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Open House, Festival of History, Spirit of Dublin – Food & Drink Fair, Dublin Comic Arts Festival

Hi all!

This weekend is “Open House Dublin” weekend! Some will say “Waa??” and others will nod knowingly. ;-) It is a great event, but not everybody knows about it, so let me explain:
Open House is organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation and is a sort of “Culture Night” for buildings. It is a 2-day event where really interesting buildings in Dublin that are normally not accessible, open their doors for guided tours with a focus on the architecture of the building.
Why should that interest you? It is part of culture how buildings look and what purpose they have. A perfect example is Busaras, the main bus station in Dublin! A lot of people think that it is a quite ugly building, but when you hear why it was built the way it is now, you suddenly might see it in a different light and understand the reason for its look!
All guided tours are free and at the very bottom of this mail/message, I will list a number of interesting buildings that you should consider. And if you want to check the list out yourself, just go to openhousedublin.com/

The “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)” always brings you a list of some of the best and most interesting free events that take place in Dublin. It is all free, but as you can imagine, to send it to 24,000 people and to create it every week and to maintain a website etc, there are some cost. The time I spend on it is free ;-) but I would very much appreciate your help with the cost and I found a free way for you to help me! Doesn’t cost you a cent, only takes 30 seconds of your time, but helps me HUGELY.

This is how the support works and it is super easy:
Just go to www.DublinEventGuide.com and click on the rectangular ad that is shown at the very top of the page! If you don’t see an ad there, please turn your Ad Blocker off and refresh the page and then do the clicking. ;-) If you click on the ad, I get between 5 and 30 cent. That is not much, but if enough people help, it will do the job to cover the cost to keep the Dublin Event Guide going. Thanks! :-) Some people have asked me for the Dublin Event Guide PayPal link for direct donations and here it is: www.paypal.me/DublinEventGuide

And now we come to some of this weekend’s free events. All events are sorted by start time, but watch out for the few events that have a “++” in front of them, the are particularly recommended. ;-) ALL events in this list are free, but some require booking!

Saturday Events (12 October)

Saturday + Sunday Markets

+ Temple Bar Food Market: Sat 10:00-16:30 on Meeting House Square  www.facebook.com/TempleBarFoodMarket/
+ Honest2Goodness Market: Sat 09:00-15:00 in Dublin Ind. Estate, Glasnevin www.facebook.com/GlasnevinMarket/
+ Bushy Park Market: Sat 10:00-16:00 in Bushy Park, Terenure www.facebook.com/bushyparkmarket/
+ Red Stables Market: Sat 10:00-16:00 at the Red Stables in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny www.facebook.com/RedStablesMarket/
+ The Super Natural Food Market: Sat 09:00-15:00 at St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street www.facebook.com/thesupernaturalfoodmarket
+ Marley Park Market: Sat 10:00-16:00 / Sun 11:00-16:00 Grange Road, Rathfarnham www.dlrcoco.ie/en/parks-outdoors/markets/marlay-park-market
+ Dun Laoghaire People’s Park Market: Sun 11:00-16:00 People’s Park, Dun Laoghaire www.dlrcoco.ie/en/parks-outdoors/markets/peoples-park-market

in addition there are all the other free events at the National Museum, National Gallery, National Print Museum, Hugh Lane Gallery, Science Gallery, Chester Beatty Library National Botanic Gardens and then there are all the weekly markets.

…and something for next week

…and some OPEN HOUSE suggestions as promised…