Dublin Event Guide 402: National Tree Week Launch, Jupiter Watch, First Wednesday, Five Lamps Arts Festival, World Book Day

A weekly car boot sale, one of less than a handful that is still reliably taking place, has up to 200 cars/sellers. The stadium is just a few minutes walk from the Red LUAS line stop and numerous bus stops. For traders the Car Boot Sale opens at 06:30 for buyers from 08:00. If you are interested in selling, check the details and register on their website.

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

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

One of the AONTAS Adult Learner Festival events is a free visit to the Marsh’s Library next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. You can take part in a treasure trail there and have a look at the exhibition and the library. To get in for free (any day of the week apart from Tuesday when they are closed) you will have to mention that your visit is because of the AONTAS festival!

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

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

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

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

An extensive exhibition of Bonsai from Andrew J. Murray’s collection will be on display in the Teak House from 28 Feb throughout March. Watch the Bonsai burst back into life, displaying the splendid spring foliage of maples, flowering quince and cherries, and many other interesting plants.

Admission is free.

The Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. Admission is free.

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

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

This half-day seminar by the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland will feature a number of contributors to the recently published book “Periodicals and Journalism in Twentieth Century Ireland” (Mark O’Brien and Felix M Larkin, editors). They will discuss the Irish periodicals of the period, with a focus on their journalistic aspects.

The full list of speakers and topics together with a schedule can be found via the website below. Admission is free to the seminar and no booking required.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

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.

The workshops encourage creative thinking, help to build dexterity and introduce children to new design/craft skills through playful experimentation with materials, techniques and ideas.

The hands-on design and crafting workshops begin with a tour of the gallery, specially designed to get you in the mood for creating. The 60 minute workshops are designed for 5+ children with parents / guardians. The 10:30 session is suitable for 5-8 years and the 12:00 session is more advanced for 9-13 years.

Admission is free, but places are limited, to book email DesignHub@IrishDesign2015.ie For info on upcoming FAMILY DAYS see the website below.

The next themes are:
28 Feb: BUILDING BRICKS with Kate Murtagh
14 Mar: STITCHED SLIOTARS with Gabi McGrath

Join historian Laura Fitzachary on a journey mapping the origins and stories behind the creation of Ireland’s most precious metalwork such as the Ardagh Chalice, the Shrine of St Lachtín’s Arm, St Patrick’s Bell and the Cathach.

Admission is free. Meet at Reception. 20 places allocated on a first come basis. No booking required. Suitable for afe 12+

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.

In the Chinese astrology chart you have a year animal, month animal, day animal and hour animal? What does the year ahead hold for you?

Bring your date and time of birth, and meet Ting-Foon Chik, Chinese astrologer and feng shui consultant, for a mini reading of your natal (four pillars) chart.

There will be readings from 11:30-12:30 and from 14:00-15:00 and from 15:30-16:30. Admission is free and no booking required, but places are limited.

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

The weekly Ha’penny Flea Market is an indoor market in the Grand Social Pub, which offers vintage Men and Women’s clothing, contemporary crafts, books, DVDs, vinyl records, vintage and handmade jewellery, vintage hair styles, art, photography and much more. Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

“Lifelogging – Do you count?” is the title of the newest Science Gallery exhibition, which started on Friday 13 Feb and will run until 12 April.

Lifelogging is part exhibition, part Science Gallery Lab where you can take part in research projects and it deals with us tracking ourselves, measuring things we do and logging everything from heartbeat to heartbreak.

Get a taste for tracking as you play games with your emotions, use your brainwaves to sort files, generate music wearing sensors, and explore a virtual world filled with real dreams and memories.

The exhibits at this exhibition are fascinating: There is George Reynolds who recorded his health on paper since 2003. A sensible and understandable version of lifelogging. On the other end of the spectrum is Alberto Frigo who takes a picture every times he holds an object with his right hand. He started in 2003 and plans to continue until 2040. On the surface it doesn’t make sense AT ALL. But when you talk to him, you find out that there is a surprising sense to what he does.

The exhibition contains 16 exhibits some so odd that you should get the super helpful and knowledgeable Science Gallery mediators to help you understand what is behind it.

In one area, every week another group/organisation will involve you in their work (the Lab part) and I will explain their project in a separate event posting in the weekly Dublin Event Guide.

Admission to the Science Gallery is free. Opening hours are Tues-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Digital Memory Self”.

Learn about the work of the INSIGHT Centre in DCU, creating digital and external memories from sensors and images, and how they are teaching technology to recognise objects. Visitors will get the opportunity to test and explore a variety of devices and data visualisation.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery and to the workshops and events listed above is free, but booking via the website below is required.

At this “Live Satellite Image Capture Event”, join Cliona Harmey as she demonstrates the technology used in creating her installation Fixed Elsewhere.

The artist will capture live weather satellite images in real time from about 500 miles up in the sky and talk through the processes involved. The demonstrations will be timed in relation to passing satellites at the following times: 12:53, 14:34, 15:47 and 15:59. You should arrive approx. 15 minutes prior to the times listed.

An area will also be available for children to make sculptures inspired by satellite aerials.

Admission is free.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

On Friday 27 Feb and Sat 28 Feb the Oesophageal Cancer Fund is celebrating Lollipop, their main fundraising day.

The Dublin Gospel Choir helps the Fund to collect money by entertaining you at lunchtime on Friday in Henry Street and after lunch from 13:45-15:00 on Saturday in Grafton Street (outside Dunnes).

Lollipop Day involves thousands of volunteers selling lollipops and pins nationwide to raise funds, awareness and support for oesophageal cancer.

“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 at least 1 day in advance is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Learn how to make Chinese Kites and Fans. The events are suitable for children aged 7-12 years. Places are limited so booking is required via 01-674 4888

The next Progressive Theatre Film Screening is this Saturday. Two films will be screened. At 14:30 it is “London Burning”, about the riots in London and the second film is “The Apples of the Golan” at 15:30, the story of one of the five remaining Arab villages in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Find more details about the event and about the films on the website below.

Admission is free, but donations are very welcome.

An event introducing the Italian Region “Friuli Venezia Giulia” will let you find out more about the flavours and traditions of this part of Northern Italy.

A workshop about food & wine tourism in Friuli, an exhibition, a performance by a Friulan singer and a wine reception are the main items on the schedule for the afternoon. More details are on the website below.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

An open day for prospective new choristers takes place in the Church Hall of St. Kevin’s Church.

The Dublin Choral Foundation invites talented, enthusiastic, musical boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 14 to come and meet the members of Piccolo Lasso and have some fun. During the afternoon activities children will sing alongside the boys and girls of Piccolo Lasso, find out what they get up to, try on choir robes and participate in a performance.

For further information and to register contact Aoife Daly on 01 903 6211

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet in Clontarf on the seafront car park, on Clontarf Road, opposite the Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club for a public star-gazing. Members bring along their telescopes and share the wonders of the night-sky with you. Admission is free.

The event is weather dependent, so check www.irishastrosoc.org/events/events.htm after 18:00 on the night in the case of poor weather, to check if it is going ahead.

Live in Sin É will feature a variety of bands and musicians at this weekly gig night on Saturdays. The event is presented by Super Happy Funtimes. Admission is free and the line-up is can be found on the Facebook Page below.

The line-up is: Buunny & The Banned Its, Kerouacm, Shrub’s Duo.

Every Saturday Robert Coyle will bring his One-man Comedy show “Robert Coyle’s is feeling Numinous; Comedy Attempting Transcendence – probably NOT a cult.” to Accents Cafe.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event 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 acoustic blues band “One Horse Pony” is back in Whelan’s for a free gig.

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.

Sweeney’s Crew take control of the top floor on the last Saturday of every month. Hosting their favourite acts from home and abroad brings you a line-up of the hottest new bands around. Expect rock’n’roll, reggae, pop, bluegrass, blues, disco, folk, indie and everything in between.

The line-up this month is Mongrel State, Kingston, ETC, Canaries

Admission is free.

The popular Kings of Leon cover band “Knights of Leon” will be in Dalkey for a free gig and admission is free.

Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) is an international Irish language festival from 01-17 March. A variety of events will take place during that time and you can find them all here www.snag.ie/en/events/

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 Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

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.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

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

The well known Palestrina Choir sing every Sunday at the mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. They sing complete masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Palestrina, de Victoria, usually accompanied by Prof. Gerard Gillen on the organ, who often also plays a solo piece.

The next Pure Vintage Fair will take place this week and it is what it says on the tin. A market/flea market for vintage items, which will take place on the first Sunday of every month. There will be vintage clothes, furniture, collectibles, jewellery and many more vintage items.

Sounds interesting and with 30 stalls, it is well worth a visit. There will also be food, hot drinks and a DJ. 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.

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.

“Lifelogging – Do you count?” is the title of the newest Science Gallery exhibition, which started on Friday 13 Feb and will run until 12 April.

Lifelogging is part exhibition, part Science Gallery Lab where you can take part in research projects and it deals with us tracking ourselves, measuring things we do and logging everything from heartbeat to heartbreak.

Get a taste for tracking as you play games with your emotions, use your brainwaves to sort files, generate music wearing sensors, and explore a virtual world filled with real dreams and memories.

The exhibits at this exhibition are fascinating: There is George Reynolds who recorded his health on paper since 2003. A sensible and understandable version of lifelogging. On the other end of the spectrum is Alberto Frigo who takes a picture every times he holds an object with his right hand. He started in 2003 and plans to continue until 2040. On the surface it doesn’t make sense AT ALL. But when you talk to him, you find out that there is a surprising sense to what he does.

The exhibition contains 16 exhibits some so odd that you should get the super helpful and knowledgeable Science Gallery mediators to help you understand what is behind it.

In one area, every week another group/organisation will involve you in their work (the Lab part) and I will explain their project in a separate event posting in the weekly Dublin Event Guide.

Admission to the Science Gallery is free. Opening hours are Tues-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

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 Sharon Carty, mezzo-soprano Jonathan Ware, piano Franz Schubert – Songs

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Digital Memory Self”.

Learn about the work of the INSIGHT Centre in DCU, creating digital and external memories from sensors and images, and how they are teaching technology to recognise objects. Visitors will get the opportunity to test and explore a variety of devices and data visualisation.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery and to the workshops and events listed above is free, but booking via the website below is required.

This is a bit outside of Dublin, but still easily reachable by bus (or car):

The OPW in association with the Tree Council and Coillte are launching the ESB sponsored “National Tree Week” on Sunday.

There will be Tree and Nature walks of the Castletown parklands with Rory Finnegan (Trees and Wildlife), Eanna Ní Leamhna (Flora and Fauna) and Joe McConville (Landscape). And in the stables are demonstrations of Woodcarving, Pyrography and Beekeeping. And the National Tree Council will hand out 1,000 tree saplings from the Stable Wing.

Admission to the event is free.

You can drive their via the M4 using Exit 6 (Celbridge West) or use Dublin Bus: 67 from Merrion Square to Main Street Celbridge (followed by a 10 minute walk through the parklands).

There is a Courtyard Café (Open Thurs-Sun 10:00-16:00) and tours of the house resume on Sat 14 March-31 Oct. The restored 18th century designed parklands are open daily.

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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!

An unspecified Gospel Choir will entertain diners on Sunday in the Church Restaurant at this Gospel Brunch.

Marriage Equality supporters are invited to come to a day long #ShareTheLove party at The Harbour Bar in Bray on Sunday.

This flagship event to fund the national campaign for a “Yes” Vote in the Referendum in May is a day of entertainment and will start at 14:00 with a photocall. There will be some speakers from “Marriage Equality” and the you can watch the rugby on the big screens.

Live music will start at 17:30 with with singer-songwriter Luke Maloney, Folk-rocker Jamie Duff from 18:10. Fingerstyle guitar with Robbie Doyle from 18:50. Then there is Dylan Walshe, London based alt/roots musician and songwriter from 19:45. Jazz and folk from the female 3-piece Mongoose at 21:00 and it will come to the end Sligo roots/country rockers Old Hannah from 22:15.

It is a fundraiser so money is coming into it at some point, but it seems that admission is free and the money is raised through donations.

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

Join Michael Kenny, Keeper Emeritus, on a tour which takes in some of the key objects on display in the Museum’s decorative arts exhibitions, including the scientific instruments. You can find select objects from this collection presented in the exhibition Trove at IMMA.

Admission is free, but booking is required on 01-6777444.

Featuring vocal students from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama, the gripping story of Poppea, one of the greatest social climbers in ancient Rome is played out in scenes from Monteverdi’s operatic masterpiece ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’.

Admission is free, but booking is required via conservatory@dit.ie and because it is highly likely that nobody will get your e-mail before it is too late, you might want to risk going to the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday with the hope that you will be allowed in. But be prepared that the event might be booked out and you will be sent away.

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.

A talk by Deirdre McParland entitled “St. James’s Gate Brewery and its link to the Phoenix Park” will take place on Sunday. Admission is free.

Brian Keary is a classically trained guitar player who also has experience of different styles / genres of music ranging from ragtime and folk to baroque and contemporary. He will perform in Sweeney’s (Ground Floor) on Sunday afternoon.

The monthly meeting of the Humanist Association is this month featuring the talk “Recovery from Additiction” with Willie Collins (PhD).

The presentation will look at misuse issues that affect us all. The Irish society has accepted excessive drinking as a normal part of social life. Almost every extended family in Ireland is affected by the issue of alcohol and substance misuse or addiction to gambling.

There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions. Admission is free and registration is not required.

The Spanish Restaurant Zaragoza invites to their Taps and Jazz Dinner on Sunday. Diners will be entertained by Elva MacGowan (vocals) and Bryan Mullen (piano), performing live jazz, a touch of blues and some soul. No cover charge.

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

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

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).

In short, the line-up is: The River Fane, WOB, Ross Breen & Band, Kevin Casey, Joey Gavin & Band.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass is back after the summer break and invites you to a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street every Sunday at 19:30.

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.

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! ;-)

At the Gig for the Homeless – Part 2, 10 acts will perform on 2 stages and the line-up is: Sinead White, Matt Mc Ginn, Suzanne Savage, Dan Bradley, Red Moon Bayonets, Mongrel State, The Meaders, The Dublin City Rounders plus some surprises.

The gig has been pulled together by Abner Browns Man in Hat.

This is a charity gig for homeless people, so your money is needed and a donation of EUR 5 is suggested.

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.

At the Jawbone Gig night in Sin É, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free. For the line-up check here www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

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).

Salsa band Havana Che is back and they are bringing their 9-piece Cuban Salsa sound to Sweeney’s. Bring your dancing shoes or just enjoy the cool vibe. Admission is free.

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe. Admission is free.

The Pavement Kings play Rockabilly from 21:00 and
DJs Popocorn Peete and Little Dakota follow from 23:00-01:30 with a white variety of styles (Rockabilly, Calypso, Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, etc).

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

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

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

The exhibition ‘Mathematik zum Anfassen – Get in touch with mathematics’ at the Goethe Institut makes mathematics more accessible. aims to create a new approach towards mathematics. It shows the most abstract of all sciences in a way that can be understood by the senses and makes mathematics more understandable. All experiments use a playful approach towards mathematics and they include puzzle games, bridge building and jigsaws. Mathematics will be understood with hand, head and heart.

The exhibition will run from 25 Feb – 09 March and is open on Monday-Friday only. It is suitable for everybody but has a particular focus on primary and secondary school students. Admission is free. Registration is required for the hourly guided tours for school classes, but it is not clear if individuals need to register as well. Check out the website!

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.

Tree Council of Ireland President Kevin Hutchinson talks about “My Favourite Tree Books” and will present highlights from his life-long collection of books about trees.

Admission is free. The event is part of the National Tree Week.

The next lecture in the Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series 2014-15 is “Gender and the missions: the case of Maria de Agreda in Colonial Spanish America” with Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia).

Admission is free.

“The Children of Freedom: The Time-Spaces of History” is the title of a talk by Prof Patrick Joyce (Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Modern History Emeritus at the University of Manchester).

The talk is about freedom and power in the British post-war history. For more details check the website below.

Admission seems to be free.

The lecture “The Three Asistotles of James Joyce” is part of a free lecture series in the James Joyce Centre. It will be given by Professor Fran O’Rourke.

Following this lecture classical guitarist John Feeley will join Prof. O’Rourke for a short performance.

Admission is free, but spaces are limited, so booking via 01-8788547 is required.

“Stories from Ireland’s Mythology” is an evening of songs and stories (in Irish and English) at Walkinstown Library. Fairy Airs by ‘O Carolan on Classical Guitar and Original Songs in Irish will be performed by Sharon Ní Chuilibín (MA Ethnomusicology UCC).

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-4558159 or walkinstownlibrary@dublincity.ie This event is part of Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week), which takes place every year from 01 March to 17 March

Super Happy Fun Times are running an Open Mic night for Music and Spoken Word every Monday in Sin É.

Admission is free.

The Lecture “Pope Francis – Behind the Mission” with Austen Ivereigh (author of Pope Francis: the Great Reformer) will take place in Gardiner Street Church and is a joint initiative of Gardiner Street Parish and the Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality.

Admission is free (with a suggested donation of EUR 5).

This is an open mic night with Special Guests every Monday. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play. 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 Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

Every Monday a Jazz Jam Session will take place in the Grand Social and you are invited to listen or even to participate. Admission is free for musicians and audience.

Instruments are supplied (drums (no cymbals), double bass, guitar amp, bass amp, PA system) and ideas and themes will be proposed prior to the session to the musicians who join the event on Facebook (see Facebook Page below).

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

Patrick Mahony sings songs from Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Matt Monro and many more every Monday in the Cafe en Seine. Admission is free.

The exhibition ‘Mathematik zum Anfassen – Get in touch with mathematics’ at the Goethe Institut makes mathematics more accessible. aims to create a new approach towards mathematics. It shows the most abstract of all sciences in a way that can be understood by the senses and makes mathematics more understandable. All experiments use a playful approach towards mathematics and they include puzzle games, bridge building and jigsaws. Mathematics will be understood with hand, head and heart.

The exhibition will run from 25 Feb – 09 March and is open on Monday-Friday only. It is suitable for everybody but has a particular focus on primary and secondary school students. Admission is free. Registration is required for the hourly guided tours for school classes, but it is not clear if individuals need to register as well. Check out the website!

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

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking at least 1 days in advance is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

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

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Neurally Engaged Self”.

Think you know your city inside out? Call into the Lab this week and meet the team at Insight, Centre for Data Analysis at DCU. With their guidance you will take part in real research and an experiment to sort and tag images of Dublin City using your thoughts. The experience will involve novel human-computer interaction applications or BCI’s for short (Brain-computer Interfaces). The result: See what your brain waves have to say about Dublin and how they rank compared to the rest of the city dwellers!

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

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In the lecture series “Trauma, Memory and Identity after the Second World War” of the Centre for War Studies and the Centre for European Studies the next lecture is “The Politics of Forgetting and Forgiving: Italian Fascism and the Second World War” with Christopher Duggan (Prof for Modern Italian History at the University of Reading).

This lecture will explore how memories and interpretations of Mussolini’s fascist regime were tailored after September 1943 when Italy signed an armistice with the Allied powers.

Admission seems to be free.

Mark Granier will launch his fourth collection “Haunt” in The Irish Writers Centre. The book is published by Salmon Poetry and there will be an introduction by Liam Ó Muirthile. Admission is free and no booking is required. Wine will be served.

At the Green Drinks Dublin event im March, Dr Úna Fitzpatrick, an ecologist with the National Biodiversity Data Centre, will talk about the grasses of Ireland. Dr Fitzpatrick has conducted workshops in grass identification all around Ireland and her talk will be partly based on a new publication by Biodiversity Ireland, helping us to identify over 100 Irish species for ourselves.

Admission is free. Green Drinks is a monthly meet-up to learn and discuss green topics. Green Drinks Dublin is organised by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT),

More than 40 young brass players, brass students from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, will perform at this concert. They will be performing works by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Debussy and Bernstein. Conductors: Ian Dakin, Eamonn Nolan, Jonathan Clifford.

Admission is free and to reserve a seat send an e-mail to conservatory@dit.ie

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.

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.

Astronomy Ireland will set up the most powerful telescopes in Ireland to show you the Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, its moons and cloud belts on Tuesday, when it is close to the moon.

Admission is free and no booking required. (Donations are appreciated.)

If it is cloudy, a telescope exhibition and workshop will be held, demonstrating how to use telescopes.

The Folk Club in Whelan’s will bring you the best in Trad, Ballads, Americana & World Music every Tuesday. The line-up this week is on the Facebook Page below. Admission is free.

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

The Phoenix Big Band is a 16 piece band playing songs of the 1930s, 1940s and other big band arrangements and they are playing every Tuesday in the Tara Tower Hotel (since 2012!) for adult dancing. If you like to waltz, cha cha or foxtrot, come and enjoy their performance.

Admission is free.

The band plays in the main function room which is occasionally booked, so to confirm that they are playing, please ring the hotel on the day: Phone 01-2694666

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

The dates are 03+17+31 Mar. Put the dates in your calender as I will probably not be able to include the event every week.

A totally unplugged Singer/Songwriter night (no PA, no microphones) with original music is taking place upstairs in Anseo every Tuesday from 21:30.

Please check on the Facebook Page below if the event is going ahead as it seems to get cancelled every now and then and if you want to play a 15-30 min set or just want to play one song make yourself heard via the same Facebook Page.

Admission is free.

A Chamber Music concert will take place in Connolly Station early in the morning. Admission is free.

Entry charges at nearly all OPW sites are waived once a month. The Office of Public Works (OPW) wants to encourage people to visit the historic sites that it manages and has therfore started this initiative in 2011.

Most OPW owned sites can already be visited for free, but the sites that normally charge a fee will be free every first Wednesday as well. In the (extended) Greater Dublin Area this means you can visit the following sites for free:
+ The Casino, Marino (closed from 01 Nov-13 March)
+ Dublin Castle, State Apartments
+ Kilmainham Gaol
+ Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre at Newgrange
+ Glendalough Visitor Centre in Wicklow

As you can imagine, this event is very popular and therfore it is strongly recommended to arrive early at the venues. Once the day’s tickets are given out, you will not get access anymore.

The exhibition ‘Mathematik zum Anfassen – Get in touch with mathematics’ at the Goethe Institut makes mathematics more accessible. aims to create a new approach towards mathematics. It shows the most abstract of all sciences in a way that can be understood by the senses and makes mathematics more understandable. All experiments use a playful approach towards mathematics and they include puzzle games, bridge building and jigsaws. Mathematics will be understood with hand, head and heart.

The exhibition will run from 25 Feb – 09 March and is open on Monday-Friday only. It is suitable for everybody but has a particular focus on primary and secondary school students. Admission is free. Registration is required for the hourly guided tours for school classes, but it is not clear if individuals need to register as well. Check out the website!

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 next Let’s Walk & Talk will take place in Priorswood (Meet at the Outreach Centre in Priorswood) and then come on a trip around the park and back to centre A walk with historian Pat Liddy.

Most people believe that the Priorswood, Belcamp and Clonshaugh areas are just part of a modern suburb of Dublin but the district has a long and fascinating history going back many centuries. Apart from its interesting ancient past learn also about the characters from more recent eras who have given their names to the local parks such as Dean Jonathan Swift and Countess Markiewicz.

Admission is free.

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Neurally Engaged Self”.

Think you know your city inside out? Call into the Lab this week and meet the team at Insight, Centre for Data Analysis at DCU. With their guidance you will take part in real research and an experiment to sort and tag images of Dublin City using your thoughts. The experience will involve novel human-computer interaction applications or BCI’s for short (Brain-computer Interfaces). The result: See what your brain waves have to say about Dublin and how they rank compared to the rest of the city dwellers!

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

In a series of three talks (25 Feb, 04 March, 11 March), Michael Grant will explain the contribution of Irish composers to the Music scene in Europe over the last 300 years.

Admission is free but booking is required via 01 8734333

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 series of talks “Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars” is an initiative of the library in the RIA. The lectures will look at the contribution made by five nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.

The first talk is about “Wiliam Wilde (1815-76): A versatile genius” by Dr Michael Ryan, MRIA, FSA, Archaeologist

Admission is free and no booking required.

This tour led by Nessa O’Connor, Assistant Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland, will identify and explore significant archaeological objects in the Irish Antiquities Collection that can be linked or compared to the gold beads and ogham stones presented in the ‘Trove’ exhibition by artist Dorothy Cross that is currently on display at IMMA.

Admission is free, but booking required on 01 6486339

The next lecture in the “Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series 2014-15” is entitled “Aftermaths of Civil War: Division, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe” with Dr Bill Kissane (London School of Economics).

Admission is free

Traditional Music will be played at Busaras on each day of the Five Lamps Arts Festival. 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.

Cathal Gurrin is a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and his work focuses on personal analytics and lifelogging (a search engine for the self). He has gathered a digital memory since 2006 (incl. over 15 million wearable camera images) and hundreds of millions of other sensor readings.

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

Would you like to learn how to communicate about your research to a national radio audience? Or maybe you fancy being a resident science expert on radio but don’t know where to start?

Come to the FOCAS Institute on Wednesday to learn more about the Irish Academy of Public Relations’ “Radio Interview Skills for Scientists” training day.

Special guest speakers, Prof. Hugh Byrne, head of FOCAS Institute and Sean Duke, author and journalist, will discuss their experiences of communicating science and Ellen Gunning, director of Irish Academy of Public Relations, will chair the discussion.

Admission is free, but booking is required via info@irishacademy.com or through Eventbrite at eventbrite.ie/event/15728422134/

“Reading literature with machines:Towards computer based literary criticism” is a lecture by Prof Gerhard Lauer (University of Göttingen) organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities.

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

Join the Old Dublin Society for the lecture ‘The Way We Were: 80 Years of the Old Dublin Society’ by Tony Behan.

Admission is free

The RDS Library invites to the talk “Rudolph Heltzel – Paint, Tattoos, Feathers & Diamonds: A Short History of Body Ornamentation”.

Rudolf Heltzel was born in Berlin and came to Ireland in 1966 to set up and lead the Silver and Jewellery workshop at the newly established Kilkenny Design Workshops. In 1968 he went out on his own and has since created a name for himself as an extraordinary jewellery designer and maker. In his lecture he will explore how, where, when and why people throughout history have loved to ornament their bodies, and he will give an insight into what inspires him to design jewellery.

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

The UCD Earth Institute is inviting you to the public lecture “Sustainable Buildings and Cities” by Prof. Susan Roaf (Professor of Architectural Engineering at Heriot Watt University). Susan Roaf is an award winning teacher, architect, solar pioneer and author of 17 books. Having worked around the world in archaeology, anthropology, landscaping and architecture her focus now is on adaptive design for resilience and comfort in a rapidly changing world.

“The talk starts by tracing the history of architectural responses to the challenge for modern designers of designing to both mitigate and adapt to the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. In the 1990s our response was to work on energy efficiency, by the 2000s we had moved into the much broader field of Sustainability and as the growing realisation of the seriousness of the challenges began to register the design aims are in the direction of building resilience at building and city level. In the talk we will outline design, policy and regulatory trends in relation also to the falling cost of renewables, un-predictably priced energy, food and cost of living and demographic changes.”

Admission is free, but booking is required through Eventbrite, just follow the link below.

The Five Lamps Arts Festival 2015 Opening Night Ceremony will begin with the Clarion Flute Ensemble in the Rotunda of Custom House. Following this, the actor John Connors will open the festival. This will be followed by a Fire Dance performance and Samba Drumming at the back of Custom House.

Admission is free.

This month’s Comhlamh First Wednesday discussion is entitled “The Media: Minority Voices, Access & Power” and looks at how the mainstream media represents minority voices. A range of guests will discuss whose voice gets heard, whose doesn’t and what we can do about it.

Moderator will be Katherine Meenan (Public Affairs Consultant and Deputy Chairperson of Comhlámh) and the panel of speakers is Oein DeBhairduin (blogger and Traveller activist who works on issues related to LGBT equality, social and economic justice and access to education), Luke Bukha Kasuanga (anti-racist activist who co-founded the Anti-Racism Network), Dr Gavan Titley (lecturer in the Dept of Media Studies in Maynooth University, who focuses on racism and the politics of multiculturalism in Europe), Chinedu Onyejelem (Publisher of Ireland’s multicultural fortnightly Metro Eireann).

Comhlámh is an independent organisation which advocates for a just and equitable world. Concern Worldwide supports Comhlámh’s work in hosting the First Wednesday events.

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

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

The University Chorale of Boston College is on Concert Tour and will be in St. Patrick’s Cathedral for a free concert on Wednesday. No booking required.

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

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

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

Los Paradisos will perform their Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Western Swing, Surf in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

Every Wednesday 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 Jazz Pigs with a classic multi-brass front line play a mix of Lounge, lively sixties Jazz and driving Funk. Every Wednesday downstairs in 4 Dame Lane. Admission is free.

Traditional Irish Music Session in Hedigan’s (The Brian Boru) in Phibsborough from 21:30 every Wednesday. If you play an instrument you are especially welcome (all levels are welcome).

A Seminar on Communicating Climate Change and Sustainability will take place in cooperation with the Celsius Research Group and Queen’s University Belfast.

“The seminar explores the possible academic and practitioner approaches to communicating climate change and sustainability. It investigates the potential openings and closures for public engagement with environmental sustainability and climate change and it asks how can communications research from across disciplines shed light on the opportunities and challenges for practitioners and policy-makers.”

Speakers are Professor Ray Bates (Meteorologist), Gerald Fleming (RTE weather broadcaster), Dr Saffron O’Neill (Social scientist, researching social dimensions of climate change), Dr Cara Augustenborg (Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Corps), Dr Julie Doyle (Social scientist, Author, Mediating Climate Change) and Prof Barry McMullin (An Taisce; Executive Dean Faculty of Engineering & Computing, DCU).

Admission seems to be free. Booking is required via padraig.murphy@dcu.ie

The 05 March is World Book Day and some book shops will run special events on that day which are separately listed in this Dublin Event Guide OR would like to see your face in their shop. :-)

The UK & Ireland website for the events on World Book Day is www.worldbookday.com/

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

A Walk back in time with Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project.

Hear the Story’s from around Dublin’s famous Red-Light district known as Monto. Hear the story’s of the famous Madams who ran the bro thels, and of the women known as the “Poor Unfortunates” who walked the Streets of Monto and of the man Frank Duff founder of the Legion of Mary who closed it down in 1925. You will hear story’s of the local people who lived in the tenements and of the man with the hidden secret, dubbed “Dublin’s Oskar Schindler”. All this and much more as you walk through the Streets steeped in history.

Admission is free. Meeting point is the Marino College on North Strand Road.

Every first Thursday of the month, a free tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue takes place. Meet inside the Cemetery Gates. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

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

Pùca Puppets are bringing “The Mice and the Elephants”, a Panchatantra Hindu animal fable from India to the Five Lamps Arts Festival.

Using drawing, simple paper sets and puppets, the storyteller will retell and re-enact this gentle and imaginative tale of the small saving the large. This production is most suitable for children 3-5 years old.

Admission is free, but places are limited and you have to book via (01)8749619. The performance takes palce at 11:30 and is repeated at 14:00.

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Neurally Engaged Self”.

Think you know your city inside out? Call into the Lab this week and meet the team at Insight, Centre for Data Analysis at DCU. With their guidance you will take part in real research and an experiment to sort and tag images of Dublin City using your thoughts. The experience will involve novel human-computer interaction applications or BCI’s for short (Brain-computer Interfaces). The result: See what your brain waves have to say about Dublin and how they rank compared to the rest of the city dwellers!

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

Have you ever considered studying psychology? Come to the National College of Ireland for a series of free lunchtime public seminars from leading thinkers in the field.

The first talk of “In the Psychologists’ Chair” is titled: “Who am I, where am I, and why am I here?” Good mental health involves discovering who I am (identity), where I belong (attachment) and having a sense of purpose (meaning) in my life. The journey we are all on is about gaining a deeper understanding of these three elements. This talk will explore the interplay of these elements in our lives and how we lose and find ourselves over and over in our journey. The talk will be delivered by Dr. Tony Bates (Founder and CEO of mental health non-profit organisation Headstrong).

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

Actor and storytellor Nuala Hayes, with Harpist and Composer Anne Marie O’Farrell will entertain you, with stories, poetry, legends and music, about the Cailleach, that powerful and ancient female figure of Irish and Scottish Mythology.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8734333 or centrallibrary@dublincity.ie

The same event is repeated at 18:30 on Thursday in Cabra Library.

As part of the programme of the Year of Irish Design (ID2015) leading designers from Britain, German, Italy and Spain will give public lectures and hold masterclasses throughout 2015 organised by EUNIC Ireland. EUNIC is the network of European Union national institutes for culture.

The first event in the series will be a lecture by British designers Barber & Osgerby.

Edward Barber discusses “Thinking & Making”, encompassing the work and development of Barber & Osgerby since setting up their studio in London in 1996. Their diverse portfolio encompasses furniture, lighting and product design as well as architectural scale projects, an example is the torch for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. They have worked with Capellini, Vitra, Venini, Flos and Knoll. The pair are known for their clean, paired back design, synthesis of craft and industrial techniques and their use of colour.

Admission free, but booking essential through Irish Design 2015

A series of free walking tours are scheduled with Orlaith Ross from Making Space in conjunction with Mary-Ruth Walsh’s work in the exhibition Phoenix Rising: Art and Civic Imagination.

Entitled Sense of Place, the tours aim to further engage the audience with the city and encourage participants to re-imagine and investigate how Dublin has evolved. Each tour will be a meander through the locality with information provided along the way. Join Orlaith Ross, who will lead each tour, connecting what is inside the gallery to the city outside.

Admission is free, but booking is requried via the websie below

A public tour of the exhibition Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats will take place on the first Thursday of each month from March – October 2015. As this year marks the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth in 1835, the tour will introduce the life and work of the poet.

Admission is free.

Entitled “Reaching for the skies with engineered wood buildings” this year’s Augustine Henry lecture will be delivered by Dr Annette Harte, College of Engineering & Informatics, NUI Galway.

“Dr. Harte works on the development of high quality construction components from Irish timber using innovative engineering techniques such as cross-lamination and internal reinforcement of timber components. These new products will allow Irish grown timber to be used in long-span and multi-storey construction.”

Admission is free.

Come to Dubray Books Rathmines for a fun reading and treasure hunt to celebrate World Book Day. Ideal for children aged 5-12. Admission is free and no booking required.

To celebrate World Book Day, come to the National Print Museum for a fun storytelling hour featuring books from the National Print Museum’s Junior Library. Suitable for 3-7 year olds.

Admission is free, but spaces are limited (first come, first served)

Traditional Music will be played at Busaras on each day of the Five Lamps Arts Festival. Admission is free.

The applications of sentiment analysis are vast and powerful. Opinion mining of social media data is revealing insights and encouraging growth of this practice worldwide.

AYLIEN, experts in text and sentiment analysis, have created a workshop to enhance your sentiment analysis in natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics.

Parsa will talk you through the download and set up of several tools, then move on to analysing movie reviews to see if there’s a correlation between the sentiment of the movie reviews (positive, negative, neutral) and the actual movie rating scores. You might even go a step further and try to predict a movie’s rating based on its reviews!

Using Artifical Intellgience you will learn how to analyse, correlate and predict all from the comfort of your own laptop.

A laptop and a Google account are requirements for this workshop.

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

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

Admission is free.

This Irish Red Cross Panel Discussion on the Conflict Involving Islamic State is organised by the Irish Society of International Law (ISIL) and Irish Red Cross.

The discussion will address the issues arising in international law from the armed conflict and armed responses to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria including the airstrikes by the United States and allied states. It will also address the challenges to International Humanitarian Law this conflict presents (e.g. Geneva Conventions and similar). And finally, it will look at the socio-legal aspects of the conflict (e.g. territoriality, sovereignty, and claims to ‘Statehood, and the broader regional and social implications of the conflict.

The panel is made up of Dr. James Gallen (School of Law and Government, Dublin City University), Dr. John Reynolds (School of Law, Maynooth University), Lt Col. Richard Brennan (Legal Advisor, Irish Defence Forces), Lt Col. Mark Hearns (Irish Defence Forces) and it is chaired by John Roche, Head of International, Irish Red Cross.

Admission is free, but it is necessary to register with Louise at lscollins@redcross.ie Light refreshments will be served following the event.

“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 at least 1 day in advance is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

A weekly live music gig of the genres Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul will take place in Arthur’s Pub with weekly changing performers:

+ 1st Thursday: Ben Prevo
+ 2nd Thursday: Declan Kennedy
+ 3rd Thursday: Dermot Byrne
+ 4th Thursday: Mick Pyro

Admission is free.

A weekly live music gig of the genres Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul will take place in Arthur’s Pub with weekly changing performers:

+ 1st Thursday: Ben Prevo
+ 2nd Thursday: Declan Kennedy
+ 3rd Thursday: Dermot Byrne
+ 4th Thursday: Mick Pyro

Admission is free.

Every Thursday, the Xchange invites to a Language Exchange (19:00-20:30), followed by live music (21:00-23:30) by up and coming local and international artists.

Admission is free before 20:00 and free finger food is provided.

Dublin bike manufacturer FunkedUpFixies.com are inviting to a night of bikes, beer & prizes at Phibsborough’s sports & games bar “he Back Page”. An indoor roller race over a virtual 500 meter course with two bikes will give you a chance to compete against friends, strangers and rivals.

Admission and participation are free and there will be prizes for fastest male and female sprinters and there will also be spot prizes and food and drinks promotions.

Find more details on the Facebook Page below and here.

Niamh Gleeson will perform a rehearsed reading of her new play “The Birthday Cake”. Admission is free but donations (suggested EUR 5) are appreciated.

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

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

Admission is free.

The University of Mary Washington Philharmonic Orchestra is on Concert Tour and will perform a free concert in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday. No booking required.

The Dive Bar Open Mic Night is a weekly Open Mic night where no performers are prearranged. Just arrive between 20:30 and 21:00 and ask for Conor or Alan to get your name down. The first performance is at 21:00.

Singer songwriters, poets, instrumentalists and comedy and sometimes even bands are invited to perform. All levels of experience welcome.

Admission is free.

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 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 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.

“Nonsense, Madness, Modernism: Writing at the Limits of Translatability” is the title of a one day interdisciplinary workshop on Lewis Carroll, Stephane Mallarmé, Antonin Artaud, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, organised by the Department of French, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Literary Translation.

If you are interested, find out more information on the website below. The event seems to be free.

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

The 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.

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifeblogging exhibition will look at “Your Neurally Engaged Self”.

Think you know your city inside out? Call into the Lab this week and meet the team at Insight, Centre for Data Analysis at DCU. With their guidance you will take part in real research and an experiment to sort and tag images of Dublin City using your thoughts. The experience will involve novel human-computer interaction applications or BCI’s for short (Brain-computer Interfaces). The result: See what your brain waves have to say about Dublin and how they rank compared to the rest of the city dwellers!

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

“Masculinity as a Challenge in Peace-building” is a seminar with Prof. Brandon Hamber (Director INCORE, University of Ulster) in room G7 of the Irish School of Ecumenics.

Traditional Music will be played at Busaras on each day of the Five Lamps Arts Festival. Admission is free.

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

The weekly European Folk Dance Workshop/Session takes place in the Tap Bar every Friday.

The dances are French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese folk and traditional dances and everybody interested to join in or to learn is welcome. Admission is free, but donations (suggested: EUR 3) are very welcome

A weekly Gig Night in Sin É, organised and presented by Super Happy Fun Times takes place every Friday and admission is free. The line-up can be found on the Facebook Page below.

“A Different Friday” is exactly what it says on the tin: It is a different type of Friday entertainment: Cabaret, Spoken Word, Music , dance and comedy.

Admission is free, but you are asked to give a donation on the way out.

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.

The Bandits are a lively Acoustic Trio from Wicklow Town and they play a wide variety of music from The Beatles to Lady Gaga. Admission is free.

Rock’n’Roll band The Guilty Party will play their rock/funk/soul at a gig in Whelan’s. Admission is free.

Rock band Guity Optics, supported by indie-rock band Jogging, are playing in the Midnight Hour slot. Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 OR if you signup for the guest list.