free events!) There are also many non free events, that you should check out.

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 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 Music Library in the Central Library invites to a talk (Introduction to the Uilleann Pipes) and performance on the Uilleann Piping Day on Friday. Na Piobairí Uilleann will share the information and perform for you.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8734333

On Hamilton Day, the Royal Irish Academy will host a Public Conversation with a number of leading Irish researchers, followed by a and Prize Giving to ten of Ireland’s top Maths students.

The talk will examine networks and their applications from different perspectives. The speakers will cover mathematics, engineering and statistics.

The complete event will be moderated by Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (School of Mathematics & Statistics, UCD) and speakers will include Professor Nial Friel from UCD and Professor Daniel Spielman from Yale University.

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

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 Amazing Apples are a 5-piece Indie/Folk Band from Galway.

Admission is free.

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

Dr Mary J. O’Connell from the School of Biotechnology, DCU will talk about “Molecular Evolution and Adaptation – Birds, Bears, Bowhead Whales and Beyond”.

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.

Electro Punk Rock band “Pretty Beast” will play a gig in Sin É and they will be supported by “Not Monsters”.

Admission is free.

“Ska ‘n’ Reggae” is the theme in the Dive Bar (downstairs in Turks Head) every Friday. The Bionic Rats play live. followed by DJs until late. Admission is free.

Leo O’Kelly & Garvan Gallagher will play a “psychedelic acoustic” gig. Admission is free.

The Pyro Blues Executive formed a year and half ago and plays 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.

In the Midnight Hour at Whelan’s the bands Orchid Collective and We Were Giants will play. Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list.