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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The sessions can be booked following these links:

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

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

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

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

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

Contemporary artist Hoi-Shan Mak will talk about what inspires and influences her art. And you can watch as she fuses traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western styles. This event is part of the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival.

Admission is free.

Free Hugs for Valentine’s will be available in Grafton Street on Saturday. Always a nice initiative, so enjoy the receiving or even better: Get helping! Amanda Whelan is still looking for helpers. Details are on the Facebook page below.

An intercultural tour in Mandarin Language with community ambassador Vicky Wang is taking place.

Admission is free. Meeting point is in the atrium of the Library.

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.

Start with a circle, colour, draw, squiggle, add lines, triangles and some love-hearts for Valentines Day. Create interactive mandalas, creating a story with each added line.

Admission is free, but spaces are limited and booking is required via 01-8852622

The session times for this event are:
Session 1: 12:00-12:50
Session 2: 13:00-13:50
Session 3: 14:00-14:50

Max 50 children can be in a workshop and it is designed for ages 5-10, but younger and older siblings can also take part. All children must be accompanied by an adult and all adults must be accompanied by a child.

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 Chocolate Factory will turn again into a bustling site where traders, browsers and shoppers connect over music, food, conversation and designer, maker and vintage pieces and creations. The market takes place on the 2nd Saturday of every month.

Admission is free.

This is the second last weekend for “Trauma”. Go, if you haven’t visited it yet:

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

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

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

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

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

The people and shops at 74 Francis Street are inviting you to their Valentine Dress Up event.

There are: Two Pups Coffee (stocking 3fe and Cloudpicker coffee), Kikis Booteeki (vintage clothing), Velvet Moon (soul enhancing haircuts & dreadlocks) and Lucy loves Francis (sister to Lucy’s Lounge in Temple Bar).

They will supply a big box of dresses, wigs accessories etc with lights and camera set up for the perfect posing opportunity. Then they will put a little drop of whiskey into the Two Pups coffee at no extra cost, to help you if you are shy about dressing up and finding your inner princess. Pictures will be posted online and for a small fee you will get a Polaroid as well.

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.

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

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

The Citywide Reading Campaign for Children is run by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Council’s Libraries Service and it will last from January to March 2016.

This year’s book is “The Book of Learning” by E.R. Murray. It is a story of mystery and adventure which includes a visit to the National Library.

On Saturday at 14:00 the author of this year’s book, E.R. Murray, will be in the National Library for a reading and a book signing. In addition children will learn how to draw one of the main characters and walk the book trail.

Admission is free, but you are asked to register via learning@nli.ie. Suitable for 8-12 year olds.

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

Admission is free.

This is a specially commissioned gallery tour by artist Eimear Walshe. This tour will bring audiences on a journey through a disrupted history of the Hugh Lane Gallery using feminist arthistorical strategies. It will provide an introduction to the work of some of the women in the Collection, and discuss the history of radical feminist activism that inspired Jesse Jones’ exhibition “No More Fun And Games”.

The Progressive Film Club this time is showing two documentaries in association with Friends of the Earth. The theme is “Women and the Environment” and the films are

+ 14:30 Solar Mamas – about a Jordanian Bedoiun mother who is given the opportunity to become a solar engineer
+ 16:00 Line in the Sand – about the construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada

Admission is free and donations are welcome.

The Family Workshop on Saturday is a storytelling event with Gordon Snell. It is suitable for 4-10 year olds.

Admission is free, but places are limited. Check out the details on the website below.

Margaretta D’arcy’s book “Ireland’s Guantanamo Granny” where she describes her fight to expose the misuse of Shannon Airport by the US Army, will be launched.

Admission is free.

Dun Laoghaire is economically in Dublin’s shadow and its harbour is fledgling.

When they also lost the regular ferry service to Holyhead because it didn’t make sense for Stena Lines to run a ferry to Dublin Harbour and to Dun Laoghaire, they were trying to turn things around with big cruise liners.

But again Dun Laoghaire is competing with Dublin and if I was a cruise liner passenger, I would prefer to go for a day trip to Dublin and NOT to Dun Laoghaire.

The solution was to turn the ferry port into a port for massive cruise liners, but that costs a HUGE amount of money and it is doubtful that it is a good business decision.

Dun Laoghaire’s councillors voted against the re-development of the harbour and a public consultation was also very much in favour of not adapting to cruise liners. But now the Country Manager in Dun Laoghaire is trying to overturn the decision and force the harbour re-development.

The Save our Harbour initiative invites to a Public Meeting on Saturday afternoon.

The talk “Living and Working in Ireland” for Spanish speaking immigrants will take place. It will be in Spanish and is organised by the Association of Spanish-speaking Parents in Ireland (ASPI).

Admission is free.

Nearly all pubs in Ireland will screen this Rugby game on Saturday. The two biggest goals of winning the Grand Slam or the Triple Crown are already out of reach after the draw against Wales, but winning the remaining four games would still be the fans preference.The kick off will be at 15:25.

In addition to the normal pubs, the Sugar Club will screen the game on their big screen and doors open there at 14:30. Admission is free.

Born in a tenement on North King Street on 12 February 1916, Bob Doyle experienced dire poverty and became interested in left wing politics from a young age. He became politically active in the early 1930s joining the IRA after suffering a serious eye injury during street fights with fascists in Dublin. He later joined the Republican Congress and went to support the Spanish Republic, following the fascist coup in 1936. He made his way there in 1937, aged 21, and was captured by Italian fascists in 1938 at the battle of Belchite, a small town in Aragon in the north east of the Spanish state. He was held in the Burgos concentration camp, and was released almost a year later in a prisoner exchange deal. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the British merchant navy and after the war his family settled in London.

In 2006 he published his biography “Brigadista – An Irishman’s Fight Against Fascism”. Bob died in January 2009 aged 92.

On Saturday there will be a talk about his life in the Cobblestone and speakers are Harry Owens and Manus O’Riordan.

Admission is free.

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

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

Lisa jameson (vocals) and August Korsgaard (piano) will perform a Jazz gig in Barker’s Bistro on Saturday.

Admission is free.

You enjoy Jazz with your dinner? Marcel’s has Liza Nelson (Vocals) & Dario Rodighiero (Piano) performing for you. Admission is free.

Singer/Songwriter Kiruu combines styles, languages and influences from East Africa, Europe and beyond.

Admission is free.

A Valentine’s Day event for Tinder users!? Can it get any more romantic? :-P

I guess there will be a lot of swiping going on and in addition there will be music, a Prosecco drinks deal and the Big Blue Bus will sell Pizza.

Admission is free.

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

The Square Pegs play Goodtime Blues in the form of Chicago Blues, 50s R&B and New Orleans Blues.

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.

Motor City will play in the midnight slot and before that Shake Down will start at 21:00 with their gig.

Admission is free.

Left, Right & Centre will play their Blues in the Poolbeg Yacht Club.

Admission is free.

Singer/songwriter Leo O’Kelly will play a gig in McLoughlin’s Bar.

Admission is free.

Wolff is playing in the midnight hour slot at Whelan’s. The gig starts at midnight and admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.

Woodsey will perform a free gig in Porterhouse in Bray.

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 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.

Make your own bird box to take home and hang up. Materials and tools will be provided.

Admission is free but booking is required via text message to Andrew Fleming from OWLS on 087-3299936.

This is a dlr Biodiversity Event.

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

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

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

The sessions can be booked following these links:

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

Classes are open level, so everyone is welcome.

Every Sunday a free Children’s Art Cart Workshop will take place in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre. They are for kids aged 6-11 and the children must be accompanied by an adult.

The themes for February are:
+ 07 Feb: Make a Valentine Card
+ 14 Feb: Paint a Spring Scene
+ 21 Feb: Medieval Life
+ 28 Feb: Make a stamp and paint

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.

In addition to the market stalls, there will be workshops and performances: A Bulgarian folk group will do a dance performance at 14:00 and 14:45 and a Capoeira performance will follow from 14:15. A free Tai Chi workshop will be from 13:30-14:30. Other workshops are not free and they are all listed on the Facebook site below.

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

Admission is free.

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

This Percussion Extravaganza is a day-long feast of percussion at the Academy featuring workshops, masterclasses, an array of pop-up performances and highly-charged concerts by the RIAM Percussion Ensemble and friends led by percussionist Richard O’Donnell.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 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.

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 Valentines Day edition of Smithfield Market Fair will take place this Sunday. Expect lots of romantic gifts & goods at this market with over 40 traders, live music with special guests, valentines film screening, food & drink offerings + lots more.

The stalls will sell Vintage & Designer Clothing, Antique & Contemporary Jewelry, Vinyl Records (Eighty 8 Records / Irish Records Fairs), Flowers & Cards, Arts & Crafts and lots more. Our good friends from Paperbear will sell their amazing cards (including Valentine’s Cards) at the market as well!

Love Actually is the Valentine’s Film and the screening is free, but booking is required here.
The free Yoga can be booked here.

And live music & DJs will entertain you throughout the day.

Admission is free.

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

The next concert will feature French Chamber Music by Debussy, Satie and Renié, performed by Duo Chagall (Cliona Doris – Harp and Riona ODuinnin – Flute)

To celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, one of the National Gallery’s most popular watercolours, “The Meeting on the Turret Stairs” by Frederic William Burton will be on display for just two hours on Sunday. The painting is housed in a specially made cabinet in the Gallery’s ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art due to the delicate nature of the work. It is on display for only two hours every week.

Admission is free, but a timed-ticketing system will be in operation. Tickets are limited and available on Sunday from the Information Desk in the Millennium Wing, on a first-come, first-served basis.

This is the second last weekend for “Trauma”. Go, if you haven’t visited it yet:

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

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

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

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

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

Every month Atheist Ireland invites to an informal meet-up on a Sunday afternoon. All are welcome and admission is free.

Co-Motion is a shared listening experience organised by Alt Events in association with the First Fortnight Mental Health Festival.

I can’t explain it better than they do:

“Music is the universal salve that can soothe a wounded ego, calm a blind fury, or mend a broken heart. We all have that short list of songs that immediately tap into our core and stablize us from within. Co-Motion creates a unique opportunity to share those personal songs with a stranger.

Each participant will need to make a short playlist (around 3 or 4 should do it) of the songs they turn to when in need of a pick-me-up. Upon arrival you’ll be assigned a walking partner and a pair of headphone splitters before being sent off on a stroll. This is a chance to share a moving musical experience.

The theme for this month is “Can’t Buy Me Love” – so keep that in mind when choosing your playlist.

Admission is free. Meet at the Stephen’s Green end of Grafton Street 13:00.

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

Please note. it is NOT spring yet as Met Eireann keeps telling us again and again and you would expect the Botanic Gardens to have know when the seasons start and end, but they keep insisting on telling us about spring nevertheless:

“Come along for a bracing and romantic stroll in the Gardens as we observe the first signs of spring. Snowdrops herald the arrival of the new season while some of the fragrant winter flowers linger on. Inside the glasshouses exotic blooms evoke warmer climes. An alternative Valentine’s Day activity to delight the senses.”

Admission is free.

The “Love Tokens Family Tour” is an opportunity to explore the romantic histories of objects on display in the Museum’s collections with Lisa Flanagan. The tour will focus on the fashion and furniture exhibitions, ‘The Way We Wore’ and ‘Irish Country Furniture’.

Admission is free and booking is not required, but places are allocated on a first come-first served basis 15 minutes before the tour starts.

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.

“Romantic images in art” with Valerie Moffat (freelance art historian) is the Sunday talk in the National Gallery.

Admission is free.

During these workshops for 4 to 12 year olds, they will explore paintings, sculpture and architectural features through discussion and drawing.

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

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

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

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

The 4th Game Night is happening this week and you can come with our without a Valentine’s. Everybody is welcome. There will be lots of games to choose from but you can also bring your own game and find the people there to play it with you. Playing board games is a fun activity for all ages and if you have never tried it, let the organisers (Alt Events) introduce you to this entertaining activity.

The list of games available is very long:
Ticket to Ride | XCOM: The Board Game | Small World | Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game | Alien Frontiers | Forbidden Island | Panic Station | Betrayal at House on the Hill | Munchkin | Ruse | Elder Sign | Tsuro | Smash Up | Cards Against Humanity | Love Letter | Zombie Dice | Jenga | Hanabi | Masquarade | Loot | Skull | Timeline | Gobb’it | Jungle Speed | Cypher | Werewolf | Daybreak | Bang! | Zombies!!! | Once Upon A Time | Carcassonne | Pandemic | Saboteur | Coup | The Resistance | Redshirts | Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre | Perudo | Firefly: The Board Game

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

1987 romantic drama “Dirty Dancing” will be screened on Meeting House Square and admission is free.

It is surprising, though, that no tickets are required and since there will definitely be limited space, I can only recommend to be extra early if you want to make it in. On the Facebook Page 237 have declared that they will go and 984 are interested, so it will be full!

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

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

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

Muse Open Mic provides a platform and an audience for poets, musicians, singers, actors and prose writers to perform new and original material in a supportive environment. Each performer is limited to three minutes per slot,

Admission is free.

“A-Musing” is a new Comedy Club in the Mercantile. It will feature some of Ireland’s best up and coming comedians every Sunday night.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

The Eskies will play gypsy folk at this gig in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meeting point is the Meeting House Square.

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

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

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

The Irish Traditional Music Ensemble of the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) will perform four lunchtime gigs on the first four Mondays in February (01, 08, 15, 22 February) in Rathmines Library.

Admission is free, but booking is required via conservatory@dit.ie

The next talk in the Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series is by Clodagh Tait (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick). She will talk about “Of Mutilation and Demembration: assaulting noses, hair and beards in early modern Ireland and Britain”.

Admission is free.

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

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

Nicole Demel is inviting to a Tai Chi Taster Class in Drumcondra on Monday.

Admission is free and for more information ring 086-3975979

“For the last 20 years, notorious activists the Yes Men have staged outrageous and hilarious hoaxes to draw international attention to corporate crimes against humanity and the environment. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits and a lack of shame, these iconoclastic revolutionaries lie their way into business events and government functions to expose the dangers of letting greed run our world. They are now well into their 40s and their mid-life crises are threatening to drive them out of activism forever even as they prepare to take on the biggest challenge they’ve ever faced: climate change”

Admission is free, but seats must be reserved via developmentforum@ucdvo.org

This event is free of charge.

“Shaping Narratives: Opera, Film Music and Technological Approaches” with composer, performer and academic Jürgen Simpson (Digital Media and Arts Research Centre, University of Limerick) is a talk by the Music Composition Centre.

This talk will look at the dramaturgical, political and creative challenges associated with the opera “Air India” and will give an insight into the genesis and development of this opera. “Air India” is about the largest mass murder in Canadian history: the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Find more information on the website below.

Admission seems to be free.

Co-founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, Dr. Eddie O’Connor will speak about the increasing urgency to cap emissions of carbon dioxide in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. Renewable energy, which is already significantly cheaper than new coal plant in many markets, will enable the transition to a global, low carbon economy at no extra cost than continued reliance on fossil fuels.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

The Italian language crime film “La variabile umana” will be screened with English subtitles.

Admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it

“Photographing, swimming and diving with sharks in Ireland” is a talk by Marine Ecologist and Biologist Nick Pfeiffer who swims and photographs Blue Sharks off the Irish coast.

Admissionis free and booking is not required.

Candlelit Tales, a small group of storytellers and they retell Irish myths and legends. On Monday it will be the stories of Love and the Goddesses of Ancient Ireland.

Admission is free and donations are welcome.

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).

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.

Will McNicol will perform in the “One Man & His Guitar” slot in Sweeney’s.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

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

“Let’s Talk and Walk” are historical walking tours in Dublin that are organised by Dublin City. All walks are free, have a duration of 1.5-2hr and are lead by a historian.

The 1916 Walk and Talk series will visit the main areas of action of the 1916 Rising, both in the city centre and the suburbs and the full programme is available in PDF format here.

The next walk will take place on Tuesday. It is called “Easter Rising 1916: Liberty Hall to Garden of Remembrance”.

Starting point is at Liberty Hall on Beresford Place and it will finish at the Garden of Remembrance.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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 Trinity Centre for the Environment is inviting to this lunchtime guest lecture and discussion on Tuesday as part of the College Green Week programme.

Donal Daly (Environmental Protection Agency) will speak about “Managing our river water quality: integrated catchment management in Ireland”.

Admission seems to be free. For questions contact cecoxon@tcd.ie

Dublin City Public Libraries celebrate the Chinese New Year and The Year of the Monkey with a printing and bookbinding workshop for beginners. Join artist Laurie Legrand to learn how to make a beautiful hand printed dust jacket and create your very own journal or guestbook. For adults only.

Admission is free, but places are limited and booking is required.

* Cabra Library (01-869 1414) on Thursday 11 February
* Ballyfermot Library (01-626 9324) on Tuesday 16 February

To celebrate Chinese New Year and in partnership with Irish Literature Exchange the Central Library is is inviting to a Chinese – English storytelling event for families.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-873 4333

Do 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? Maybe you just want to bounce your idea off someone else?

Drop in to the Dún 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, but booking is required via the Eventbrite site here.

Karen Hennessy (Chief Executive, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland and Irish Design 2015) will discuss her vision for the Irish Economy up to 2020 and how Irish designers are turning their skills into global business opportunities.

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

In late 1911, the last dynasty of China, the Qing, which had ruled the Chinese empire since 1644, was toppled in a few short months in a relatively peaceful revolution. This ended 2,000 years of dynastic rule and ushered in a transformative period of republican governance, nationalism and anti-imperialism and the rise of communism. In this centenary year of the Easter Rising of 1916, Dr Isabella Jackson (Assistant Professor in Chinese History in the Department of History and the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin) will reflect on the same revolutionary period in China, revealing similarities and differences between the two anti-imperial revolutionary movements.

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

“Body and Art” is the title of a talk in the Alliance Francaise and it will be part of the Alliance’s month-long focus on the “Body” with a photographic exhibition and different cultural events. An art teacher, a body-painting artist and a dancer will speak about their experiences on the theme. The talk will be in English with Q&A in both French and English.

Admission is free.

Do you track personal information to gain insights into yourself or your surrounding world? And are you curious about people who do? Then the Dublin Quantified Self group (#QSelfDublin) is for you. Whether you record your jogging times, how often you communicate with friends or how you are feeling, you will love what they talk about.

At the February meetup there will be short talks from
+ Allen Thomas Varghese – Introduction to Google Fit
+ Niall O’Neal – A Year in Pictures
+ Darragh O’Neill – Heart Rate Variability Tracking
+ Justin Lawler – Quantified Focus
+ Ronan McDonnell

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Quantified Self’s Meet Up page.

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.

“The History of the Manifesto as a literary form” is a talk by Nathan O’Donnell.

He will look at manifestos, who were originally a tool for outlining alternative religious and political programmes and were then in the 20th century adopted by artistic and political radicals across Europe, including the 1916 rebels. The Manifesto became a statement of hope.

This talk will explore some of the utopian visions outlined in the great manifestos, but will also consider the limits and logistics involved in producing them and the ways in which so many of them failed.

Admission is free and no booking required.

Nicole Demel is inviting to a Tai Chi Taster Class in the Lantern Centre on Tuesday.

Admission is free and for more information ring 086-3975979

Prof. Steve Aschheim will talk about “Why the Germans? Why the Jews? – The Perennial Holocaust Question” on Tuesday as the yearly Holocaust Memorial Lecture.

Admission seems to be 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.

“Hysteria” is a performance art film that will be screened from Tues 16-Sun 21 February from 20:00 until 08:00 at the Science Gallery. You can watch it from Pearse Street and headphones are available to listen to the atmospheric score that accompanies the film.

It is screened in connection with the curernt Science Gallery exhibition TRAUMA and expresses the trauma that soldiers experienced who came back from fighting in Word War I.

Maurice Keliher is a choreographer, director and actor and he was comissioned to create this film. It features military medical footage, sourced from the Wellcome Library, that was filmed at two English hospitals during World War I. It documents the anguish of some of the patients: symptoms of so-called ‘war neurosis’ suffered by returning soldiers – now referred to as PTSD.

The film is 16 minutes long and will be repeated throughout the nights until the TRAUMA exhibition closes next Sunday.

Viewing is free. A two minute extract from the film is available here.

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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.

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.

“Eleven Houses – A Personal Memoir of 1938-1948” is a lecture by Dr Christopher O’Connell FitzSimon (Playwright, RTÉ producer & author).

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

“Latin Psalter manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library” is a book by Laura Cleaver (School of Histories and Humanities) & Dr Helen Conrad O’Briain (School of English) and it will be launched on Wednesday.

Find more details about the book on the website below.

Admission to the launch is free.

Military Archives Collections Lunchtime Series:

Records and documents relating to Easter Week 1916 are contained in the Military Service Pensions Collection in the Military Archives and staff from the Military Archives will present three lunchtime talks on research and access to revolutionary period collections 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 01-4973539 or rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie The talks will take place on 17+24 February and on 02 March.

This is a free public tour for parents, guardians and carers of infants and young children. The route of the tour is suitable for prams and strollers.

Admission is free.

“Crafting Your Authentic Signature: How to Rise above the Noise and Resonate with Your Audience” by Carmel Finnan from Insightstories.ie is a free presentation and workshop for sole traders and small businesses.

If you want your service or product to reach the right audience and if you want to consolidate and extend that connection, then you need to have an Authentic Signature. …and you should come to this interactive, hands-on presentation/workshop on what exactly your ‘Authentic Signature’ is, how to craft it, why it matters and how to ensure it connects with your audience.

Admission is free, but booking is required via carmel@insightstories.ie or 087-9793563.

“How plants produce wood and how a tree grows is a fascinating tale of biological engineering. Colin Kelleher will take you deep inside a tree in this talk and reveal how beautiful such a seemingly everyday material is.”

Admission is free.b

This is one for the Darts fans among us:
Meet reigning PDC world champion Gary Anderson and Michael Smith in Elverys Intersport.

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.

“Rosc: Crossroads of Conflict & Celebration” is a screening of the award-winning film “Rosc: Poetry of Vision” produced and directed by Ciarín Scott followed by a lecture by Dr Brenda Moore-McCann.

The six Rosc were the most influential exhibitions to have been held in Ireland in the 20th century. They put Ireland on the international map and revolutionized Irish art. In the twenty years of their existence from 1967 to 1988 Irish art shifted from a predominantly pre-Modern to a post-Modern era.

More details are on the website below.

Admission seems to be free.

The multicultural non-profit organisation Dialogue & Diversity is launching their “Integration Roadmap” on Wednesday. The report is the result of roundtable discussions with a variety of groupings and organisations in the Irish multi-cultural field. Find more details on the Facebook Page below.

Admission is free.

“Protecting sharks and other endangered species in Ireland” is a talk with Brian Stone (Marine Researcher and Computer Scientist).

He will talk about how endangered species and sharks are being protected with a computer vision system.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

The next talk in the RDS Library Speaker Series is “The Company of Trees – A Year in a Lifetime’s Quest” by Thomas Pakenham (author, photographer and champion of trees), who will share insights and stories about the life of some of the large trees to be found at his residence in Tullynally.

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

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

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

“Hysteria” is a performance art film that will be screened from Tues 16-Sun 21 February from 20:00 until 08:00 at the Science Gallery. You can watch it from Pearse Street and headphones are available to listen to the atmospheric score that accompanies the film.

It is screened in connection with the curernt Science Gallery exhibition TRAUMA and expresses the trauma that soldiers experienced who came back from fighting in Word War I.

Maurice Keliher is a choreographer, director and actor and he was comissioned to create this film. It features military medical footage, sourced from the Wellcome Library, that was filmed at two English hospitals during World War I. It documents the anguish of some of the patients: symptoms of so-called ‘war neurosis’ suffered by returning soldiers – now referred to as PTSD.

The film is 16 minutes long and will be repeated throughout the nights until the TRAUMA exhibition closes next Sunday.

Viewing is free. A two minute extract from the film is available here.

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

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

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

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

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

The next Inn Jokes Comedy Club will happen on Wednesday with Damo Clark. There will be other performers but they have not yet been announced. MC and organiser is comedian Colm O’Regan.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

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

“D-Riculous All Stars” will perform a live gig at Sweeney’s and admission is free. Unfortunately the guys at Sweeney’s don’t tell us when the gig is on. They say 21:00-02:30, I’d say the band might start as late as 23:00.

Examine some amazing African animals from the Natural History Handling Collection including a hippo tusk and a rock python snake skin.

Admission is free and no booking is required.

“Diarmuid Lynch, the last man to leave the GPO” by Eileen McGough will tell the story of this man who has been largely forgotten in Ireland’s history.

Diarmuid Lynch was a member of the Supreme Council of the IRB. He was condemned to be shot for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising but USA President Woodrow Wilson intervened personally on his behalf. So Lynch, who was the last man to vacate the burning GPO on Friday 28 April 1916, lived on and spent the rest of his life in Ireland.

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

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

The 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.

“Children and Food Insecurity – a crisis for Ireland’s future” is a lunchtime seminar by Dr Mary Flynn (Visiting Professor, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster). Her seminar will address affordability of healthy eating in Ireland and issues such as access to healthy food and the impact of homelessness. The event is organised by the Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC).

The idea of TASC’s free lunchtime seminars is that you bring your own ‘brown bag’ lunch to eat. Tea and coffee will be available.

Places for this event are limited and booking with Sylvia Byrne on 01 6169050 or via sbyrne@tasc.ie is required.

“Taming the Dragon: The Conservation of an Imperial Dragon Robe from the Chester Beatty Collections” with Karen Horton (Independent Textile & Ethnographic Conservator, London) is a talk on Thursday.

Admission is free.

Three talks by Michael Grant will trace the story of the opera art form from its beginning in Renaissance Italy and ending with opera today – a global big business in the digital era.

The talks will take place on 11+18+25 February.

Admission is free.

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Dr. Ian S. Miller (clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst) will respond to Chloe Dewe Mathew’s exhibition “Shot at Dawn” focusing on the subject of trauma and the emergence of psychoanalytic techniques in response to early manifestations of trauma during World War One. This response will take the form of a gallery-based discussion with students from the MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC), Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) and is open to the public to listen /join in.

Admission is free and no booking is required.

Students of Soprano Joanne Harding will perform “Songs for Spring” and they will be accompanied by Seamus Ludden.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

The National Photographic Archive at Meeting House Square in Temple Bar is currently showing an exhibition of pictures from the Easter Rising.

On Thursday a public tour through this exhibition will take place.(This tour will take place on the 3rd Thursday of every month: 16/03, 21/04, 19/05, 16/06, 21/07, 18/08, 15/09, 20/10 and 18/11.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

The talk “Globalism Before Europe? Arabia and India in the Churches of Medieval Ethiopia” by Professor Finbarr Barry Flood (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, NYU) will take place and is part of a Research Lecture Series of the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

A series of 8 free life drawing workshops on Thursdays from 21 Jan until 10 March takes place in the National Gallery.

The workshops are suitable for adults and teens and will explore aspects of life drawing. They will be led by artist Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire.

Admission is free and no booking required, but there is a limited number of places and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Girl Geek Dinners are a chance for ladies in technology to get together, enjoy some nice food and drinks and have fun meeting other women in their field. Agenda and details are on their Meet-up Page where you also have to register: www.meetup.com/Ireland-Girl-Geek-Dinners/ (Men are allowed to come but only when invited by a woman, check the rules.)

Accenture’s Centre for Innovation will be sponsoring this event Julie Spillane, the Centre’s Director, will talk about her career.

Admission is free.

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.

“Irish trade unions, the Irish Citizen Army and the 1916 Rising” is a talk by Dr. Mary Muldowney.

She will examine the connections between Irish trade unionists and the Irish Citizen Army with particular reference to the 1916 Rising. The immediate impact of the Rising on the trade union movement was so devastating that it led to a retrenchment behind a concentration on industrial relations issues during the struggle for independence and the eventual marginalisation of labour and working class interests in national politics.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8377206 or drumcondralibrary@dublincity.ie

“Not just a Rebel: the importance of art, literature and drama to Volunteers during their imprisonment 1916-23” is a talk by Dr. Anne Marie McInerney.

She will discuss the poems, paintings, decorative crosses and knitted crafts that were created by internees during their imprisonment in the aftermath of the Rising. Writing and artwork were important to internees as it was an easy outlet for recreation in the confined environment of a prison camp. The talk will examine the works of both well-known and lesser known internees and discuss how these artworks embodied the humanity of individual prisoners.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-6269324 or ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie

“To Speak of Easter Week: Family memories of the Irish Revolution” is a talk by Dr. Helene O’Keeffe.

“Drawing primarily on the oral history testimonies of the descendants of the participants in the 1916 Rising, Dr. Helene O’Keeffe will explore the human legacy of Easter Week. The children and grandchildren of revolutionaries shared inherited stories but the oral histories also provided insight into how memory is transmitted and received and the different ways in which family members have attempted to assimilate and make sense of the actions of their antecedents.”

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

The Trinity Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ discussion series will have a look at “Today’s Terrorism” at this seminar. Four talks will discuss how to Think beyond the “War on Terror, the mind of a terrorist, the gender of violence and the link between terrorism and islam.

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

“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

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the Carmichael Centre is hosting an inspiring and thought provoking lecture series with leaders in the charity field and others.

The next lecture will be by Alice Leahy (Director and Co-Founder of Trust and one of Ireland’s leading experts on social exclusion).

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

“The Sherwood Foresters from Dún Laoghaire to The Battle of Mount Street” is a talk by Billy Campbell

It will follow the story of the arrival of British troops who arrived in the port of Dún Laoghaire from where they marched into the city. On their way they became involved in one of the fiercest battles of the Easter Rising at Mount Street.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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

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

“Hysteria” is a performance art film that will be screened from Tues 16-Sun 21 February from 20:00 until 08:00 at the Science Gallery. You can watch it from Pearse Street and headphones are available to listen to the atmospheric score that accompanies the film.

It is screened in connection with the curernt Science Gallery exhibition TRAUMA and expresses the trauma that soldiers experienced who came back from fighting in Word War I.

Maurice Keliher is a choreographer, director and actor and he was comissioned to create this film. It features military medical footage, sourced from the Wellcome Library, that was filmed at two English hospitals during World War I. It documents the anguish of some of the patients: symptoms of so-called ‘war neurosis’ suffered by returning soldiers – now referred to as PTSD.

The film is 16 minutes long and will be repeated throughout the nights until the TRAUMA exhibition closes next Sunday.

Viewing is free. A two minute extract from the film is available here.

Explore the fascinating history of snowdrop collection and cultivation in Ireland with galanthophile (a person who collects snowdrops!) Assumpta Broomfield. The event is organised with the Alpine Plant Society. Admission is free.

“Good Name” are inviting to a a gig night with indie pop trio Shrug Life and indie chamber pop band (whatever that is!?) Walpurgis Family.

Admission is free.

Singer/Songwriter Stina will be in the Harbour Bar for a gig.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Condoned is an “Underground Student Night” organised by Illicit with DJs Ryan Hayden (Illicit), Keith Byrne (Illicit), James Cotter (Sunday Club) and Adam Judge (Sunday Club).

Admission is free.

Four quite diverse bands/performers will play gigs in the Midnight Hour slot on Thursday.

Singer/Songwriter Eoin Dolan from Galway, 60s/70s pop/prog/folk/psych sound creators “Tomorrows”, pop-punk trio “Sheepy” from Liverpool and folk/punk/pop/ska singer/songwriter “Villy Raze” from Liverpool will perform.

Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list on the website below.

Colm Lynch will play a gig from 00:30. Admission is free.

Meanwhile in Mexico are playing a gig in the Mezz.

Admission is free.

At the UCD School of Sociology Seminar “1916: Insurrection, Revolution & Counterrevolution”, a selection of talks focus on different topics around the Easter Rising in 1916.

The talks are about Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, a link to Asia, Provisional Democracy, Women of the Revolution.

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

Join Lisa Flanagan for a St. Valentine’s Day themed workshop exploring the romantic connections of objects in the Museum’s collections. Learn the secret language of the fan and find out about the traditions of Claddagh rings and Hurling balls. Then have a go at making your own fan or love token to bring home. Suitable for Ages 6-12.

Admission is free, but a EUR 2 contribution to materials is required per child. Booking is required via 01-6777444

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.

Ancient Egyptians believed that scarab beetles represented their sun god Ra on earth. See a sacred scarab beetle on a real Egyptian mummy and make your own clay beetle to take home.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 6486332 or educationarch@museum.ie.

The workshop runs from 11:30-12:30 and again from 14:30-15:30 and is suitable for Age 6+

Five Holocaust survivors who are living in Ireland recount their stories in this documentary. The screenings will be in the Central Library Activities Room. For some reason lists the time for the screenings as 12:00-14:00, but the documentary is only 45 minutes long.- Maybe they are screening it twice per day?

The days for the screenings are

* Friday 19 February
* Wednesday 24 February
* Friday 26 February

There is also an exhibition on show in the Central Library that you should have a look at: “Traces of Memory: a contemporary look at the Jewish past in Poland”.

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 2010 movie Karate Kid with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan will be screened in the Chester Beatty Library as part of the Chinese New Year Festival. The film is rated PG.

Admission is free.

The Irish Book launch of “Tra una vita e l’altra”, the Italian version of the anthology “Lost Between” will take place. Renata Sperandio, Valerie Bistany and Catherine Dunne will welcome you and readings will be in English and Italian by Sean Hardie, Afric
McGlinchey, Liz McManus, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Federica Sgaggio.

A Musical performance by Giulio “Julyo” D’Agostino, Italian guitarist, composer and music publisher, will also happen.

The theme of the poetry and prose in this anthology is “Displacement”.

Admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it

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.

“Hysteria” is a performance art film that will be screened from Tues 16-Sun 21 February from 20:00 until 08:00 at the Science Gallery. You can watch it from Pearse Street and headphones are available to listen to the atmospheric score that accompanies the film.

It is screened in connection with the curernt Science Gallery exhibition TRAUMA and expresses the trauma that soldiers experienced who came back from fighting in Word War I.

Maurice Keliher is a choreographer, director and actor and he was comissioned to create this film. It features military medical footage, sourced from the Wellcome Library, that was filmed at two English hospitals during World War I. It documents the anguish of some of the patients: symptoms of so-called ‘war neurosis’ suffered by returning soldiers – now referred to as PTSD.

The film is 16 minutes long and will be repeated throughout the nights until the TRAUMA exhibition closes next Sunday.

Viewing is free. A two minute extract from the film is available here.

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

Admission is free.

The Shaker Hymn are a four-piece alternative rock band from Cork and they will play a gig in Bray.

Admission is free.

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

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

Blues Band “Mama Martin” will play a gig in the Patriot’s Inn.

Admission is free.

The Donal Kirk Band will play a gig in Bray.

Admission is free.

Created by five of Ireland’s top session musicians, Hold Up is allegedly performing “pop music blended with their own contemporary vibe”, but when you listen to some of their YouTube clips, you hear more funk, jazz and motown than “contemporary”, but it is really good stuff, so I would definitely recommend “Hold Up” from what I have heard!

Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.

IE/DC, an AC/DC Tribute band will rock the Mezz.

Admission is free.