Dublin Event Guide 538: Fix Jam, Spud Fest, Busker Fleadh, Fusion Sunday World Culture Market, Dublin History Festival, Science Gallery Launch

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 runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

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
+ Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin 6

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.

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 will be open form 07 Sept and will run until 20 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

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.

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 was free in 2016, but lucky for us, Dublin City decided to also waive the admission charge for 2017.

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

The Drumcondra Village Market is now the “Art, Bites, Crafts Drumcondra Market”. And as you guessed it, it is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. :-) There will also be some food and music.

The market is open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30-15:30.

Admission is free.

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.

35 volunteer sending agencies and other interested organisations are coming together for the Irish Aid Volunteering Fair. They will showcase their overseas placements and will answer your questions about volunteering and development work.

Two interactive, participatory workshops and a keynote speech, followed by a panel discussion with returned volunteers and development workers will be additional features of this event.

The event will take place in the Hibernian Conference Centre in Dublin Castle.

The Key-note speech by Junior Minister Ciarán Cannon will be at 12:00 in the La Touche Room and the panel discussion runs from 12:30-13:30. In the President’s Room the interactive session ‘Humanitarian Volunteering through the EU Aid Volunteering Initiative’ will happen from 14:00-15:00 and

2.00pm – 3.00pm President’s Room- And the topic from 15:30-16:40 will be “Fundraising tips for volunteers” with Simon Scriver. (More and more often, volunteers are requested to raise funds before they travel on behalf of their volunteer sending agency and this one hour workshop will take you through some tips for fundraising.)

Admission is free.

The Terenure Bushy Park Market is taking place every weekk. The market has more than 30 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 every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

On the first Saturday every month, the “A Fabulous Market” will take place in the George Bar in South Great George’s Street.

You will find all sorts of art and crafts at this market

Admission is free.

Every Thursday (17:30-19:30), Saturday (12:00-16:00) and Sunday (12:00-16:00) the Dublin Library of Things will be open at the Food Co-op during National Re-Use Month (October) and November.

A Library of Things is a place where people can borrow items needed only on an occasional basis, or that are too bulky or costly to own. By sharing these items it reduces the need for material production and consumption and allows people to free up space in their homes and try new hobbies without the need to buy new supplies.

The Library of Things will work on a membership basis. Anyone can join and then take out items for up to one week. Borrowing items will be free however there will be deposits on items relative to the value of the item. The Library of Things will also act as a drop off and collection point for WeShare members (www.weshare.ie/), an online community where people can list items that have to share, or things that they need.

The items in the Library of Things will all be doanted or loaned and therefore it depends on individuals and businesses what the library will have available. Ideal items are sewing machines, kitchen appliances, DIY tools, halloween costumes, craft materials, games and sports equipment and gardening equipment. If you have any useful items in good working order that you would like to loan or donate to the library of things, or have other suggestions or questions for us, contact them at dublinlibraryofthings@gmail.com. Volunteers are also needed to man the library.

As part of “Re-use Month”, a Fix Jam will take place in the Dublin Food Co-op.

Bring your broken or damaged items and learn how to fix them under instruction or with the help from skilled and experienced fixers.

There will also be entertainment from live music to spoken word and there will be a raffle as well.

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.

Keogh’s Farm are for years the biggest potato promoters in Dublin and they organised a number of times the “National Potato Day” in Merrion Square and (as far as I know) other locations.

They are at it again! This time it is in Newbridge House where the Spud Fest will take place on Saturday. There will be Bouncy castles, lawn games with prizes, arts & crafts, face painting, BBQ with tasty potato treats, vintage tractors and live music.

Admission is free.

The Bernard Shaw Flea Market is taking place this week. It is a Vintage & Flea Market with 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.

Yvonne Cullen, a superb creative writing teacher that has taught a LOT of Dublin Event Guide readers in the past, regularly runs writing classes and workshops in Dublin and also writing holidays in Inishbofin and Inishturk.

To give you a chance to try out her class, she has scheduled two free taster classes this Saturday (07 October) and next Saturday (14 October). It is super short notice for this week, but maybe you are a fast decision maker and will jump on the opportunity. Normally to get a space on her taster class you would have to send a mail to yvonnesworkshops@gmail.com and tell Yvonne in one sentence why you would like to attend. Because it so short notice, we will change the rules slightly. Call her before 12:30 and tell her that sentence and if she has a spot, you probably will get it. Action Takers Reward! :-)

The next taster class after this week is on 14 October (11:00-13:00) in the National Library and if you are interested in attending this, you have to – as I outlined – send a mail to yvonnesworkshops@gmail.com and explain in one sentence why you want to attend. Yvonne will get back to all successful applicants.

Find out more about her programmes via the link below.

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.

This weekend is the last weekend of the Ranelagh Arts Festival. There will be another 10 events in Ranelagh and most of them are free. The full events listing is here www.facebook.com/pg/ranelaghartsfestival/events/

Every Saturday a free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 14:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00 and one on Sundays at 15:00

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.

A free guided tour will take place at the National War Memorial at Islandbridge every Saturday at 14:00 from March 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 (next to the Trinity College Boat Club). For further information and to check that it is taking place, contact 01-8155914 (Farmleigh House).

A Sign Language Tour of A?ras an Uachtara?in will take place on Saturday.

Admission is free booking is requried via info@heritageireland.ie.

As part of the Dublin Festival of History and to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, this seminar explains this world-changing event and the impact it had on Ireland.

Speakers include Conor Kostick, Kate O’Malley and Emmet O’Connor and the seminar will be chaired by Jack McGinley and Fionnuala Richardson of the Irish Labour History Society.

Admission is free and no booking required, but places are limited. .

During the “Guided Walk: Through Sculpture in Context” you can meet one fo the artists of the exhibition for a guided tour through the exhibition to gain an insight into Ireland’s largest outdoor and indoor sculpture exhibition.

Admission is free. Meet in the Visitor Centre. The next (and last) guided tour will be on Saturday 14 Oct.

The Address play 80s/90s inspired pop and they will play a gig in Palmerstown House.

Admission is free.

The Swiss Quintet Le Rex, consisting of four wind intstruments and drums will play their first gig in Ireland.

They say “The sound of Le Rex reveals a spectacular kaleidoscope of crispy popgrooves, balkanese horn riffs, intoxicating and frisky rhythm ’n’ blues parts and the sweet bitterness of leaden ballads mixed with breakneck horn solos.” Sonds promising!

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.

A Rory Gallagher Tribute Night with tribute band “Deuce” will take place in Sin E.

Admission is free.

Susan Tomelty & Pat Farrell are “Singing the Blues” at this gig in McLoughlin’s.

Admission is free.

The midnight hour gig in Whelan’s is with “Dysfunktional”, a 7-piece funk band.

Admission is free before 22:30

The Porterhouse in Temple Bar has live msuic every day of the week on what is probably the smallest stage in Dublin.

On Saturday “Rock Tribunal” will play a gig. 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 runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

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.

Eating Wild is a stroll around the park searching for tasty wild foods, like blackberries, raspberries, hazelnuts and apples. The event is organised by OWLS, the Children’s Nature Charity.

The event will take place in Bushy Park from 10:00-11:30 and then in Corkagh Park from 12:30-14:00.

Admission is free, but booking is required via education@owls.ie

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 since last year, guided tours were provided and were meant to run for three months until end of October 2016. But the interest was so great that the OPW decided to continue the tours with a reduced schedule over the winter. And since 02 April there will be tours again every Friday and Sunday at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 + 15:00 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.

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 will be open form 07 Sept and will run until 20 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

Each&Other are working with Focus Ireland on this “Walk in the Park”. It is a 10km walk on Sunday to raise funds for the homeless charity Focus Ireland.

Participation is free, BUT you are VERY VERY much invited to support Focus Ireland with a donation. If you read the two paragraphs below, you will understand why I am vey supportive of this charitiable event.

All details can be found on the Facebook Page below and on the website here.

Each & Other emerged from iQContent, when IQContent closed down a few years ago and if you are a long term Dublin Event Guide Reader, you have heard of iQContent before. They were the great guys who transformed the Dublin Event Guide in 2012 from a VERY simple newsletter to a much better publication. They created the database-based backend system that I use to compile this publication and they also developped the smartphone web app at m.dublineventguide.com so they had a BIG influence on the Dublin Event Guide and I still …and forever…will appreciate it! They did all that work for free!

Each&Other are a UX development company, where UX stands for “User Interface”. Most would think that this is a web development company that pays a lot of attention at how the user best uses the website or app and that is not totally wrong, but “just” Web Development wouldn’t be fair to Each & Other. ;-)

The Drumcondra Village Market is now the “Art, Bites, Crafts Drumcondra Market”. And as you guessed it, it is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. :-) There will also be some food and music.

The market is open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30-15:30.

Admission is free.

Every Sunday (with a few exceptions) an art workshop takes place for children from 6-11 years of age. Admission is free and children must be accompanied by an adult.

The themes for the workshop are:
08 October: Seed Collecting in Ashtown Demesne
15 October: Medieval Life
05 November: Make a Collage
12 November: Paint a Winter Scene
19 November: Story Telling
26 November: Harry the Hedgehog with Dale Treadwell

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

The Kilkenny Shop Cafe is inviting to a Jazz Brunch Sunday every Sunday from 11:00-14:00 and from 14:30-16:30 a Bluegrass Band is taking over. Unfortuantely they don’t specify who the bands are.

Admission is free.

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

The National Gallery is running a series of free themed family drop-in workshops from 11:30-13:30 every Sunday.

Inspired by the collection and the exhibitions in the National Gallery, these workshops are suitable for all ages from approx. 18 months to age 8. You can choose to stay for as long or as short a time as works for you.

The space will be divided by age and ability, and each child will be encouraged by Artist and NGI Education Assistant Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire and the week’s guest artist to create their own work on the week’s theme.

Admission is free and no booking required. Numbers are limited to 40 people at any one time but you can drop in and out whenever it suits you and as long as there is still space. Children have to be supervised at all times. The event takes place in the Atrium.

This week’s theme is: Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

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

The 2017 version of Dublin City’s Busker Fleadh will take place on Smithfield Plaza this Sunday. And if we go by this video clip of the 2016 version here youtu.be/iF7oHfqjni4 then it can only get better! :-O

There will be four spots and each busker has 1 hour, which means that 20 acts will take part.

In addition the Dublin Circus Project will perform from 12:00-14:00 and three Choirs will also be there (High Hopes Choir 13:50, Sings in the Key of D 14:50 and Sandymount Gospel Choir at 15:50.

There is also a Junior Performance Area where the performance slots are 15 minutes long and Facepainting and Balloon Modelling will be provided. Some food stalls will also be there,

Smithfield Plaza is never a great place for events like that because it never attracts the crowds events like that should have. Let’s hope that it will be better on Sunday!

Every Thursday (17:30-19:30), Saturday (12:00-16:00) and Sunday (12:00-16:00) the Dublin Library of Things will be open at the Food Co-op during National Re-Use Month (October) and November.

A Library of Things is a place where people can borrow items needed only on an occasional basis, or that are too bulky or costly to own. By sharing these items it reduces the need for material production and consumption and allows people to free up space in their homes and try new hobbies without the need to buy new supplies.

The Library of Things will work on a membership basis. Anyone can join and then take out items for up to one week. Borrowing items will be free however there will be deposits on items relative to the value of the item. The Library of Things will also act as a drop off and collection point for WeShare members (www.weshare.ie/), an online community where people can list items that have to share, or things that they need.

The items in the Library of Things will all be doanted or loaned and therefore it depends on individuals and businesses what the library will have available. Ideal items are sewing machines, kitchen appliances, DIY tools, halloween costumes, craft materials, games and sports equipment and gardening equipment. If you have any useful items in good working order that you would like to loan or donate to the library of things, or have other suggestions or questions for us, contact them at dublinlibraryofthings@gmail.com. Volunteers are also needed to man the library.

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

Admission is free.

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

The next concert will feature “HONG KONG :: IRELAND poetic landscapes” with the contemporary music quartet Concorde.

Eating Wild is a stroll around the park searching for tasty wild foods, like blackberries, raspberries, hazelnuts and apples. The event is organised by OWLS, the Children’s Nature Charity.

The event will take place in Bushy Park from 10:00-11:30 and then in Corkagh Park from 12:30-14:00.

Admission is free, but booking is required via education@owls.ie

Colm Cooper will be in Eason’s to sign copies of his new book “Gooch”.

Admission is free.

This weekend is the last weekend of the Ranelagh Arts Festival. There will be another 10 events in Ranelagh and most of them are free. The full events listing is here www.facebook.com/pg/ranelaghartsfestival/events/

The film “The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita” (2010, 31min) will be screened,

“The Black Atlantic, the oceanic site where the trans-Atlantic slave trade produced a black identity regarding an African diaspora, is central to all music, persona and production of the elusive Detroit techno producers Drexciya. This film scrutinises the subjects of slavery, global finance, capitalism and climate change.”

Admission is free and no booking required.

The cemetery at Arbour Hill is the last resting place of 14 of the leaders of the 1916 Rising. Among those buried there are Pádraig Pearse, James Connolly and Thomas Clarke. This tour every Sunday will focus on the context of the Rising and explore in detail the wording of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

No booking necessary. The meeting point is inside the cemetery gates.

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!

The meeting point on 08 Oct is at the Custom House Visitor Centre.

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

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

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

Sunday Sketching for the whole family takes place every Sunday in the Hugh Lane Gallery and admission is free.

Families are invited to explore and respond together the gallery’s collection and temporary exhibitions through discussion and drawing. Bring your own sketchbook along or use the drawing materials provided. There will be a different topic every week and all topics until 28 Jan are listed on the website below.

Admission is free and no booking required, although numbers may be limited. Suited for ages 6+.

The Festival of Inclusion will take place in Dun Laoghaire from 06-14 October and on Sunday the Big Sing will give every one a chance to sing their favourite song in the Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre. There will be community choirs, a live orchestra and music and lyric sheets for everyone who wants to take part.

Admission is free and singers of all abilities can join.

The Dublin Arabic Film Festival 2017 takes place at the moment and the film “Ymma (Mother)” will be screened as part of it.

“A charming romantic road movie by Rachid El Ouali, this stylish film follows the journey of a man who travels from Morocco to Corsica for love. Arabic with English subtitles. 2013, CLUB (103 min).”

Admission is free and no booking required.

Find information about eh Dublin Arabic Film Festival at www.dublinarabicfilmfestival.ie

Every Sunday a free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 15:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00 and one on Saturdays at 14:00

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

The lecture “The RMS Leinster” is a talk about the sinking of the ship RMS Leinster on 10 October 1918.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-6770095.

The Sunday Melt Sessions in the Mezz is a whole afternoon of bands, acoustic acts, spoken word, DJs and more. The line up is available via the FB Event Page below.

Admission is free.

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

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

The event takes place every Sunday in the Cobblestone Pub.

Blues Got Soul, a four-piece blues band from Dublin is performing the music of the founding fathers of blues and blues masters in the International Bar every Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

The monthly Game Night by Alt Events is celebrating its 2nd birthday. To celebrate, there may or may not be birthday cake and some epic group games and prizes. [Let me give you some advise: BE EARLY, because I bet there will be some Birthday cake, but it will go like the proverbial hot cakes!]

Bring your friends and you can also bring your own board games OR come without games (don’t forget the friend though!!) and play some of the games the organisers will bring.

Admission is free.

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! ;-)

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).

Trad/Folk band Pine Marten will play a gig in the Harbour Bar in Bray.

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.

The Rock ‘n’ Rock 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 Dublin Festival of History runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events 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.

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David McCullagh, historian and broadcaster, will look at how De Valera’s early life shaped the most influential politician of 20th century Ireland. David is the author of a new book De Valera Volume 1: Rise, 1882 –1932.

Admission is free and no booking required (first come, first served basis).

This lecture is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

The Research Workshop “Using the National Library” provides advice and guidance on researching the rich and varied collections of the National Library.

“The workshop will draw on case studies of personalities from the NLI’s collections and is suitable for anyone looking to embark on a research project or to enhance research skills in navigating the catalogue, accessing the various collections and interpreting the sources. The workshop is suitable for those who are using the library for the first time.”

Admission is free, but booking is required via learning@nli.ie or 01 6030 259/346

“Liselotte Von Der Pfalz: the rebel princess at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King” is a talk by Linda Kirwan or Kiernan (the Dublin Libraries website writers couldn’t decide) Linda will discuss Princess Liselotte, married to Phillipe (brother of King Louis), whose voluminous correspondence gives a fascinating insight into the 17th-century French court.

Admission is free. Booking is required via 01-4973539

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

In this talk Alison Fitzgerald will explore the making and selling of silverware in Georgian Dublin. Based on evidence from contemporary letters, advertisements and surviving objects Alison will consider what these objects meant to the people who bought,
sold and coveted them.

Admission free. Booking is required via 01-4907035

This talk is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

Trevor White, aothor of “Alfie: The Life of Alfie Byrne” will talk about Dublin’s longest and most influential Lord Mayor. Byrne was elected 10 times and didn’t stop governing for 40 years.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below. The talk will be in the Oak Room of Mansion House.

The poet Francis Ledwidge from Slane, Co . Meath fought in the First World War with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 1917. Liam O’Meara, chairman of the Inchicore Ledwidge Society, will remember the man, his work and his writings.

Admission is free. Booking is required via 01-4558159

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

The next monthly meeting of the Dublin Cycling Campaign will include a talk about Cycling and Pollution.

“The talk will explore what exactly air pollution is, how it impacts upon the health of cyclists and how cyclists are exposed to air pollution in traffic compared to other road users. The talk will also address how individuals can try to reduce their exposure to air pollution and how the problem can be addressed at regional and national levels. The presentation will be given by Trinity College Dublin researcher Dr. Aonghus McNabola.”

Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

This is a weekly gig with authentic old-time fiddle tunes and Appalachian music.

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 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).

Great news the great duo of Donal Kirk and Anto Drennan have found a new home. Originally they played a weekly gig in JJ Smyth’s until it closed and now they will perform in the Leeson Lounge and the same day as before.

They will play 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.

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.

That’s It Recordings is an open mic every Monday at Sin E. Just turn up and play. Sign up before 22:00 to ensure you get a slot. Bring a USB stick along and you will get a recording of your music to take home.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Festival of History runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

This is a series of free art workshops for children aged 3-5 years on 10+24 Oct and 07+21 Nov and then 05 Dec. The details about ALL events is on the website below.

The next event is on Tuesday. It is called” Myself! – Visual Art Workshop”. Children are invited to playfully explore their sense of self with artist Jane Groves. Working through mediums such as clay and natural materials to build their creations, children will be encouraged to think about and respond in lots of fun and creative ways to the different ideas and stimuli that they will be given.
(Every child must be accompanied by an adult.)

Admisision is free, but places are limited and booking is required via 01- 847 7781 or coolocklibrary@dublincity.ie

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

Discover music and learn to express yourself by exploring different drums and rhythms in this creative and entertaining workshop with Neil Dowling. Drums will be provided. Places limited to 20.

Neil is an experienced drummer who has performed on national and international TV. He has trained in drum circle facilitation, has studied West African djembe drumming and has led hundreds of workshops for schools, business, community groups and the general public in Ireland.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-88734333

A series of lunchtime talks about the Russian Revolution in 1917 will take place in Dublin City Hall. Admission is free and no booking required, but there are only 130 seats. Doors open at 12:30. Bring your own headphones for enhanced sound.

The talks are:
+ 03 Oct: The October Revolution: Bolshevik Dreams and Russian Realities by Dr Judith Devlin, Dept. of History, UCD
+ 10 Oct: Ireland responds to the Russian Revolution: Backing the Bolsheviks by Donal Fallon, Historian, Dublin City Council
+ 17 Oct: Red Scares and Rebels: Ireland and Communism 1917-1937 by Dr Brian Hanley, Author and Historian
+ 24 Oct: The Czarist Crown Jewels and the Irish State by Dr Michael Quinn, Author and Historian
+ 31 Oct: The Russian Revolutions: Cultural reactions in Ireland by Prof Justin Doherty, Dept. of Russian, TCD

All films in Ratmines in October are themed around Jailbirds & Jezebels, but to find out which film will be screened, you will have to contact Rathmines Library either on 01-497 3539 or rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie.

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.

Camden Comedy is a weekly comedy night on a Tuesday that I only found recently.

Every Tuesday they have a whole range of comedians and admission is free.

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

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

The 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.

The Trad Stage is a weekly Open Mic event in the Tivoli Backstage venue. Musicians are invited to perform live in front of an interested audience. Performances are primarily of Irish Traditional Music and Folk Singing, however it is possible to also see performances of traditional music from all over the world as well as performances of original compositions from local and international musicians.

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.

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

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.

The Dublin Festival of History runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

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.

This week’s Phoenix Park Walk is entitled “Victorian Walled Garden” and is a walking tour of the Victorian Walled Garden featuring the history of the garden plus information on the planting scheme.

Admission is free.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events 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.

“Baggot Street Hospital – Sixty Years Ago” is a talk by Michael Pegum (Author and Local Historian).

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-668 9575 or pembrokelibrary@dublincity.ie

For 160 years the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street has displayed the zoology collections of the National Museum of Ireland. In more recent times the title “Dead Zoo” is used more and more and also in recent times new technologies, from LED lights to Virtual Reality headsets can help bring the Dead Zoo to life.

Find out about some of the newest projects from new Museum of Natural History Curator of Zoology, Paolo Viscardi.

Admission is free, but booking is required via educationnh@museum.ie or 01 6486 316. Suitable for adults.

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.

In conversation: Eithne Jordan with Sherman Sam

Prior to the opening of Eithne Jordan’s exhibition when the artist, this “In conversation” talk will take place.

Admission is free.

A drop-in Maker evening will take place on Wednesday.

If you have an idea but need some help figuring out where to get started or what creative technologies might help bring the idea to life? Drop in to the Dun Laoghaire LexIcon Lab where Creative Technology Curator, Dr. Jake Rowan Byrne, other “makers” and members of the community will be there and keen to help out.

Admission is free and no booking required. For updates, see www.meetup.com/lexicon

The Kearneys (a father and two sons) were hanged together in Bohernabreena c. 1815 in a public spectacle that drew thousands. But there may have been a miscarriage of justice and this talk John Fitzgerald will reveal some of the facts behind the folklore surrounding their conviction and execution.

Admission is free and no booking required (first come, first served basis).

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

2017 is the 150th anniversary of the Fenian uprising. Richard McElligott will talk about the emergence of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, their attempts to create an independent Irish republic through revolution in 1867 and the impact of their revolt on the subsequent course of Irish history.

Admission is free. Booking is required via 01-8421890

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

Community Law and Mediation (CLM) is hosting an evening discussion. Experienced mediators will discuss what mediation can do for you and what it has done for others.

Admission is free.

“Powering the Nation and the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme” by Sorcha O’Brien will be a talk about her new book “Powering the Nation”, the visual story, not just of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, but of Ireland’s introduction to electricity in the early days of the Irish Free State. The talk will showcase a range of visual materials, from paintings and prints to industrial and tourist photographs, technical drawings to cigarette cards.

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

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

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 Wednesday and admission is free.

The Dwarf Jar House Trio (Daniel Rorke (sax), Cormac O’Brien (bass) and Matthew Jacobson(drums)) will play a weekly Jazz gig every Wednesday in Dwarf Jar Cafe and they usually have one or more guest musicians or singers supporting them.

Admission is free.

The mental health organsiation AWARE invites to a monthly lecture series in Dublin 8, The lecture takes place in the Lecture Theatre in the Swift Centre of St. Patrick’s Hospital and admission is free.

The topic in October is: “Why perfectionists become depressed?” with Keith Gaynor

Jesters is a weekly open mic comedy event where a lot of comedians do 5 minutes of material.

Admission is free. If you would like to perform then send a message to the Jesters Facebook Page via the link below.

Ten talented songwriters will compete in the third heat of this Singer Songwriter competition for a place in the final. Organised by the BIMM Music College. Admission is free.

The Roots Band “Brand New Switcharoo” 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).

On Wednesday the the Porterhouse gig will be with “Boom Box Yeah”.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Festival of History runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

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 will be open form 07 Sept and will run until 20 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

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.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

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

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

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“A Change of Key: Music and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation” by Aileen Cahill with the support of students from Maynooth University is an exploration of the butterfly effect that the Reformation had on music. This varied programme will show how far the illumination of the Renaissance reached, drawing on songs and instrumental music from different regions and periods up to the present day.

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

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

“Reduced to the utmost want: the poor of Dublin in the post-Famine period” is a talk by Georgina Laraghy. She will talk about the various state and charitable provisions made for the poor of Dublin in the post-Famine period exploring the workhouses, the night shelters and the Mansion House Relief Committee which provided for the people of Dublin and beyond during the ‘Little Famine’ of 1880 –1881.

Admission is free and no booking required. (first come, first served basis)

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

This is a tour of the “WW Ireland Exhibition” in 2/3 Kildare Street.

The exhibition “World War Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience” will explain the Irish experience ‘over there’ and on the home front during WWI through collections of letters, diaries, recruiting posters, newspaper reports, cartoons, and leaflets.

Admission is free.

Every Thursday (17:30-19:30), Saturday (12:00-16:00) and Sunday (12:00-16:00) the Dublin Library of Things will be open at the Food Co-op during National Re-Use Month (October) and November.

A Library of Things is a place where people can borrow items needed only on an occasional basis, or that are too bulky or costly to own. By sharing these items it reduces the need for material production and consumption and allows people to free up space in their homes and try new hobbies without the need to buy new supplies.

The Library of Things will work on a membership basis. Anyone can join and then take out items for up to one week. Borrowing items will be free however there will be deposits on items relative to the value of the item. The Library of Things will also act as a drop off and collection point for WeShare members (www.weshare.ie/), an online community where people can list items that have to share, or things that they need.

The items in the Library of Things will all be doanted or loaned and therefore it depends on individuals and businesses what the library will have available. Ideal items are sewing machines, kitchen appliances, DIY tools, halloween costumes, craft materials, games and sports equipment and gardening equipment. If you have any useful items in good working order that you would like to loan or donate to the library of things, or have other suggestions or questions for us, contact them at dublinlibraryofthings@gmail.com. Volunteers are also needed to man the library.

The exhibition “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY” (12 October – 04 February) in the Science Gallery is looking at disaster, the end and how we can prepare, This we can gather from the preliminary description, BUT in all honesty, that description is often quite far out in comparison to the real theme of the exhibition. So give me until next week and then I will describe the exhibition correctly.

Alternatively come to the launch then you can see it for yourself. The launch party takes place on Thursday evening and everyone is welcome.

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

Every Thursday the Little Museum of Dublin waives their admission charges for two guided tours thanks to sponsorship from Guinness. The first tour is at 18:00 and the second tour is at 19:00. Make sure that you are there at least 10 minutes before the start of the tour to get one of the limited places.

The Little Museum of Dublin has a fascinating collection of artefacts from the last 100 years Dublin’s history.

On other days and other times, admission is EUR 7 for adults and admission is by guided tour only.

Dublin in Snapshots is a illustrated history in maps and images across the centuries with John Gibney. Using maps and images from the collections of Dublin City Library and Archives, John Gibney will explore how Dublin grew and was shaped from 1600 to the present.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8477781.

This event is part of the Dublin Festival of History.

Philip de Souza will talk about the development of piracy from its Classical origins to its heyday in the early modern era, emphasizing the problems that arise when distinguishing between piracy and other forms of maritime plundering. He will also examine how states and communities have attempted to deal with piracy.

This talk is part of Dublin Festival of History. Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8377206

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 21 Sept and 26 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:

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

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 Thursday Night Board Gaming event is running for more than 10 years already and it is a weekly event for all Board Game enthusiasts. But even if you are a Board Game newbie, you are welcome. Just come along! More information can be found here: www.meetup.com/IrishGamesAssociation/

Admission is free.

The Crystal Skull Sessions is a band competition in Sin É where you vote for the winner of this Heat.

Admission is free.

Psychedelic Pill will play a gig in the Harbour Bar.

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.

The Luna Boys are in the Mercantile for a gig every Thursday night.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

Indie Electronica band “Pursued by Dogs” and alt-electro/alt-pop project “1000 Beasts” will perform in Whelan’s Midnight Hour.

Admission is free before 22:30.

The Dublin Festival of History runs from 29 September until 14 October and is brought to you by Dublin’s Libraries and Dublin City. There are more than 90 events and all are free.

The festival website is finally fixed! So you can go to www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/ to find the programme there. Alternatively the brochure can be downloaded here.

Most of the events in Dublin’s libraries (which is the majority of events this week) are in this week’s Dublin Event Guide. There are talks every weekday.

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 since last year, guided tours were provided and were meant to run for three months until end of October 2016. But the interest was so great that the OPW decided to continue the tours with a reduced schedule over the winter. And since 02 April there will be tours again every Friday and Sunday at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 + 15:00 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.

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 will be open form 07 Sept and will run until 20 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

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

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon was free in 2016, but lucky for us, Dublin City decided to also waive the admission charge for 2017.

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

Open House is a celebration of architecture in Dublin and there will be 150 tours over the weekend in some of the most interesting buildings in Dublin.

The festival starts already on Friday with a small number of events (EPIC in the CHQ building, for example, has two tours at 11:00 and 14:00 on Friday.)

The main days for Open House are on Saturday and Sunday, but check out the schedule before and maybe even plan your tour already.

All tours are free and can be found here openhousedublin.com/index.php/listings

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

The newest exhibition in the Science Gallery is “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY” and on Friday is the first day of the exhibition being open. At the time of writing this, we don’t know exactly what the exhibition will be about. But it will tackle issues around disaster, the end, emergencies and how we deal with that. I will add more detail after the opening.

All Science Gallery exhibitions are suitable for ALL ages, even younger children will be able to take part/follow,

Use the help of the amazing mediators, who can explain everything you see, especially if you don’t want to read all the explanations that are next to every exhibit.

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 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 new Science Gallery exhibition will have been launched on Thursday evening and it is a regular event that on the first day of a new exhibition during an hour long talk the exhibition and some of its exhibits will be explained by curators and artists.

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

The Open House Lecture “Symbolising the Nation – The Architectural Competitions to Design the National Museum & National Library” with architectural historian Dr Niamh Marnham will take place in the National Museum.

The talk will examine the clashes in Parliament, newspapers and trade journals over the collections that were to be housed, the choice of site, funding, the use of indigenous architects, materials and labour in the creation of the buildings that today house the National Museum and the National Library. Buildings that were about both symbolising the nation and keeping architects employed.

Dr Niamh Marnham is an architectural historian and Senior Historic Buildings Adviser at Donald Insall Associates, London, and has worked on some of the most sensitive and significant buildings and places in Ireland and Britain (e.g. Leinster House, Marino Casino, Russborough House, St. Pancras Chambers, the Old Vic Theatre and Downing College, Cambridge.)

Admission is free, but booking is required via educationarch@museum.ie or 01 6486 332. Suitable for adults and age 14+.

The ESB played a vital role in Ireland’s modernization and industrialization and Deirdre McParland (Senior Archivist of ESB’s archives) will explore the light that the archives shed on the nation’s transformation through initiatives such as the Shannon Scheme and Rural Electrification.

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

Friends of the Earth International are running Days of Action on 13+14 October to mobilise to stop dirty energy and mobilise for climate justice.

In Ireland, the Young Friends of the Earth are inviting to a film screening and discussion. The Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland” will be screened. It explores the impact of natural gas drilling, or fracking, on the environment and communities in North America.

The film screening will be followed (from 20:15) by a discussion on dirty energy, climate justice and the connection between fracking in the US and Irish Liquefied Natural Gas terminals.

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

A Comedy night called “No Bones about it” is taking place every Friday in the Generator Hostel and admission is free.

Find out more details and line-up on the Facebook page below.

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

The 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.

Mescalito will play music with techno, hip-hop, funk-rock and afro-beat influences at their live show.

Admission is free.

Mick Pyro & the Shogunz of Stank will play Soul and Blues in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

“Gavin Povey and The Fabulous Oke She Moke She Pops” will play New Orleans style Piano Rhythm & Blues, Boogie Woogie and Rock’n’ Roll. Gavin Povey has played piano with Van Morrison, Finbar Wright, Kirsty MacColl, Steve Cropper, Shakin’ Stevens and many more.

Admission is free.