Dublin Event Guide 464: Canal Bank Market, A Fabulous Market, Fusion Sundays, World War One Remembered, Transit of Mercury

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.

On Free Comic Book Day about 400 free Comic Packs will be handed out (first come, first served) in Forbidden Planet.

Admission is free.

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

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

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week (and if you know some more, please tell me):
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5
+ Father Collins Park, Donaghmeade/Clongriffin, Dublin 13
+ Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24

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

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

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

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

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

The first Geek Mart, a market for Comics, Anime, Manga, Pixel & Comic Art, will take place and the event supports Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

Four free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 10:00-11:00 Beginner
+ 11:00-12:00 Intermediate
+ 12:00-13:00 Beginner
+ 13:00-14:00 Advanced

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

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

Booking is required via the link below.

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

The first Canal Bank Market of 2016 is taking place this Saturday in Portobello. After last year’s success this outdoor market is back and you will find approx. 25 traders there who will sell Vintage Clothing, Vinyl Records, Crafts, Arts, Jewellery, Greeting Cards, Food & Beverages, Tea & Coffee.

Buskers will provide the musical background.

Admission is free.

Vicky Wang will lead this Intercultural Tour in Mandarin Language.

Admission is free.

Twice every year the Jobs Expo comes to Dublin and it will take place in the Cusack Suite of Croke Park this Saturday and Sunday.

There will be approximately 26 exhibitors, who will offer jobs, but you should check the list on the website below to see if any of them are interesting to you. In addition there will be seven Seminars on each day, Career Clinics and Career Coaches.

Admission is free. Registration is required and you can do that either online or at the venue.

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.

This weekend (Sat+ Sun) the Phornix Park Visitor Centre will remember Word War One with an exhibition of World War One memorabilia including medals, uniforms and badges. There will be re-enactments and a walk-through section of trenching.

In addition two talks will take place:
+ Sat 07 May 15:00: Talk about the US Armed Forces in Ireland during World War One
+ Sun 08 May 15:00: Talk about the Role of Irish Doctors in World War One

Admission is free. For more information call 01 677 0095

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 second “A Fabulous Market” will take place in the George Bar in South Great George’s Street on Saturday.

You will find all sorts of art and crafts at this market and there will also be live music.

Admission is free.

Sometimes an event is not really an event, just a random coming together of like-minded people. And it seems that “All you Need is Love” is such an event, however, with a little guidance from the people behind “All you need is love”. Maybe you could call it a Guerrilla event!? ;-)

On Saturday, they invite you to come to Merrion Square from 12:00 for Acoustic Jam Sessions (Bring your own instrument!), Slackline, Picnic (Bring your own food), Crafts (but “We’re not responsible for any kind of license (selling)..”) and Face Painting. At 16:00 there will also be a workshop called “Creating a space” by yoga teacher Justyna Golush (Bring your own Yoga mat).

So, it’s not really an event and nobody has planned anything, but Merrion Square is there for the people in Dublin, so feel free to enjoy an unorganised event together! :-)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Historian Pat Liddy will bring you on a Let’s Walk & Talk tour through Harold’s Cross. Learn about the areas intriguing history and meet Rober Emmet and Mary Aikenhead.

Admission is free. Meeting point is at the Noshington Cafe in Harold’s Cross Park.

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

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

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

Artist Eimear Walshe will lead this final tour of “Skewing Narratives”. It will bring you on a journey through a disrupted history of the Hugh Lane Gallery using feminist art historical strategies. It will provide an introduction to the work of some of the women in the Collection and discuss the history of radical feminist activism that inspired Jesse Jones’ exhibition NO MORE FUN AND GAMES.

Admission is free.

Join Nóirín Ní Riain for a special performance of songs and stories reflecting the Museum’s collection and how they relate to the theme of the festival of “Bealtaine; Creativity in Older Age’.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 6486334. Located in the Ceramics Room, First Floor.

Edible Window Boxes is a Drop by Demo in the Botanic Gardens on Saturday.

Don’t let lack of space stop you from growing your own vegetables and herbs. Come to the Education Garden and learn the dos and don’ts of herb growing. Whether you have a window box or hanging basket or even a patch of soil, if you want to grow herbs this is the place to be.

Admission is free.

This week’s Family Workshop for Families with 4-10 year old kids is “Cartoon Fun” with Valerie Moffat.

Admission is free, but places are limited. Read all other details on the site below.

The Skerries Traditional Music Weekend is happening this weekend from Friday until Sunday. There will be non-free workshops and gigs, but in addition there will be a programme of free Sessions. They will start on Saturday and Sunday already at 15:00.

Check the website below to find all details.

Fionnán O’Connor will talk about “Against The Against – Whiskey, Gin, and Botanical Spirits” and the talk will include a Tasting.

“From the origins of distillation and the “botanicals” of gin to the herbal signature of the current cocktail renaissance, the world of fine spirits has never strayed far from the garden path. Alcohol historian and whiskey critic Fionnán O’Connor will discuss both the culinary and botanical aspects of these spirits. This ingredient-driven discussion of Irish drinking history examines just how much our most distinctive liquors owe the roots of their flavours to the plants themselves.”

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8040300.

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.

Bluse Rock/Roots band The Hardchargers willl be in the Harbour Bar for a gig.

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.

The line-up this weekend is:
+ Sat 07 May: Edel Meade (Vocals) + Brian Mullen (Piano)
+ Sun 08 May: Ria Czerniak (Vocals) + Maurice Czerniak (Guitar)
+ Fri 13 May: Brian Dunning

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.

The Indie Band Cascades will perform a gig in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

Cover Band “Let Loose” is playing a gig in the Glenside Pub. Let Loose are a great band – I know them well – and you will definitely enjoy the gig!

Admission is free.

The Dutch Rock ‘n’ Rhythm Trio “Convoi Exceptionel” with Sax, Djembe and Snare Drum is performing a gig in Sweeney’s.

Admission is free. www.facebook.com/convoiexceptional

Late night Jazz is provided in the Green Hen with performers Jen Tully (vocals) & Mark O’Connor (guitar).

Admission is free.

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

Admission for buyers is free.

It is Mother’s Day today! Noo, calm down if you are Irish. All is well and you ddidn’t forget to buy something for your Ma. The Mother’s Day today is in many countries in the rest of the world (outside UK and Ireland). If you are not from Ireland – and I know LOTS of Dublin Event Guide readers are from other countries – then don’t forget to contact your mom.

If you are Irish and have done something nice for your mother already in March, call her today and tell her how much she means to you and you will make her very happy. TWO Mother’s Days in one year! No mother will complain about that! :-P

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.

Three free Yoga sessions take place in MVP in Dublin 8 every Saturday and every Sunday. The times are 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00 and the duration is 1 hour. At every session only 8 places are available, so get your bookings in early (you can book weeks in advance).

The sessions can be booked following these links:

+ 10:00-11:00 Beginner
+ 11:00-12:00 Intermediate
+ 12:00-13:00 Beginner
+ 13:00-14:00 Advanced

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

Birdwatch Ireland is inviting you to lookout for birds that have wintered in Sub Sahara and you might also hear a Cuckoo. For further information contact Eleanor Keane 087 644 6029

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

The next Fusion Sundays Market will take place this Sunday in the Dublin Food Co-op.

It is a world culture market, an ethnic Bazaar, that focuses on the diverse ethnic culture present in Ireland today. The Market features a huge array of International stalls, ethnic food, live music and entertainment for kids. You can buy handmade goods, arts and crafts, recycled products, jewellery, clothes and food. The market is held every second Sunday of the month.

There is always a great atmosphere and I definitely recommend this monthly market.

Admission is free.

Twice every year the Jobs Expo comes to Dublin and it will take place in the Cusack Suite of Croke Park this Saturday and Sunday.

There will be approximately 26 exhibitors, who will offer jobs, but you should check the list on the website below to see if any of them are interesting to you. In addition there will be seven Seminars on each day, Career Clinics and Career Coaches.

Admission is free. Registration is required and you can do that either online or at the venue.

There will be music with Tanya Sun on Sunday. Unfortunately it doesn’t say anywhere what type of music that will be and who Tanya Sun is.

Admission is free.

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.

This weekend (Sat+ Sun) the Phornix Park Visitor Centre will remember Word War One with an exhibition of World War One memorabilia including medals, uniforms and badges. There will be re-enactments and a walk-through section of trenching.

In addition two talks will take place:
+ Sat 07 May 15:00: Talk about the US Armed Forces in Ireland during World War One
+ Sun 08 May 15:00: Talk about the Role of Irish Doctors in World War One

Admission is free. For more information call 01 677 0095

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. This series of free (mainly classical) concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians. Concerts run from September to June.

The next concert will feature: French Chamber Music4 with with Duo Chagall and Lance Coburn, piano.

Participation at this event is not free, but supporting the runners is!

The Wings for Life World Run is a unique event. It is a run with no finish line. The run starts at the Newtownsmith Green in Dun Laoghaire (between Dun Laoghaire Harbour and Sandycove) and after a wait, a catcher care is “released”. As soon as the catcher car passes a participant, he/she will be eliminated and has to stop. The run will go to Bray, then the onwards to Greystones and then further towards Wicklow Town. The catcher car drives at a steady speed and eventually it will reach the first runner of the field who is then the winner.

Participation is not free, but your support for the runners either at the start area or along the course is appreciated.

100% of the entry fees goes to Spinal Cord Research and the event takes place on the same day in 34 places around the world.

A remarkable event at London’s National Gallery assembled the largest ever collection of Leonardo’s surviving paintings for a unique exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan”.

The film captures the excitement of the opening night occasion and provides a fascinating exploration of Leonardo’s great works. Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow explains the great masterpieces. An biography and reflections on Leonardo’s influence since his death 500 years ago is also included in the film.

Admission is free.

Mary Portas, author of “Shop Girl – A Memoir” will be in Eason’s in Dundrum to sign her book.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Issa Murad is a Palestinian composer and oud player, who currently lives in France. His music reflects his Arab-Levantine heritage as well as his interest in jazz, Balkan and Indian traditional music. His performance will feature compositions and improvisations of these multicultural influences.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

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.

The line-up this weekend is:
+ Sat 07 May: Edel Meade (Vocals) + Brian Mullen (Piano)
+ Sun 08 May: Ria Czerniak (Vocals) + Maurice Czerniak (Guitar)
+ Fri 13 May: Brian Dunning

Admission is free.

An Intercultural Tour in Arabic Language with Community Ambassador Karma El Shawa will take place.

Admission is free.

The talk “Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection” with Martin Clayton (Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle) is part of a free lecture series about ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, Renaissance Man’, in association with the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection”.

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.

The Skerries Traditional Music Weekend is happening this weekend from Friday until Sunday. There will be non-free workshops and gigs, but in addition there will be a programme of free Sessions. They will start on Saturday and Sunday already at 15:00.

Check the website below to find all details.

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.

American Folk Singer Max Garcia Conover will play a gig in the Hot Spot Music Club.

Admission is free.

The 7th Game Night, organised by ALT Events, for the massively growing number of Board Games enthusiasts is taking place this Sunday.

You can bring your own board game or play one of the vast amount of games that ALT Events will bring to the event.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

An evening of Jazz will await you in the Front Door. I don’t have the names of the performers this week, but hopefully I will have that information again next week.

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! ;-)

The Donal Kirk Band will perform their mix of Country, Blues and Rock and Roll in Bray.

Admission is free.

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

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

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe with live music (Rockabilly) and DJs. Admission is free.

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

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

The Jive Cats are playing their Rock ‘n’ Roll from the 1950s.

Admission is free.

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

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

Meeting point is the Meeting House Square.

Participation in the photo trails is free but donations are welcome and booking is required via chooseyourowntracksphototrail@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The Irish Astronomical Society will set up telescopes in St. Stephen’s Green (near the bandstand) during the day on Monday, so that you can view the “Transit of Mercury”.

The transit or passage of a planet across the face of the Sun is a relatively rare occurrence and this will be the first transit of Mercury since 2006 (and the first from Ireland since 2003). Only transits of Mercury and Venus can be seen from Earth and there are approximately 13 transits of Mercury each century. Mercury will be a tiny spot crossing the solar disc between 12:12 and 19:41.

The telescopes at this event are all safe for solar observing, but do NOT look into the sun with or without telescope unless you have a solar filter.

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.

Astronomy Ireland are setting up telescope at their offices in Blanchardstown for you to see the transit of Mercury across the Sun’s face.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

There is also another viewing in St. Stephen’s Green, organised by the Irish Astronomical Society (IAS), so if you are in or near Blanchardstown you can go the Astronomy Ireland viewing and if you are in the City Centre then the IAS viewing is more suitable for you.

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.

Historian Dr. Emma Edwards will give advice and guidance on researching the rich and varied collections of the National Library, with a special focus on sources relating to 1916.

The workshop will use case studies of personalities from the NLI’s 1916 collections and is suitable for anyone looking to do research by using the NLI’s catalogue.

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

The launch of the book “Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising”, edited by John Gibney and series editors Mary Clark and Máire Kennedy will take place.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly workshop in the LexIcon Library that will give a basic introduction to 3D printing and will get you started with your first 3D printed object.

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

“Trieste – Zürich – Paris: Joyce’s Geographies of Reading (1914-1922)” is a talk by Dr. Ronan Crowley (University of Passau, Germany).

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 878 8547.

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

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

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

Admission is free.

“The future of cycling and walking in Dublin?” is the topic of the next meeting of Dublin Cycling.

Sarah Scannell, Dublin City Council’s new Cycling & Walking Promotion Officer will be introducing herself, her role and her key targets for 2016 and into the future. This is an exciting period for the development of cycling and walking in the City and Sarah will be central to working on this. She also wants to liaise with the cycling community to see how all can collaborate and work together to continue to deliver on making cycling and walking in the City safe, inclusive, and a real option for all.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

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

Admission is free.

The Hot House Big Band is a 17-piece Swing Orchestra with some of the best jazz and brass musicians in Ireland.

They performed every week in the Mercantile for 6 years (an event that was not free) and re now starting their new residency in Bad Bob’s. And the great news is that from now admission to their performance every Monday (apart from bank holidays) will be free!

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

As part of the Bealtaine Festival for older people, a workshop/class about “Smartphones for older people” will take place in Charleville Mall Library. If you are someone who is of an advanced age and would like to know more about your smartphone, you can attend, but if you are too young but know parents or others that would benefit from that training, let them know.

Admission is free.

“The Royal Collection on Show: Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II” with Jonathan Marsden (Director, Royal Collection Trust) is a talk in the series about “Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, Renaissance Man” in association with the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection”.

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.

A remarkable event at London’s National Gallery assembled the largest ever collection of Leonardo’s surviving paintings for a unique exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan”.

The film captures the excitement of the opening night occasion and provides a fascinating exploration of Leonardo’s great works. Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow explains the great masterpieces. An biography and reflections on Leonardo’s influence since his death 500 years ago is also included in the film.

Admission is free.

Guitarists Gerard Boyle and Luke Tobin will perform well known world music selections arranged for two Spanish guitars.

Admission is free.

This interactive workshop will examine key figures from the National Library collections and current exhibitions. It will explore the creation of iconic citizens such as W.B. Yeats, Éamon De Valera as well as other icons who have been forgotten until now, such as Michael O’Leary winner of the Victoria Cross for Bravery featured in the NLI’s World War Ireland exhibition.

Admission is free, but booking is required via learning@nli.ie or 01 6030 346

The Irish Film Board present their collection of “After ’16” short films. After ’16 is commemorating and celebrating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916.

The nine short films that make up the collection are a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the 1916 events. The stories told are a mixture of live action drama, animation and documentary. The full list of films in the series can be found on the website below.

The screenings will take place in a variety of Library branches. Admission is free, but booking is recommended and you will find the relevant phone numbers for the branches via the website below.

The dates are:

Thu 05 May – 17:30 in Raheny Library
Tue 10+17 May – 17:00 in Ballyfermot Library
Wed 11 + 18 May – 18:30 in Inchicore Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Finglas Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Rathmines Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Terenure Library
Sat 21 May – 14:00 in Cabra Library
Wed 25 May – 10:45 in Charleville Mall Library

The Trinity Centre of Asian Studies is inviting to the lecture

“Extraordinary and Unaccountable Customs: British Observations on Population, Infanticide, and Footbinding in China”

by Professor John Carroll (Hong Kong University).

“From the mid-1700s through the late 1830s, Britons in China were confined to a tiny section of the city of Canton (Guangzhou). This encounter is known best for resulting in the Opium War (1839-42) and the “opening” of China. But it also generated a massive corpus of writings. Frustrated with the restrictions on trade and unable to live or travel elsewhere in China, these Britons devoted thousands of pages in journals, memoirs, and books trying to understand China, its people, and their culture. They discussed almost everything they saw, and speculated about much of what they could not see. This talk examines three interrelated aspects of this enterprise: determining the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide and the origins and meanings of footbinding.”

Admission is free,

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

Admission is free.

Do you want to know more about self-publishing? Marese Hickey will give a talk on the subject of self-publishing in Raheny Library.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8315521.

Sebastian Adams, violist in over 60 premieres, presents his debut solo recital. He will perform eight new works for unaccompanied viola or viola and electronics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Harold’s Cross Community Festival takes place from Wed 11 May – Sun 15 May. There are a number of different events and if you are/live/have a connection with that area of are interested for any other reason, just check the websiote below for a full list of events.

Every day from Wednesday until Sunday you can visit the “Mary Aikenhead Heritage Centre – Our Lady’s Hospice” at a daily guided tour. In addition, there will be some historical talks, an exhibition and some more talks between Wednesday and Friday.

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

Booking is required via the link below.

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

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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“Mr Smith goes to Washington” is a classic American comedy from 1939 with James Stewart.

Admission is free.

Mattthew Jebb, the Director of the National Botanic Gardens, talks about “Fruits of the Earth – Why we eat the plants we do”.

There are many thousands of edible plant species in the world, but humans only eat about 200 of these. And some of them seem the most unlikely plants to have been picked with pungent, bitter or toxic properties. How did these plants become domesticated and why it is that some of them have virtually inedible ancestors?

Admission is free.

Cince-Cafe are inviting to a screening of “Older, no Wiser”, a specially-selected programme of Irish short films for Bealtaine. Creativity and age are the corner blocks of the short selected.

Details can be found on the Facebook Page below.

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.

Flashback is an association of young Parisian students and they want to discuss and give artists and scientists the chance to speak on the subject of the need for a collective national memory.

In partnership with the Alliance Française Dublin, they have created this bicultural, multidisciplinary artistic festival. It will consist of four main parts: an exhibition by two young photographers from France and Ireland, a lecture on Art and Memory, the representation of an original French play “le Quai” and a Dance performance.

The schedule it:
Wed 11 May: 18:00-19:30: Memoires Instantatées – Launch of photographic exhibition
Wed 11 May: 19:30-21:00: 1916, 2016, so what? – Discussion about Collectiv Memory.
Thu 12 May: 20:00 Le Quay – A story of cinema – Theatre Performance
Fri 13 May: 13:00 Create our collective memory together – Choreography Workshop – Trinity College

The first three events take place in the Alliance Francaise and the last event (on Friday) is on the Physics Square in Trinity College.

Admission is free to all events, however the first three need registration via rsvp@alliance-francaise with subject Flashback.

Did you ever want to try your hand at programming a robot, controlling your house from your phone or simply flashing some lights? This workshop will give you taste of how inputs and outputs on small computers such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, can be used to create smart solutions to everyday problems.

Admission is free. but booking via the Eventbrite site here is required.

Learning Tech Labs will discuss “How Do We Measure Learning?” to find out what the best practices of assessments are when measuring students’ performance and how technology companies help measure learning in more accurate ways.

The list of speakers is still to be announced.

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

Learning Tech Lab 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 Synopsis of the film is
“More than 700,000 Americans die of heart disease each year. For many of them, death is the first symptom of the disease. A simple heart scan could save many of these lives, but THE WIDOWMAKER reveals that a hidden battle fought inside America’s medical establishment has pitted prevention against intervention keeping scans in the shadows while cardiac surgeries soar. Featuring cardiologists, heart attack survivors and lawmakers, THE WIDOWMAKER will change the way you think about heart disease and it just might save your life.”

After the screening a Q&A session with cardiologists and other experts in the area of prevention will take place.

Admission is free, but tickets are required via the link below.

The Irish Film Board present their collection of “After ’16” short films. After ’16 is commemorating and celebrating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916.

The nine short films that make up the collection are a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the 1916 events. The stories told are a mixture of live action drama, animation and documentary. The full list of films in the series can be found on the website below.

The screenings will take place in a variety of Library branches. Admission is free, but booking is recommended and you will find the relevant phone numbers for the branches via the website below.

The dates are:

Thu 05 May – 17:30 in Raheny Library
Tue 10+17 May – 17:00 in Ballyfermot Library
Wed 11 + 18 May – 18:30 in Inchicore Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Finglas Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Rathmines Library
Wed 18 May – 18:30 in Terenure Library
Sat 21 May – 14:00 in Cabra Library
Wed 25 May – 10:45 in Charleville Mall Library

“The Love Letters of May and James: another side of 1916” is the title of the reading in Pearse Street Library.

May and James were the grandparents of Tessa Finn. Tessa reads from the letters her grandparents wrote to each other during 1916. The letters provide a private glimpse into the lives of two people growing in love, not involved in the conflict but touched by it in many ways. The letters were featured on the RTE programme, “16 Letters”, broadcast on Easter Sunday.

Admission is free.

The book The Difference by Justine Delaney Wislon will be launched on Wednesday.

Admission is free.

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

Mindfulness means to be aware of what is happening in the present moment. Trained facilitator Angela Amirault will introduce some simple exercises and techniques that can be easily incorporated into your daily routine.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-4558159.

“Is it a siege, a riot, a revolt or a revolution? Perceptions of the 1916 Rising in the French Press” is a talk with Professor Grace Neville.

“This presentation will analyse representations of the 1916 Rising across the French press, from broadsheets (including Le Figaro, Le Temps and L’Humanité, read by decision-makers) to the popular press (such as Le Miroir) with its heady mix of articles, drawings and photos. The French press, in general, struggled to understand the Rising, a difficulty exacerbated by the fact that much of its reporting came at one remove, from London. A consensus emerged that the Rising was a German plot and it was deeply resented.”

Admission is free.

This talk by RCSI Archivist Meadhbh Murphy is in connection with the exhibition “Surgeons and Insurgents: RCSI and the Easter Rising”, which will be on show in dlr LexIcon on Level 3 from 03 May – 02 June.

Admission is free.

“Eleven ironworkers eat their lunch whilst casually sitting on an iron beam – their feet dangling in the air high above New York, with Central Park and a foggy Manhattan in the depths below them. – Everybody knows the photograph “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” taken during construction at the Rockefeller Center in 1932. But its background had remained a mystery: despite extensive research, neither the 11 men nor the photographer had been definitively identified. When Director Seán Ó Cualáin stumbled upon a copy of the picture in a pub in a small Irish hamlet, with a note that two of the men came from that village, he decided to delve into the history of the photo.”

The film “Men at Lunch” will be screened as part of the Bealtaine Festival.

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

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

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in Whelan’s.

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

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up. Admission is free.

The Anseo Comedy Club takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

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

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

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

The Harold’s Cross Community Festival takes place from Wed 11 May – Sun 15 May. There are a number of different events and if you are/live/have a connection with that area of are interested for any other reason, just check the websiote below for a full list of events.

Every day from Wednesday until Sunday you can visit the “Mary Aikenhead Heritage Centre – Our Lady’s Hospice” at a daily guided tour. In addition, there will be some historical talks, an exhibition and some more talks between Wednesday and Friday.

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

The Carnation Theatre follows the women of 1916: the dispatchers, the doctors, the gunrunners, the nurses and the smugglers. Sing! Dance! Remember!

The performance on 12 May and on 26 May (14:00) will be performed for older people affected by dementia and their carers.

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

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.

Marine Biologist and photographer Mick Mackey will talk about his 900 days on Bird Island, South Georgia, working in Antarctic isolation.

This event is organised by An Taisce and Clean Coasts Week 2016.

Admission is free and for tickets you will have to contact cleancoasts@eeu.antaisce.org

Elizabeth Magill will talk to Jesse Jones about the works Lodge 2 and Roger and the Swans, which are included in the current exhibitions “Jesse Jones NO MORE FUN AND GAMES” and “High Treason: Roger Casement”.

Admission is free.

A Lunchtime Concert with works from Haydn, Mozart, Debussy and others takes place on Thursday.

Malaysian soprano Florence Khei Kuan Chong is currently a student of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and she will be accompanied by South Korean pianist Seho Lee.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8734333

Christophe Capewell is well known playing both solo and with Harry Bird & The Rubber Wellies. At this concert, he will present his own original compositions.

Admission is free.

At the next DIT Conservatory of Music and Drame concert, Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada (voice), Aoife O Sullivan (piano) and Joshua Murtagh (piano) will perform music by Beethoven, Strauss, Bellini and Cowen.

Admission is free.

The Lunchtime Lecture “The Qur’an, at the Heart of Islam” with Dr Amanullah De Sondy (Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam, University College Cork) takes place.

Admission is free.

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.

This is a public tour of the exhibition “WWI Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience”. 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.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

The Spanish film “Hermosa juventud / Beautiful Youth” 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.

“Inspired by Leonardo: Drop-in Drawing” with Una Sealy, ARHA is a series of eight, free life-drawing workshops looking at the influence of Leonardo da Vinci that will be led by professional artists and tutors. The workshops are for adults and teens and all materials will be provided. Places are limited to 25 participants on a first come first served basis. Arrive early to secure a place.

Admission is free and no booking required, places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Workshops take place Thursday evenings from 18:00-19;00 from 12 May to 30 June 2016

On Thursdays from 18:00-20:00, the Little Museum of Dublin waives all admission charges thanks to sponsor Guinness.

Visit the museum and find out lots more about Dublin.

The Goethe-Institut Irland in co-operation with the National Gallery presents Werner Krüger’s film portrait of German Sculptor and Performance Artist Joseph Beuys “Everyone is an Artist / Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler” from 1979. Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery and author of the book “Joseph Beuys and the Celtic World”, will introduce the screening.

A wine reception will follow the screening.

Admission is free, but registration by 09 May is required via library@dublin.goethe.org

The talk about Patents “Protect and make money from your ideas and product designs” with David Hyde will take place in the Business Information Centre of the Central Library.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

Admission is free.

Music, Songs and Readings that commemorates the 1916 rising. With extracts from accounts of priests who looked after the injured, dying and to be executed in 1916.

Admission is free and no tickets required.

The link below will bring you to the poster of the event.

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.

Flashback is an association of young Parisian students and they want to discuss and give artists and scientists the chance to speak on the subject of the need for a collective national memory.

In partnership with the Alliance Française Dublin, they have created this bicultural, multidisciplinary artistic festival. It will consist of four main parts: an exhibition by two young photographers from France and Ireland, a lecture on Art and Memory, the representation of an original French play “le Quai” and a Dance performance.

The schedule it:
Wed 11 May: 18:00-19:30: Memoires Instantatées – Launch of photographic exhibition
Wed 11 May: 19:30-21:00: 1916, 2016, so what? – Discussion about Collectiv Memory.
Thu 12 May: 20:00 Le Quay – A story of cinema – Theatre Performance
Fri 13 May: 13:00 Create our collective memory together – Choreography Workshop – Trinity College

The first three events take place in the Alliance Francaise and the last event (on Friday) is on the Physics Square in Trinity College.

Admission is free to all events, however the first three need registration via rsvp@alliance-francaise with subject Flashback.

Pete Cummins will play Folk and Americana at his gig.

Admission is free.

The Dublin County Fleadh Cheoil will take place in Dalkey, Co. Dublin from 10-15 May 2016 and there are four main events and a Session Trail from 11-14 May from 21:00 in pubs of Dalkey (Wed: The Magpie, Thur: Finnegans, Fri: The Club, Sat: The King’s Inn and Sat+Sun afternoon: The Tramyard Gig Rig).

The one free concert of the four main events is “Requiem 1916”, a newly composed requiem for orchestra, choir and sean-nós, composed by Odhrán Ó Casaide. It will be performed at 20:00 in the Church of Assumption in Dalkey.

Admission is free and it is not clear of tickets are required. An Eventbrite ticket site even for the free event is provided, so it is probably safer to get tickets. but don’t rely on them being enough to get in. you still should be there early enough. The link is below.

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.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

The Harold’s Cross Community Festival takes place from Wed 11 May – Sun 15 May. There are a number of different events and if you are/live/have a connection with that area of are interested for any other reason, just check the websiote below for a full list of events.

Every day from Wednesday until Sunday you can visit the “Mary Aikenhead Heritage Centre – Our Lady’s Hospice” at a daily guided tour. In addition, there will be some historical talks, an exhibition and some more talks between Wednesday and Friday.

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.

This is a fun and informative guided tour of the Hugh Lane Gallery, led by the gallery’s art historian panel.

Tours will focus on the centenary programme of exhibitions which reflects on the role of Artist as Witness, and includes exhibitions “High Treason: Roger Casement”, “The Best of Decades”, “1960s” and a re-hang of the permanent collection.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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.

Flashback is an association of young Parisian students and they want to discuss and give artists and scientists the chance to speak on the subject of the need for a collective national memory.

In partnership with the Alliance Française Dublin, they have created this bicultural, multidisciplinary artistic festival. It will consist of four main parts: an exhibition by two young photographers from France and Ireland, a lecture on Art and Memory, the representation of an original French play “le Quai” and a Dance performance.

The schedule it:
Wed 11 May: 18:00-19:30: Memoires Instantatées – Launch of photographic exhibition
Wed 11 May: 19:30-21:00: 1916, 2016, so what? – Discussion about Collectiv Memory.
Thu 12 May: 20:00 Le Quay – A story of cinema – Theatre Performance
Fri 13 May: 13:00 Create our collective memory together – Choreography Workshop – Trinity College

The first three events take place in the Alliance Francaise and the last event (on Friday) is on the Physics Square in Trinity College.

Admission is free to all events, however the first three need registration via rsvp@alliance-francaise with subject Flashback.

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YOUtopia by Outlandish Theatre (OT) Platform is a startling new play that has been developed in the heart of four communities undergoing regeneration that explores the urgent housing crisis in Dublin and nationwide.

The performance in the Abbey Theatre on Friday will be followed by a panel discussion focussing on on “thoughts on solving the housing crisis beyond the desire to protest”, speakers include Prof. Chris Fitzpatrick (St Teresa’s Gardens Regeneration Board) and Sam McGuinness (CEO Dublin Simon).

Find more details on the Facebook Page below.

Admission is free and no tickets are required.

The Battle of the Somme and the battle for control over Ypres were brutal and unrelentless fights in the First World War and many Irish soldiers who had joined the British Army died there.

Piet Chielens was born and lived near Ypres Salient and in his home village he grew up with the cemeteries and stories of that war. Since 1996 he has been co-director of the “In Flanders Fields Museum” in Ypres (Ieper), where he is director of exhibitions and public programming. He instigated the construction of a monument to mark the spot where the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge was killed by a shell in 1917: a monument jointly unveiled in 1998 by the poet Dermot Bolger and the poet’s nephew, Joseph Ledwidge.

At this event Piet Chielens and Dermot Bolger discuss the journeys of the young Irish soldiers which started in Collins Barracks and ended at the Somme or in the mud of Ypres and how they are remembered today.

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

The Hungarian Culture Days take place from Fri 13 – Sun 15 May and Friday is the “Day of the Hungaricum & the Night of the Myths” with three talks about Hungarian Mythology, including a storytelling from Candlelight Tales.

Find out on the website below what other events take place and I will also list more events for the next weekend in next week’s Dublin Event Guide.

Ciara Ryan-Gerhardt is an Irish poet and writer with a deep love of the natural world. ‘Integra’ explores home, place and travel as inner and outer experiences. The launch takes place on Friday.

Admission is free.

A Pulp Fiction Surf Theme Party will take place in the Generator Hostel. The screening of Pulp Fiction will start at 19:00 and live music with funk, hip-hop and R&B band “Tadgh” and with 60s California-sound experts “The Mushburgers”. There will also be a fancy dress competition.

Admission is free, but tickets are required via the link below.

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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.

Expect Live music, spoken word and refreshments at Friday Arts No. 5.

The line-up will be five singer/songwriters: Emily Jane Furlong, Shane Kenny, Martin Holohan, Aoibhín Redmond and Moylan Brunnock and an Open Mic afterwards gives you a chance to sing or recite something afterwards.

Admission is free.

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.

Penrose is an Indie Rock/Pop band with uplifting songs.

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.

The line-up this weekend is:
+ Sat 07 May: Edel Meade (Vocals) + Brian Mullen (Piano)
+ Sun 08 May: Ria Czerniak (Vocals) + Maurice Czerniak (Guitar)
+ Fri 13 May: Brian Dunning

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.

Blues/Rock band Million Days will play a gig in the Patriot’s Inn.

Admission is free.

State.ie Magazine presents “Faces of The State”, a music showcase that features the best and underground live music in Ireland.

The May line-up is Beauty Sleep (dreamy guitar pop from Belfast) and Here to Help You Out (

Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guestlist.