Dublin Event Guide 322: Jack of Diamonds Rhythm & Roots Festival, People’s Photography, Plant Fair, National Heritage Week

An hour long ballroom dancing class will take place in the Pembroke Square area and admission is free.

A free Greek and European Folk Dance class open to all. Contact Katerini Papathanasiou on papath.kat@gmail.com

The second Jack of Diamonds Rhythm & Roots Festival takes place from Friday 16 Aug until Sun 18 Aug in multiple venues in the City Centre. Over 100 acts will perform! The venues are all the big ones Button Factory, Whelan’s, Grand Social, Workman’s Club, Mercantile, Sweeney’s, The Globe, Stag’s Head, The Bankers and two outdoor stages in Dame Lane.

On Friday alone there will be 51 performances! FIFTY ONE! And the best thing? Admission is free to all gigs.

Check them out on the website below.

Some of the highlights are The Rhinestsone Highway Experience, The Hot Sprockets, The Cujo Family, St, John The Gambler, Gypsy Rebel Rabble and on the outdoor stage Lynched, Bog Frogs, Prarie Dawgs. …and there are many more good bands!

I will definitely be there! Great line-up and the only difficulty is to decide where to go and when so that you get all the good stuff. :-)

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 2nd Dublin Friday Night Skate will take place tonight. For starting time, route and meeting point, check the Facebook Page below.

“Dublin Tribal Spirit” is a weekly event that gives you the great experience of a drumming circle with african drums and authentic tribal rhythms. Tom and Sinead, who run that event are providing lots of drums for it and teach you the rhythms.

There is no formal admission charge for this event, but donations are expected. The organisers bring their own 20-30 drums to it every week, so they are looking for donations to keep the event going.

The Addison Lodge are inviting local bands, musicians, poets, comedians and performers to share their talents at the new Addison Lodge Open Mic Nights in Glasnevin (opposite the Botanic Gardens). The event will take place every week. Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below.

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.

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

The Dublin Food Co-op is open every Saturday at Newmarket for organic wholefoods and sustainable household products, plus over a dozen producer stalls offering organic fruit and veg., baked goods, dairy produce, wines, hot and cold food, etc. The Co-op is also open on Thursdays 12:00-20:00.

The weekly Honest2goodness food market in Glasnevin has fresh meat, vegetables, fish, baked goods, and wines. It is open from 09:30-16:00. It is behind Lidl in the Industrial Estate just after the Glasnevin Cemetary coming from the City Centre.

Parkrun Ireland is organising free weekly runs in parks. It is a timed run over 5km and participation is completely free, but registration before your first parkrun is required.

The SuperNatural Food Market is taking place every Saturday from 09:30-15:30 in St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Heritage Week 2013 takes place in Ireland from 17-25 August and the Dublin City Public Libraries provide a varied and multi-faceted programme with a certain focus on the 1913 Lockout. Exhibitions and talks will take place in different branch libraries about the slums in Dublin, the Tenements and the Lockout itsel, but there are lots of other events as well if you are not too interested in the Lockout.

In addition several branch libraries will present ‘Kennedy in Ireland’, a programme of films about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Admission to all events is free, but Public Libraries have an obsession about booking, so you have to book with the relevant library. Check out the programme on their website below.

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

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a relatively new weekly market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. Sounds interesting and I will check it out over the coming weeks. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel). www.facebook.com/merchantsindoormarket

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

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

The Nigerian Carnival Ireland 2013 takes place in Furze Road in Phoenix Park. The website doesn’t make it clear what the “Grand Carnival” entails and while I assume there is no admission charge, it doesn’t state that either. But if you are interested in Nigerian Culture and food, then this is probably something for you.

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.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run every Saturday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

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.

As part of Eason’s Get Into Reading campaign, there will be a reading of a specially selected children’s book at 11:00 each Saturday in every Eason store in the country. The schedule of Story Time books, covering mid-June through mid-September, is on the website below.

And children attending the in-store kids’ book readings throughout the summer will receive their own Story Time Reward Card and they will get a special Story Time sticker on their card for each reading they attend. Children who collect three stickers will receive a free copy of Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson. For more information check the website below too.

Five times this year the “People’s Art 2013″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free. Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

This will be the fourth year for “Yoga in the Park” and I think it is a brilliant initiative for a very worthy cause. From May until September, Fiona from www.twopalmsyoga.com and her team of teachers invite to an hour of Yoga in Phoenix Park every Saturday. No booking is required and you decide how much you give, the class is donation based.

All proceeds go to the Dublin Simon Community, a charity that does invaluable work for the homeless people in Dublin. Just bring a mat or a towel, some water and (hopefully) even some sun protection to the class. Should the weather be bad, the bandstand will be shelter or even training location. The training is suitable for all levels, so even total beginners are very welcome.

The Dublin Zine Fair 2013 takes place this weekend. It was founded to support and promote independent publishing, zines and artist books and provides a platform for people to buy and sell independent publications and zines. It also helps zinesters to meet like minded people and enables the scene to grow in Ireland.

All details are on the Facebook Page below, but the important thing is: If you like zines, you have to be there! 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. Dux & Co will offer food and the Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

The current Science Gallery exhibition “ILLUSION: Nothing is as it seems” will run from 12 July-29 Sept and is really interesting. Admission is free.

The exhibition is all about Illusions and it is a “perception-shattering insight into the human mind, playfully combining the techniques used by magicians and explored by psychologists.”

More than 20 installations will deceive your eyes (and ears) and will show you that what we perceive is often radically different from the reality. You will find impressive and amazing things, but nothing will be boring! The exhibition is suitable for all ages, so bring your children or – if you don’t have any – just bring yourself.

I have seen nearly every Science Gallery exhibition and I would say this is definitely one of the best.

ILLUSION was curated by psychologist, author and magician Richard Wiseman, and was researched by deception artist Paul Gleeson and a large group of mediators are available in the gallery to explain all the things that you see (or hear) to you.

Have a look at the website below to see an outline on what is on show. I strongly recommend that you see the show and tell me afterwards what you thought about it: dublineventguide@gmail.com (During the week (Tues-Fri) the exhibition is open until 20:00 and from 12:00 and on Sat+Sun; 12:00-18:00).

As part of the Defence Forces activities in the lead in to the centenary of the foundation of ‘The Irish Volunteers, Óglaigh na hÉireann’ in November 2013, a Ceremonial Military Guard will parade at the site of the ‘National Memorial to Members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State’ at the National Gallery-side of Merrion Square throughout the summer.

Ceremonies will take place every Saturday and units from throughout the Defence Forces and across the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service will participate. The memorial site is a pyramid at the side of Merrion Square. The ceremonies will take place: 13 July at 10:00; 20 & 27 July at 12:00; 3, 10 & 17 August at 12:00 and 24 & 31 August at both 10:00 and 12:00.

Diver Rory Golden will trace the challenges and successes of the original search for, and subsequent artefact recovery expeditions to a unique wreck. This audio visual presentation and lecture includes his own experiences as the first Irish diver to visit the ship on the sea bed nearly 4km deep on two occasions.
Located in the Ceramic Room, first floor. Admission is free, but booking essential via 01 648 6307 . For ages 14+

The next Toejam Car Boot Sales will take place on Saturday in Moxie Studios. This carboot sale was famous when it took place in the backyard of the Bernard Shaw pub and after a loooong pause, it has been resuscitated, which is great news! The original Toejam Carboot Sale was a rather quirky event, will the new version be as cool as the old one?

Let’s hope that the new location will be a success and let’s all flock to Moxie Studios on Saturday.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

An Art & Hobby craft session, face-painting and games will take place at the Pembroke Square area at Dundrum Town Centre. Admission is free.

A “Tango Crawl” will take palce as part of the 11th International Tango Festival in Ireland. It will start outside at the Gaiety Theatre and will and end at Boteco Brazil (Upper Ormond Quay). All are welcome (dancers AND aspiring dancers). No partner required, and bring your friends to cheer on the tango crawlers. At the Boteco Brazil you will be able to rest our feet and enjoy tapas and wine if you wish.

Dress code for the Tango CRawl: wear red and black and bring your umbrella (just in case) and sunglasses too (You never know!)

A free guided walk “Irish Roots: Walking through the Gardens’ Past” and showcases the rich heritage of the gardens.

The Aqualights will perform in the new Beerhouse in Capel Street. Admission is free.

The second Jack of Diamonds Rhythm & Roots Festival takes place from Friday 16 Aug until Sun 18 Aug in multiple venues in the City Centre. Over 100 acts will perform! The venues are all the big ones Button Factory, Whelan’s, Grand Social, Workman’s Club, Mercantile, Sweeney’s, The Globe, Stag’s Head, The Bankers and two outdoor stages in Dame Lane.

On Saturday there will be 37 performances! And admission is free to all gigs.

Check them out on the website below.

Some of the highlights are I Draw Slow, The Annulments, North Strand Kontra Band and Rufus Coates …and there are many more good bands!

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.

This is a weekly Saturday night jazz event in the basement Wine Cave of KC Peaches wholefood restaurant/café. Food will be served until 22:00 and wine, minerals & music will be available until later. Admission is free and a donation into a hat at the end of the evening is appreciated.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are listed on the website below.

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

A various County Council organised markets take place in the Dun Laoghaire area every week. They are farmers’ & food markets but also showcase produce and works of local artists and artisans.

+ People’s Park Market, Dún Laoghaire: Sun 11:00-16:00
+ Marlay Park Market, Rathfarnham: Sat 10:00-16:00 & Sun 11;00-16:00
+ Cabinteely Park Market, Cabinteely: Sun 10:00-16:00

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

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a relatively new weekly market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. Sounds interesting and I will check it out over the coming weeks. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel). www.facebook.com/merchantsindoormarket

Every Sunday, the Merrion Square Open Air Art Gallery takes place. Up to 200 artists exhibit their paintings on the railings on three sides (West, North and East) of Merrion Square and you can just enjoy the exhibition or even buy.

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

In its sixth year this year’s Farmleigh House Plant Fair will take place on Sunday. A wide variety of specialist growers from all over Ireland will have a wide range of special and exotic plants for sale.

Gardener Marie Staunton will talk at two events:
+ Top Tips and Plants for Achieving Colour in the Garden all year round 12:30-13:30pm
+ Gardening with Children – Teach them how to propagate their own plants 15:15-16:25

Dale Treadwell with Fluterbies and Busy Bees will demonstrate and invite to particiapte in novel conservation design and creation events suitable for all the family. A fun way of learning more about butterflies and bees and their impact on human activities. Outdoors. 12:00-17:00

A Childrens Garden with themed activities by Early Childhood Creativity Theatre will run from 11:00-17:00

+ Flower Arrangement Demonstration takes place from 13:45-15:00

The Farmleigh House Food Market runs from 10:00-17:00 and there will be music in the bandstand with the Ardee Concert Band from 14:00-16:00.

The Children’s Art Cart Workshops will be held again in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (01-6770095) every Sunday from 24 March to 22 December 2013. Currently the workshop is still free, but there is a possibility that a fee will be introduced at some point. Children must be over 6 years of age and must be supervised by an adult.
You can’t pre-book, so early arrival is required because there are only 20 places per session.

The themes are:
18 Aug: Trees – what would we do without the them?
25 Aug: Make a Surprise

The Brocante Market will take place on Sun. 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.

There seem to be TWO weekly markets on Long Mile Road and both are very close to each other. One is behind Wigoders on Long Mile Road (across the road from Aldi). It hosts more than 50 stalls and there is also a Cafe on site. www.facebook.com/WigodersLongmileMarket And the other one is just on the other side of the road, next to Aldi. www.facebook.com/TheLongMileRdMarket

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.

Five times this year the “People’s Art 2013″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free. Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

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 Dublin Zine Fair 2013 takes place this weekend. It was founded to support and promote independent publishing, zines and artist books and provides a platform for people to buy and sell independent publications and zines. It also helps zinesters to meet like minded people and enables the scene to grow in Ireland.

All details are on the Facebook Page below, but the important thing is: If you like zines, you have to be there! Admission is free.

The current Science Gallery exhibition “ILLUSION: Nothing is as it seems” will run from 12 July-29 Sept and is really interesting. Admission is free.

The exhibition is all about Illusions and it is a “perception-shattering insight into the human mind, playfully combining the techniques used by magicians and explored by psychologists.”

More than 20 installations will deceive your eyes (and ears) and will show you that what we perceive is often radically different from the reality. You will find impressive and amazing things, but nothing will be boring! The exhibition is suitable for all ages, so bring your children or – if you don’t have any – just bring yourself.

I have seen nearly every Science Gallery exhibition and I would say this is definitely one of the best.

ILLUSION was curated by psychologist, author and magician Richard Wiseman, and was researched by deception artist Paul Gleeson and a large group of mediators are available in the gallery to explain all the things that you see (or hear) to you.

Have a look at the website below to see an outline on what is on show. I strongly recommend that you see the show and tell me afterwards what you thought about it: dublineventguide@gmail.com (During the week (Tues-Fri) the exhibition is open until 20:00 and from 12:00 and on Sat+Sun; 12:00-18:00).

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

A free Demonstration and Workshop of Wood Turning will take place with Kieran Reynolds. Local wood turner Kieran Reynolds works in his home workshop exclusively with Irish grown timber. In the Gardens, he will demonstrate his craft through the day, using Irish-grown wood. He will also display a range of his pieces.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

For Heritage Week a guided walking tour of Beggars Bush Barracks and its surrounds will take place with focus on the areas involvement in the 1916 Rising.

Admission is free, but booking is required and places are limited: 01-6603770

The “Dublin Sketchers” is an informal group of typically hobby artists who go somewhere different in Dublin every Sunday (e.g. National Museum, Maritime Museum, Dublin Flea Market, Farmleigh, Botanic Gardens, Dublin Castle), 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 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!

The Dublin Branch of the Irish Wildlife Trust invites you to join a walk on Howth Head. You will follow the Cliff Top Looped walk and will see and learn about the natural heritage of one of Dublin’s special areas of conservation.

The walk is free and will last approximately 2-2.5 hours. Some parts of the track are a bit tricky and narrow so wear good walking shoes/boots and suitable clothing. The approximate length of the walk will be 6-7km and some areas will be on high ground involving a climb. It may not suit young children but older children from 10 years and up are welcome.

For more information contact and for the required booking contact Rachel at dublinbranch@iwt.ie

A Science Gallery Drawbots workshop will take place in the Pembroke area. You can make your own robot monster that draws pictures when it moves. Admission is free, but come early, places are limited.

Afternoon Jazz in Café en Seine. The Stella Bass Jazz Trio play every Sunday from 14:00-16:00 in Café en Seine in Dawson Street. Admission is free. A video is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aKqtOB5S8

Come to the Family Drawing Sundays in the RHA. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Admission is free. For further information, contact Ruth Carroll on 01 6612558 or via ruth@rhagallery.ie

A free guided walk “Irish Roots: Walking through the Gardens’ Past” and showcases the rich heritage of the gardens.

The Heritage Week event “Phoenix Park Murders of 1882” will take place with Roy Barron. It will be a detailed talk by Roy Barron on the murder of Lord Cavendish and Thomas Burke on 6th May 1882. Admission is free and no booking necessary

A public tour about Impressionism with guide Ciaran Woods will take place and admission is free, but places are limited.

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

The Northside Music Festival got bigger and better! It will run from 03-25 August and there are lots more events this year than in previous years, which is great!

This weekend it has moved to Father Collins Park in Donaghmede and there will be performances by

+ Killer Ceol
+ Parade of the Almost
+ Big September
+ Vann Music
+ Keywest

The Facebook Group for the festival is here the downloadable and printable (but not easily readable) programme brochure is linked below.

Come sail around the collection of boats in the National Museum with Museum Educator Mary-Jane Fitzsimons and see a prehistoric canoe, a mini gold boat and a Viking fishing vessel and make your own boat inspired art collage to take home. Admission is free and no booking required. 20 places, first come basis. Meet at the Reception Desk. For Ages 6+.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. The line-up and links to all bands/performers are available via the Saucy Sundays Facebook Page (see link below).

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

The wedding and party band The Long John Jump Band play every Sunday evening in Café en Seine. Admission is free.

The second Jack of Diamonds Rhythm & Roots Festival takes place from Friday 16 Aug until Sun 18 Aug in multiple venues in the City Centre. Over 100 acts will perform! The venues are all the big ones Button Factory, Whelan’s, Grand Social, Workman’s Club, Mercantile, Sweeney’s, The Globe, Stag’s Head, The Bankers and two outdoor stages in Dame Lane.

Admission is free to all gigs and you find the line up on the website below.

I definitely recommend The Larkfield Four on the Outdoor Stage in Dame Lane at 20:00 and Prison Love at 21:00.

On Sunday both Saucy Sundays and Sunday Roast host Jack of Diamonds performances.

A Jazz gig is taking place in Accents and admission is free.

Every Sunday a band will play from 21:00-22:30, a Latin Beat Club, Brazilian DJs and Salsa Classes (from 18:00) are additional features. Admission is free.

Every Sunday this singer-songwriter night takes place in the Bleeding Horse in Camden St. from 8.30pm. It is an Open mic night and performers can just turn up and put their name on the list for that night.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy downstairs in Stag’s Head, Dame Lane from 21:00 every week on Sun+Mon. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of that there is some free ice cream. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

Rogério from the Brazilian dance project “Forró de Lampião” in Dublin tells me: Forró de Lampião is Brazilian music that has the same roots as Samba and there is a whole culture that has developed around “forro”. Every Sunday, free dance classes take place in the Grand Social (new loation!) and if you are interested, just turn up one Sunday.

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe in Sth Great Georges Street, Dublin 2. It is a Rockabilly, R’n’R, Roots night with alternating (week by week) live bands Pavement Kings, Donna & The Sazzy Catz, The Mosquitoes and The Pacifics from 21:00 and with DJs from 23:00-01:30. 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.

The weekly Sunday Roast is a free event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The line-up for the upcoming Sunday Roast is available via the Sunday Roast Facebook Page (see link below).

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

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

Heritage Week 2013 takes place in Ireland from 17-25 August and the Dublin City Public Libraries provide a varied and multi-faceted programme with a certain focus on the 1913 Lockout. Exhibitions and talks will take place in different branch libraries about the slums in Dublin, the Tenements and the Lockout itsel, but there are lots of other events as well if you are not too interested in the Lockout.

In addition several branch libraries will present ‘Kennedy in Ireland’, a programme of films about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Admission to all events is free, but Public Libraries have an obsession about booking, so you have to book with the relevant library. Check out the programme on their website below.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

During Heritage Week 2013, a free lunchtime tour of the National Print Museum’s permanent exhibition will take place and will allow you to discover the history of letterpress printing in Ireland and beyond. The tours will take place daily from Mon-Fri. Admission is free and no booking required.

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

You are invited to a yoga & relaxation class at Exchange Dublin on Mondays at lunchtime. All levels of experience are welcome. The class will focus on finding and creating space to breathe, relax and expand into the body as we move and practice yoga. Please wear comfortable, loose clothing and bring along a yoga mat if possible. The class is free of charge but donations are welcome.

St. Patrick’s Carthedral are runing a whole range of events for Heritage Week. Every or nearly every day there will be a lunchtime recital at 13:15, a free tour of the cathedral at 15:30, an Organ Recital at 18:30 and an evening talk at 19:30.

Other events are offered as well and incur the normal admission charges.

Check on the page below where all is listed in detail.

“Aspects of surnames in Irish placenames” is a talk with Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich from An Brainse Logainmneacha. He will talk about Irish placenmames and family history. Admission is free and no booking required.

At the Let’s Walk and Talk event “Pearse Street: Link from Medieval times to the port and ancient maritime communities” starts at the National Photographic Archive. The tour will visit both parts of the “Pearse House: Viallge in the City” exhibition (see Exhibition section) and in between Pat Liddy will explain how Dublin Harbour, first placed by the Vikings at Wood Quay continued to move ever more eastwards over the centuries, establishing Pearse Street as an important route for the expanding port.

“Code for Dublin – Hack the Lockout” is a Community Hack Night (organised by Curate Dublin). Expert mentors will facilitate helping you build mobile apps, augmented reality, navigation aids, and citizen journalism. The idea is to assist a soon-to-be launched “Dublin Tenement Experience” museum by inventing digital tools to support their summer events.

Code for Dublin will run weekly through the summer (24 June – 26 August) and will highlight events surrounding dublintenementexperience.com. By the end of the summer you will be a coder/hacker and will have helped tell the story of Dublin’s past and life in the tenements.

Participation is free, but a donation of EUR 5 is requested to cover the cost of renting the venue and food/snack. Bring your Laptop (or tablet with keyboard) so that you can participate fully. If you have trouble finding the place, ring Shannon on 086-2282551. Free tickets and more information can be obtained on www.eventbrite.com/event/7226421421/eorg

This is not an activity or an event in Dublin, but it is an institution and takes place in Tralee, but you can watch it stretched out painfully over two nights (Monday + Tuesday). The Rose of Tralee Selection Night is, hmmm, what should I call it…. It is different! And strange and odd.

If you grew up in Ireland you have your own memories, but imagine a Marsian just had landed and you need to explain (or justify) the Rose of Tralee event.

If you have never seen it, watch a few minutes and experience a sort of Irish culture that seems hundreds of years out of place but is still going very strong. RTE One will show it.

Many people have Eurovision parties every year. In the same spirit maybe there should be Rose of Tralee parties. Or is this institution maybe to sacrosanct for that? ;-)

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 Monday Echo is a weekly songwriter and poetry live showcase held on Mondays in the basement of The International Bar. Usually, the show has 3 songwriters and 3 poets who perform for roughly 20 minutes each. Admission is free.
The weekly line-up can be found via the Facebook Page below.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

The 4-piece band Loose Trad are performing every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. www.loosetrad.com/ Admission is free.

Every Monday, a mix of musicians from bands like The Seven Deadly Skins / Animal Cracker / Upbeat Generation / Crete Boom & more come together to play a free night of Rock & Reggae.

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

These free workshop for children with parents are very limited in numbers, so if you are interested, check out the details on the website below and book as soon as possible,

The Marine Experience is an exciting workshop which is designed to introduce all age groups to the wonders of Ireland’s marine world. All sessions include a popular touch pool, giving people a chance to engage with live sea creatures! There will be an interactive display with authentic marine life bringing Ireland’s fascinating underwater world into your world as well as interesting specimens ranging from whale baleen and lobster claws to starfish and shark egg cases.

Heritage Week 2013 takes place in Ireland from 17-25 August and the Dublin City Public Libraries provide a varied and multi-faceted programme with a certain focus on the 1913 Lockout. Exhibitions and talks will take place in different branch libraries about the slums in Dublin, the Tenements and the Lockout itsel, but there are lots of other events as well if you are not too interested in the Lockout.

In addition several branch libraries will present ‘Kennedy in Ireland’, a programme of films about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Admission to all events is free, but Public Libraries have an obsession about booking, so you have to book with the relevant library. Check out the programme on their website below.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will on Tuesday now as well. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

A guided walk “History of the Clock Tower” with Don Ross. (Meet at Farmleigh House Reception at 11:00). Participation is free.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

During Heritage Week 2013, a free lunchtime tour of the National Print Museum’s permanent exhibition will take place and will allow you to discover the history of letterpress printing in Ireland and beyond. The tours will take place daily from Mon-Fri. Admission is free and no booking required.

“Roman Catholic parish registers: a vital 19th century source” with Máire MacConghail from the Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland is a talk about researching Catholic parish registers. Admission is free and no booking required.

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

St. Patrick’s Carthedral are runing a whole range of events for Heritage Week. Every or nearly every day there will be a lunchtime recital at 13:15, a free tour of the cathedral at 15:30, an Organ Recital at 18:30 and an evening talk at 19:30.

Other events are offered as well and incur the normal admission charges.

Check on the page below where all is listed in detail.

Enjoy a walk to Smithfield through a part of Dublin’s northside with an intriguing history going back many centuries. Admission is free.

A Capoeira workshop takes place in the Exchange in Monday and admission is free.

At this Musical Trip from the Battle of the Boyne to the Siege of Limerick, take a tour through music of one of Ireland’s most historical periods – The War of the Two Kings, or the Williamite War in Ireland. This concert will take the audience from the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 to the culmination of the war at the Siege of Limerick in 1691, taking in the many events that occurred between.

The concert is presented by ‘Lilibulero’, a new Irish music fusion ensemble from County Roscommon with Annie McNally (Fiddle), Neasa O’Callaghan (Harps) and Sean Hanily (Accordion and Keyboards). Admission is free.

This is an open mic night with Special Guests. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play and if you are a performer you get a free beer. Admission is free.

A meeting group for women (age 18 and over) to learn to celebrate femininity, discuss themes ideas and philosophies, share, heal, drink tea, support each other, have some fun and make new friends. Discover and celebrate your inner Goddesses together.

Admission is free, but donations of up to EUR 5 to cover tea and for the use of the space are appreciated.

This is not an activity or an event in Dublin, but it is an institution and takes place in Tralee, but you can watch it stretched out painfully over two nights (Monday + Tuesday). The Rose of Tralee Selection Night is, hmmm, what should I call it…. It is different! And strange and odd.

If you grew up in Ireland you have your own memories, but imagine a Marsian just had landed and you need to explain (or justify) the Rose of Tralee event.

If you have never seen it, watch a few minutes and experience a sort of Irish culture that seems hundreds of years out of place but is still going very strong. RTE One will show it.

Many people have Eurovision parties every year. In the same spirit maybe there should be Rose of Tralee parties. Or is this institution maybe to sacrosanct for that? ;-)

Open Mic Night with The Last Tycoons in O’Donoghue’s on Suffolk Street every Tues from 20:00. It’s free and anyone can get up, sing a song or do whatever they like.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

The Plateau Sessions, an open mic night with special guest will take place on Tuesday. The special guest line-up is not yet announced, so check the website closer to the events.

Exchange Words, a new scriptwriting (film and theatre) group is starting up again. It is a safe space where writers, artists and actors can come together to collaborate, create and have fun. The workshop is free and open to all.

More detail is here

www.exchangedublin.ie/ai1ec_event/exchange-words-is-back?instance_id=1296118

The weekly “Grand Folk Club” will feature Trad, Ballads, Americana, Folk, World Music & More. This Tuesday, the line-up is: Blind Willies (US) and Delve (UK). Admission is free.

White Chocolate is playing Rock Covers from 23:30 in The Mezz in Temple Bar.

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

Heritage Week 2013 takes place in Ireland from 17-25 August and the Dublin City Public Libraries provide a varied and multi-faceted programme with a certain focus on the 1913 Lockout. Exhibitions and talks will take place in different branch libraries about the slums in Dublin, the Tenements and the Lockout itsel, but there are lots of other events as well if you are not too interested in the Lockout.

In addition several branch libraries will present ‘Kennedy in Ireland’, a programme of films about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Admission to all events is free, but Public Libraries have an obsession about booking, so you have to book with the relevant library. Check out the programme on their website below.

Join curator Lar Joye for this outside walking tour to explore the site of the Royal Barracks, now known as Collins Barracks, within the grounds of what is now the National Museum of Ireland. This walking tour starts and ends in Collins Barracks. Booking required at 01-6486453. Suitable for adults.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

The Herzog Centre and HETI Public Lecture “Auschwitz, the East and the Nazi Imagination” with Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt (University of Waterloo) will take place.

““Homes for Heroes” Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust” is a talk by Elizabeth Craven and Margaret Bonar from the Old Killester Society in the family history research series of lectures in the NLI. Admission is free and no booking required.

During Heritage Week 2013, a free lunchtime tour of the National Print Museum’s permanent exhibition will take place and will allow you to discover the history of letterpress printing in Ireland and beyond. The tours will take place daily from Mon-Fri. Admission is free and no booking required.

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

St. Patrick’s Carthedral are runing a whole range of events for Heritage Week. Every or nearly every day there will be a lunchtime recital at 13:15, a free tour of the cathedral at 15:30, an Organ Recital at 18:30 and an evening talk at 19:30.

Other events are offered as well and incur the normal admission charges.

Check on the page below where all is listed in detail.

A new multimedia exhibition opens in the National Library on Wednesday. “The Dublin Lockout” tells the story about the 5 month of conflict between workers and employers in 1913.

Items on display at the NLI exhibition will include Jim Larkin’s scribbled advice to union colleagues before he was arrested, urging that “all must work together”, alongside the details of that arrest in the Dublin Metropolitan Police records. Films and interactive touchscreens will allow visitors to explore the experiences of the people who lived through this complex conflict.

The exhibition will be at No 2 Kildare Street until March 2014 and admission is free.

I read up a little about this conflict and it doesn’t all sound that straght forward! The unions seem to want to glorify the union leader Jim Larkin and there is even a whole day of Lockout celebrations planned in O’Connell Street on 31 August. But when you look into it a bit further, it becomes more and more doubtful that the employers were the clear baddies and the unions were the goodies. So, go to the exhibition and make up your own mind. Hopefully the exhibition is reasonably balanced.

Coolock: The Litttle Corner is the title of this Let’s Walk & Talk event. Meet outside the Spar shop, Coolock Village, Malahide Road, Dublin 5. – Once a quiet, almost rural village, Coolock has been caught up in urban sprawl but still retains that sense of a village and historic neighbourhood. Take a tour around the area as Pat Liddy delves into its historic past. Admission is free.

Traditional Irish Music in the Gardens with Mick O’Brien and family will take place. You will hear uilleánn pipes, whistle and flute, banjo and fiddle and harp. 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 book launch of “Heart-shaped” by Siobhan Parkinson takes place. Her book is a companion novel to the bestselling ‘Bruised’ and is for young adults. Admission is free.

An interesting duo of a classical trained violinist and a reggae-loving guitarist. The Trouble Notes perform in Whelan’s a free gig.

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in the Mercantile. Each week 6-7 bands/solo artists play three songs each. At the end of all the performances a clap-off with the King Kong Club Clap-o-Meter takes place and the winner goes through to a semi-final and it all culminates after six months of competition with The Grand Final, held in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

The list of performers is not yet announced on their Facebook Page and I am not sure if it will be put up there, but check it anyway.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

“The Song Room” is another open mic event. It takes place in The Globe in George’s Street at 20:30 every Wednesday.

“The Zodiac Sessions” is a regular open mic event from 20:30 in Bruxelles (between Grafton Street and Westbury Hotel) for unsigned musicians. Admission is free and there is a different line-up every week.

Bad Boy Jake are every Wednesday in the Gypsy Rose Rock & Blues Bar playing their rock, blues and American.

The next Inn Jokes Comedy Club organised and MCd by comedian Colm O’Regan is taking place on Wednesday. The line-up is John Colleary, Jack Wise and Sean Nolan. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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).

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

“Fragments of Lives Past: Archaeological objects from Irish road schemes” is a seminar/series of talks that will take place on Thursday as part of the National Heritage Week. It will explore the theme of archaeological objects and what they tell us about the past peoples of Ireland. You will look at the artefacts and emphasise the human or individual aspects behind the actual objects. Speakers at this year’s seminar will be from Ireland and from abroad.

There will also be hands-on workshops giving people the opportunity to touch and examine a number of replicas and talk to the archaeologists who made them using traditional methods and techniques.

For more information contact lbutler@nra.ie

Heritage Week 2013 takes place in Ireland from 17-25 August and the Dublin City Public Libraries provide a varied and multi-faceted programme with a certain focus on the 1913 Lockout. Exhibitions and talks will take place in different branch libraries about the slums in Dublin, the Tenements and the Lockout itsel, but there are lots of other events as well if you are not too interested in the Lockout.

In addition several branch libraries will present ‘Kennedy in Ireland’, a programme of films about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Admission to all events is free, but Public Libraries have an obsession about booking, so you have to book with the relevant library. Check out the programme on their website below.

Carmelite Community & Priory Gathering Weekend will take place from Thursday until Saturday with St. Therese of Lisieux Exhibition on all three days and a Historical Exhibition about the local area.

On Thursday there is a Architectural & Social Walk (12:00-14:00) and on Friday at 13:00 a Let’s Walk and Talk event with Pat Liddy takes place.

On Friday a free Musical & Choral Concert in Whitefriar Street Church will take place from 18:00 with Francis Black, New Dublin Voices Choir, Whitefriar Street Choir, Whitefriar Street Junior Choir, Noel O’Grady with Whitefriar Strings & Yops and Organist Joe Fitzgerald.

The event poster is here: www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/Events/Documents/AungierStreet.pdf

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The Dublin Food Co-op is open every Thursday at Newmarket for organic wholefoods and sustainable household products, plus over a dozen producer stalls offering organic fruit and veg., baked goods, dairy produce, wines, hot and cold food, etc.
The Co-op is also opened on Saturdays 09:30 – 16:30. 12:00-20:00.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

“New genealogical resources from the National Archives” with Catriona Crowe will be a talk on new sources for family history research at the National Archives. Admission is free and no booking is required,

During Heritage Week 2013, a free lunchtime tour of the National Print Museum’s permanent exhibition will take place and will allow you to discover the history of letterpress printing in Ireland and beyond. The tours will take place daily from Mon-Fri. Admission is free and no booking required.

In its 13th year, Dublin City Council’s Art Office is inviting you to “Opera in the Open” every Thursday at 13:00 during August. Admission is free and the programme for 2013 is:
01 August: Tosca (Puccini)
08 August: Werther (Massenet)
15 August: The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
22 August: L’Elisir D’Amore (Donizetti)
29 August: Candide (Bernstein)
The leaflet is here: www.dublincity.ie/Press/Documents/OperaInThePark.pdf

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

The Lunchtime Talk “Conserving the Past, Training for the Future” with Julia Poirier, Heritage Council Intern, Chester Beatty Library is taking place as part of Heritage Week.

Fergal Warren (piano) will perform pieces by Schubert, Ravel and Gershwin.

St. Patrick’s Carthedral are runing a whole range of events for Heritage Week. Every or nearly every day there will be a lunchtime recital at 13:15, a free tour of the cathedral at 15:30, an Organ Recital at 18:30 and an evening talk at 19:30.

Other events are offered as well and incur the normal admission charges.

Check on the page below where all is listed in detail.

At this workshop for kids, be a plant collector. Join an expedition through the gardens identifying and collecting suitable plants for pressing before constructing your own flower press and starting your very own dried plant collection.
Meet at the Education and Visitors Center. Pre-book via 01 857 0909 is required. Admission is free.

The “Heritage Week Tour: Collins Barracks and its environs – a local perspective” with Cillian MacDonagh is an outdoor walking tour that will look at the history of the Stoneybatter area from a local perspective. Starts and ends at Collins Barracks.Booking required on 01-6486453. Suitable for adults.

Live Music performance at the Mill Pond and you will find out closer to the date on the website below, who will perform. Oh the suspense!

Trade Union members and local historians are celebrating the 1913 Lockout from 22-25 Aug. On Thursday at 18:30 the official opening will take place and on Friday from 19:00-21:00 a Walking Tour of Dun Laoghaire’s historic places will take place. Unfortunately it is not mentioned if there is an admission charge for either of the two events.

Check out the PDF programme brochure here. There seems to be neither a website nor a facebook page. In true 1913 fashion, it is back to paper, luckily high-tech reached the “Dun Laogahire 1913 Commemorative Committee” somewhat and they discovered PDFs.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run next Thursday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The launch of two new Poetry Collections: Fine Lament by Rachel Warriner & Exteroceptive by Sarah Hayden will take place and all indications are that admission is free.

The Rectifiers will perform a free gig in Whelan’s.

The Jewish Historical Society of Ireland invites: Aidan Beatty will talk about “Language and the Nationalist Return to History: A Comparison of the Hebrew and Gaelic Revivals” on Thursday- Admission is free, but booking is required on 085 7067357

And another Capoeira workshop takes place in the Exchange in on Thursday after the Monday course. Admission is free.

Dimestore Recordings run a weekly event in Sweeney Mongrel’s, Dame Street (formerly Le Cirk) with a variety of bands and performers. It starts at 20:00, follow the link for the line up.

After the success of Top 10 hit “New Tattoo” Tommy Moore Band are playing a Free gig to thank everyone for their support over the past month. Lead by Tommy this 8 piece acoustic band is a vehicle for his songwriting and compositions ranging from folk to jazz.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

Bad Boy Jake are every Thursday until the end of February in the newly re-opened Rathmines Inn, playing their rock, blues and Americana.

The Max Zaska group and the Patrick Groenland group will perform on alternating Thursdays from 21:00 in the International Bar on 23 Wicklow Street.

A showcase of some of the best upcoming bands and performers, featuring 5 or more diverse Dublin acts each week playing sets of original new songs. Find out the line-up on the Facebook Page below. Admission is free.

“Thirsty Thursday” Open Mic Night from 21:00 in the Bridge Inn in Chapelizod Village.

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

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing. Until the end of August, that Thursday Session is part of the Steeple Sessions programme (www.steeplesessions.com )

Spies & Beach plus guests are performing in the Zebra Club slot. Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30. The gig will start at midnight.

Last chance!! Today is the last day to vote:

To have a chance to get funding from the Arthur Guinness Projects (AGP) Fund, I need you to support the Dublin Event Guide with your daily vote on the AGP page here: www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/dublin-event-guide The first time you go there you either need to register or you can use your Facebook account to identify yourself. Every other day it is even simpler. Just log in every morning by following the link above, click on vote and that’s it! The leading projects have all their supporters rallied to regularly vote. YOU will benefit from it if we do that too! Please vote every day!! Thanks!

The National Heritage Week takes place from 17-25 August and approx. 320 (!!) events take place in the greater Dublin area. Not all are free, but the majority of the events is free. You can imagine that that far exceeds the capacity of this Dublin Event Guide, so I will not be able to list them.

Instead I suggest that you go here www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search (The Detailed Search didn’t work for me, but the Broad Search did.)

Alternatively you can download the events list in PDF format here:

Dublin City (43 pages for Dublin City alone)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire.Rathdown
Dublin Fingal
Dublin South County

So, spend a bit of time to plan your Heritage Week events, it is worth it.

This is a cool art installation! Every year for the last 11 years, a group of sculptors turns more than eighty tons of sand in a unique exhibition/installation outside in the Upper Courtyard of Dublin Castle.

This year’s theme for the sculptures is “The Bright Side” and will show what is good about Ireland and being Irish. Four big sand sculptures have been carved into heavily compacted sand by the artists from Duthain Dealbh (Irish Sand Sculpture) and the exhibition will run from 06-28 Aug and all will disappear on 29 Aug.

The exhibition is impressive and I strongly recommend it. MASSIVE “sandcastles” impress small and tall kids! :-) Admission is free.

Carmelite Community & Priory Gathering Weekend will take place from Thursday until Saturday with St. Therese of Lisieux Exhibition on all three days and a Historical Exhibition about the local area.

On Thursday there is a Architectural & Social Walk (12:00-14:00) and on Friday at 13:00 a Let’s Walk and Talk event with Pat Liddy takes place.

On Friday a free Musical & Choral Concert in Whitefriar Street Church will take place from 18:00 with Francis Black, New Dublin Voices Choir, Whitefriar Street Choir, Whitefriar Street Junior Choir, Noel O’Grady with Whitefriar Strings & Yops and Organist Joe Fitzgerald.

The event poster is here: www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/Events/Documents/AungierStreet.pdf

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings and is increasing it to a daily screening in the summer months. The times vary a little from day to day (for the double bill on Saturdays 12:45), so make sure that you check the link below for the relevant day.

The daily programmes are
01+04+06+08+12+14+16+18+20+22+26+28+30 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-free/
02+05+07+09+11+13+15+19+21+23+25+27+29 Aug: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-2-free/
03+10+17+24+31 Aug: Saturday Double Bill www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-free/

“Dating Irish family photographs” with historian and blogger Orla Fitzpatrick will be a talk on using photographs for family history research. Admission is free and booking is not required.

During Heritage Week 2013, a free lunchtime tour of the National Print Museum’s permanent exhibition will take place and will allow you to discover the history of letterpress printing in Ireland and beyond. The tours will take place daily from Mon-Fri. Admission is free and no booking required.

For July and August, the National Gallery is inviting to near daily summer talks (two talks of 30 min, Mon-Sat) on aspects of Irish & European art. All talks take place in the National Gallery Lecture Theatre and admission is free. No booking is required.

The themes are:

+ Monday & Thursday: 13:00: Early 20th century Irish art / 15:00: Highlights of the Gallery’s Collection
+ Tuesday & Friday: 13:00: The World of Jack B. Yeats / 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection
+ Wednesday: 13:00: Exploring a Picture / 15:00: Aspects of Irish Art
+ Saturday: 15:00: Masterpieces of the European Collection

The Lunchtime Talk “Lifting the Veil: Mounting Tibetan Thangkas at the Chester Beatty Library” with Karen Horton, Independent Textile Conservator is part of Heritage Week.

St. Patrick’s Carthedral are runing a whole range of events for Heritage Week. Every or nearly every day there will be a lunchtime recital at 13:15, a free tour of the cathedral at 15:30, an Organ Recital at 18:30 and an evening talk at 19:30.

Other events are offered as well and incur the normal admission charges.

Check on the page below where all is listed in detail.

A 1-hour long Zumba class will take place in the Pembroke Square area, Admission is free.

A free Greek and European Folk Dance class open to all. Contact Katerini Papathanasiou on papath.kat@gmail.com

Trade Union members and local historians are celebrating the 1913 Lockout from 22-25 Aug. On Thursday at 18:30 the official opening will take place and on Friday from 19:00-21:00 a Walking Tour of Dun Laoghaire’s historic places will take place. Unfortunately it is not mentioned if there is an admission charge for either of the two events.

Check out the PDF programme brochure here. There seems to be neither a website nor a facebook page. In true 1913 fashion, it is back to paper, luckily high-tech reached the “Dun Laogahire 1913 Commemorative Committee” somewhat and they discovered PDFs.

The Stoney Brokes will perform a free gig in Whelan’s on Friday.

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.

“Dublin Tribal Spirit” is a weekly event that gives you the great experience of a drumming circle with african drums and authentic tribal rhythms. Tom and Sinead, who run that event are providing lots of drums for it and teach you the rhythms.

There is no formal admission charge for this event, but donations are expected. The organisers bring their own 20-30 drums to it every week, so they are looking for donations to keep the event going.

The Addison Lodge are inviting local bands, musicians, poets, comedians and performers to share their talents at the new Addison Lodge Open Mic Nights in Glasnevin (opposite the Botanic Gardens). The event takes place every week. Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below.

Australian Rhythm & Blues Band “Finn” will perform in Mother Reilly’s on Friday. Admission is free.

The Vincent(s) will perform in Whelan’s in the Midnight Hour. Admission is free before 22:30.