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
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5

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 Bank of Secrets is open in GalleryX all day on Saturday. Come to the Gallery, write a secret on a piece of paper and deposit with “banker” and street artist Will St Leger. He will burn it and the ashes will be turned into a mural on the streets of Dublin.

“When the mural is washed out by the rain, your secret will also be washed out, leaving your mind purified.”

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.

“Design it” is an exhibition exploring design in a child’s world and it is part of Irish Design 2015.

The exhibition and a range of (non-free) events will introduce children to the process of design, illustrating how designers take an idea and then make it a reality.

The Ark have challenged five Irish designers to create new products for children, taking inspiration from iconic children’s toys, furniture and textiles.The Design It exhibition recreates each designer’s individual studio giving us a glimpse at their working practices, using their sketches, photographs and working prototypes, to reveal how they get from an initial idea to the final product.

Admission is free and no booking is required.

The exhibition will be open every Saturday from 7 Nov – 16 Jan (closed Sat 26 Dec) from 10:00-17:00.

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.

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.

Four free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00 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:

+ 10:00-11:00 Beginner
+ 11:00-12:00 Intermediate
+ 12:00-13:00 Beginner
+ 13:00-14:00 Advanced

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

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.

Blanchardstown Library are inviting to a “Discover your Family History Day”. Family history experts from Findmypast and Eneclann will be available to help you trace your ancestors for free.

Two talks will also take place and all details are on the website below.

Admission is free.

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.

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 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.

How does trauma affect the brain, the body, the national psyche or all three? How do buildings, bodies, artworks and stories record the traumas of our past? How do we bounce back after a trauma?

The exhibition “Trauma – Built to Break” (20 Nov – 21 Feb) in the Science Gallery is exploring the biological, psychological and societal aspects of trauma. As a sudden, violent, stressful event, trauma can be short-lived or long-lasting with impacts that range from deeply personal to universal.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, TRAUMA is suitable for all ages and while younger children might need some further explanation, there are lots of exhibits that can easily explained.

The Science Gallery mediators are helpers (usually students or graduates) that know the whole exhibition inside out and are very happy to help with a lot more information than the little labels at the exhibits can provide. Use their excellent service!

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.
Admission is free.

“The purpose of #FEMPOWER is to inspire real, positive change for women in our communities. At the conference, guests will hear from some of Ireland’s most prominent female speakers on topics ranging from education, leadership and childcare, to body image, consent and the eighth amendment. It will also act as a space for discussion and engagement with the panellists and with one another.

Speakers are Una Mullally (journalist at The Irish Times), Lynn Ruane (president of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union), Sinéad Burke (academic and writer), Dil Wickremasinghe (broadcaster at Newstalk and co-founder of Insight Matters), Rosaleen McDonagh (writer, performer and disability activist), Moninne Griffith (executive director of BeLonGTo and Chairperson of the NWCI), Maria Walsh (Business Woman and 2014 Rose of Tralee), Senator Katherine Zappone (Independent general election candidate in Dublin South West, feminist theologian, co-founder of An Cosán and former CEO of the National Women’s Council)

Following the discussion will be a feminist fair, where local and national organisations will have the chance to present their latest work, publications and sign up volunteers. A light lunch will be provided.

Admission to this event is free, but places are limited and ticket reservation here is required.

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.

David Gillick will be in Eason Dundrum on Saturday to sign copies of his cook book “David Gillick’s Kitchen”.

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 myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Viking Oval Brooches were a common find in many Viking burial sites across Dublin. Drop in to find out why the Vikings were buried with their favourite belongings and make your own Viking brooch to take home.

Admission is free and no booking required. Located in the Learning Resource Room, first floor. Suitable for Ages 6+

The free Saturday Workshop for families with 4-10 year old kids is this week entitled “Family Portraits” and will be run by Joe Coveney. Admission is free. Find all details on the website below.

Ye Vagabonds (Brían & Diarmuid Mac Gloinn) will perform Acoustic Folk on guitar, banjo, fiddle, bouzouki unplugged by the fire in Arthur’s Pub.

Admission is free.

Salsadublin.com are inviting to a whole week of free taster classes from Monday 11 Jan until Sun 17 Jan. The schedule is on the Facebook Page below and all classes and clubs are completely free during that week.

You can try out Salsa (LA), Salsa Rueda, Salsa Cuban, Bachata and Kizomba in a total of 13 classes and there will be demonstrations and Clubs every evening as well. Classes cater for Beginners, Improvers and Intermediate dancers.

If you are interested in Salsa, this is a must for you!

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet in Clontarf on the seafront car park, on Clontarf Road, opposite the Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club 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.

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 Jazz Cafe has live Jazz, Blues and Soul music performances every Friday and Saturday from 20:00-22:30 and every Sunday from 14:30-17:00.

The next events are:
+ Sat 16 Jan: Liza Nelson (vocals) and Dario Rodighiero (piano)
+ Sun 17 Jan: Ria Czerniak (vocals) and Maurice Czerniak).

Admission is free.

David Kitt will be in the Harbour Bar for a performance.

Admission is free.

Dave Sugar will perform in the 21:00 slot in The Mezz.

Admission is free.

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

“The Shores Of Lough Breda” is the new duet recording from Clare musicians Sheila Garry on fiddle and Elaine Hogan on harp which features the compositions of the late, great Paddy O’Donoghue from Tulla in East Clare. Its Dublin launch will take place on Saturday.

Admission is free.

The MLC (MidLifeCrisis) Band are playing Rock and Blues in the Salty Dog and admission is free.

The Business Blues Band will play in the midnight slot in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

Bojum, the Mexican-style Burrito eatery is expanding and they are looking for full time and part time, front of house and kitchen positions. Open interviews take place on Sunday from 09:00-11:00. Bring your CV and be prepared to queue for a while!

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.

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.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00 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:

+ 10:00-11:00 Beginner
+ 11:00-12:00 Intermediate
+ 12:00-13:00 Beginner
+ 13:00-14:00 Advanced

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

The Brocante Market will take place on Sunday, but not where it used to be. The Brocante Market seemingly has moved from the Dublin Food Co-Op to the Green Market a few doors up on Newmarket Square.

The Brocante Market It is a collection of antiques, furniture, vintage jewellery, collectables and curiosities from the past and present, second-hand, refurbished, antique and hand-crafted stuff for your house and garden. If you are an interior designer or just have and eye for style and are looking for a special piece or maybe a bargain then this is the market for you.

The market is held every 3rd Sunday of the month and admission is free.

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

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 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.

Every Sunday, the National Botanic Gardens invite to two guided walks. The first one is at 12:00 and the second one at 14:30.

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 be “Vanishing Lakes” with Matthew Nolan (guitar), Adrian Crowley (piano/clarinet) and Mary Barnecutt (cello/flute).

How does trauma affect the brain, the body, the national psyche or all three? How do buildings, bodies, artworks and stories record the traumas of our past? How do we bounce back after a trauma?

The exhibition “Trauma – Built to Break” (20 Nov – 21 Feb) in the Science Gallery is exploring the biological, psychological and societal aspects of trauma. As a sudden, violent, stressful event, trauma can be short-lived or long-lasting with impacts that range from deeply personal to universal.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, TRAUMA is suitable for all ages and while younger children might need some further explanation, there are lots of exhibits that can easily explained.

The Science Gallery mediators are helpers (usually students or graduates) that know the whole exhibition inside out and are very happy to help with a lot more information than the little labels at the exhibits can provide. Use their excellent service!

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.
Admission is free.

Every 3rd Sunday of the month, over a million people in over 110 countries share thoughts of peace & calm for our troubled world for 60 minutes.

Brahma Kumaris is an international spiritual organisation with headquarters in India.

At this Drop-in Drawing Session with Ida Mitrani, learn drawing techniques, including line drawing, shading, perspective and decoration. Suitable for ages 13+ and materials are provided.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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A Japanese Language Tour with Hiromi Anzai takes place and will look at highlights of the permanent collections.

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

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

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

Every Sunday a free tour takes place in the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Admission is free and booking is not required, but places are limited, so early arrival is recommended.

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

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.

“The Vaughan Bequest of Turner watercolours” with Anne Hodge (National Gallery of Ireland) is the Sunday lecture in the National Gallery. It is part of a free lecture series throughout the month of January themed around the J.M.W. Turner watercolours exhibition.

Admission is free.

Travel around European traditional dancing culture without a ticket at the Bal Folk Dance Sessions.

And if you don’t know how to dance, don’t worry! Workshops are provided and admission is free.

The event takes place every Sunday in the Cobblestone Pub. The time alternates a little: On 1st+2nd Sunday of the month it is from 16:00-19:00 and on 3rd and 4th Sunday from 18:00-22:00. And on every 4th Sunday there is also a Breton session from 15:00.

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 3rd Game Night is taking place in the Fringe Lab. Alt Events are running this free event and if you are interested in Board Games, you have to go to this event. A large amount of games is available, but you are also welcome to bring your own.

Check out the detailed information on the Facebook Page below.

Every Sunday evening from 18:00-20:00, the Wiley Fox is hosting a trad session, where Ireland’s finest traditional musicians will play for you.

Admission is free.

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

“A-Musing” is a new Comedy Club in the Mercantile. It will feature some of Ireland’s best up and coming comedians every Sunday night.

The line-up for This Sunday is Martin Angolo, Andrea Farrell, Neil Hickey, Ger Staunton, Justin McCann (jusnaoise) and MC is

Admission is free.

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! ;-)

Salsadublin.com are inviting to a whole week of free taster classes from Monday 11 Jan until Sun 17 Jan. The schedule is on the Facebook Page below and all classes and clubs are completely free during that week.

You can try out Salsa (LA), Salsa Rueda, Salsa Cuban, Bachata and Kizomba in a total of 13 classes and there will be demonstrations and Clubs every evening as well. Classes cater for Beginners, Improvers and Intermediate dancers.

If you are interested in Salsa, this is a must for you!

The Jazz Cafe has live Jazz, Blues and Soul music performances every Friday and Saturday from 20:00-22:30 and every Sunday from 14:30-17:00.

The next events are:
+ Sat 16 Jan: Liza Nelson (vocals) and Dario Rodighiero (piano)
+ Sun 17 Jan: Ria Czerniak (vocals) and Maurice Czerniak).

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.

Sarah May Rogers, who plays fiddle with the Blood Red Mountain Band brings her own sound (Trad/Folk/Jazz) to the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

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.

Emily Gallagher will run a weekly “just for fun” photo trail where you get instructions to hunt for specific snaps around the city centre. Afterwards the symbolic significance to the snaps will be shared. The overall theme is “Get a glimpse of directions you may wish your life to take and discover decisions you may desire to make.”

Meeting point is the Meeting House Square.

Participation in the photo trails is free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 0852725095

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.

“Brand Luther: 1517, Printing and the Making of the Reformation” is a lecture by Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series 2015-16.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly workshop in the LexIcon Library that will give a basic introduction to 3D printing and will get you started with your first 3D printed object.

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

The 2013 Comedy “L’Intrepido” will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.

Admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it

“Pull Down a Horseman” depicts a secret meeting between Pearse and Connolly, who discussed if and when to go ahead with the 1916 Rising. The dramatic conflict comes out of their expression of their differing political philosophies and perspectives.

The incident described, which is believed to have taken place in a cottage in South County Dublin in early Spring 1916, has a basis in historical research. The play was written in 1966 by playwright Eugene McCabe to commemorate the Rising’s 50th Anniversary and was first presented by the Abbey Theatre.

Admission is free, according to the website below. The play will be performed in Booterstown on 11, 18, 25 + 27 January (see website below) and in the dlr LexIcon Studio on 13+20 Jan, also at 19:00 (see here).

Candlelit Tales, a small group of storytellers, are retelling Irish myths and legends and this week the stories of Ulster’s Champion Cuchulainn will be told.

Admission is free and donations are welcome.

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.

Every Monday the Woolshed Bar hosts “The Comedy Shed”, usually with 3 headline acts.

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.

Donal Kirk and Jimmy Smith are 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.

A talk about the “Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015” with Niamh MacNally (National Gallery of Ireland) will take place.

Admission is free.

“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 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.

Do you have an idea but need some help figuring out where to get started or what creative technologies might help bring the idea to life? Maybe you just want to bounce your idea off someone else?

Drop in to the Dún Laoghaire LexIcon Lab where Creative Technology Curator, Dr. Jake Rowan Byrne, other “makers” and
members of the community will be there and keen to help out.

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

The RDS Economic Vision 2020 lecture series will feature Mark Roden, Founder and CEO of Ding. He will discuss his company’s story that saw him crowned EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014. Ding

Established in 2006, Ding is Mark’s fourth start up business and his talk will highlight the many eventful experiences, successes and challenges over a 20 year career that ultimately led to the establishment of Ding and its recent astonishing growth. Headquartered in Dublin and employing 200 people, in seven offices worldwide revenues are now in the hundreds of million per annum. Ding enables workers from emerging markets living abroad to instantly transfer money as minutes to mobile phones back home. Now the world’s largest international top-up network, Ding is connected to more than 350 mobile operators that support 4 billion mobiles in 130 emerging markets.

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

A Business Networking event takes place in Cafe en Sein and admission is free. There will be guest speakers, but the speakers and their topics have not yet been announced.

Registration is required via the link below.

The Clondalkin Toastmasters invite to an open night on Tuesday in the Maldron Hotel at Newlan’s Cross (former Bewley’s Hotel).

Admission is free. And if you have questions, contact Tina (085 7350526) or Mary (01 4514734).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Atria Sonified is a Sonic Performance in the IAA Architecture Gallery on Wednesday. The three artists Harry Moore, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling are responding to the current exhibition “Atrium” in the Architecture Gallery of the Irish Architectural Archive.

This is a durational performance and the audience are invited to enter and leave the space as they wish.

Admission is free.

Professor Luciano Floridi (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) will talk about “Right to be Forgotten: The Spark in the Powder Keg”. The Right to be Forgotten refers to a recent ruling of the European Court of Justice that gives individuals the right to request deletion of certain information held online about them.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Eventbrite site here. Places are limited.

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 Battle of Mount Street Bridge took place on 26 Apr 1916. For several hours rebel volunteers fought off hundreds of British soldiers, inflicting heavy casualties on them.

Michael Pegum will examine in detail the dramatic sequence of events around Northumberland Road and Haddington Road which accounted for a significant proportion of the British military casualties during the Rising.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-6689575

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This is a free public tour for parents, guardians and carers of infants and young children. The route of the tour is suitable for prams and/or strollers and admission is free.

The next Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series 2015-16 lecture is

“Randall Collins’s Forward Panic Pathway to Violence and the 1972 Bloody Sunday Killings”

by Dr Martin McCleery (Queen’s University Belfast).

Admission is free.

“What Are Crits For?” intends to dig deeper into the architectural crit (review or jury) which is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. The architectural crit remains highly controversial: the defence of ideas, drawings and models in an open format before staff and peers is intended to be an occasion of healthy creative debate, but many students view it as hostile confrontation – an ego trip for staff and humiliation for them.

The panel includes John Barton, Director of the Architectural Design Program at Stanford University, Professor Lorraine Farrelly, author, architect and interior designer, Rosie Parnell, author of ‘The Crit: An Architecture Student’s Handbook’ and Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts London and author of ‘Architecture Depends’.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the Eventbrite site here. The event takes place in Room 446 on Level 4.

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.

Did you ever want to try your hand at programming a robot, controlling your house from your phone or simply flashing some lights? This workshop will give you taste of how inputs and outputs on small computers such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, can be used to create smart solutions to everyday problems.

Admission is free. but booking via the Eventbrite site here is required.

Wikimedia Community Ireland is inviting to an “Open Health Data Night”.

Open Data Ireland was set up to help citizens access high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Irish Government and this community meetup is organised by Open Knowledge Ireland and WikiMedia Ireland. It will bring together people who are passionate about sharing, learning, using and progressing Open Data in Ireland.

The theme for this Meetup is TRAUMA and the event will be about how open health data can save lives and help all of us to make better-informed decisions. There will also be a panel discussion on open health data to see how we can overcome some of the challenges.

Details about the panel are available on the website below.

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

“Speaking Words” is an evening of poetry and prose with the Kingfisher Writers. Readings start at 18:30 and there will be light refreshments from 18:00.

The writers who will read a selection of their poetry and prose will be Anne Tannem, Eileen O’Mahony, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Miriam Hurley.

Admission is free.

“Pull Down a Horseman” depicts a secret meeting between Pearse and Connolly, who discussed if and when to go ahead with the 1916 Rising. The dramatic conflict comes out of their expression of their differing political philosophies and perspectives.

The incident described, which is believed to have taken place in a cottage in South County Dublin in early Spring 1916, has a basis in historical research. The play was written in 1966 by playwright Eugene McCabe to commemorate the Rising’s 50th Anniversary and was first presented by the Abbey Theatre.

Admission is free, according to the website below. The play will be performed in Booterstown on 11, 18, 25 + 27 January (see website below) and in the dlr LexIcon Studio on 13+20 Jan, also at 19:00 (see here).

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

Professor Arun Kundnani (NYU) will talk about contemporary Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror with Dr David Landy (TCD Department of Sociology).

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Eventbrite website here.

An Gorta Mor was the Great Irish Famine when between 1845 and 1850, approximately 1.5 million Irish men, women and children died of starvation or related diseases.

At this event Tim Pat Coogan and Prof Liam Kennedy will debate if the Famine was a British-contrived genocide or natural famine. Both have opposite opinions on the matter. Audience participation will be encouraged.

Admission is free.

AEMI Discussion with Benjamin Cooke: Anne Charlotte Robertson.

AEMI (Artists’ & Experimental Moving Image) presents a discussion with Benjamin Cooke, Director of LUX, about film artist Anne Charlotte Robertson and her legacy.
From the early 1980s and for over thirty eight hours of Super 8 film, Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary stands as one of the major works of diary film-making. The films are an exhaustively narrated chronicle of her daily life in Framingham, Massachusetts and her battles with depression, paranoia, and borderline schizophrenia.

Admission is free, but booking via the Eventbrite website here is required.

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

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.

Phonica is a new poetry and music venture with emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, it will provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse and an environment for collaboration and improvisation.

The first Phonica will take place on Wednesday and the line-up will be Christodoulos Makris, Olesya Zdorovetska, Linda Buckley, Nick Roth, Sue Rainsford and Maurice Scully. Find more details on the Facebook Page below.

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 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.

The next Inn Jokes Comedy Club is happening this Wednesday.

There was a time when the line-up was announced on the website weeks in advance, but since host and MC Colm O’Regan became a dad, things are a little less structured. ;-) The event will still be good!

And I hear that the line-up will be Joe Rooney, Eric Lalor and Michael Mee.

Admission is free.

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

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 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 lunchtime seminar “Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Growth, Risks and Sustainability” will take place on Thursday at TASC (Think-tank for Action on Social Change). Dr Thomas Conefrey (Chief Economist and Head of Secretariat at the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council) will deliver the talk.

The idea of the lunchtime seminars is that you are free to bring your own ‘brown bag’ lunch to eat during the seminar. Tea and coffee will be available.

Admission is free, but booking is required by contacting Sylvia Byrne on 01 6169050 or sbyrne@tasc.ie

Dr Tony Pollard, Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, will reflect on the highs and lows of a career in conflict archaeology that has taken him all over the world. Using examples from a variety of projects, he will demonstrate how archaeology can shed new light on conflicts from medieval warfare to the world wars of the 20th century.

This lecture will take place in the Ceramics Room. Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 648 6334 or educationarch@museum.ie.

The lunchtime lecture “Medieval prayers: reading the Illuminated Latin Psalters in the Chester Beatty Collections” with Dr Laura Cleaver, Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin will take place.

Admission is free and no booking required.

In association with University College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy will run a series of public lectures to look at the global repercussions of and responses to the Easter Rising of 1916.

1916 is often seen primarily in a national context, but it was an event that got global attention and inspired other decolonisation movements.

The first talk on Wednesday is

“1916 and the Great War” with Professor Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University)

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

The 19th annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture is entitled

“The women were worse than the men: crime in Dublin in 1916” and it will be given by Pádraig Yeates.

A hard copy of the 18th Gilbert Lecture “Dublin in its global setting: from Wood Quay to Silicon City” by Kevin Whelan will also be launched.

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

“Pasolini, the poet: Friuli, Italy and beyond – A tribute to the poet, 40 years after his death” is an evnt of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Italian Society – TCD.

“Giuliana Adamo, Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, will introduce the evening with an overview of Pasolini’s extraordinary career and life. From poetry to film making, from literature to political activism: Pasolini stands out as one of the greatest intellectual figures of modern Italy.
Angela Felice, director of Centro Studi P.P. Pasolini of Casarsa della Delizia, will illustrate the first period of Pasolini’s poetry, characterised by the use of Friulian (minority language spoken in the north-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia), a choice determined by fascinating linguistic, sentimental and political factors.
Luciano Martinengo, translator of Pasolini’s poems in English, will cover the later poetic style of the author and
Loris Vescovo, songwriter from Friuli, will offer a musical performance with songs taken from his theatrical show on Pasolini’s life.

Admission is free and an informal reception will be held afterwards.

“Reading Continuities in an Age of Change: some 15th Century Manuscripts and their Tudor Owners” is a public lecture by Dr Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews) during her term as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Admission is free. Find more information on the website below.

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.

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. Agenda and details are on the website below and you need to register for this free event here.

Men are allowed to come but only when invited by a woman, check the rules on the website below.

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.

(Please note: This arrangement can change at any time and without advance notice. That’s how they roll.)

“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

Historian Ann Matthews lectures at NUI Maynooth on Women and War and Republican Women. She is the author of a number of publications including ‘Regades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922.’

At this event in Marlay House in Marlay Park, she will talk about Countess Markievicz as one of the central figures of the 1916 Rising.

Admission is free.

As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, the Carmichael Centre is hosting a series of five evening public lectures on the theme “Irish Civic Society 100 years on from the Proclamation of the Irish Republic”.

The second talk will be by Sean Healy, Director and co-Founder of Social Justice Ireland who is also member of the National Economic and Social Council.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Eventbrite page here.

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

“War Against The People – Israel, the Palestinians and Global “Pacification”” is the title of a book by Jeff Halper. The book will be launched in Dublin this week and the event is hosted by the Irish Palestine Solidarity Compaign.

Admission is free. More information about the book and the author is on the Facebook Page below.

After 20 years in Merrion Row, the Latin American Solidarity Centre (LASC) is moving to Drumcondra and you are invited to the Housewarming party at the new office.

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.

Rofi James is a three piece Pop/Rock band from Galway City and they will be for a Pop/Rock gig in the Harbour Bar.

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

An Irish Language Tour with Jack FitzGerald will take place.

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

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.

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 Straw Gods play Blues, Jazz and Rock and incorporate Flamenco, Tri-Hop and Soul elements.

Admission is free.

“Gavin Povey and The Fabulous Oke She Moke She Pops” will play New Orleans style Piano Rhythm & Blues, Boogie Woogie and Rock’n’ Roll.

Gavin Povey has played piano with Van Morrison, Finbar Wright, Kirsty MacColl, Steve Cropper, Shakin’ Stevens and many more.

This gig will take place on 08+15+22+29 January and 05 February.

Admission is free.

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

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