Dublin Event Guide 447: The weekly markets are back, Salsa Taster Classes, Milk & Cookies Stories

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

A 4km walk, as part of Operation Transformation and organised by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Sports partnership, will take place on Saturday. The walk starts at 10:00, registration is from 09:30 in People’s Park.

Participation is free.

Other similar walks in other parts of Dublin are listed here.

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

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

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week (and if you know some more, please tell me):
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free and no booking is required.

The exhibition will be open every Saturday from 7 Nov – 16 Jan from 10:00-17:00.

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

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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

A Family Day with music & art workshops, yoga storytime, minecraft, magic shows, ballon modelling, animal crackers and much more will happen at the LexIcon library in Dun Laoghaire.

Admission is free and more information can be found here www.facebook.com/events/1719030291660192/

Normally the Phoenix Park Gardeners are there to give advise on the second Saturday of every month, but at the time of writing this, the website (see below) had not been updated, so I am not certain if this event is goinf ahead this month. Check the website closer to Saturday to find out!!

This is what the event notice normally says:
Discover the beautiful restored Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden and learn about growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbs and lots more. Meet OPW professional gardeners Brian and Meeda at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden. They have lots of advice to plan your perfect garden for the Winter and Spring months ahead. Admission is free and car parking is available.

The Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden is located next to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, and the Phoenix Café. The OPW professional gardeners are on site on the second Saturday of every month.

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

The Terenure Village Market has moved to Bushy Park and is from now on a weekly market.

The market has now grown to 40 stalls offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 12:00, 13:00 and 14:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 11:00-12:00
+ 12:00-13:00
+ 13:00-14:00

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome. The Yoga Union is run by Love8.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

“Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse & Mister Joyce” is a one-woman “play for voices” that will be performed by the Curlew Theatre Company.

Joyce’s wife, Nora Barnacle Joyce, is living in Zurich, at the Pensione Neptune. The time is around 1950, so she is in her 60s. She is being visited by a group of people (The Audience!) who could be members of a “literary tour”.
They are eager to hear something of Nora’s life with Joyce. Its difficulties and its rewards, the sadness of their daughter’s illness, their relationship, her importance as “muse” (among other “muses”) to her husband in his work. Interspersed in her memories are snatches from the works of her husband.
These are either spoken by her or are conveyed by means of audio over-voices (among them the voice of Joyce himself).

Admission is free and booking is not required.

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

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

Honeymoon is a play by Denis Dennehy and supporting new writing, the New Theatre will host a playreading of “Honeymoon” on Saturday.

Admission is free and a suggested donation of EUR 2 is appreciated.

Find more information on the website below.

The theme of this week’s Family Workshop is “The Collector’s Eye” with Emma Finucane. The workshop is suitable for families with children aged 4-10. All materials are provided.

Admission is free and all other details are explained on the website below.

Pull the Wool are playing a mixture of folk and ballads and originals.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event event downstairs in the Wine Cave of KC Peaches Cafe. Food will be served until 21:30 and wine, minerals & music will be available until later. Admission is free and a donation into a hat at the end of the evening is appreciated.

Soul Purpose is a 7-piece soul band, recreating the music of the classic soul & motown era, as well as “soulifying” modern classics.

Admission to their gig in Bray is free.

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

This Saturday, Brian Dunning (flute) and Sean Whealan (guitar) will perform.

Admission is free.

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

Wiley wil perform at the 21:00 gig on Saturday in the Mezz.

Swing Singer Charles Cavanagh and his band will be in the Mint Bar for a gig on Saturday. Expect swing favourites,Rat Pack, Buble, Sinatra and also some more modern songs with a swing twist.

Admission is free.

The Memorial Service for the Motörhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday at 15:00 PST and it will be broadcast around the world via Motörhead’s YouTube channel here.

Fibber Magee’s are screening the live broadcast of the funeral service and it will be followed by a performance of Motörhead Tribute Band “Motörheaders”.

Admission seems to be free.

Surfin’ Surfers will play a gig in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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

Take a stroll through Shanganagh Park and learn about the birds present in Ireland at the start of the year.

The event is part of the dlr Biodiversity Events and is run by BirdWatch Ireland. For more information contact Eleanor Keane 087 644 6029.

Admission is free. Meeting point is the Castle Farm Estate entrance at Shanganah Park.

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.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 12:00, 13:00 and 14:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 11:00-12:00
+ 12:00-13:00
+ 13:00-14:00

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome. The Yoga Union is run by Love8.

The Moving Crib of the St. Martin Apostolate is a whole basement full of handcrafted figures in front of painted backgrounds of nativity related scenes. There are 14 scenes, beginning with Adam and Eve and finishing with Christmas. Nearly all figures are moving and this historic crib, which was created in 1956, still fascinates children (and some adults!)

Admission is free, but for the upkeep of the crib, a donation of EUR 1.50 per person is suggested.

The opening times are 23 Nov-10 January: Mon-Fri 14:00-18:00 and Sat+Sun: 11:30-18:00.

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.

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

At this brunch you can meet-up and chat with other atheists, to ask questions about issues that affect you and your family and to find out more about the work Atheist Ireland is doing to achieve a secular and more equal Ireland.

Admission is free and you don’t have to be a member of Athesit Ireland to attend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Sunday, Ria Czerniak (vocals) and Maurice Czerniak (guitar) will perform.

Admission is free.

Come to this Drop-in activity in Collins Barracks and explore some of the artefacts from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling with Museum educators. Suitable for all ages.

Admission is free.

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

‘Romancing the Rhine from Turner to Wagner’ with Adrian Le Harivel, National Gallery of Ireland is the Sunday Lecture this weekend.

It is part of a free lecture series throughout the month of January themed around the J.M.W. Turner watercolours exhibition.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

At the Jawbone Gig night in Arthur’s Pub, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

A-MUSING LAUNCH NIGHT- The Mercantile is proud to present

“A-Musing” is the brand new Comedy Club in the Mercantile and it will launch on Sunday 10 Jan. It will feature some of Ireland’s best up and coming comedians every Sunday night and at the launch party the following Irish comedians will perform:

Edwin Sammon, Robbie Bonham, Alison Spittle, Mr. Creepy Jimmy, David Hynes. MC for the Comedy Club is Marian “Kind” Shanley.

Admission is free.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir sings every Sunday from September to June at their “Gig in God’s Gaff”, a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, one of the best known gospel choirs in Ireland will give you a chance to experience a mass with a difference. It is uplifting and inspiring and everybody is welcome independent from your level of religiousness or your relationship with the Catholic Church in other contexts.

Disclaimer: I am involved with the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, so the description above MIGHT not be totally unbiased. But just take it from me, they are brilliant! ;-)

Sun Collective is an ensemble of freelance musicians and artists. Their arrangements explore popular acoustic music and ‘orchestral’ instrumentation.

Their gig in the Harbour Bar 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).

“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.

Weedway, a Reggae band, will play a gig in the Mezz.

Admission free.

Ireland joined the United Nations on 14 Dec 1955. To celebrate 60 years of the country’s active membership, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have developed a programme of events to raise awareness and promote debate around Ireland’s involvement in this important global organisation.

As part of these celebrations the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project have organised the exhibition “UN60: Éire ag na Náisiúin Aontaithe / Ireland at the United Nations, 1955-2015”.

The Royal Irish Academy Library will host this short duration exhibition, which will reflect upon Ireland’s membership and role in the UN.

The Exhibition will run from 11-14 January 2016 at Academy House from 10:00-17:00 and admission is free.

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

Meeting point is the Meeting House Square.

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

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

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

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Howard Hughes from “The Path I Choose Coaching” is inviting to the free workshop “The Skeleton Key”.

“The workshop will show you the skeleton key that you possess to unlock any area of your life. As the Zen parable states; wherever you go, there you are. In other words, you can’t outrun yourself. You are the same person at home as you are in work, you are the same person in a relationship as you are single. The difference is your mindset.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

An Open Trad Music Session is taking place every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. Admission is free.

Donal Kirk and Anto Drennan are playing music from Lowell George Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Free, Bad Company, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Beatles, Bobby Bland, Vince Gill, Ray Charles, Etta James, Elvis, Ry Cooder, Dobie Gray, Guy Clarke, early ZZ Top, Dave Edmunds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson.

Admission is free.

From 11-16 January, the Alliance Francaise will celebrate Paris with a special menu in the cafe, an exhibition, a selection of books and films and with workshops on Parisian history and culture.

The exhibition “400 Vues” will open on 14 January at 18:30, the Parisian Menu will be available at “La Cocotte Cafe” from 11-16 January, the Paris Workshops at the Library will take place on Tuesday 12 January and “Paris a l’honneur” will run at the library from 11-16 January.

Admission is free, but unfortunately there are no more details available on the website below. I suggest you give 01-6761732 a call to find out more details.

Ireland joined the United Nations on 14 Dec 1955. To celebrate 60 years of the country’s active membership, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have developed a programme of events to raise awareness and promote debate around Ireland’s involvement in this important global organisation.

As part of these celebrations the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project have organised the exhibition “UN60: Éire ag na Náisiúin Aontaithe / Ireland at the United Nations, 1955-2015”.

The Royal Irish Academy Library will host this short duration exhibition, which will reflect upon Ireland’s membership and role in the UN.

The Exhibition will run from 11-14 January 2016 at Academy House from 10:00-17:00 and admission is free.

“Couture’s ‘The Realist Painter’ in context” is a talk with with Dr Margaret MacNamidhe, freelance art historian.

It is part of a free lecture series throughout the month of January themed around the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015.

Admission is free.

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

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

Did you ever want to give drawing a go? Or maybe you are a budding artist looking for like-minded people to draw with? The Creative Den in Rua Red runs free weekly drawing sessions on Wednesdays at 11:00.

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

The Health Research Board, as part of the HRB RED ALERT: TABOO! series, presents a public conversation which will look at breaking the stigma of mental health.

What are the key issues around mental health in Ireland right now? What areas of mental health are still taboo and what is the impact of this? What can we do to break the stigma and open up the conversation around these issues?

Broadcaster Dil Wickremasinghe will host a panel featuring JP Swaine, co-founder and director of First Fortnight festival, Helen Coughlan, Clinical Research Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Irish artists Maser and Joe Caslin.

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

Milk and Cookie Stories is a story telling event for for anyone who has a story to tell, or wants to hear a tale told well, in a relaxed, friendly environment – a place with tea, cookies and friends.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome and stories of all kinds are welcome. If you would like to tell a story, just come along and sign up on the night, or “if you feel inspired to share your own home-baked goods with Dublin’s friendliest audience, we’ll also be having our awesome Bake-Off.”

At the January event, the theme is “All Life is an Experiment” and the event is organised in conjunction with the mental health arts festival “First Fortnight”. So along with your mental health stories, the stories that night will be about how you took the plunge, made the leap and made progress on that one big experiment that is Life. www.facebook.com/events/1687348008215607/

The Dublin Quantified Self group (#QSelfDublin) is for anyone interested in self-tracking. Whether you record your jogging times, how often you communicate with friends or how you are feeling – they would love to hear from you!

The January Quantified Self meetup is all about quantifying and improving sleep. The list of speakers is on the website below.

Admission is free, but booking is required via this link here.

Xcake is a regular meetup for all who are interested in mobile app development, with a particular bias towards iOS-based apps. There will be talks on development of apps, new technology services and tools, the design considerations for making apps and interactive books and up-to-date opinion pieces on how to win at app development.

This month’s topic will be “Resolutions and Predictions III”. Find more details on the website below.

Admission is free, but registration is required on theXCake’s MeetUp page

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

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

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

Battle of the Paddles 2016 is a table tennis tournament from 12-14 Jan for everyone in the Workman’s Club.

Send an e-mail to info@theworkmansclub.com if you and your friends want to get involved or just show up on Tuesday or Wednesday at 19:00 (Sharp! if you haven’t pre-registered!!). You can then practice a bit and the competition starts at 20:00. If you don’t qualify on Tuesday you have another chance on Wednesday and whoever did qualify will be in the final in Thursday.

Qualifiers: Tue 12 Jan + Wed 13 Jan. FINAL: Thu 14 Jan.

There will be prizes on each night (from the Workman’s Club, Captain Americas, wagamama and Tower Records. The overall winner will win a night in The Dean Dublin.

If Table Tennis is not your thing, you are more than welcome to come and cheer on or distract the competitiors. ;-)

Admission and competition entry are both free.

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

Every Tuesday an informal sing along with Ukulele and Toy Musical Instruments takes place in the Stag’s Head. Just bring your instrument and come along. Beginners are welcome. Admission is free and further details (and a big book of songs) are available on the Facebook Page below. The get-together meets in the “snug” in Stag’s Head.

Live sessions with the Blue Moon Folk and Blues Collective are taking place every Tuesday at the Beerhouse. Admission is free.

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

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

Pete Cummins, Grammy award winning songwriter will play songs from his album “Crooked Highways”. Every Monday he and his band will be in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

Admission is free.

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

Every week there is a free pub quiz in Sober Lane, the new-ish pub in Irishtown. There are lots of other weekly events happening there too, check them out here.

The Lounge Quintet plays this gig every Tuesday: Jazz Standards, Latin and Bebop. Often guest musicians and singers join them. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

Admission is free.

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

Ireland joined the United Nations on 14 Dec 1955. To celebrate 60 years of the country’s active membership, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have developed a programme of events to raise awareness and promote debate around Ireland’s involvement in this important global organisation.

As part of these celebrations the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project have organised the exhibition “UN60: Éire ag na Náisiúin Aontaithe / Ireland at the United Nations, 1955-2015”.

The Royal Irish Academy Library will host this short duration exhibition, which will reflect upon Ireland’s membership and role in the UN.

The Exhibition will run from 11-14 January 2016 at Academy House from 10:00-17:00 and admission is free.

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

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

The lunchtime lecture “Follow an independent line: how United Nations membership transformed Irish foreign policy” with Dr Michael Kennedy will take place on Wednesday.

Admission is free.

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The lecture “Seeds: How plants get around” with Matthew Jebb will take place.

The way seeds are made, how they move to new locations and what makes them wake up are each fascinating biological stories. Matthew Jebb will explain how seeds are often a lot more ingenious than we give them credit for.

Admission is free.

The free talk “Visions of Winter” with Ted Courtney is part of the series of free workshops, talks and tours, ‘Ageing Creatively – Creative Art 55+’ which is designed so that everyone aged 55+ can have fun and be creative in the Gallery.

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.

Learning Tech Labs is a community of technologists, designers, educators and entrepreneurs who come together to share knowledge. They’re creating an open space to discuss problems in learning and education, and brainstorm ideas for possible solutions.

The topic at the next meetring is “The Challenges in Traditional Learning Methods and How Technology Overcomes Them”

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Learning Tech Labs’ meetup page.

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

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

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

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

“Making Repeal the 8th an Election Issue” is the topic at an Open Meeting of ROSA, an initiative for “Reproductive Rights, against Oppression, Seksism and Austerity”

[I know that Seksism is normally spelled differently, but Spam Filters don’t like the word with an “x” and to make sure that you get the mail, I have to misspell.]

The “8th” is the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which deals with Abortion in Ireland.

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

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

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

Battle of the Paddles 2016 is a table tennis tournament from 12-14 Jan for everyone in the Workman’s Club.

Send an e-mail to info@theworkmansclub.com if you and your friends want to get involved or just show up on Tuesday or Wednesday at 19:00 (Sharp! if you haven’t pre-registered!!). You can then practice a bit and the competition starts at 20:00. If you don’t qualify on Tuesday you have another chance on Wednesday and whoever did qualify will be in the final in Thursday.

Qualifiers: Tue 12 Jan + Wed 13 Jan. FINAL: Thu 14 Jan.

There will be prizes on each night (from the Workman’s Club, Captain Americas, wagamama and Tower Records. The overall winner will win a night in The Dean Dublin.

If Table Tennis is not your thing, you are more than welcome to come and cheer on or distract the competitiors. ;-)

Admission and competition entry are both free.

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

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in 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 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 Paradiso are playing Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Western Swing, Surf in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

“Hardcore Blues” with Ed Deane, Noel Bridgeman, John Quearney & saxophonist Richie Buckley will play in the Patriot’s Inn.

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).

Ireland joined the United Nations on 14 Dec 1955. To celebrate 60 years of the country’s active membership, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have developed a programme of events to raise awareness and promote debate around Ireland’s involvement in this important global organisation.

As part of these celebrations the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project have organised the exhibition “UN60: Éire ag na Náisiúin Aontaithe / Ireland at the United Nations, 1955-2015”.

The Royal Irish Academy Library will host this short duration exhibition, which will reflect upon Ireland’s membership and role in the UN.

The Exhibition will run from 11-14 January 2016 at Academy House from 10:00-17:00 and admission is free.

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

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

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

“Useful Tips on How to Write the Perfect CV (Curriculum Vitae)” with Jane Downes, Careers Coach, is the next talk in the Business Information Centre of the Cetnral Library.

Admission is free, booking is recommended via 01 873 3996

Spend an afternoon the German way, with “Kaffee und Kuchen”(coffee & cake) and conversation in German at the cafeteria of the Goethe-Institut. Kaffeklatsch will take place every second Thursday of each month.

Admission is free and you are welcome even if your German is a bit rusty.

A public tour of the exhibition “WWI Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience” will take place on the second Thursday of each month during 2016. The tour will show case material from the library’s collections and will focus on the Irish experience of this total war.

The exhibition is located at No 2/3 Kildare Street.

The tours are scheduled for 14 Jan, 11 Feb, 10 Mar, 14 Apr, 12 May, 09 Jun, 14 Jul, 11 Aug, 08 Sep, 13 Oct, 10 Nov and 08 Dec.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

The musical story that follows the daily lives and dreams of musicians Ruy and Tito is the topic of Spanish Language Film “Habana Blues”. It will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.

Admission is free.

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.

From October until February, the Italian Institute of Culture is running eight screenings of Italian Opera. The screenings starts at 18:00 and admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it

The screening on 14 January is “Don Carlo” by Giuseppe Verdi.

Introduction to the screening is by Deirdre O’Grady (Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, UCD)

Dr Dorin Stanescu will talk about “Ulysses in the Great War. Travelling by train at the end of the war. A view from literature and movies”. (And this talk has nothing to do with James Joyce, but the Ulysses mentioned is the original Ulysses, the one that went on his Odyssey.) Dorin Stanescu is an expert on the history of railways.

Admission seems to be free.

From 11-16 January, the Alliance Francaise will celebrate Paris with a special menu in the cafe, an exhibition, a selection of books and films and with workshops on Parisian history and culture.

The exhibition “400 Vues” will open on 14 January at 18:30, the Parisian Menu will be available at “La Cocotte Cafe” from 11-16 January, the Paris Workshops at the Library will take place on Tuesday 12 January and “Paris a l’honneur” will run at the library from 11-16 January.

Admission is free, but unfortunately there are no more details available on the website below. I suggest you give 01-6761732 a call to find out more details.

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

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

The talk “Social Conditions in Kingstown and Dublin in 1916” by Padraig Yeates will take place in Dun Laoghaire.

In this lecture historian Padraig Yeates will set the social context for the Rising giving particular reference to the Kingstown area, so often portrayed as one of genteel wealth and a pro-Union population but where the reality was often quite different.

Admission is free.

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

The IPSC invites to an open meeting to discuss Palestine and to plan upcoming activities. There will be stalls at festivals and city centres, demonstrations and speaking tours, film evenings, lobbying etc. where your help is needed.

All ages and nationalities are welcome. You don’t have to know a lot about Middle Eastern politics to get involved.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

The lecture “A View from the Palm House” with Matthew Jebb, Director of the Botanic Gardens, is taking place.

Mathhew Jebb presents this wide ranging talk about Greek education, plant evolution, the 1801 Act of Union, St. Patrick’s flag, Dublin’s two names, Viking agriculture, alien invasive plants and climate change.

Admission is free. The event is organised with the Irish Garden Plant Society

Battle of the Paddles 2016 is a table tennis tournament from 12-14 Jan for everyone in the Workman’s Club.

Send an e-mail to info@theworkmansclub.com if you and your friends want to get involved or just show up on Tuesday or Wednesday at 19:00 (Sharp! if you haven’t pre-registered!!). You can then practice a bit and the competition starts at 20:00. If you don’t qualify on Tuesday you have another chance on Wednesday and whoever did qualify will be in the final in Thursday.

Qualifiers: Tue 12 Jan + Wed 13 Jan. FINAL: Thu 14 Jan.

There will be prizes on each night (from the Workman’s Club, Captain Americas, wagamama and Tower Records. The overall winner will win a night in The Dean Dublin.

If Table Tennis is not your thing, you are more than welcome to come and cheer on or distract the competitiors. ;-)

Admission and competition entry are both free.

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

The Rye River Band band play a mix of American Country and Blues, Americana and R&B.

Admission is free.

Every Thursday a Singer Songwriter Night will take place in Mother Reilly’s in Rathmines. This is YOUR chance to show everyone what you can do, alternatively you can just listen to the talented Singer/Songwriters. Admission is free.

A Fun Pub Quiz takes place in Brady’s in Terenure on Thurs. The quiz will be on every Thursday night in the Lounge at Brady’s. Keith McLoughlin is the Quiz Master.

There will be six rounds of the quiz with picture questions, audio questions and general knowledge questions. Admission to the quiz is free and therr will be free drink vouchers for the winning and runner up teams. (No phones to get answers allowed.)

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

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

A weekly Trad Music Night is taking place in McLoughlin’s in Dun Laoghaire. It is an acoustic night and all musicians are welcome. Admission is free.

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet at the Martello Tower car park in Sandymount for a public star-gazing. Members bring along their telescopes and share the wonders of the night-sky with you. Admission is free.

This event happens regularly on a Friday and is followed by a similar evening in Clontarf on Saturday.

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

If you got a telescope for Christmas but don’t know how to use it, then come to this event and Astronomy Ireland will help you. Bring your telescope with all accessories and manuals and your list of questions. All help provided is free.

In addition Astronomy Ireland will set up some of the most powerful telescopes in Irelandto show you the Moon and Uranus who are very close on that night.

For more information, check the website below.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

The Vagaries will play New Wave/Indie Rock/Punk in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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