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
+ Father Collins Park, Donaghmeade/Clongriffin, Dublin 13
+ Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24

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.

A seminar with five talks about the Easter Rising is taking place on Saturday. The full schedule is on the website here.

The talks are:
10.15-11.00 Evelyn Conway, ‘Dublin City Library Staff and the Rising’
11.30-12.15 Martin Maguire, ‘Harry Nicholls: City Engineer and 1916 Rebel.’
12.15-13.00 John Gibney, ‘Dublin’s Rising 1916’
14:00-14:45 Donal Fallon, ‘John MacBride: the making of major’
14:45-15:30 John Grenham, ‘Digitising the Dublin Fire Brigade log book’

Admission is free and no booking required.

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 yearly Orchid Fair in the National Botanic Gardens is happening this weekend in the Teak House of the gardens in Glasnevin. There will be a large selection of species and hybrids for sale.

Admission is free.

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

The 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.

The Latin American Week 2016 has the theme “Human Safety or State Security? The global migrant crisis from a Latin American perspective.” There will be a series of events in Dublin focusing on Latin America: Talks, documentary screening, music, food swap.

The remaining events in Dublin are:

– Sat 23 April – 10:15-13:00: LAW Conference. Venue: Department of Ecumenics, Trinity College

– Sun 24 April – 19:30: Documentary Screening “La Jaula de Oro”. Venue: The Beerhouse

It seems that admission to all is free, but unfortunately LASC (Latin American Solidarity Centre) is not very forthcoming with information about the individual events.

A free (donation based) 1916 Rising Walking Tour will take place every Saturday and every Wednesday from now until the end of June. It is a 3-hour long tour that will start at City Hall, bring you to Dublin Castle, Liberty Hall, the GPO and Moore Street and will end at the Garden of Remembrance and on the way you will also learn about all the other locations where the battle happened.

Booking is required via the link below.

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.

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 exhibition “Field Test – Radical Adventures in Future Farming” (11 Mar – 05 Jun 2016) in the Science Gallery is exploring how farming will look like in the future and what new developments will change farming so that we can deal with the global food challenges.

From Farm Cyborgs (for example a Virtual Reality environment for chicken so that they can think they are free range), via odd, unique and forward looking foods (e.g. insects for improving your protein intake); growth houses for your home; very different seeds (e.g. beans that taste like beef) to the “LOCI Food Lab” (outside near the entrance to the Science Gallery) where you can get a customised snack, the exhibition has a lot of interesting exhibits that revealing, intriguing or surprising.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, FIELD TEST is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but I would say that chilren from 10 years of age can understand the whole exhibition if they get some additional explanations and there are even some exhibits that would work for younger children.

When you go to see the exhibition, get help from the Science Gallery mediators! They 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 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.

Qigong is a traditional Chinese form of meditation coordinating slow flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm state of mind.

Come to this gentle Qigong practice outdoors on the Roof Top Garden of the Library (weather permitting) or indoors with a view of the roof garden. Suitable for all ages.

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

Dublin’s Instagrammers met for #WWIM13 on Saturday in Phoenix Park. The meeting point is the main entrance on Parkgate Street. Admission is free.

An afternoon of TEDx-style talks will introduce you to a multitude of topics about Japanese society and culture. The general areas the talks will be about are

Diplomacy, Cuisine and Tea, Artificial Intelligence and Games, Legal and Business, Student Life, Martial Arts, Music, Film and Literature and the full list of talks can be found below.

Admission is free, but tickets are required and can be booked here:

www.experiencejapan.ie/events/tej2016/

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 Bernard Shaw Flea Market is a weekly market (every Saturday) with approx 16 stalls, music, pizzas from the Big Blue Bus and the Bernard Shaw Garden Bar. Expect vintage clothes, shoes, jewellery, art, records, bric-a-brac and more and DJs will provide the entertainment.

Admission is free.

For this performance, Mason Leaver-Yap and Vaari Claffey talk about the power of laughter as a feminist action.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

Every Saturday a kid’s book will be ead in 27 Eason’s stores all over Ireland. In O’Connell Street the reading takes place at 14:00. In the other Eason Stores, the times vary between 11:00 and 15:00 (see website below). Suitable for age 0-6 with their parents.

Admission is free.

There is a lot to protest against! This event is a protest avent and march against CETA/TTIP and another group who is against Chemtrails and Geoengineering has declared that they will join in. The two evnt notices are here:

CETA/TTIP: www.facebook.com/events/487405494800334/
Everything else: www.facebook.com/events/197462323974974

The march will go to the offices of the EU Commission & Parliament in Lower Mount Street.

This week’s Family Workshop in the National Gallery is “The Village School” with Fala Buggy. It is suitable for families with children aged 4-10. Admission is free, but places are limited. Check out all other “small print” on the website below.

This event is a Storytelling Performance entitled “Once Upon a Place” with Storyeller in Residence Senem Donatan (Turkey) and Fiona Dowling (Ireland). The storytellers will perform real life stories and folktales from Istanbul and the west of dlr county.

The event is suitable for adults as well as families. Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-2362759.

Ballyfermor is celebrating the Easter Rising with a free play (tickets required) and a Ceili Mor.

Find out all details via the website below.

The Dublin Greek Film Festival started on Thursday and will run until Sunday and there is one free event as part of this festival.

It is a Short Film Screening in Filmbase on Saturday at 18:00.

Admission is free and no booking is required. However places are limited.

The Caravana Banda are playing a mix of Balkan Brass, Gypsy Jazz and Flamenco with some polish and czech influences and a touch of orient.

Admission to their gig 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 Jazz Cafe has live Jazz, Blues and Soul music performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 20:00-22:30.

The line-up this weekend and next week is:
+ Sat 23 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Leo Osio (Piano)
+ Thu 28 Apr: Jess Kav (Vocals)
+ Fri 29 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Julien Colarossi (Guitar)

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.

Sugar Dave will play acoustic rock in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

Otis are in Whelan’s for a gig.

Admission is free before 22:30.

Punch Face Champions are an Instrumental Alt Rock band from Dublin and they will be supported by Restive Nation.

The gig starts at midnight and admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up to the guest list via the website below.

The UB40 Tribute Band “Promises & Lies” will be in the Church for a UB40 afterparty.

Admission is free.

The Lee Mehan Band will play a gig in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale in Tallaght, Irish Car Boot Sales run a weekly Sunday Car Boot Sales in Ballymun.

Admission for buyers is free.

This is not a free event, but if you are an early riser on a Sunday you can cheer the runners on for free.

It is a 5km run with a 1916 twist. The organisers describe that “the course will take participants along some of the major landmarks, including the Garden of Remembrance, GPO, Liberty Hall, Rosie Hackett Bridge, the Four Courts, Mendicity Institution, Collins Museum and finishing at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham exactly 100 years ago to the day of the Easter Rising.”

Personally, I think this link is one bridge too far, but I guess everyone has a different way of commemorating things. ;-)

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 yearly Orchid Fair in the National Botanic Gardens is happening this weekend in the Teak House of the gardens in Glasnevin. There will be a large selection of species and hybrids for sale.

Admission is free.

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

The 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 Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. There will be Food Stalls, Flea Market, Vintage Clothing, Arts&Crafts and a Pop-Up Record Store.

Admission is free.

The next Dublin Flea Market is taking place in the Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket, just off Cork Street, Dublin 8 on Sunday from 11:00-17:00. The flea market takes place every last Sunday of the month and admission is free. For more information or if you want to sell your own stuff, check out www.dublinflea.ie

“A bizarre bazaar of vintage clothing, bric-a-brac and what nots, old and new. Stalls include hand-made goods, art, jewelry, furniture, records and lots more unwanted items that may just be your treasure!”

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 initiative “Citizens’ Initiative for Republic Day” is inviting to a Citizen Commemoration at the GPO with reading of the proclamation, wreath laying, singing of the National Anthem etc.

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.

A second “Citizen Commemoration” is happening at the GPO on Sunday and this one is organised by the “National Graves Association”. They will assemble at 12:00 and will march at 13:20 to Glasnevin to unveil a new monument at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Glasnevin that marks the graves of a number of Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army members who were killed during the Easter Rising.

The exhibition “Field Test – Radical Adventures in Future Farming” (11 Mar – 05 Jun 2016) in the Science Gallery is exploring how farming will look like in the future and what new developments will change farming so that we can deal with the global food challenges.

From Farm Cyborgs (for example a Virtual Reality environment for chicken so that they can think they are free range), via odd, unique and forward looking foods (e.g. insects for improving your protein intake); growth houses for your home; very different seeds (e.g. beans that taste like beef) to the “LOCI Food Lab” (outside near the entrance to the Science Gallery) where you can get a customised snack, the exhibition has a lot of interesting exhibits that revealing, intriguing or surprising.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, FIELD TEST is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but I would say that chilren from 10 years of age can understand the whole exhibition if they get some additional explanations and there are even some exhibits that would work for younger children.

When you go to see the exhibition, get help from the Science Gallery mediators! They 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 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 feature the RTÉ Contempo Quartet performing their Essential Quartet Series 8.

The Gallery of Photography will run a guided tour at their exhibition “Reflecting 1916” with exhibition coordinator Niamh Crowley on the first floor of the Gallery.

The Reflecting 1916 exhibition continues until 8 May.

Admission is free.

A grouping that calls itself “Call For a Revolution” is asking people to “revolt” at their “Unfinished Business” event on Sunday at the GPO (where else!). No other details are given as to what happens at the event.

Doesn’t sound too good or very “family-friendly”. Maybe it is just talk to drum up a crowd, but we have only their words to go by. Further down they talk about “peaceful assembly for days and nights” but to some “peaceful” and “revolt” might be contradicting. More clarity and a clearer identification of who or what is behind a protest event might help.

As part of the 1916-2016 Centenary Commemorations, a free tour will take at Arbour Hill Cemetery every Sunday at 14:00. (from March until end of October).

No booking necessary. The meeting point is at the 1916 Memorial Wall towards the back of the cemetery.

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!

A “Homeless March” is taking place on Sunday at the GPO. It is not clear if the “march” is marching anywhere or is a static event.

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.

“Reclaim the Vision of 1916” is the main event on Sunday. It is a march from Merrion Square to the GPO, where there will be music, poetry and dance. Assembly at Merrion Square will be at 14:00 and the march starts at 14:40. The route will be from Merrion Square to Westland Row, then Pearse Street, D’Olier Street and then on to O’Connell Bridge.

From 15:00 there will be entertainment on a stage at the GPO with actor Adrian Dunbar hosting a festival of music, dance and readings.

Actor Stephen Rea, Fionnuala Flanagan, Panti Bliss and Stephen Murphy will give readings. Musician Donal Lunny will play a piece he composed solely for the occasion. Singers Don Baker, Frances Black and Damien Dempsey and Sibéal Ní Chasaide will perform. Uilleann piper Tiarnain Ó Duinchinn, harpists Laoise Kelly and Michelle Mulcahy and flautist Emer Mayock will play. And Sean-Nós dancer Sibéal Davitt will get you dancing.

Admission is free. The event is family friendly and it is either organised or supported by the Mandate Trade Union and Sinn Fein.

Come to the Family Drawing every Sunday in the RHA Gallery. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Find out all details via the link below.

Admission is free.

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

“James Stephens, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Insurrection of 1916” is a talk by Dr Hilary Pyle, Art Historian and Curator.

It is part of a free lecture series in April looking at the theme of ‘Visualising Commemoration’, in association with the current exhibition “James Stephens, the National Gallery of Ireland and the 1916 Rising”.

Admission is free.

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

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.

Fingal (North Coutny Dublin) celebrates their 1916 Commemoration this Sunday on the correct anniversary date of the Easter Rising.

The events will start with a parade through Swords’ Main Street at 16:45 that will include the raising of the Flag, reading of the Proclamation, bugler playing “Reveille”, piper playing “Piper’s Lament” and a wreath laying. The parade will then continue to the Town Park.

In the town park there will be band performances from The Black Raven Pipe Band, St Maur’s Pipe Band, St Lawrence Pipe Band, St Patrick’s Pipe & Reed Band, The Communications Workers Union Band and Dublin 15 Brass Band. In addition a choir performance from Enchiriadis Treis (Malahide Choir) and a poetry reading by Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan will take place.

Just before 21:00 a Fireworks Display in Swords Town Park will conclude the event.

Admission is free.

(If you like Fireworks Displays or want to show them to your kids, this will probably be the only event this year in Dublin where you will get to see a Fireworks Display. No others are planned in Dublin City or Dun Laoghaire – as far as I can make out – for the rest of the year.)

Every Sunday evening from 18:00-20:00, the Wiley Fox is hosting a trad session, where some of 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

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! ;-)

The Latin American Week 2016 has the theme “Human Safety or State Security? The global migrant crisis from a Latin American perspective.” There will be a series of events in Dublin focusing on Latin America: Talks, documentary screening, music, food swap.

The remaining events in Dublin are:

– Sat 23 April – 10:15-13:00: LAW Conference. Venue: Department of Ecumenics, Trinity College

– Sun 24 April – 19:30: Documentary Screening “La Jaula de Oro”. Venue: The Beerhouse

It seems that admission to all is free, but unfortunately LASC (Latin American Solidarity Centre) is not very forthcoming with information about the individual events.

The Mercantile is inviting to a Gig Night with an impressive line-up to commemorate the Easter Rising. The line-up is: Jerry Fish, The Hot Sprockets, The Jive Cats, Mutefish.

Admission is free.

Dermot Byrne and Danny Tobin are playing Delta Blues in the Harbour Bar.

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 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 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 with live music (Rockabilly) and DJs. Admission is free.

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

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

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

Pete Pamf is back in the Mezz for a gig.

Admission is free.

Tech Week 2016 is a week of nationwide events that are organised by the Irish Computer Society. Many events are targeting students and pupils, so if you have some in your household, get them check out www.techweek.ie ;-)

For grown ups in Dublin there is only one event on Tuesday and it is listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide.

Tech Week runs from Sunday 24 April until Saturday 30 April.

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 chooseyourowntracksphototrail@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.

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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To mark the 6th anniversary of the death of Alan Sillitoe, a reading from his literary works (including from his first novel ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’) will take place in Corrigan’s/The Mount Pleasant Inn in Rathmines.

Admission is free.

This is a 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 below.

The first Italian translation of “The Insurrection in Dublin” by James Stephens will be launched. Along with the translator Enrico Terrinoni and the editor Riccardo Michelucci, mathematician and philosopher Giulio Giorello, who is passionate about Irish history, and Muriel McAuley, member of the Cumann Gaolta 1916, will be at this event.

During the night a documentary about the GPO by Concetto La Malfa will be screened (10min).

Admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it The event is in English.

This is a talk by Ronan King, grandson of A.L. Kathleen King about her Dalkey Diary from 1916.

On 24 April 1916, Easter Monday, twenty-two year old Kathleen King (née Murphy) learned of the launch of the Rebellion via a phone call from her brother Paddy. She began to record a daily diary of ‘Dublin’s Eventful Weeks as We Heard Them’. Full of local interest about food shortages, the difficulty gaining a pass into Dublin from Kingstown and rumours of local fighting in Cabinteely and elsewhere, the diary is a marvellous snapshot of a turbulent period.

Admission is free.

Dr Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast + historical consultant for An Post’s GPO Witness History Interpretive Centre and several other 1916 centenary projects) will provide an overview of the Easter Rising and set that event within the broader context of the revolutionary decade by considering the reasons for the rebellion, its impact and consequences. He will also reflect on how recent research and the availability of new sources have added to our understanding of the Rising.

All welcome and booking is not required

The Lazy Band will play their americana, folk, roots, trad, country and even a bit of soul in Arthur’s Pub on Monday. Special guest will be Darragh Cullen (of the New 52).

Admission is free.

Prof Tom Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) will talk about how new radio telescopes (LOFAR – Low Frequency Radio Array and ALMA – Atacama Large Millimeter Array) work and what the new technical challenges are.

Admission is free.

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

The Circle Sessions is an “Open Mic” that provides an opportunity for up and coming musicians, spoken word artists, poets and comedians to perform.

Come to this weekly show to perform or to simply watch a great mix of music, poetry, spoken word and comedy.

Admission is 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, 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).

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 Anto Drennan 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.

“Imagery associated with 1916 at the National Gallery of Ireland” with Dr Kathryn Milligan, National Gallery of Ireland is a free talk at the National Gallery. 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 City Hall lecture series is back and on every Tuesday in April a lecture about “Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising” will take place. The lectures are:

+ 05 April: Sean Connolly, City Hall and the 1916 Rising. Lecture by Conor McNamara
+ 12 April: Dublin Fire Brigade and the 1916 Rising. Lecture by Las Fallon
+ 19 April: Major John McBride and Jacob’s Factory Garrison. Lecture by Séamas Ó Maitiú
+ 26 April: Songs of the 1916 Rising with Francis Devine and friends

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

The “Dublin’s Cathedral Musicians in the Long 20th Century” with Harry White (University College Dublin) is the last lunchtime talk in the series “Music in Context” tin the St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Admission is free.

A panel will discuss how the Proclamation is treated in the arts, politics, and academic discourse.

Speakers are Robert Ballagh, Andrew Duggan, Rory Hearne, Gerry Kearns, Una Mullally, Nell Regan

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

IMMA Residency Artist, David Beattie invites you to studios 11 and 12 for a final opportunity to engage with the research and development of his studio practice during his residency at the museum.Drop in between 16:00 and 19:00 after that a presentation, Q&A and refreshments will be follow.

Admission is free.

“Technology, Freedom, and Privacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives About the Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies” is a public lecture by Dr Stephen C. Wingreen, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dr Wingreen will discuss how recent research sheds light on the ethical implications of some of the emerging technologies.

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

Tim Pat Coogan will talk and invite to a discussion about his book, a personal perspective of the Irish century that followed the Rising.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

A weekly Board Games night is taking place in the Black Sheep Pub. Lots of games are available and you can also bring your own.

Admission is free.

Researcher Miguel Gleason and the Ambassador of Mexico in Ireland, Carlos García de Alba will talk about the links between Ireland in Mexico while discussing Mexican art pieces conserved in Ireland. The book “México insólito en Europa” (The Unknown of Mexico in Europe) by Miguel Gleason is the result of research and audiovisual documentation that lasted more than 12 years, with the participation of several European and Mexican specialists.

Miguel Gleason was born in Mexico City (1962). He completed a Degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Gleason is the founder of the Mexico in Europe Association.

Admission is free.

Several of the leaders of the Easter Rising were poets that had published books. At this event “The Poets’ Revolution”, Irish poets of today will introduce some of the works from the 1916 rebels. Participants will be Gerald Dawe and Paula Meehan, Eiléan Ní Cuileanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

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

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 Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, 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).

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.

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.

A free (donation based) 1916 Rising Walking Tour will take place every Saturday and every Wednesday from now until the end of June. It is a 3-hour long tour that will start at City Hall, bring you to Dublin Castle, Liberty Hall, the GPO and Moore Street and will end at the Garden of Remembrance and on the way you will also learn about all the other locations where the battle happened.

Booking is required via the link below.

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.

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 triumph of failure”: Desmond Ryan (1893-1964): writing the history of the Easter rising” is a library lunchtime lecture by Lawrence White, Dictionary of Irish Biography.

The writings of Desmond Ryan were particularly influential in shaping the story of the Easter rising and its participants through the first half of the twentieth century. This talk will explore the historiography of the rising through the work of Desmond Ryan.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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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.

Social and labour historian Pádraig Yeates will look at the effects of the Easter Rising on ordinary lives in the city.

Admission is free and no booking required.

Martin Graff plays both a city-dwelling Frenchman and a germanophone, alsakophone mountain-dweller talking about the past, present and future of Alsace in France, in Europe and in the world at this bilingual conversation between the two-voice one man performer.

After having briefly worked as a pastor in Strasbourg and Sarreguemines, Martin Graff began his career as a journalist and essayist in German media. He writes and publishes in both French and German languages for radio, television, theatre and cabaret.

This event is part of a French-German project on “Satire, caricature and freedom of speech”, supported by the French-German Cultural Fund.

Admission is free, but booking is required via rsvp@alliance-francaise.ie

“Turning a Novel Inside-out” is an event with Lia Mills, the author of this year’s “One City One Book” book of choice.

Lia Mills will describe the process of writing her novel Fallen. She’ll talk about research and keeping your mind open to what it shows you; about the stages of writing that lead from initial question to finished book; and about how she, and the novel, changed along the way.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 2407254

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

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 Whelan’s.

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. Admission is free.

The Anseo Comedy Club 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.

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

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).

Every Thursday a free tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue takes place. Meet inside the Cemetery Gates. Admission is free and everybody is welcome. Ring 01-6770095 for more information and to check if the tour is going ahead.

Poetry Day Ireland takes place this Thursday and is organised by Poetry Ireland. There will be poetry events all over Ireland and many of them will be free. The full programme is on the Poetry Ireland website here.

In Dublin there will be 7 free events and they are all listed and linked below:

+ 13:00 Arthur Sheridan will read a selection of his poetry (Pearse Street Library)
+ 13:00 Poetry Therapy Sessions with psychotherapist Ger Byrne (Books Upstairs)
+ 13:00 Two Poets – Readings & Questions with Jessica Traynor and Michael Naghten Shanks (UCD Student Centre)
+ 15:00 My Personal Revolution – Poetry Sharing (Ballyroan Library, Rathfarnham)
+ 19:00 Poems of 1916 (Coach House, Old Lucan Road, Palmerstown Dublin 20)
+ 20:00 99 Poems about Sport – Reading (Croke Park Hotel, Jones Road, Dublin 3)

Admission is free, but some events require booking, so check out the links.

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.

“Secrets of the Lake: Archaeological Investigations of Ancient Logboats from Lough Corrib” is a talk by Karl Brady of the Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht about the Underwater Archaeology Unit’s work investigating a number of recently discovered logboats in Lough Corrib, Co. Galway.

The talk will provide an overview of a number of logboats which range in date from the early Bronze Age to the 11th Century AD. Particular reference will be made to a small number of well-preserved boats which contained a spectacular range of artefacts and weapons, including iron, bronze and wooden spears as well as iron axes.

Admission is free, but booking is requried via 01 6486334 or educationarch@museum.ie.

The NUM Guitar Quartet from Maynooth will perform at the Unitarian Church.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Relatively Speaking is a guided gallery walking tour to three City Centre galleries. Beginning at Project Arts Centre, you will be introduced to Mark O’Kelly’s Empireland. Then the Gallery of Photography will show you their exhibition Reflecting 1916. Finally, the tour will end at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, where you will be guided through A Hopeless End of a Great Dream by Declan Clarke.

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

At this lunchtime concert with Pablo Manjon (clarinet) and Varazdat Khachatryan (piano), you will hear music by Brahms and Poulenc.

Admission is free.

The lunchtime lecture “Lapis and Gold: Exploring Ruzbihan’s palette” with Kristine Rose Beers, Senior Conservator, Chester Beatty Library will take place.

Admission is free.

Liam Gillick will deliver a public talk entitled “1948 Skinner and Counter Revolution” that examines conspiracy, behavioralism and the delusions around applied modernism, revealing some of the forces that shaped the 20th Century’s sense of self.

Admission is free.

The Alliance Francaise Cafe “La Cocotte” is inviting to a monthly “After Work Social” from this Thursday. There will be food, wine & cocktails and live music.

Admission and the music are free, the food and wine aren’t, though. ;-)

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.

Laureate na nÓg Eoin Colfer is nearing the end of his term after two years of bringing the joy storytelling around Ireland. His last event will be this public interview with broadcaster Rick O’Shea. Come along to hear about the highlights of his time as Laureate and his plans for the future.

Admission is free, but booking is required via Nessa O’Mahony at info@childrenslaureate.ie

The event is for adults only and not suitable for a younger audience.

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.

The Spanish Film Noir “La isla minima / Marshland” will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.

Admission is free. FInd more information about the film on the website below.

22% of 11-13 year olds, and 8% of older teens hear voices that other people don’t.

This public lecture will provide you with an opportunity to meet other young people who hear voices or see visions. People can find out how people can learn to cope with difficult voices and visions and hear from people who have recovered. It will also offer an opportunity to challenge the stigma around voices and visions – the time has come to break the taboo.

Admission is free.

Jennifer Walshe will talk about identity and Irishness in her work.

Identity has formed a core part of Walshe’s artistic explorations: as well as the creation of Aisteach, Walshe developed Grúpat, a project in which she has assumed twelve different alter egos and created compositions, installations, graphic scores, films, photography, sculptures and fashion under these alter egos. Jennifer will be joined by writer Rob Doyle, author of Here Are the Young Men and This is the Ritual.

In Conversation is a series of events by the Association of Irish Composers.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

A Gardening workshop with Aoife Munn will take place for the of 55s festival “Bealtaine”.

Admission is free, but booking is required via dundrumlib@dlrcoco.ie or ring 2985000

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 March and 28 April.

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 March: Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur – How You Can Create and Produce Ideas
31 March: Creating the best Business Plan for your Business
07 April: Market Research Skills – What You Need To Do To Be Successful
14 April: Business Online – Having A Digital Plan To Help You Increase Sales
21 April: Essential Supports and Services for Entrepreneurs – Who’s Out There To Help You
28 April: Financial Support and Grants for Entrepreneurs

“From One April to Another: 2016/1916” is an event with the author of the One City One Book festival book. Lia Mills, UCD Arts Council Writer-in-Residence and author of Fallen, reads from and discusses her new work.

Admission is free, but booking is required via karen.jackman@ucd.ie

The Contemporary Music Centre Salon Series 2016 will feature Redmond O’Toole. who will perform a concert on his 8 string guitar.

Redmond O’Toole is recognised as one of the most distinctive and original guitarists of his generation. He was the first to adopt Paul Galbraith’s ‘Brahms guitar’. This groundbreaking instrument and technique uses an 8-string guitar in the position of a cello.

The programme for the salon features fellow guitarist Brian Bolger, Irish composer Ian Wilson, renowned guitar teacher and performer Alan Grundy and performer and composer Daragh O’Neill.

The composers featured will be present to talk about their work and the salon is hosted by composer Linda Buckley who has curated the 2016 series.

Admission is free, but booking is required via Stephanie Ford on 01 673 1922 or sford@cmc.ie

Hissen is an experimental and improvisational sound/ music group formed by six visual artists based in Dublin. For this special performance Hissen will create a live response to the exhibition Circadian. Instruments used vary from computer – aided software to found objects, voice and conventional instruments.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-2362759

“Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh and 1916” is a talk about the Abbey Theatre’s first leading lady. She was a Republican activist who led Cumann na nBan in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory in 1916. Sixty years after her death, her grand-nephew, journalist and broadcaster Dave Kenny talks about her memoirs.

Admission is free and booking is not necessary.

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

And this is the third (!) Board Gaming night in Dublin! They are taking over! ;-)

It is a weekly event and on Thursday the focus is on Introductory Board Games, so if you haven’t for a while (or ever) played Board Games, this is for you.

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.

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 Jazz Cafe has live Jazz, Blues and Soul music performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 20:00-22:30.

The line-up this weekend and next week is:
+ Sat 23 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Leo Osio (Piano)
+ Thu 28 Apr: Jess Kav (Vocals)
+ Fri 29 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Julien Colarossi (Guitar)

Admission is free.

Dublin fingerstyle guitarist and singer Robert Doyle launches his second album LIG AMACH at a concert on 28 April the Cobblestone. Admission to the concert will be free.

The Bray Jazz Festival will take place from 28 Apr – 01 May and the opening gig will be in the Harbour Bar, where the Persian/Irish band Nava will play.

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.)

The next Cabin Sessions with Cabin Crew (Spats Davenport, Cathy McEvoy, Christian Volkmann, Dave Hardy, Enda O’Connor, Richard Hawkins, Con Butler, Gerry Fitzpatrick) and with special guests Mark Lysaght (trad), Clarkesville (acoustic pop) and Aoife Carton (contemporary) will take place on Thursday.

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.

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

Admission is free.

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.

My Pilot are playing a gig in the Midnight Hour slot in Whelan’s.

Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.

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.

Alex Mercado is a renowned Jazz Pianist in Mexico and will perform in Bray at the Bray Jazz Festival.

Admission is free and no tickets required, thanks to the support from the Mexican Embassy.

A free Tai Chi Taster Class with Nicole Demel and Declan Mills will take place in the Lantern Centre (Room Phoenix).

Admission is free.

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 Jazz Cafe has live Jazz, Blues and Soul music performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 20:00-22:30.

The line-up this weekend and next week is:
+ Sat 23 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Leo Osio (Piano)
+ Thu 28 Apr: Jess Kav (Vocals)
+ Fri 29 Apr: Edel Meade (Vocals) and Julien Colarossi (Guitar)

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.

Mama Martin will play blues and rock.

Admission is free.

The Bray Jazz Festival will feature a Jazz Trail where every evening a variety of bands play in pubs in Bray and admission is free to all gigs on the Jazz Trail.

On Friday 29 April, the following three performances will take place:

+ Richie Buckley Quintet in The Hibernia Inn, Quinsboro Rd
+ The Tom Cole Trio in The Martello, Strand Rd
+ Mia Parsons Trio in The Coach Inn, Dublin Rd

The Bray Jazz Festival willt ake place from 28 Apr – 01 May and the Harbour Bar will feature “Retro Fix” on Friday. Their music is jazz, funk soul and rock.

Admission is free.

Irish Rockabilly Band “Skinny Elvis” will play a gig in Whelan’s.

Admission is free until 22:30.