Dublin Event Guide 484: Canalaphonic, Festival of History, SEEING Exhibition, Tribute Music Festival

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

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Eid in the Park” will be an event on Saturday in St. Patrick’s Park next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “Eid” is a muslim festival. The last day of Ramdan is called “Eid al-Fitr” and a second holiday in the muslim calendar is “Eid al-Adha”, the Feast of the Sacrifice.

“Eid in the Park” is a family-friendly festival, organised by the humanitarian organisation Human Appeal and the community organisation South Dublin Maktab from Lucan and a muslim school (Shohada School) to share their festival with the rest of Dublin.

There will be stalls with food and children entertainment and admission is free.

A Family and Children’s Programme will be provided outside the Printworks at Dublin Castle as part of the Dublin History Festival. It is a day of drop-in, interactive, historical fun for all the family.

An Intercultural Tour in Chinese Language with Community Ambassador Vicky Wang will take place. Admission is free.

Former rugby player, manager and commentator Donal Lenihan will sign copies of his auto-biography “My Life in Rugby”.

Admission is free.

Six times will the “People’s Art 2016″ exhibition take place this year. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green.

(If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions.)

Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free and you will be able to admire (and buy) a huge amount of art works. The event starts close to 11:00 and typically finishes around 17:00, it runs from Friday until Sunday with the main activity on Saturday and Sunday.

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

The 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.

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.

Journalist and broadcaster Olivia O’Leary will be in conversation with the Dunnes Stores strikers fromt he Strike against Apartheid in 1984 to discuss the motivations for and consequences of their strike action, which began in July 1984 and lasted for 2 years and 9 months.

Admission is free.

Asperger’s Syndrome is a developmental disorder that affects thousands of people in Ireland today, however, it is greatly misunderstood and often confused with other conditions.

On Saturday, with support from Aspire Ireland, Dublin Castle will host a panel of “legends”, assembled to share their stories of living with the condition and help us to dispel the myths that surround it. They will talk about their day-to-day experiences as well as what they would like us to know, with the opportunity to ask questions.

Admission is free. It seems that booking is not required, but I can’t say that for certain. So, maybe just arrive and ask nicely if you could join.

The Canalaphonic Market Fair will be back, but not on Portobello Harbour Plaza, instead it will be near this year’s Main Stage at the Leinster Cricket Grounds.

You will find Vintage Clothing, Vinyl Records, Jewellery, Arts & Crafts and Sweet Treats at this market.

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.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

Today is the second last day of the SEEING exhibition in the Science Gallery:

The exhibition “SEEING – What are you looking at?” (24 June – 25 Sept 2016) in the Science Gallery is exploring the sensory experience of vision, understanding and perception. It looks at how us human beings see by using eye tracking technology, eye tests and colour perception, but it also shows how machines see and what their limitations are.

It is a great exhibition full of intriguing exhibits, some are very clear, others need some more explanation or you should at least read the explanatory labels that every exhibit has.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, SEEING is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but I would say that children 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 and it will help you soo much more to have a better experience

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.

Canalaphonics is a free Music and Culture Festival that with its centre in Rathmines, but with additional events in Wexford Street and the Earlsfort Terrace area. It will take place from Friday 23 to Saturday 24 September and there will be more than 100 acts on 25 stages.

The Main Stage will this year not be on a Barge in Portobello Harbour like last year, but on the Leinster Cricket Grounds in Rathmines (1 Observatory Lane). The line-up on the Main stage is:

Saturday: St. Mary’s Choir (14:00), The Bonnymen (15:00), AE Mak (16:00), Mick Pyro (17:00), Sample Answer (18:00), Zaska (19:00) and Rocstrong (20:00).

Other participating venues are Whelan’s, MART, Abner Brown’s, The Vaults, 34 Lennox Street, Lock 6, Graces, The Bernard Shaw, Harbour Playhouse, Isabella’s Ice Cream, Alan Hanna’s, Rathmines Library, Two Fifty Square, Moda, MVP, Mother Reilly’s, Rody Bolands, Copan, Slattery’s, Blackbird, The Barge, Opium.

All gigs and events are free.

You can download a PDF with the schedule here or check the website where all venues are listed here with their line-ups.

This year, there will be NO music or market at Portobello Harbour. The market fair has also moved to the Main Stage area at the Leisnter Cricket Grounds from 12:00-21:00 on Saturday: www.facebook.com/urbanmarketsdublin/

Guide Patricia McCabe will lead an In Focus Tour about “Chinese Religion and Culture”.

Admission is free.

The “Spirit of Dunboyne” is a motoring event, organised by the Dunboyne Motor Club, that will this year run for the 10th time.

It will start on Saturday with Fun Run for classic cars and bikes from 13:00-16:00 along a route through parts of Co. Meath and Co. Kildare. with a start and finish in Dunboyne.

Participation costs EUR 10, but watching it is free.

From 20:00 on Saturday a 50s/60s Rock ‘n’Roll night will happen (see separate listing).

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.

The 5th March for Choice, organised by the Abortion Rights Campaign, takes place on Saturday. Meeting point is at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square at 13:30 and at 14:00 the March to Dail Eireann in Kildare Street will start.

The theme of the March this year is “Rise and Repeal”, which refers to the failure of the Irish Republic to fulfil the promise of equality made in 1916.

Participation is free.

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

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

The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland’s Dahlia Show will be back in the Botanic Gardens. The show will be in the Teak House on Sat from 14:00-17:00 and on Sunday from 10:00-17:00.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

The Europe Direct Information Centre, Blanchardstown Library and the European Commission Representation in Ireland will host the European Day of Languages 2016. The event will be a Language Café offering 9 languages: Irish, French, German, Spanish and Italian as conversation and Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian as Taster Classes.

It will start at 14:00 and refreshments will be served afterwards.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

During World War II, enigmatic Irish-German woman Erina Brady brought modern dance to Ireland from Germany. This film brings five of Brady’s former tiny tots on an odyssey to a bygone era in her enchanted Irish School of Dance Art studio.

Produced, written and directed by Deirdre Mulrooney with original score by Rossa Ó Snodaigh (Kila).
The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the director.

Admission is free.

“A Royal Pageant” with Jo May is the family workshop for 4-10 year olds and their guardians.

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

Creative Writing Workshops will be offered by three libraries in Dublin. The workshops are free and over four weeks mentors will guide you through the basics.

The Central Library are running the workshop on Saturdays from 24 Sept – 15 Oct (15:30-16:45).
Pearse Street Library are running it on Thursdays from 29 Sept – 27 Oct (18:00-19:45)
Raheny Library will start in November.

Check out the website below if you are interested. Booking is required!!

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

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

An evening of gigs in connection with the Canalaphonic Festival will take place in Whelan’s. Check out the event entry for Canalaphonic in this Dublin Event Guide. or the website below for details. The line-up on Saturday in Whelan’s is

Whelan’s Main Room
20:00 Late City Edition
21:00 Mongoose
22:00 CC Brez
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Whelan’s Upstairs
23:00 Elder Druid
00:00 Ten Ton Slug
01:00 Two Tales of Woe
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Whelan’sFront bar
19:00 Shelly Buckspan
20:00 Reverend JM’s Panic Worship
21:00 Wolff
22:00 Mongrel State
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Opium Rooms
19:45 Elephant
20:45 Kevyn
21:45 Gavin Glass

The Spirit of Dunboyne is a Motor Sport/Bike & Car event in Dunboyne this weekend (see separate event listing) and on Saturday they will all assemble in the Marquee at Brady’s Lounge for a 50s and 60s Rock ‘n’ Roll night with live music from Bee Bop Gold.

You are invited to wear your 50s/60s outfit and there will prizes for the best costume.

Admission is free. Dunboyne is about 20km from the City Centre of Dublin via the N3.

The Hardchargers will play Blues, Rock and Roots in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

Feather will play futuristic Afro-Soul with her 7-piece band.

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.

In connection with the Dun Laoghaire Tribute Festival, the Gilbert & Wright Pub in Dun Laoghaire will host

+ Slightly Bohemian, a 80s and 90s Cover Band on Saturday
+ Johnny Ward, a Beatles Cover Show on Sunday.

Admission is free.

The band from The Last Waltz bring bring The Irish Rock Show to the Purty Kitchen in Dun Laoghaire. Celebrate Ireland’s best exponents of rock: Rory Gallagher, Phil Lynott, The Pogues, Sinead O Connor, Van Morrison, Horslips and many more.

Admission is free.

Ditch Cassidy, one of Ireland’s best Blues singers, will be in the Salty Dog on Saturday for a gig.

Admission is free.

There are soo many DJ events in Dublin, that I normally don’t get a chance to include them unless there is something special about them. The “Interstate” event has some special and interesting theme. It is a trip through the USA from city to city and every week a different DJ will play songs just from that week’s city.

24 Sept: The series starts with Today FM’s Kelly-Anne Byrne and she will focus on music from New York City. This will be followed by
01 Oct: Nashville with Nialler 9
08 Oct Detroit with Michael Pope
15 Oct Chicago with Nialler 9

Admission is free before 22:00 and EUR 5 after 22:00.

A U2 Fan Party with Tribute Band U2 Baby will happen in the Church Bar on 23 and 24 September.

Admission is free.

The Pacifics will play a gig in the Mezz at midnight.

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.

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The 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.

The next Dublin Flea Market is taking place in the Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket, just off Cork Street, Dublin 8 on Sun from 11:00-17:00. The flea market takes place every last Sunday of the month and admission is free. For more information or if you want to sell your own stuff, check out www.dublinflea.ie

“A bizarre bazaar of vintage clothing, bric-a-brac and what nots, old and new. Stalls include hand-made goods, art, jewelry, furniture, records and lots more unwanted items that may just be your treasure!”

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

The Kilkenny Shop Cafe is inviting to a Jazz Brunch Sunday every Sunday. They don’t specify who is playing at the brunch, I will see if I can find out more.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Society of Model and Experimental Engineers (DSMEE) is inviting you to an Open Day at their facilities in Marlay Park.

It will be on Sunday from 11:00-17:00 and they will show their great work. Trains will run on both the raised track, where the normal Saturday train rides for children are run, but also on the larger ground level layout, located next to the main DSMEE building.The ground level track is 800m long and 400 of it are used. The levated line is 280 meters long. Sounds like a dream of every model railway hobbyist!

Locomotives and other items built by the society’s members will be on display and there will be people to tell you more about the DSMEE (and you can join them if you are interested).

Admission is free. To find the building, follow these directions: www.dsmee.ie/directions/4586406970

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.

Six times will the “People’s Art 2016″ exhibition take place this year. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green.

(If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions.)

Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free and you will be able to admire (and buy) a huge amount of art works. The event starts close to 11:00 and typically finishes around 17:00, it runs from Friday until Sunday with the main activity on Saturday and Sunday.

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

The 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.

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

This is the very last day of the SEEING exhibition in the Science Gallery, go today if you still haven’t seen it!!

The exhibition “SEEING – What are you looking at?” (24 June – 25 Sept 2016) in the Science Gallery is exploring the sensory experience of vision, understanding and perception. It looks at how us human beings see by using eye tracking technology, eye tests and colour perception, but it also shows how machines see and what their limitations are.

It is a great exhibition full of intriguing exhibits, some are very clear, others need some more explanation or you should at least read the explanatory labels that every exhibit has.

Like all Science Gallery exhibitions, SEEING is suitable for all ages with a particular focus on the age group of 15-25, but I would say that children 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 and it will help you soo much more to have a better experience

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 main day for the “Spirit of Dunboyne” event is on Sunday. There will be parade laps with Classic Bikes and Cars, Demo Laps by Sidecar Motorbikes, Formula Libre Cars and Rally Cars and there will be Pit Bikes, Slot Car Racing and Auto Test Demonstrations.

Entertainment for kids will also be available. Dunboyne is about 20km from the City Centre of Dublin (via N3) in north westerly direction.

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 The Clementi Sonatas VII with Fionnuala Moynihan piano.

The Dún Laoghaire Tribute Music Festival is a free gig of tribute artists in the centre of People’s Park. Fans of Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Oasis and The Andrews Sisters will hear tribute acts copying their idols. The bands are Mad Fantastic, Mack Fleetwood, Roll With It, Bugle Babes.

Admission is free.

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.

A Intercultural Tour in Japanese Language with Community Ambassador Hiromi Anzai will take place.

Admission is free.

The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland’s Dahlia Show will be back in the Botanic Gardens. The show will be in the Teak House on Sat from 14:00-17:00 and on Sunday from 10:00-17:00.

Admission is free.

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.

The Lucan Concert Band will perform in the bandstand of Farmleigh House.

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

Lar Joye, curator of Military History, in a talk examining the Battle of the Somme, including stories of the 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers from the Royal Barracks Dublin (now Collins Barracks).

Admission is free and no booking required, places will be allocated 15 minutes before the talk begins.

Breizheire, an organisation for Breton Culture in Ireland, is inviting to a Breton Dance Session on Sunday. Brittany, the celtic region in France, has a rich culture of folk dances and the accompanying music and at this Breton Dance Session in Dublin, you can take part and/or watch.

Admission is free.

“Seeing the Painter-Engraver’s Art – Original Print Exhibitions in Ireland 1880s-1920s” is a free talk with Dr. Angela Griffith, TCD in the National Gallery.

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.

Come to this family friendly tour of the “Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising” exhibition, looking at some of the highlights of the Museum’s extensive Easter Week collection.

Admission is free and no booking required, places will be allocated on a first-come first served basis 15 minutes before the tour starts.

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

The first “Note Quite Mass” will be this Sunday and the line-up should be on the Facebook Group Page below.

We can never have enough Comedy! So check it out and tell me about it afterwards. ;-)

Admission is free (donations are welcome).

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

Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

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

Admission is free.

The Dixeland Jazzmen play a weekly gig in Sin E. Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In connection with the Dun Laoghaire Tribute Festival, the Gilbert & Wright Pub in Dun Laoghaire will host

+ Slightly Bohemian, a 80s and 90s Cover Band on Saturday
+ Johnny Ward, a Beatles Cover Show on Sunday.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

The Surefire Trio will play a gig in the Mezz on Sunday.

Admission is free.

From Monday 26 Sept until Saturday 01 Oct, a Social Inclusion Week will take place in Dublin. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of both social Inclusion and exclusion as it affects the lives of communities, families and individuals.

There will be a series of events and activities during the week and many of these events are organised and delivered by groups at risk of social exclusion including migrant groups, people with disabilities, homeless and the LGBT groups.

Admission is free to nearly all events.

The downloadable PDF brochure with all events in it can be found here.

Some of the events are listed below, but please check the PDF brochure for details:
+ Over 55s crafts and skills Showcase on Monday 26 Sept 10:00-13:00 in City Hall
+ Over 55s Fitness Classes on Monday 26 Sept 10:00-11:00 in Cabra Community Centre
+ Tai Chi for Over 55s on Monday 26 Sept 11:00-12:00 in Central Library
+ Indoor Bowls on Monday 26 Sept 11:00-13:00 in Ballybough Community Centre
+ Tai Chi for Senior Citizens on Monday 14:30 in Finglas Youth Resource Centre
+ Community Sports Day on Mon 26 Sept from 14:30 in Priorswood Park, Clonshaugh
+ Introduction to Mindfullness on Mon 26 Sept at 15:00 in Walkinstown Library
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+ Theatre Performance: A Galway Girl on Tues 27 Sept from 14:00 in Parish Centre, Donnybrook
+ Health & Fitness Testing for Older Adults on Tues 27 Sept 11:00-13:00 in Ballybough Community Centre
+ Message in a Bottle Safety Awareness session on Tues 27 Sept 14:30-16:30 Carmelite Centre, Aungier Street
+ Rainbow Knitting on Tues 27 Sept 19:00-21:00 in Ballyfermot Civic Centre
+ Sightless Cinema on Tues 27 Sept 18:30-19:30 in Lighthouse Cinema
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+ Life Made Fabulous: Over 55s Fashion Show on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-12:00 in Debenhams Restaurant, Henry Street
+ Old County Pitch & Putt Club Open Day on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-16:00 Lorcan O’Toole Park, Crumlin, Dublin 12
+ Health & Fitness Testing for Older Adults on Wed 28 Sept 11:00-14:00 in Poppintree Community Sports Centre
+ Historical Walking Tour on Wed 28 Sept 14:00 in Kilmainham
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+ Social Inclusion & Volunteering Workshop on Thurs 29 Sept 09:00-13:30 in Wood Quay Venue
+ National Immigrant Conference on Thurs 29 Sept 10:00-17:00 in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street
+ Film LGBT Shorts Evening on Thurs 29 Sept 19:00 in Ranelagh Arts Centre
+ Older Persons Network Garden Party on Thurs 29 Sept 14:00-16:00 in Maxwell Court, Rathmines
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+ Mental Health Open Mic Event on Fri 30 Sept 19:00 The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, D7
+ LGBT Walking Tour on Fri 30 Sept 14:00 at Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

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

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

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

An exhibition of wild mushrooms will be shown at the National Botanic Gardens. Bring in your gathered mushrooms, meet and talk with mycologists to share experiences and learn more about the huge variety of fungi in Ireland.

Admission is free.

The Simon Community seminar “Housing, Homelessness and Rights” will focus on “the importance of enshrining rights at the heart of our policy, practice and legislative processes to ensure there are meaningful changes in the lives and experiences of people who are homeless and those living on the edge”.

Admission is free, but registration is required via communications@simoncommunity.com

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

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

The 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 hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

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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Ulster Bank is running a business seminar about “Achieving Sustainable Growth” where you can meet other entrepreneurs and business owners and hear about the challenges and opportunities facing Irish businesses including establishing and growing a business, policy issues and supports for SMEs.

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

The ‘emergence’ of children and childhood in modern history with Marnie Hay.

Our modern conception of childhood as a time of education and innocence began to emerge in the eighteenth century, but it wasn’t until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that such ideas influenced the lives of children of all classes in the western world. How and why did this happen? Marnie Hay is a historian whose current research relates to the history of Irish nationalist children and youth in the early twentieth century.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-490 7035

The Italian movie “Il Vento fa il suo Giro” will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.

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

Richard O’Carroll was a trade unionist and Labour Party councillor on Dublin City Council, first elected in 1907. He was killed by Captain Bowen-Colthurst during the 1916 Rising and was the only elected member of the Council to be killed while on active service during the Rising.

Brian Hanley will give this lecture. He has taught and published widely on twentieth-century Irish history.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8344906

The Irish Astronomical Society is inviting to the talk “Amateur Radio Satellites and receiving live video from the orbiting ISS” by Daniel Cussen.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

The are performing every last Monday of every month in Bad Bob’s and admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

The wedding and party band The Retronauts will play a gig every Monday in the Mezz. Their music is Funk, Rock, Disco, Blues, Reggae.

Admission is free.

From Monday 26 Sept until Saturday 01 Oct, a Social Inclusion Week will take place in Dublin. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of both social Inclusion and exclusion as it affects the lives of communities, families and individuals.

There will be a series of events and activities during the week and many of these events are organised and delivered by groups at risk of social exclusion including migrant groups, people with disabilities, homeless and the LGBT groups.

Admission is free to nearly all events.

The downloadable PDF brochure with all events in it can be found here.

Some of the events are listed below, but please check the PDF brochure for details:

+ Theatre Performance: A Galway Girl on Tues 27 Sept from 14:00 in Parish Centre, Donnybrook
+ Health & Fitness Testing for Older Adults on Tues 27 Sept 11:00-13:00 in Ballybough Community Centre
+ Message in a Bottle Safety Awareness session on Tues 27 Sept 14:30-16:30 Carmelite Centre, Aungier Street
+ Rainbow Knitting on Tues 27 Sept 19:00-21:00 in Ballyfermot Civic Centre
+ Sightless Cinema on Tues 27 Sept 18:30-19:30 in Lighthouse Cinema
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+ Life Made Fabulous: Over 55s Fashion Show on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-12:00 in Debenhams Restaurant, Henry Street
+ Old County Pitch & Putt Club Open Day on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-16:00 Lorcan O’Toole Park, Crumlin, Dublin 12
+ Health & Fitness Testing for Older Adults on Wed 28 Sept 11:00-14:00 in Poppintree Community Sports Centre
+ Historical Walking Tour on Wed 28 Sept 14:00 in Kilmainham
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+ Social Inclusion & Volunteering Workshop on Thurs 29 Sept 09:00-13:30 in Wood Quay Venue
+ National Immigrant Conference on Thurs 29 Sept 10:00-17:00 in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street
+ Film LGBT Shorts Evening on Thurs 29 Sept 19:00 in Ranelagh Arts Centre
+ Older Persons Network Garden Party on Thurs 29 Sept 14:00-16:00 in Maxwell Court, Rathmines
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+ Mental Health Open Mic Event on Fri 30 Sept 19:00 The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, D7
+ LGBT Walking Tour on Fri 30 Sept 14:00 at Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

The free lecture “Why Artists Make Prints” with Artist Printmaker Niall Naessens will take place in the National Gallery on Tuesday.

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 hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

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

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

Historically themed films including two films on French history will be screened in the Pearse Street Library. All films will either be in English or will at least have English subtitles.

The screenings will be at 14:00 on Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 September, Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 October.

“With their drums and their guns: Irish Soldiers & their Music in the American Civil War” is a talk with Brendan MacQuaile about the approximately 200,000 Irishmen who fought in the American Civil War, 1860-64, most of them in the Union Army. Listen to their stories and songs with Brendan MacQuaile.

Brendan is a classically trained baritone who has performed widely in Ireland and abroad.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 874 9619

“Modern Dilemmas” is a reflective talk series exploring dilemmas in modern life & relationships. The speakers are sharing a struggle and some insights but are not coming at it from an expert position.

The 1st talk theme is “changing how i work” with two speakers, Matt a doctor & John an entrepreneur.

Admission is free.

“The USSR through Irish eyes: Irish Republican women and the Soviet Union” is a talk with Maurice Casey.

At the beginning of the 1930s several boats left Dublin bound for Leningrad, populated with some of Ireland’s best known women radicals such as Helena Molony, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and the veteran suffragette Charlotte Despard. What brought them to Russia and how did it effect them? This lecture makes use of new material from archives in Dublin, Britain and Russia, much of which has never been discussed before.

Maurice Casey is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University. His research focuses on the global connections of Irish radicals during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the Soviet Union.

Admission is free, but booking is required via (01) 869 1414

Commandant Stephen Mac Eoin (Irish Defence Forces Director of the Military Archives) will discuss collections relating to the 1916 Rising in the Military Archives including the various genealogical sources available with reference to the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan, Na Fianna Éireann and Dublin Brigade Activity Reports.

Admission is free, but booking is required via (01) 8477781

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.

CONNECT16 is a showcase of and for the events industry featuring over 220 hotels, venues and event suppliers, tastings per region, entertainment and 30 educational seminars.

It is for everybody who is organising events of any sort as your normal occupation.

Admission is free but booking is required via the website below and that’s also where you will find a lot morer information about this event.

From Monday 26 Sept until Saturday 01 Oct, a Social Inclusion Week will take place in Dublin. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of both social Inclusion and exclusion as it affects the lives of communities, families and individuals.

There will be a series of events and activities during the week and many of these events are organised and delivered by groups at risk of social exclusion including migrant groups, people with disabilities, homeless and the LGBT groups.

Admission is free to nearly all events.

The downloadable PDF brochure with all events in it can be found here.

Some of the events are listed below, but please check the PDF brochure for details:

+ Life Made Fabulous: Over 55s Fashion Show on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-12:00 in Debenhams Restaurant, Henry Street
+ Old County Pitch & Putt Club Open Day on Wed 28 Sept 10:00-16:00 Lorcan O’Toole Park, Crumlin, Dublin 12
+ Health & Fitness Testing for Older Adults on Wed 28 Sept 11:00-14:00 in Poppintree Community Sports Centre
+ Historical Walking Tour on Wed 28 Sept 14:00 in Kilmainham
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+ Social Inclusion & Volunteering Workshop on Thurs 29 Sept 09:00-13:30 in Wood Quay Venue
+ National Immigrant Conference on Thurs 29 Sept 10:00-17:00 in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street
+ Film LGBT Shorts Evening on Thurs 29 Sept 19:00 in Ranelagh Arts Centre
+ Older Persons Network Garden Party on Thurs 29 Sept 14:00-16:00 in Maxwell Court, Rathmines
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+ Mental Health Open Mic Event on Fri 30 Sept 19:00 The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, D7
+ LGBT Walking Tour on Fri 30 Sept 14:00 at Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

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.

Taking inspiration from the historical architecture of Dublin Castle, join artist Doireann Ni Ghrioghair in an experimental sculpture workshop for adults. Using photography to investigate the various forms, shapes and motifs, 3D constructions will be made that riff and improvise with the visual language of the building.

The event is free, but booking is required via DublinCastleEducation@opw.ie

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

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 public lecture “The Public Library and the City” with Margaret Hayes (Dublin City Librarian,
Dublin City Public Library and Archive Services) will take place on Wednesday in the Seminar Room of the National Library.

Margaret Hayes was appointed as Dublin City Librarian in July 2010 with responsibility for Library, Archive, Gallery and Museum services.

Admission is free and no booking required.

Historically themed films including two films on French history will be screened in the Pearse Street Library. All films will either be in English or will at least have English subtitles.

The screenings will be at 14:00 on Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 September, Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 October.

The Turkish Film “Mustang” tells the story about five Turkish adolescent orphaned sisters who have their basic freedom taken from them (in Turkish with English subtitles, 2015, 15A, 97min)

Admission is free.

A Let’s Walk & Talk tour will take place in Kilmainham and at the National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge. Meeting point is outside the former Courthouse at Kilmainham Gaol. The walk will be led by historian Pat Liddy.

Admission is free.

This is the last Temple Bar “Night” Market for 2016.:

The Temple Bar “Night” Market is more an afternoon and evening market (15:00-20:00) and it takes place every Wednesday until the end of September.

You can buy Arts & Crafts at this market.

In previous years the missing food and drink stalls (probably to protect the pubs and restaurants in Temple Bar) was mentioned by visitors as a critique.

The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history and runs a series of lectures every semester. The next one is on Wednesday and the topic is

“Was Bonaparte in the GPO? Reflections on Napoleon and Ireland 1796-1916” with Professor Tom Bartlett (Aberdeen)

Admission is free.

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

“The British popular press and the new Irish Free State” with Elspeth Payne is a talk on Wednesday.

It will look at how Anglo-Irish relations were renegotiated in the pages of the British tabloids in the early years of Irish independence and examines the place of these publications and their discourses in contemporary British and Irish societies.

Elspeth Payne is an Irish Research Council funded doctoral candidate in Trinity College Dublin and former recipient of the R. B. McDowell Fellowship. Her research explores Ireland’s relationship with the British popular press between 1922 and 1933.

Admission is free, but boolking is requied via rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie or (01) 4973539

“Empty teacups: Living without Tea in WWII Ireland” with John Porter will look at how during World War II Ireland’s national drink, tea, became a scarce and highly sought after commodity. This talk explores how Irish society reacted to the traumatic absence.

John Porter is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin.

Admission is free, but booking is required via ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie or (01) 626 9324

The International Mandolin Composition Competition will conclude with the Award Ceremony for the “Nino Lammarino” award.

The event will feature musical (Mandolin) performances by the winners.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

“James Connolly’s Green Flag of Ireland & the 1916 garrison flags” with Rachel Phelan

As part of the Easter 1916 commemorations the decision was made to conserve the surviving 1916 Dublin garrison flags for display in the National Museum. However during the course of the work a remarkable discovery came to light from Enniskillen. This presentation will outline the different types of flags used by the rebels in 1916 and the work that was undertaken to authenticate the Enniskillen flag together with the conservation process.

Rachel Phelan graduated from the Textile Conservation Centre in 1998 and in 2002 she established her own studio.

Admission is free, but booking is required via walkinstownlibrary@dublincity.ie or (01) 455 8159

Poetry Ireland and Carcanet Press invite you to the Dublin launch of Mary O’Malley’s eighth collection of poems “Playing the Octopus”, with special guest Joseph O’Connor.

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

The Roots Band “Brand New Switcheroo” will perform in the Harbour Bar. 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 Harleys are a popular coverband and they will be in the Mezz every Wednesday at midnight.

Admission is free.

The Local Enterprise Offices are offering Business Advice Sessions to people who are thinking about starting up a business or who already have an existing business and need some direction or advice. You can find out more by contacting your Local Enterprise Office via www.localenterprise.ie

If you are based in Fingal, then the Business Advice Clinics in Blanchadstown Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays might be interesting to you. Find out more detail via the link below.

Admission is free.

From Monday 26 Sept until Saturday 01 Oct, a Social Inclusion Week will take place in Dublin. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of both social Inclusion and exclusion as it affects the lives of communities, families and individuals.

There will be a series of events and activities during the week and many of these events are organised and delivered by groups at risk of social exclusion including migrant groups, people with disabilities, homeless and the LGBT groups.

Admission is free to nearly all events.

The downloadable PDF brochure with all events in it can be found here.

Some of the events are listed below, but please check the PDF brochure for details:

+ Social Inclusion & Volunteering Workshop on Thurs 29 Sept 09:00-13:30 in Wood Quay Venue
+ National Immigrant Conference on Thurs 29 Sept 10:00-17:00 in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street
+ Film LGBT Shorts Evening on Thurs 29 Sept 19:00 in Ranelagh Arts Centre
+ Older Persons Network Garden Party on Thurs 29 Sept 14:00-16:00 in Maxwell Court, Rathmines
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+ Mental Health Open Mic Event on Fri 30 Sept 19:00 The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, D7
+ LGBT Walking Tour on Fri 30 Sept 14:00 at Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square

The Dublin Festival of History will take place from Friday 23 September until Saturday 08 October.

There will be plenty of talks in the Printworks Conference Centre at Dublin Castle and in Dublin’s Libraries about a large range of different topic.

Admission is free, but some events require pre-booking.

The full programme can be downloaded here or you can check the website below for more information.

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

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

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

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

Smashing Barriers is a get-together for disabled people, where you can find your voice and work with an artist to create something together. All you need is an interest in change in your community and time to get involved. The event is organised by the Ballyfermot Access Group.

The event will happen at 11:30-13:00 and another group will meet at 18:30-19:30. Light refreshments will be provided.

Admission is free, but booking is required via Catherine Lane (01-623 8088 or clane@ballyfermotpartnership.ie or text 087 909 2837).

The hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

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.

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“Dublin since 1922: Diary of Ireland’s capital” with Tim Carey

Engaging anecdotes, stories and images will feature at this talk about the history of Dublin in the twentieth century. Tim Carey is Heritage Officer of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and has published many history books.

Admission is free and no booking required.

“Beyond the war: Nazi propaganda campaigns on Spanish soil during World War II” with Mercedes Peñalba

By 1941, the German Embassy in Spain was the Reich’s largest, with 500 people working in Madrid and 42 consulates on Spanish soil. Why did the Nazi regime devote such attention to a technically neutral country? This lecture will explain the reasons behind this phenomenon through the analysis of the German propaganda campaigns designed for Spain.

Dr Mercedes Peñalba is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin. Her work focuses on the design of Nazi propaganda for Spain during World War II.

Admission is free, but booking is required via centrallibrary@dublincity.ie or (01) 873 4333

The Lunchtime Lecture “A Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: the 1911 Chinese Revolution in the Context of the 1916 Rising” with Dr Isabella Jackson (Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Trinity College Dublin) will take place.

Admission is free.

Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International in Ireland, Sinead Hogan, Lecturer School of Creative Arts IADT, and artist Alan Phelan will reflect on Roger Casement’s role as a humanitarian, current human rights issues and how artists respond to these themes in their practice.

Admission is free.

Two Conversation Cafes will take place in Cabra Library. The first on Thursday 29 September and teh second on Thursday 13 October.

“In a relaxed café style setting over tea and coffee in small groups choose from an enticing conversation menu of thought-provoking questions. Experience human alchemy as this space becomes a catalyst for fresh thinking and new possibilities. Be intrigued by the different ideas and opinions you hear. Expect to be surprised. Treasure curiosity more than certainty. Have fun, be inspired, connect with new people.”

Meet other curious, open-minded, open-hearted people, Feel at home in a friendly atmosphere of exploration and enjoyment, Have some interesting and stimulating discussions, Experience some light bulb moments

The events is hosted by Life Coach Heather Bourke

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 8691414 or cabralibrary@dublincity.ie

Creative Writing Workshops will be offered by three libraries in Dublin. The workshops are free and over four weeks mentors will guide you through the basics.

The Central Library are running the workshop on Saturdays from 24 Sept – 15 Oct (15:30-16:45).
Pearse Street Library are running it on Thursdays from 29 Sept – 27 Oct (18:00-19:45)
Raheny Library will start in November.

Check out the website below if you are interested. Booking is required!!

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 other Connolly of 1916: Seán Connolly” with Donal Fallon

Seán Connolly was in command of the City Hall garrison on Easter Monday 1916. Hear the story of this Dublin Corporation employee, Irish Citizen Army captain and the first rebel to die in the Rising.

Donal Fallon is a historian with a particular interest in the history of Dublin. He is one of the founders and contributors to the Come Here To Me blog.

Admission is free, but booking is required via drumcondralibrary@dublincity.ie or (01) 837 7206

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

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

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

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

A public lecture about the US Presidential Election will take place in TCD. Speakers will be Dr Paul Scanlon (“Economic Trend and the Rise of Trump”), Dr Constantine Boussalis (“Implications of the 2016 US Election on Climate Change Policy”), Dr Peter Stone (“Moral Collapse in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election”) and Dr Laura Graham (“Whose vote counts? Race, class, and gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election”).

Admission is free, but there is a huge amount of interest for this event and once the lecture thatre is full, you won’t get in. It will be filled on a first come, first served basis.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher 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

A Ladies Night for Polish Women will take place at the Polish Library. There will be Polish live music, an art exhibition and presentations/discussions about fashion, make-up or diets.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

“The Ireland Korea Parallel: Reflections on our Shared Experiences” by Dr Eamon McKee (Ambassador / Director General of the Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland).

Ambassador McKee has been posted to all of the diplomatic hot-spots that exemplify Ireland’s high-profile global role. First he was involved in the Irish peace process talks, then was in Korea (serving both South and North Korea), then in Israel, and now as the Director General of Ireland’s international trade. He will speak about interactions between Irish people and Korea from the 19th century onward, colonisation and independence, partition and peace building and modernisation (the swift transition in both cases from a rural and agricultural based society to an industrialised/urbanised/ and now digital one.

Admission seems to be 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.

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

It takes place every Thursday and admission is free.

Astronomy Ireland is inviting to a “Farewell to Saturn & Mars” event for which they will set up an array of big telescopes on Thursday.

Saturn and Mars were visible on our skies for the past few months and they are both leaving us for now. Mars will not come close to Earth again until summer 2018 and Saturn will be back next summer).

Come and have a look through the telescopes to get an unforgettable look at these two planets and the moon.

Admission is free.

The Contemporary Music Centre continues its 2016 Salon Series with Dublin Sound Lab.

Dublin Sound Lab is a contemporary music ensemble formed by Michael Quinn (organ) and Fergal Dowling (electronics), specialising in electronic and computer mediated concert performance. As well as presenting existing works, the duo initiate collaborations and use computer based techniques to explore relationships between compositional process and performance practice, and to create new and engaging concert experiences.

Admission is free but booking is recommended via sford@cmc.ie

Rock band Fox Jaw will play a gig in Whelan’s.

Admission is free.

Brazlian band Namangaia will play Forro music every Thursday in the Mezz.

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.)

The next Cabin Sessions will take place on Thursday with the Cabin Crew (Christian Volkmann (harmonica), Cathy McEvoy (fiddle), Dave Hardy (sax), Spats Davenport) and with guests Capo Two (folk), Sean Mc Comish (Contemporary) and Charlie Roth (Americana) from the USA.

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.

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

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

The Swing Cats will be in The Church for a gig and admission is free.

Expect up tempo hits from the swing dance era of the 1940’s and 50’s, featuring hits from swing music legends such as Bobby Darin, Louis prima, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack.

From Monday 26 Sept until Saturday 01 Oct, a Social Inclusion Week will take place in Dublin. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of both social Inclusion and exclusion as it affects the lives of communities, families and individuals.

There will be a series of events and activities during the week and many of these events are organised and delivered by groups at risk of social exclusion including migrant groups, people with disabilities, homeless and the LGBT groups.

Admission is free to nearly all events.

The downloadable PDF brochure with all events in it can be found here.

Some of the events are listed below, but please check the PDF brochure for details:

+ Mental Health Open Mic Event on Fri 30 Sept 19:00 The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, D7
+ LGBT Walking Tour on Fri 30 Sept 14:00 at Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students of the Dublin Adult Learning Centre and poet in residence Nessa O’Mahonywill read poets in the Irish Writers’ Centre.

Admission is free and more information is available on the website below.

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 hugely popular Oktoberfest in Dublin takes place from 15 Sept – 02 Oct again. It is a German Beer Festival with Erdinger Weissbräu Beer (including alcohol-free wheat beer), lots of German Bavarian Food and authentic Bavarian music.

Opening hours are Mon-Wed 12:00-23:30, Thur-Sat: 12:00-00:30, Sun 12:00-22:30.

The best place to experience the festival is in the Festival Tent on the platform in George’s Dock. But because the yearly festival is soo popular, there are at times long queues due to severe admission restrictions (quantity of people). Last year the queues already started at 17:30. Luckily around George’s Dock are more food and drink stalls so that you don’t HAVE to be in the Festival tent to enjoy the event.

Admission is free, but after 22:00 an odd meal voucher system kicks in: You will have to buy a wristband for EUR 6 that gives you a food voucher if you want to buy any alcohol. Allegedly licensing rules force them to do that.

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 Public Lecture “The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from The Irish Revolution” with Dr Gaia Narciso, Assistant Professor of Economics, Trinity College will look at the findings of a recent study by Dr Narciso and Dr Battista Severgnini of Copenhagen Business School, which explores whether the Irish Famine (1845-1850) changed political attitudes and contributed to the Irish Revolution (1913-1921).

Admission is free. The event will be in TRiSS Seminar Room, 6th floor, Arts Building, Trinity College

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To celebrate the 7th Indian Film Festival of Ireland, Pearse Street Library is screening ‘Haider’, a 2014 Indian crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaja. The film received many nominations and won five National Film Awards.

Admission is free.

“Probe” is like a Culture Night for research at TCD. It is a whole range of free events on Friday evening that all have to do with research:

“From the sharing economy to symbiotic microorganisms and music that moves around the room, the diverse world of academic research will be laid bare at Probe: Research Uncovered at Trinity College Dublin. Probe is a free event packed with music, comedy, storytelling, screenings and live experiments.”

Admission is free, but a booking via Eventbrite seems to be required. However, when you check the description in detail then it says “register for updates”. That suggests that the Eventbrite registration here is NOT for any event, but it is just to join an e-mail list.

Most events take place on the TCD Front Square and no booking is required.

However, additionally there are some more free but ticketed individual events:

• Ethical Dilemmas in Science and Medicine
• Changing Ireland, Changing Law
• Thesis in 3: Trinity College Dublin Final
• Reconstructing The Past
• Sustainable, Shareable Food
• Migrants at Risk
• Duelling Davids – Experiments in Literary Translation

And if you go to the Probe Facebook page, you find in the Photos section snap shots of the full event schedule for the event.

This has nothing to do with TCD research, but still worth noting:
Stomptown Brass will play on the Main Stage from 20:15-21:00

“Di Concetta e le sue donne” is a theatrical performance of a novel by Maria Attanasio, performed by Italian performers. Find all details via the website below.

Admission is free according to the website.

Flying South is a mental health open mic event, organised by a spoken word collective that is also called Flying South.

All types of spoken word are welcome – poetry, performance, storytelling, comedy, drama, songwriting, anecdotal sharing, etc. – if you have something to say about mental health, want to share your own story, or just want to come along & watch, everyone is very welcome. There will be baked goods and teas/coffee.

If you would like to perform or read on the night, just turn up & put your name/act on the signup sheet.

Nicole Rourke, Karl Parkinson, Dylan Harcourt & special guests are already on the line-up.

Admission is free.

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

After the Ibis will play Reggae and Roots on Friday.

Admission is free.

The U2 Tribute Band “Rattle & Hum” will play in the marquee behind Baker’s Corner for their 30th Birthday on Friday.

On Saturday, there will be Bungee Jump (is that actual bungee jumping or a band!?!?!) and “Smash Hits” will perform and on Sunday “The Juice” will be on stage.

Admission to all events 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.

The Midnight Hour in Whelan’s will feature the bands Exiles and Chasing Felix. The gig will start at midnight, but you have to be there by 22:30 if you want to get in for free. Another way to get in for free is to sign up for the guest list via the website below.