Due to the bad weather there is no Tallaght Car Boot Sales this week.

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.

A Conference to Celebrate the 1050th Anniversary of the Conversion of Poland and the Common Heritage of Poland and Ireland will take place on Sat 15 Oct. It is organised by Discover Poland, the Polish Chaplaincy the Polish Embassy in Dublin and there will be speakers from Poland, Ireland, Italy and Denmark.

All details can be found on kosciol-dublin.pl/ireland/link-1/events/jubilee-celebrations/glendelough-conference/

Unfortunately the organisers don’t state if the event is free or not. I have some reason to believe that it might be free, but I strongly recommend that you check with Andrew Trala on 0873218721.

A job fair for medical and nursing jobs will take place in the RDS on Saturday.

Admission is free, but registration is required. It is not clear if on-site registration is possible, but I would expect so!

www.facebook.com/healthsectorjobs/

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.

Amma, the “hugging saint” is back in Ireland to spread her compassion through simple hugs. In the past 38 years, she has allegedly hugged more than 28 million people.

To be in line for meeting her, you have to get a free token and then wait until it is your turn. Doors open at 08:30 and the event starts at 10:00.

More details can be found on the website below.

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

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

This is a Career Event where employers offer jobs and are available to answer your questions and where also 60 speakers will give talks and participate in panel discussions or run workshops.

Admission is free and none of the REGISTER links on their website works, so you can either register at the venue or go to the Eventbrite site here.

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition that you should definitely check out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon is free for the whole year!!

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

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.

This is the last weekend of the Sculpture in Context exhibition It will close on Friday and if you are working throughout the week, this is your last chance to see it:

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

The exhibition opened on 08 Sept and will run until 21 October.

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

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.

This is one of many “Open House” buildings that you will be able to visit on Saturday: A 30 minute guided tour of the library and archive complex to view the 1909 original building, and the 21st century library extension. A chance also to see a contemporary art work by Rachel Joynt and the World War 1 exhibition “Stories from the Great War”. And is Lord Nelson’s head in the historic reading room, really the original head from Nelson’s Pillar that was in O’Connell Street?

Admission is free and no booking required.

Be part of a global celebration of Uileann Pipes. Listen to Ken Lynam play the uileann pipes and talk about this wonderful Irish instrument while similar events take place in over 40 other locations worldwide.

Admission is free.

The yearly Open House Dublin event is organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation and it gives you an opportunity to visit buildings that you normally would never get access to on a guided tour that focuses on the architecture of the building and the reasons behind why it was build the way it is.

Open House Dublin starts on Friday, but the main days are Saturday and Sunday.

Admission is free to all buildings and a full list of participating venues can be found here: www.openhousedublin.com/index.php/listings

Some of the venues gave out tickets on a lottery basis only and the tickets are all given out now. Many other locations are running tours throughout the day and while you might have to queue for a little you will get in – unless you arrive too late in the day. Look for the white Open House ballons!

I strongly recommend this event and over the years, I have had the opportunity to see Busaras, Liberty Hall, Department of Foreign Affairs, Lighthouse Commission in Dun Laoghaire, Criminal Court of Justice, Central Bank and many more fascinating buildings and I can definitely say that I since see these buildings with totally different eyes!

I strongly recommend this event, it is really great to get a chance to explore some of Dublin’s (iconic) buildings and to hear why the architects did what they did.

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.

Examine some pieces of outer space from the Natural History handling collection including pieces from our solar system that our over 4 billion years old during this drop-in session.

Admission is free and no booking required.

Renowned Riverdance producer and director John McColgan recently travelled with Trócaire to Gaza and the West Bank to document the lives of people living a daily reality of military occupation and economic blockade. ‘This Is Palestine’ is a powerful exhibition of John’s photographs from that trip and features striking portraits of people who have lost family members, homes and land due to ongoing conflict and military occupation.

The exhibition runs from Fri 14 – Tues 18 Oct. 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.

Comedian Colm O’Regan will be in the Grafton Street brnach to sign his book “Bolloxology”.

Admission is free.

The exhibition “Design and Violence” (14 Oct – 22 Jan) in the Science Gallery is an exhibition of objects and systems at the intersection of design and violence. Violence in this context has different faces. It is deliberate harm caused to a person or thing, but also an unintended consequence in other scenarios. Design is the intended creation of things, but also the unintended consequence.

It is a very very interesting exhibition! A good bit darker than other Science Gallery exhibitions because every exhibit has some form of threat inherent in it, but definitely an exhibition I recommend. Some exhibits are self-explanatory, but all come with descriptive and explanatory labels. In addition there are the amazing mediators, who explain and help through the exhibition. I was so lucky to get a guided tour of the whole exhibition by lead mediator Ryan and he is absolutely outstanding. Hugely knowledgeable, interested and interesting and extremely friendly and helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask the mediators they are there to help!

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, “Design and Violence” is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but due to the topic, I would say that younger children need parental guidance and you could decide to go into less detail about some objects.

From a chair that has to be created by the buyer through bashing a steel cube into shape with a sledgehammer, via all sort of violence that was shown in children’s cartoons “Looney Toons” or pressure sensitive clothing for wheel-chair users to show injury and trauma to an AK-47 rifle and instructions how to torture, the ground floor area sets the scene for a varied way of looking at violence and design. But it gets even more interesting upstairs: A printed gun, a drone survival guide, hacked protest objects, an interesting race and skin colour photo archive, Desert War simulation, a virtual reality installation about the threats refugees need to navigate through and a landmine display….are just some of the exhibits

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.

Kathleen Watkins will be in Blackrock Shopping Centre to sign her picture book “Pigin of Howth”. Admission is free.

Part of the Open House weekend, this walking tour focuses on the late 1920s/30s estate at Drumcondra and looks at the relationship between public buildings, public space and housing. Wear appropriate footwear and dress for the weather.

Admission is free. Meeting point is the Drumcondra Library, just look for the Open House volunteers.

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.

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 first “Ireland Festival of Nations” is taking place on Mountjoy Square this Saturday. There will be a mixure of cultural displays from a variety of ethnic communities. In addition, there will be music, food, face-painting, traditional costume competition for kids, dance workshops, parade of nations, games and more.

13:00 – OPENING CEREMONY followed by Parade of Nations
13:20 – Fillipino Choral Ensemble Ireland
13:40 – Catherine & Annie (Centenary Dance Crew)
14:00 – Poetry Corner (Ukachuwku Okorie, Annie Waithira)
14:20 – Casa Brasil Na lrlanda (Capoeira)
14:40 – Children’s Costume Contest
15:00 – Balk Folk Les Etournias (Dance group)
15:20 – Ani ( Singer)
15:40 – SLIM (Singer)
16:00 – Alma Boliviana (Bolivian Ballet group)
16:20 – Brazilian Cultural Centre (multiple cultural acts of music and dance)
16:40 – Comedy (FabuD)
17:00 – EVENT CLOSE

Admission is free.
(This is the first event of that type and it seems to be organised by volunteers, so don’t be too critical if things are not perfectly organised. The “colourful” website and the description “The venue is centrally located just off O’Conell Street and can also be easilly accesed from other streets in Dublin’s city centre” indicate that they all do their best but are not necessarily experienced event experts.)

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.

An InFocus Tour with guide Orla Ryan will take place and is entitled “Dürer”. I assume it is Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) this tour is about? But I could be wrong!

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

A free guided tour will take place at the National War Memorial at Islandbridge every Saturday at 14:00 until the end of October.

The tour will focus on World War I, in which so many Irishmen died. You will also hear about the main features of the gardens at this tour.

Meeting point is the car park at 14:00. For further information contact 01-8155914.

Join architect-artist Blaithín Quinn for a family workshop exploring lives of the soldiers in Collins Barracks. A short tour will be followed by a fun and creative hands-on workshop. Suitable for families with children aged 7-12.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 6777444

Tower Houses were built all around the Irish landscape in Medieval Ireland and were the homes of Lords and Ladies. Come to the National Museum of Ireland and see what objects were used in these homes from pottery to weapons and explore the architecture of these castles as you make your own Tower House.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-6486332. Located in the Learning Resource Room, 1st Floor.

The Ecuadorian community in Ireland is inviting to a whole range of events outside and inside Christ Church Cathedral this Saturday. The events are organised to raise funds for the earthquake survivors from the severe earthquakes in Ecuador in April 2016.

“Ecuadorianos en Irlanda” host a craft fair and music performances outside Christ Church from 15:00-18:00 and admission is free,

Afterwards from an Ecuadorian folk ballet company will perform two shows, from 18:30 and from 21:00 in Christ Church Cathedral. Tickets for the shows are EUR 12/10 and will be available at the church door.

The Saturday workshop for 4-10 years olds is entitled “The Golden Goose” and will be run by Peter Burns.

Admission is free, but places are limited. Check out all details via the link below.

Author and historian Liz Gillis will talk about women’s lives after the 1916 Rising. The event is organised in association with Dublin Northeast Remembers 1916.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 8477781

Because the exhibition ends next week, this is the last Sculpture in Context Guided Walk:

Every Saturday during the Sculpture in Context exhibition (10,17,24 Sept + 01,08,15 Oct) you will have the opportunity to meet one of the participating artists for a guided tour through the exhibition to gain an insight into Ireland’s largest outdoor and indoor sculpture exhibition.

Admission is free. Meet at the Education and Visitor Centre.

The 80s Tribute Band “Sunset Strip” will be in tha Harbour Bar for a gig.

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.

Ghost Robots are playing a gig in Whelan’s and they will be supported by Bob Skeleton. The gig starts at midnight. Admission is free before 22:30.

Otis will perform a gig in Whelan’s from 22:30 and admission is free as long as you are there before 22:30.

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.

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 Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park is unusually neglected and at the same time unusually rich in history. Many have seen it as a barred off concrete fortress in a corner of Phoenix Park and even more don’t even know or have forgotten that it exists. The old Phoenix House, the home of the British Viceroy, was on the site where the fort was built from the early 17th century and then in 1734 the Fort was built and extended in 1801.

In 1916 the Fort was raided by the rebels who expected to find a lot of explosives there, but found the Fort nearly empty. In 1939 the IRA raided the Fort and stole more than a million rounds of ammunition, but most of it was recovered over the following weeks.

Since 1988, the Irish Army doesn’t use the Fort anymore and gave it back to the Office of Public Works (OPW), but not much good has happened to the Fort in the last 28 years (!!) and there were numerous speculations about the reasons for that.

Finally, this year, there will be guided tours at the Fort for three months from 31 July until the end of October. The tours take place on Sundays and Fridays at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 15:30 and only 20 places are available on each tour.

Tickets are available at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on a first come, first served basis and can not be pre-booked. A shuttle bus will bring the ticket holders to the Fort.

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.

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

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.

This is the last weekend of the Sculpture in Context exhibition It will close on Friday and if you are working throughout the week, this is your last chance to see it:

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

The exhibition opened on 08 Sept and will run until 21 October.

The Brocante Market will take place on Sunday. It is a collection of antiques, furniture, vintage jewellery, collectables and curiosities from the past and present, second-hand, refurbished, antique and hand-crafted stuff for your house and garden. If you are an interior designer or just have and eye for style and are looking for a special piece or maybe a bargain then this is the market for you. The market is held every 3rd Sunday of the month.

Admission is free.

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.

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 Kilkenny Shop Cafe is inviting to a Jazz Brunch Sunday every Sunday. They don’t specify who is playing at the brunch, though.

Admission is free.

The yearly Open House Dublin event is organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation and it gives you an opportunity to visit buildings that you normally would never get access to on a guided tour that focuses on the architecture of the building and the reasons behind why it was build the way it is.

Open House Dublin starts on Friday, but the main days are Saturday and Sunday.

Admission is free to all buildings and a full list of participating venues can be found here: www.openhousedublin.com/index.php/listings

Some of the venues gave out tickets on a lottery basis only and the tickets are all given out now. Many other locations are running tours throughout the day and while you might have to queue for a little you will get in – unless you arrive too late in the day. Look for the white Open House ballons!

I strongly recommend this event and over the years, I have had the opportunity to see Busaras, Liberty Hall, Department of Foreign Affairs, Lighthouse Commission in Dun Laoghaire, Criminal Court of Justice, Central Bank and many more fascinating buildings and I can definitely say that I since see these buildings with totally different eyes!

I strongly recommend this event, it is really great to get a chance to explore some of Dublin’s (iconic) buildings and to hear why the architects did what they did.

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 next market at the Dublin Food Co-op is the “Rumble In the Jumble” Market. It is happening on Sunday from 11:00-17:00 and it will bring you Arts & Craft + Bric ‘n’ Brac.

Admission is free.

Two similar workshops will take place on Sunday. The first one is for ages 7-9 and will run from 11:30-12:30 and the second one is for ages 10-12 from 13:00-14:00.

Explore stories about space, past and present, in this engaging children’s workshop with architect /artist Blaithin Quinn. In this workshop, especially developed for Open House Dublin, children will design and make their very own 3-d creation through play, discussion and experimentation with diverse art materials.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 2362759

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

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

The exhibition “Design and Violence” (14 Oct – 22 Jan) in the Science Gallery is an exhibition of objects and systems at the intersection of design and violence. Violence in this context has different faces. It is deliberate harm caused to a person or thing, but also an unintended consequence in other scenarios. Design is the intended creation of things, but also the unintended consequence.

It is a very very interesting exhibition! A good bit darker than other Science Gallery exhibitions because every exhibit has some form of threat inherent in it, but definitely an exhibition I recommend. Some exhibits are self-explanatory, but all come with descriptive and explanatory labels. In addition there are the amazing mediators, who explain and help through the exhibition. I was so lucky to get a guided tour of the whole exhibition by lead mediator Ryan and he is absolutely outstanding. Hugely knowledgeable, interested and interesting and extremely friendly and helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask the mediators they are there to help!

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, “Design and Violence” is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but due to the topic, I would say that younger children need parental guidance and you could decide to go into less detail about some objects.

From a chair that has to be created by the buyer through bashing a steel cube into shape with a sledgehammer, via all sort of violence that was shown in children’s cartoons “Looney Toons” or pressure sensitive clothing for wheel-chair users to show injury and trauma to an AK-47 rifle and instructions how to torture, the ground floor area sets the scene for a varied way of looking at violence and design. But it gets even more interesting upstairs: A printed gun, a drone survival guide, hacked protest objects, an interesting race and skin colour photo archive, Desert War simulation, a virtual reality installation about the threats refugees need to navigate through and a landmine display….are just some of the exhibits

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.

Because of the Open House weekend, the National Gallery is running a second workshop this weekend for 4-10 year olds and their guardians. It is called “Raising the Roof” and all materials will be provided.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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 “Concorde at 40”.

The New Music ensemble Concorde continue their 40th Anniversary celebrations with the second in a series of four concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday. The concert will focus on the music of Concorde’s director, composer Jane O’Leary.

Renowned Riverdance producer and director John McColgan recently travelled with Trócaire to Gaza and the West Bank to document the lives of people living a daily reality of military occupation and economic blockade. ‘This Is Palestine’ is a powerful exhibition of John’s photographs from that trip and features striking portraits of people who have lost family members, homes and land due to ongoing conflict and military occupation.

The exhibition runs from Fri 14 – Tues 18 Oct. Admission is free.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs every Saturday. It is 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!”

The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

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!

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

The Red Line Book Festival was running in libraries and other venues of South County Dublin from 12-16 October and the final event on Sunday is the “RITT Short Story Competition Awards Ceremony”.

Admission is free, but booking is required via www.redlinebookfestival.ie/sun-16-oct

“Ireland on Trial, 1798-1916” with Professor Patrick Geoghegan, TCD is part of a free lecture series in October themed around the exhibition “Creating Histories: Stories of Ireland in Art”.

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.

Blues Got Soul, a four-piece blues band from Dublin is performing the music of the founding fathers of blues and blues masters in the International Bar every Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

“Not Quite Mass” is a weekly Comedy show in the Workman’s Club. There will be stand-up comedy and more (games, interviews, panel discussions and some madness). The event is organised and lead by Steve Bennett.

The line-up is usually listed on the Facebook Page below. Check it out. We can never have enough Comedy!

Admission is free (donations are welcome).

The New Breadwinners are a 3-piece Bluegrass band and they are playing every Sunday in the Leeson Longe.

Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

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 Dixeland Jazzmen play a weekly gig in Sin E. 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 Jack Maher Trio with Keith & Jason Duffy are playing Rhythm & Blues.

Admission is free.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral is inviting to a series of organ recitals, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Max Reger. The “Chorale Fantasias” recitals will be played by David Leigh. The schedule is

11 September: Ein feste Burg
18 September: Freu dich sehr, meine Seele
25 September: Wie shön leucht uns die Morgenstern
2 October: Straf’ mich nicht in deinem Zorn
9 October: Alle Menschen müssen sterben
16 October: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
23 October: Hallelujah! Gott zu loben

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Get them via the website below.

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 Rock ‘n’ Rock and Swing Band “The Jive Cats” will perform in the Mercantile every Sunday from 22:00.

Admission is free.

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

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition that you should definitely check out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon is free for the whole year!!

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

Organised by the Irish Hospice Foundation, Death Café Conversations over tea and cake encourage gentle but meaningful interactions about dying, death and bereavement and encourage interaction about an often under-discussed and difficult subject. People will be asked to fill in a survey and all feedback received at the Café Conversations (or online via www.surveymonkey.com/r/haveyoursayirl ), will be fed into Ireland’s first ever ‘Charter for Dying, Death and Bereavement in Ireland 2016’.

Renowned Riverdance producer and director John McColgan recently travelled with Trócaire to Gaza and the West Bank to document the lives of people living a daily reality of military occupation and economic blockade. ‘This Is Palestine’ is a powerful exhibition of John’s photographs from that trip and features striking portraits of people who have lost family members, homes and land due to ongoing conflict and military occupation.

The exhibition runs from Fri 14 – Tues 18 Oct. 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.

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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“Mobilising men and boys for gender justice: Lessons from South Africa’s Sonke” is a talk by Dean Peacock in the Long Room Hub.

Dean Peacock’s work and activism over the last 25 years has focused on issues related to gender equality, gender-based violence, men and constructions of masculinities, HIV and AIDS, human rights, and social justice. He is also co-founder and co-chair of MenEngage, a global alliance with networks in over thirty countries across the world. In addition, he is an Ashoka Fellow and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the Eventbrite link below.

NLI staff member and historian Dr. Emma Edwards will give advice and guidance on researching the rich and varied collections of the National Library. The workshop will draw on case studies of personalities from the NLI’s collections and is suitable for anyone looking to embark on a research project or to enhance research skills in navigating the catalogue, accessing the various collections and interpreting the sources.

Admission is free, but registration is required via learning@nli.ie or 01 6030 278

This panel discussion will be moderated by Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UCD). Panellists are Prof Shafi Goldwasser (RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT), Dr Barbara Lane (Technology Group Leader for Arup in the UK) and Prof Laoise McNamara (Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Informatics at the National University Galway).

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

The Royal Academy of Music is running a number of Instrument Masterclasses next week. Admission is free to all of them, but registration is required.

+ Mon 17 Oct – 16:00-19:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:00-13:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:30-13:30: Guitar Masterclass with Berta Rojas
+ Thu 20 Oct – 17:00-19:00: Piano Masterclass with Stephen Hough
+ Fri 21 Oct – 10:00-17:00: Opera Aria Masterclass with Brenda Hurley

Timothy Murtagh (TCD) will talk about “The Politics of State Breakdown: Ireland in the Late Eighteenth Century” at this next lecture in the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series 2016-17.

Admission is free.

“Creating Space – The Education of a Broadcaster” by Andy O’Mahony is an autobiography of this news anchor and broadcaster for RTE and BBC.

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.

The Royal Academy of Music is running a number of Instrument Masterclasses next week. Admission is free to all of them, but registration is required.

+ Mon 17 Oct – 16:00-19:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:00-13:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:30-13:30: Guitar Masterclass with Berta Rojas
+ Thu 20 Oct – 17:00-19:00: Piano Masterclass with Stephen Hough
+ Fri 21 Oct – 10:00-17:00: Opera Aria Masterclass with Brenda Hurley

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

Renowned Riverdance producer and director John McColgan recently travelled with Trócaire to Gaza and the West Bank to document the lives of people living a daily reality of military occupation and economic blockade. ‘This Is Palestine’ is a powerful exhibition of John’s photographs from that trip and features striking portraits of people who have lost family members, homes and land due to ongoing conflict and military occupation.

The exhibition runs from Fri 14 – Tues 18 Oct. 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 popular series of lunch-time lectures in Dublin’s City Hall returns this October, with the theme “Traditional Music in Dublin”. It will focus on the history of traditional music in the City and will include talks about Dublin’s Piping Tradition, Luke Kelly, The Tradition Club and Fiddle Music. Each talk will conclude with an element of live performance.

The talks will take place each Tuesday in October and the titles are:
04 October – Fiddle Music in Dublin with Liam O’Connor
11 October – Na Píobairí Uilleann (The Piper’s Club) and Dublin’s Piping Tradition with Terry Moylan (NPU)
18 October – The Tradition Club, 1967-1989 with Seán Corcoran (Crann)
25 October – Dublin’s Voice: Luke Kelly with Francis Devine

Admission is free and on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs on Tuesday and Saturday. It is 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!”

The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The RDS Economic Vision 2020 Lecture Series continues with John Higgins (CCO and President of Avolon Aviation).

He will speak about Ireland’s unique position as the leader in the international aircraft leasing industry; examining Ireland’s rich aviation heritage which pre-dates the foundation of the State. He will also discuss the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as other counties seek to challenge Ireland’s established and coveted position.

Admission to this talk seems to be free, but booking is required via the website.

Mary Norris, author of “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen” will discuss the response to her book in Europe and about her relationship with the Italian language.

Can a best selling book about English grammar by an American copy editor (subeditor) be translated into Italian? Basic differences between the languages suggest that it would be difficult. For instance, the title, with its reference to a frequent blunder in English (“I” instead of “me” in the phrase “between you and me”), is meaningless in Italian.

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

“Showtime at the Royal – The Story of Dublin’s Legendary Theatre” by Thomas Myler covers the complete history of Ireland’s most famous showplace, the Theatre Royal, which closed 1962 and was the largest entertainment venue in Ireland and Britain. The book starts in the seventeenth century and looks at the venues special place in the social history of the city. There are interviews, anecdotes and reports and many unique photographs seen for the first time in public.

The book will be launched by Deirdre Purcell.

Admission is free.

A new 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.

EveryTuesday at 19:00, The Dublin Language Exchange takes place in the Czech Inn. It is the biggest free meeting of people from all around Dublin that are interested in learning languages and communicate with speakers of other languages.

Admission is free and the meetup is completely informal. No booking required.

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

The 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.

This is a weelly acoustic roots and blues session every Tuesday in Arthur’s Pub.

With Anthony Mannion(Guitar/vocals) and Luke Mercer(Guitar/vocals). Admision 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.

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.

Every Tuesday, a pub quiz is taking place in the Woolshed.

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.

How can survivorship be placed at the heart of the cancer research agenda? Participants discuss the questions and concerns that matter most to cancer patients and are likely to improve the relevance of cancer research.

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

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

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 lunchtime talk “Understanding the Powerful ways social media can change your Life and Business” with Paul Dunphy (Social Media Strategist) will take place in the Business Library in the Central Library.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8733996

The New Parents Tour is a free tour for parents, guardians and carers of infants and young children. The route of the tour is suitable for prams and strollers.

The Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series 2016-17 continues with a lecture entitled “Dangerous, political and silenced: Policing the Border during the Northern Irish Conflict” with Dr. Vicky Conway (DCU).

Admission is free.

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

The performance of a new work “Rivers Unseen” composed by the Trinity Long Room Hub’s 2015-16 artist in residence, Michael Gallen will take place. The piece is a response to three paths of research occurring within the walls of the research institute, as well as to the architecture and context of the building itself. The piece will be performed by Michelle O’Rourke (mezzo soprano), Lina Andonovska (alto flute) and Tonnta Vocal Group conducted by Robbie Burke.

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion with Michael Gallen and his research collaborators, as well as the introduction of the 2016-17 Trinity Long Room Hub Creative Arts Practitioner in Residence, Maarten Rischen.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the Eventbrite link below.

Ronan Browne, who grew up in the Dalkey of the 50s and 60s, will host an evening of poetry, including works which have been published in anthologies over many years.

Admission is free and no booking required. Refreshments from 18:00, the reading begins at 18:30.

Most people that hear about the Irish Disapora in South and Middle Amercia wonder “Why did they go there? How and when did they travel? What was their reputation? What are the present-day connections between the Latin American Irish and Ireland?”

In this talk, Edmundo Murray will illustrate the arrival, settlement and integration patterns of various Irish immigrant groups in Latin America and their relation with Ireland since the European conquest to present times.

Edmundo Murray was born in Argentina in a family with roots in Colombia, Switzerland and Ireland. He studied in Argentina, the U.S. and Switzerland, and got his PhD in Literature from University of Zurich with his thesis “Ireland and Latin America: a Cultural History” (2010).

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

ALMA, five young musicians illustrate their idea of how traditional Austrian music translates to the present and to a contemporary audience. With violins, double bass, accordion, and vocals as well as with great ease, passion and originality, they make the roots grow musical shoots and blossoms.

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

Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (Professor Emeritus in History and a former Vice-President at the National University Galway) will be interviewed by Dr John Bowman.

This is part of a series of public interviews at the National Library that considers the relevance of the 1916 Proclamation. Is it seen now as an inspirational text or as a historical document?

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

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

“Il coraggio del proprio tempo” is a theatrical performance in Italian with English subtitles.

Conceived, written and directed by Paola Albini, it is the story of the Modern Movement and Design. The text is integrated with authentic videos and pictures of the time and is an overview of Italy between the two World Wars and of the intellectuals of the time. It is the story of Rationalism in Italy, the central role of the city of Milan and the life of the people who fought against a totalitarian regime in order to establish a Movement based on social redemption.

It is brought to you by the Italian Institute of Culture, the Irish Architectural Archive and the Fondazione Franco Albini.

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

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.

There should be an Inn Jokes event on Wednesday, but just four days away, the website doesn’t show any trace of this going ahead. I suggest you check closer to the day!

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

Mutefish will bring their high powered sounds of Eastern European music, combined with Irish Trad to Whelan’s.

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).

This is a multi-disciplinary all day conference on the theme of citizenshipon citizenship. Opening address will be by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald.

There will be contributions from classicists, historians and social scientists. The origins and evolution of the concept of citizenship and identity will be explored from classical times, through the medieval period up to partition in Ireland focusing on the implications for Ireland’s citizens. Finally, contemporary issues such as Brexit, migration and integration will be discussed.

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

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

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.

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.

Bell X1 will be in Tower Records for an In-store gig to celebrate the launch of their new album.

Considering Bell X1’s popularity, it could get busy in Dawson Street.

Admission is free, I am told!

If you regularly or occasionally buy books online, you can help the Dublin Event Guide hugely even without having to pay cent directly. In fact you even save money this way:

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

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James Goodman (1828–1896) from Dingle, Co. Kerry, was a canon of the Church of Ireland and Professor of Irish in Trinity College Dublin and he compiled an outstanding Irish traditional music manuscript collection containing more than 2,300 tunes.

To mark the occasion of the reprint of Tunes of the Munster Pipers Volume 1 and the announcement of the ITMA/TCD Goodman Digital Project, you are invited to an afternoon (14:00-16:00) of short presentations about Canon James Goodman and his collection. Guest speakers will be Lisa Shields (co-editor of Tunes of the Munster Pipers Volume 2), Roy Stanley (Music Librarian, TCD), Nicholas Carolan (Director Emeritus ITMA) and Emer Mayock (member of the Goodman Trio).

At 16:00, Grace Toland (ITMA Director) will formally launch both the Tunes of the Munster Pipers Volume 1 reprint and the ITMA/TCD Goodman Digital Project.

Admission to both events is free.

Later on the same day (19:00), a non-free concert with the Goodman Trio (Mick O’Brien, uilleann pipes, Emer Mayock, flute & Aoife Ní Bhriain, fiddle) will take place. Tickets are EUR 10 and can be booked here.

Rising is a major photographic exhibition which showcases the National Library’s rich imagery of the events and locations of 1916.

It consists of 60 photographs, including a number of large scale photographs which emphasise the Rising’s impact on Dublin’s city centre. These images are enhanced by audio recordings of actors reading from selected letters and diaries detailing first-hand accounts of the Rising.

Admission to this Walk & Talk tour is free, but you can also visit the exhibition for free outside of the tour.

The Royal Academy of Music is running a number of Instrument Masterclasses next week. Admission is free to all of them, but registration is required.

+ Mon 17 Oct – 16:00-19:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:00-13:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:30-13:30: Guitar Masterclass with Berta Rojas
+ Thu 20 Oct – 17:00-19:00: Piano Masterclass with Stephen Hough
+ Fri 21 Oct – 10:00-17:00: Opera Aria Masterclass with Brenda Hurley

Every Thursday the Little Museum of Dublin waives their admission charges for two guided tours thanks to sponsorship from Guinness. The first tour is at 18:00 and the second tour is at 19:00. Make sure that you are there at least 10 minutes before the start of the tour to get one of the limited places.

The Little Museum of Dublin has a fascinating collection of artefacts from the last 100 years Dublin’s history.

On other days and other times, admission is EUR 7 for adults and admission is by guided tour only.

The Riptide Movement are playing a gig in Tower Records to celebrate the launch of their newest album.

Admission is free.

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

The next series will take place on Thursdays from 18:30-20:00 between 15 September and 20 October.

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

15 Sept: Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur – How You Can Create and Produce Ideas
22 Sept: Creating the best Business Plan for your Business
29 Sept: Market Research Skills – What You Need To Do To Be Successful
06 Oct: Managing your Online Presence – Having A Digital Plan To Help You Increase Sales
13 Oct: Essential Supports and Services for Entrepreneurs – Who’s Out There To Help You
20 Oct: Financial Support and Grants for Entrepreneurs

“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

The Irish Spanish Latin American Literary Festival is back in the Instituto Cervantes from 20-22 October. All events are listed on the website below and are also individually listed here.

+ 20 Oct – 19:00: Understanding Borders – Round table discussion
+ 21 Oct – 18:10: Words without Borders – Round table discussion
+ 21 Oct – 19:30: Interview with Kevin Barry
+ 22 Oct – 12:10: Migration, Displacement and Literature – Round table discussion
+ 22 Oct – 15:00: Interview with Charles Powell – Iinterview
+ 22 Oct – 16:00: Closing Themes – Round table discussion

Admission to all events is free and the events are in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpreting.

To celebrate the European Day of Languages, the European Commission and the Alliance Française are organising a screening of the French cult movie “Le Dîner de cons” subtitled in Irish, an adaptation of the play by Francis Veber.

Admission is free, but booking is required via afdublin.extranet-aec.com/events/detail/43

An expatriate or expat is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship.

And this is a weekly meeting for all Expats in Dublin (new and old!). If you are new to the city, this is an excellent way to meet people.

Admission is free (no booking required!), but you are asked to give the same kind of welcoming to new members as is given to you.

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.

The Dublin Jam Session is an open Jam with full back line. It is open to all levels of musicians and singers and all genres of music and the only rule is that you must jam with others (not all your own band).

It takes place every Thursday and admission is free.

David King will play Acoustic Blues in the Hard Rock Cafe. Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

The Whipperwills will play Blues, Americana and Country in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

John Amand from Jacques Amand International Flower Bulb Specialists, which began as a flower shop in London in 1927 and has grown to become a major supplier of bulbs, talks about the commercial growing of bulbs and plants some of which are thought to be rare.

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.

The Receipts will play Tom Pettys’ classic 1989 first solo album “Full Moon Fever” and other Tom Petty hits.

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.

A live music open mic session, called “Keep on Trucking” takes place every Thursday in Peadar Brown’s Pub, it is presented by Joey Magic.

Admission is free.

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.

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition that you should definitely check out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon is free for the whole year!!

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

The Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park is unusually neglected and at the same time unusually rich in history. Many have seen it as a barred off concrete fortress in a corner of Phoenix Park and even more don’t even know or have forgotten that it exists. The old Phoenix House, the home of the British Viceroy, was on the site where the fort was built from the early 17th century and then in 1734 the Fort was built and extended in 1801.

In 1916 the Fort was raided by the rebels who expected to find a lot of explosives there, but found the Fort nearly empty. In 1939 the IRA raided the Fort and stole more than a million rounds of ammunition, but most of it was recovered over the following weeks.

Since 1988, the Irish Army doesn’t use the Fort anymore and gave it back to the Office of Public Works (OPW), but not much good has happened to the Fort in the last 28 years (!!) and there were numerous speculations about the reasons for that.

Finally, this year, there will be guided tours at the Fort for three months from 31 July until the end of October. The tours take place on Sundays and Fridays at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 15:30 and only 20 places are available on each tour.

Tickets are available at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on a first come, first served basis and can not be pre-booked. A shuttle bus will bring the ticket holders to the Fort.

I definitely want to visit the Magazine Fort, so you will find me in the queue at some stage.

Mathsweek 2016 is running from 15-23 October this year and there are lots of free events taking place.

The first challenge is, though, to find the suitable events for you, because the website does make life more difficult than it should. You can select “Events for the General Public”, but that covers events in the whole of Ireland. So I would like “Events in Dublin” that are for the General Public, but there is no way to combine two searches. The “Events in Dublin” also contain all events for kids.

What did I do? I chickened out and instead am just posting the link for you so that you can get your head around this:

www.mathsweek.ie/2016/events

The Royal Academy of Music is running a number of Instrument Masterclasses next week. Admission is free to all of them, but registration is required.

+ Mon 17 Oct – 16:00-19:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:00-13:00: Violin Masterclass with Ulf Hoelscher
+ Tue 18 Oct – 10:30-13:30: Guitar Masterclass with Berta Rojas
+ Thu 20 Oct – 17:00-19:00: Piano Masterclass with Stephen Hough
+ Fri 21 Oct – 10:00-17:00: Opera Aria Masterclass with Brenda Hurley

This is the last day of the Sculpture in Context exhibition!!

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

The exhibition opened on 08 Sept and will run until 21 October.

Every Friday the chq will run a market in the building with a whole range of stalls. There will be food and arts & craft. Some stalls are there every week, others change regularly.

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 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.

Get a cup of tea, gather the last bit of energy and then bring this work week over the line! And for next week, get some special teas via the ad below and help the Dublin Event Guide while you are doing that. ;-)

Click on the picture below or use this link and if you order any teas that way, you help the Dublin Event Guide because Twinings will pay a small reward if you order after clicking on the picture or link above.

Orders over GBP 35 are free in the UK and if you use Parcelmotel’s Belfast to Dublin service, you can get it delivered for just EUR 3.95 of postage.

Help decorating Dublin Castle with a temporary art installation this Halloween. At the Flying Bats workshop you will design bats, which will become part of an art installation used to scare the Castle visitors.

This is a free drop-in workshop and it is suitable for children of all ages.

This is a theatrical performance (in Italian!) to present the work of children’s author Gianni Rodari and designer Bruno Munari.

It is suitable for kids (Age 6+) and adults and there is a performance at 16:30 and again at 18:00.

What happens when a brave shrimp decides to walk forward instead of backwards? And when a cannon starts shooting bells instead of bombs? This creative event will bring children and adults into the imaginative world of Gianni Rodari, one of the best-loved authors of Italian children’s literature. Simona Roveda and Debora Danti, experts in children’s theatre, will present some of the most amusing of Rodari’s stories through theatrical readings. The performances will play with words, sounds and images, using some of the beautiful illustrations of Bruno Munari.

Admission is free, but booking is required.
The 16:30 event and booking for it, is here.
The 18:00 event and booking for it, is here.

The Big Energy Hack is a 2.5 day Hackathon event from Friday until Sunday for everybody that is interested in creating innovative customer solutions for electricity customers. The organisers say: “We’re looking for great people with great ideas. Entrepreneurs, IT and technology specialists, engineers, marketers, designers, forward thinkers ?are all welcome to apply.”

There will be three challenges from which you can choose one, then you have 48 hours and you are put in a team with other people to create a creative and innovative solution for the problem.

The event is organised by ESB and will take place in the Dog Patch Labs. Food and drinks and mentorship will be provided. It all starts on Friday at 17:00 and then again on Saturday at 08:00 (until 22:00) and Sunday at 08:00.

The three challenges are:

1) Empower Customers to be more Energy Efficient in their Homes
2) Enhance the ecar Driving Experience
3) Improve the Reliability and Quality of the Electricity Supply

I wasn’t able to find any information about how the teams are put together and how big the teams will be. But the prizes for the teams are EUR 5000 for the best creation or concept, EUR 3000 for the next and the third prize is EUR 2000. But more than the prizes, the weekend will be full of challenges, teamwork and learnings.

There is an admission charge of EUR 20 to ensure that you come to the event and not just sign up with no intention to come, but you will get the money back on the day, so it is a free event!

I would LOVE to take part in something like that. Challenges of that type are for me! ;-) If they are for you, hurry to register, places are limited. You can register here or via the website below.

The Irish Spanish Latin American Literary Festival is back in the Instituto Cervantes from 20-22 October. All events are listed on the website below and are also individually listed here.

+ 20 Oct – 19:00: Understanding Borders – Round table discussion
+ 21 Oct – 18:10: Words without Borders – Round table discussion
+ 21 Oct – 19:30: Interview with Kevin Barry
+ 22 Oct – 12:10: Migration, Displacement and Literature – Round table discussion
+ 22 Oct – 15:00: Interview with Charles Powell – Iinterview
+ 22 Oct – 16:00: Closing Themes – Round table discussion

Admission to all events is free and the events are in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpreting.

Borderland is a short documentary that explores the Syrian refugee crisis along Europe’s borders, the greatest mass migration since World War II.

The film features interviews with refugees, volunteers, Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International, Sue Conlan formerly of The Irish Refugee Council and Eva Schloss, holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank. The film is produced and directed by two Dublin-based filmmakers, Paul Webster and Conor Maguire.

A post-screening conversation with Paul, Conor, Sue Conlon and Colm O’Gorman hosted by Dil Wickremasinghe (Newstalk) will discuss the documentary and the refugee crisis.

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

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

Celebrate the Celtic New Year and Halloween with music, song and storytelling by the DIT Irish Traditional Music Ensemble. The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of summer and the harvest and the start of winter and the New Year. This free performance is perfect for all the family!

The DIT Irish Traditional Music Ensemble, which combines both instrumental and vocal music features some of the finest young musical talent in Ireland today.

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

Raising Jupiter will play from their new EP “Standing in the Night”.

Admission is free.

The Eskies are playing Gypsy Folk in the Harbour Bar.

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.

“Acoustic country / rock & blues with a twist & a respectful nod toward Van Morrison, Oasis, The Waterboys, etc.”

Admission is free.

Lingo is a Spoken Word Festival with a whole range of performances and events from Fri 21 Oct until Sunday 23 Oct. The main events are not free, but there are plenty of free events as well.

The website at www.lingofestival.com/programme/ lists all events and you can buy tickets there as well.

The free events are:

+ Fri 21 Oct – 23:30: Festival Club: Mixtapes from the Underground @ Odessa Club
+ Sat 22 Oct – 12:30: Lingo Poetry Bingo – Open Mic @Workman’s Club
+ Sat 22 Oct – 23:30: Festival Club @ Cobalt Cafe
+ Sun 23 Oct – 13:00: Poetry Jukebox – Open Mic @ Workman’s Club
+ Sun 23 Oct – 14:30: Wordworks – Youth Spoken Word Showcase @ Fringe Lab
+ Sun 23 Oct – 23:30: Festival Club with Andre K’por @ Whelan’s