Dublin Event Guide 408: MusicTown Festival, Japanese Festival, Fusion Sunday World Culture Market, Spring Awakening Culture Day

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.

A Car Boot Sale will take at Malahide Rugby Club and doors will open at 08:00.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. Admission is free.

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

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

The Ark in Temple Bar runs many really good events, but due to the cost of running this cultural centre for children, most events are not free. But every now and then, there is a free event or exhibition and they are always worth a visit.

This time it is an exhibition (for ages 4+) called “Once upon a Picture”: Every artwork has a story to tell! Sometimes worlds cross over and strange things happen – humans take on animal form, objects shrink or grow, people dream enchanted dreams and things are not always as they seem. Let your imagination run wild as you explore this exhibition of artworks that are mysterious, alluring and magical. Have fun imagining what the artworks are about and what stories they tell.

Admission is free and no booking is required. The exhibition will be open on the following Saturdays: 28 March, 11+18+25 April, 02 May.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

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.

Learn more with zoologist Catherine McGuiness about animals that are usually made into cuddly toys, but they’re not all friendly in real life. Don’t forget to bring your own favourite Teddy Bear.

No booking required. Places are limited and are allocated on a first come basis. Admission is free. The event runs from 10:30-11:15 and then again from 12:00-12:45.

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.

I am not sure why the day is called “TableTop Day”, but it is a great idea. It is really a Board Game day where up to 60 people at any given time will play games like Settlers of Catan, Carcassone, Munchkin, Zombies, Dixit and many more. Board Games can be soo much fun and if you have not really tried it before (maybe apart from Snakes & Ladders) go to this event and try it out.

There will also be some prizes for zany things like ‘Most Epic Win’, ‘Best Costume’, ‘Rage Quit of the Day’ etc.

There is an Eventbrite Page below where you can get a ticket, but you don’t need to bring a ticket at all, just show up. Admission is free,

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 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 Great Ireland 10km Run (sponsored by Spar) will take place this Sunday.

It is not a free event for participants. but you can support runners by cheering them on.

And if you are interested in the musical treasures this event brings, then you can listen to Father Ray Kelly, who became a YouTube “sensation” after a video showing him singing at a wedding he celebrated went viral. He will perform at the Start/Finish line. (It is not clear if there are any other performers.)

The event starts at 11:30 and the main race starts at 13:30.

Varying road and gate closures in Phoenix Park will be in place between 06:30 and 16:30.

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.

Dublin is a city with both a vibrant new music scene and a myriad of nooks and crannies to discover. The Breaking Tunes Music Trail will combine both over the course of two daytime music walking tours. Various artists from the Breaking Tunes stable will perform 20 minute, unplugged pop-up gigs in some novel spaces around the city, letting audiences discover music and places it hasn’t heard or seen before. This is a great event for all ages and a chance to see who might be the next big thing in Irish music.

Bands:
12:00 at HMV Grafton St: Jet Setter
12:30 at Irish Design Shop, Drury St: Myles Manley
13:00 at Urban Picnic: Eamon Bode
13:30 at Powerscourt Center: Conor Walsh
14:00 at Rage: Spies
14:30 at Pitt Bros: His New Atlas
15:00 at Honest to Goodness: Frankenstein Bolts
15:30 at Dublin Ink: Eoin Dolan
16:00 at Gutter Bookshop: Tell No Foxx
16:30 at The Front Lounge: Carriages

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.

This is the last week of this exhibition already, so if you still haven’t seen it, go this weekend!!

“Lifelogging – Do you count?” is the title of the newest Science Gallery exhibition, which started on Friday 13 Feb and will run until 17 April.

Lifelogging is part exhibition, part Science Gallery Lab where you can take part in research projects and it deals with us tracking ourselves, measuring things we do and logging everything from heartbeat to heartbreak.

Get a taste for tracking as you play games with your emotions, use your brainwaves to sort files, generate music wearing sensors, and explore a virtual world filled with real dreams and memories.

The exhibits at this exhibition are fascinating: There is George Reynolds who recorded his health on paper since 2003. A sensible and understandable version of lifelogging. On the other end of the spectrum is Alberto Frigo who takes a picture every times he holds an object with his right hand. He started in 2003 and plans to continue until 2040. On the surface it doesn’t make sense AT ALL. But when you talk to him, you find out that there is a surprising sense to what he does.

The exhibition contains 16 exhibits some so odd that you should get the super helpful and knowledgeable Science Gallery mediators to help you understand what is behind it.

In one area, every week another group/organisation will involve you in their work (the Lab part) and I will explain their project in a separate event posting in the weekly Dublin Event Guide.

Admission to the Science Gallery is free. Opening hours are Tues-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

You don’t have to be highbrow to enjoy opera, a fact that Wide Open Opera will ably demonstrate with their series of pop up operas on the streets of the city. The five short operas with music written by Brian Irvine and text by John McIlduff have been inspired by life on the streets of Dublin and will depict vignettes ranging from a woman who sells bananas on the street to a group of workers out on one of their daily smoke breaks. Everyday stories told through the dramatic medium of opera. Live singing with a pre-recorded soundtrack by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Fergus Sheil.

Wide Open Opera are a dynamic Irish opera company who are bringing a range of opera experiences to Irish audiences and championing new and Irish artists and composers.

Performances are:
12:00 – 13:00 Marys street at Wolfe Tone Square, D1
15:00 – 16:00 South King Street, D2
18:00 – 19:00 Dame Court, D2

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifelogging exhibition will look at “Your UP AND ATTEM Self”. (I know the titles are getting weirder and weirder. ;-) )

Researchers at Trinity School of Medicine and TickerFit, a cloud based application which empowers health professionals and their patients, are looking to identify whether competition plays an important role in physical activity. Visitors to the Lab can undergo an assessment of their BMI, blood pressure, waist circumference and take part in leading research in the field of future health care management.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

Celebrating 40 Years of Free Concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council’s city-wide music festival “MusicTown” will bring free lunchtime and afternoon concerts throughout the week to the gallery.

The programme is:
+ Saturday 11 April: Fishamble Sinfonia at 13:05
+ Sunday 12 April: Sunday at Noon with Alexander Hawkins, piano at 12:00 // Hard Rain Ensemble at 15:00
+ Tuesday 14 April: Carron at 13:05
+ Wednesday 15 April: Landless at 13:05
+ Thursday 16 April: The Ivory Lady at 13:05
+ Friday 17 April: Collailm Duo at 13:05
+ Saturday 18 April: Concorde at 13:05
+ Sunday 19 April: Sunday at Noon: Callino Quartet & Ailish Tynan, soprano at 12:00

Admission is free to all concerts.

Derek Warfield formerly of the “Wolfe Tones” will be giving a talk on the American Civil War and the Fenian’s attempted invasion of Canada to hold Canada hostage in return for Britain’s disengagement from Ireland. He will also sing some songs from the period.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.It will take place in the Lecture Room under the Arch Way.

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

Drop in and discover with historian Caoimhe Leppard the structural secrets of pyramids from ancient Egypt and create your own mini pyramid to take home.

This event will take place in the Learning Resource Room, First Floor. No booking required. Admission is free.

Kevin Flood will lead a free walk along the Dooder on Satruday. Meeting Point is the Dropping Well Bar. Kevin will talk about the Dodder and various other sites of interest along the way. Admission is free,

Johnnie’s Britches by P.G.O’Dea is a playreading of a runaway hit from the 1940s. There is lots more interesting information about that Play on the website below. Have a look!

Admission is free, but a donation of EUR 2 is suggested.

Digiwise is a family programme to learn how to use social media apps in a safe way. It consists of two classes: The first one is for parents only. They will learn which are the most popular apps with children & teenagers. (ex. Instagram, Snapchat, What’s App., Facetime, Vibr and Facebook) and the features that can make them safer. The second class is for the same parents, this time bringing one or two of their children. This time the topics from the first session will be discussed from a family viewpoint.

The tutor will also cover the nature of the online environment and how different it is to real life, and demonstrate how to use the privacy settings and security settings of some of the more popular apps for benefit of both parent and child.

The Programme will be facilitated by “Digitise the Nation” and will happen in a number of branches of libraries in Dublin:

Sat 11+25 April
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Ballymun Library (10:30-12:30). Book via 01-8421890
Cabra Library (14:30-16:30). Book via 01-8691414
Coolock Library (14:30-16:30). Book via 01-8477781
Walkinstown Library (14:30-16:30) Book via 01-4558159
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Sat 18+25 April
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Rathmines Library (10:30-12:§0). Book via 01-4973539

Admission is free, but booking is required.

“A Party at the Palace” with Kitty Rogers is the National Gallery Family Workshop this Saturday.

The Saturday Family Workshops are a fun opportunity for families to enjoy creating and learning together through free activities exploring storytelling, music, art, poetry and drama.

Admission is free but places are limited and will be allocated to the first 40. No booking required. The workshop is suitable for Ages 4-10.

From Sat 11 Apr until 29 May, the Grand Social will screen 8 episodes (one every Saturday) from the Foo Fighters Documentary “Sonic Highways”. Admission is free,

Rory Gallagher Tribute “Deuce” will perform. Admission is free.

Live in Sin É will feature a variety of bands and musicians at this weekly gig night on Saturdays. The event is presented by Super Happy Funtimes. Admission is free and the line-up is can be found on the Facebook Page below.

Line-up: Bunny& The Banned Its, Mannequin Seks Drive, Venus de Vilo.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event event in the basement Wine Cave of KC Peaches wholefood restaurant/café. Food will be served until 22:00 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.

80s cover band Shift and 50s/60s tribute band The Shifters will perform in Sweeney’s. Admission is free.

“Fierce Big Bonanza” will perform in Sweeney’s. Unfortunately I have no clue about their style and the starting time given by Sweeney’s is most likely unreliable as well.

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.

Neil Young Tribute “Psychedelic Pill” will be in the Mezz for a free gig. They will be supported by Markas Carcas.

The band “Hags” – supported by “Swimmers”, will be performing in the Midnight Hour. The gig starts at midnight. Admission is free if you are there before 22:30 or if you sign up to the guest list.

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.

Join author and Botanic Gardens guide Glynn Anderson for a guided bird walk. Come and discover what birds live in the gardens. If you have binoculars, bring them along and see what you can spot.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 8570909

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 Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

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.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

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/Summer season. 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 the month.

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

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

The Dublin Japanese community and Dublin based groups interested in Japanese culture invite everybody to celebrate the Hanami (Cherry Blossom) Festival with them. ‘Hanami’ is an annual event in Japan where friends and family come together for outdoor parties to welcome Spring and celebrate nature.

Farmleigh House is again the venue for the festival and you will be able to enjoy:

* Taiko drum performances
* Martial arts demonstrations
* Music and dance with a fusion of Japanese and Irish Performances
* Origami and childrens craft workshops
* Yo-Yo fishing and other fun activities for children
* Cosplay fashions framed with traditional Kimono displays
* Soran Bushi dancing
* Information desks on Japanese cooking, textile dyeing and growing Bonsai trees
* Japanese food stalls
* Seminars on ‘Shintoism in Japanese Culture’ and ‘Tramore’s New Japanese Garden’

The Main Stage Schedule is:

12:00-12:05 Introduction to Experience Japan: Taiko drummers & J-Girls dance
12:05-13:20 J-pop song, Irish & Japanese Music fusion (Sean, Philip, Hitomi) CosPlay Fashion Show, Children’s song & dance
13:20-14:15 Irish Folk Music, Japanese Traditional Dance, Newpark Japanese Jazz band
14:30-14:40 Welcoming performance: EJ & Children’s Taiko Drums & Irish Dance team
14:40-15:30 Speeches, Kagami Biraki, Soranbushi Dance & integration performance
15:30-16:00 Performance by John Spillane, Martial Arts demo, J-Girls Pop dance
16:00-16:15 Grand finale: Soranbushi & Irish Music Performance

The Cultural Activities and Demonstrations are described here, the Seminars are here and the Craft & Cookery Workshops are described here.

The Lassus Scholars, a chamber choir in the university tradition named after the great Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus, is performing Renaissance polyphonic masterpieces including Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli and Allegri’s Miserere and will give you a taster of their portfolio in 5 short performances in various locations.

Times and Locations
12:00 – 12:20 Jervis Shopping Centre, D1
12:30 – 12:50 Barnardos Square, Dame Street, D1
13:20 – 13:40 Georges St Arcade – Drury St entrance, D2
14:10 – 14:30 South King Street, (top of Grafton St), D2
14:40 – 15:00 Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, D2 (middle balcony area upstairs)

Admission is free.

This is the last week of this exhibition already, so if you still haven’t seen it, go this weekend!!

“Lifelogging – Do you count?” is the title of the newest Science Gallery exhibition, which started on Friday 13 Feb and will run until 17 April.

Lifelogging is part exhibition, part Science Gallery Lab where you can take part in research projects and it deals with us tracking ourselves, measuring things we do and logging everything from heartbeat to heartbreak.

Get a taste for tracking as you play games with your emotions, use your brainwaves to sort files, generate music wearing sensors, and explore a virtual world filled with real dreams and memories.

The exhibits at this exhibition are fascinating: There is George Reynolds who recorded his health on paper since 2003. A sensible and understandable version of lifelogging. On the other end of the spectrum is Alberto Frigo who takes a picture every times he holds an object with his right hand. He started in 2003 and plans to continue until 2040. On the surface it doesn’t make sense AT ALL. But when you talk to him, you find out that there is a surprising sense to what he does.

The exhibition contains 16 exhibits some so odd that you should get the super helpful and knowledgeable Science Gallery mediators to help you understand what is behind it.

In one area, every week another group/organisation will involve you in their work (the Lab part) and I will explain their project in a separate event posting in the weekly Dublin Event Guide.

Admission to the Science Gallery is free. Opening hours are Tues-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

The hugely popular Family Fun Day is back at the National Print Museum. You and your kids will be able to enjoy printing demonstrations, there will be face painting, children’s workshops and self-guided arts and craft activities for kids.

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 Alexander Hawkins on piano.

From Tuesday until Sunday, the Lab in the Science Gallery that accompanies the Lifelogging exhibition will look at “Your UP AND ATTEM Self”. (I know the titles are getting weirder and weirder. ;-) )

Researchers at Trinity School of Medicine and TickerFit, a cloud based application which empowers health professionals and their patients, are looking to identify whether competition plays an important role in physical activity. Visitors to the Lab can undergo an assessment of their BMI, blood pressure, waist circumference and take part in leading research in the field of future health care management.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

The charity Claire’s Wish is inviting to a Wedding Fair in Clontarf Castle. You will find everything there that you need for a wedding on 40 stalls. From Bridal Wear via Music and Photographers to Cakes and Candy Stands.

Admission is free and no booking required. There is an Eventbrite Page where you can book a ticket, but I understand that is not required.

A Drop-in Drawing Session with Roxana Manouchehri takes place. Learn drawing techniques, including line drawing, shading, perspective, and decoration during these relaxed and informal sessions.

Admission is free and no booking required. Suitable for ages 13+. Materials are provided but feel free to bring your own sketchbook; dry materials only.

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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!

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

Come to the Family Drawing Sundays in the RHA. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Admission is free. For further information, contact Ruth Carroll on 01 6612558 or via ruth@rhagallery.ie

The talk “The Guinness Family at the Foundation of the Irish State” will take place in the Visitor Centre. Admission is free.

“Hands on History” is a chance to explore some of the artefacts from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling with Museum educators. A drop-in event suitable for all ages.

Admission is free and no booking required.

“Looking at the history of childhood in Ireland” with Dr Gaye Ashford, St Patrick’s College/DCU is this week’s Sunday Lecture. The talk is part of a series on the theme of Exploring childhood and the family in art. Admission is free and no booking necessary.

This Open Session a great opportunity to meet up and jam with talented musicians, songwriters and performers.

It is an informal session where all participants can perform together in a relaxed environment. If you prefer just to listen, come along and enjoy some refreshments from The Cottage Café. All musicians, singers, performers and listeners are welcome.

Admission is free.

Brian Keary is a classically trained guitar player who also has experience of different styles / genres of music ranging from ragtime and folk to baroque and contemporary. He will perform in Sweeney’s (Ground Floor) on Sunday afternoon.

The wedding and party band The LJJ Band play every Sunday evening in Café en Seine. Admission is free.

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

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

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

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass is back after the summer break and invites you to a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street every Sunday at 19:30.

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.

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! ;-)

Mongoose are bringing their acoustic melting pot to Bray again when they play Jazz and Folk. 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 Sun+Mon. 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.

Trinity Week is the yearly celebration of academic and scholarly achievements of staff and students in Trinity College Dublin. Every year it is somewhat unlcear if the MANY free events are only for students and staff or for everybody, but this year I found the statement “The public are invited to participate in this week long programme which will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role light possesses in all its forms and how it affects and enhances life, both now and for the future.” So if “Public” means “Public”, then we are definitely welcome to take part.

The theme this year is “Light” and there are a HUGE amount of events. So many, that I can’t list them all here, but luckily the website is really good and nicely organises the events by day. Trinity Week runs from Monday (13 April) until Friday (17 April). All (or nearly all) events are free, but some require booking, so have a look at the list and enjoy the great programme.

All details can be found here: www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/

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.

Every year on the anniversary of the debut of Händel’s Messiah (13 April 1742), Our Lady’s Choral Society and soloist with the Dublin Handelian Orchestra sing choruses from Händel’s Messiah at 13:00 on the site of its first performance in Fishamble Street.

It is always a pity when that event is during the week but if you can make it, go there. It is well done and crwod participation is built in. ;-) Admission is free. This event is on the street and takes place even when it rains.

RIAM present this three-day (13-15 April) percussion extravaganza which will feature workshops, masterclasses, an array of pop-up performances and highly-charged collaborative concerts by percussionists from Ireland and the US. The three-day event is a collaboration of transatlantic talents featuring the combined percussion nous of the RIAM Percussion Ensemble and the Jim Royle Drum Studio US, amongst others.

The individual events are:

Monday 13 April
17:30 Cuban Percussion Masterclass with Frailan Moran Mendive
19:00 Concert featuring a screening of Les Invinsibles with live music written by Nigel Westlake

Tuesday 14 April
17:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Jim Royle
19:00 Concert featuring a performance of Ian Wilson’s Apparitions

Wednesday 15 April
15:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Chris Lamb of the New York Philharmonic presented in association with the National Concert Hall
19:00 Concert featuring the world première of Dubinina’s Tongue, a new work for Percussion Quartet by Ailis Ni Riain

Admission is free, but booking is required. All details on the website below.

Lifelogging Lab residents, Bigfoot and AYLIEN, are back and ready to set the record straight on computer intelligence.

Human-beings are exceptionally good at communicating with one another, and the ability to understand another person through language comes so naturally that we mostly take it for granted. We increasingly use technology to codify our language into messages that carry our most personal intentions and desires. How do computers understand these complex interactions and turn it into something to benefit humans?

Join Kevin Koidl and Parsa Ghaffari in their talk as they explore the efforts and attempts championed so far by humanity at teaching our silicon-minded friends to master communication and language.

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

Super Happy Fun Times are running an Open Mic night for Music and Spoken Word every Monday in Sin É.

Admission is free.

This is an open mic night with Special Guests every Monday. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play. 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 Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. 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 Fluffy Noise will showcase three bands every Monday Night at The Mezz. The line-up for this Monday is

Bishop (Alternative Pop), Level Heads (Alternative), The Bonzai Pipeline (Alternative/Nu-Rad/Phil).

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).

The 4-piece band Loose Trad are performing every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. www.loosetrad.com/ Admission is free.

Patrick Mahony sings songs from Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Matt Monro and many more every Monday in the Cafe en Seine. Admission is free.

Trinity Week is the yearly celebration of academic and scholarly achievements of staff and students in Trinity College Dublin. Every year it is somewhat unlcear if the MANY free events are only for students and staff or for everybody, but this year I found the statement “The public are invited to participate in this week long programme which will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role light possesses in all its forms and how it affects and enhances life, both now and for the future.” So if “Public” means “Public”, then we are definitely welcome to take part.

The theme this year is “Light” and there are a HUGE amount of events. So many, that I can’t list them all here, but luckily the website is really good and nicely organises the events by day. Trinity Week runs from Monday (13 April) until Friday (17 April). All (or nearly all) events are free, but some require booking, so have a look at the list and enjoy the great programme.

All details can be found here: www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/

The National Gallery Tuesday lecture will be an event in connection with “Dublin One City One Book: ‘The Barrytown Trilogy'”. Author Roddy Doyle will be in conversation with Evelyn O’Rourke, RTE.

Admission is free and no booking necessary.

“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

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.

From Tuesday until Thursday, Intel will run the last “Lab in the Science Gallery” at the current Lifelogging exhibition because the exhibition is coming to a close on Friday 17 April.

Intel will show the work of Anouk Wipprecht, an experimental designer who is pushing the boundaries of wearable technology and showing how personal data can be represented in our clothes, using computer chips embedded in two beautifully designed and 3D printed dresses.

The Lab will feature an interactive exhibit of the Intel Edison powered Spider Smart Dress and the Synapse Smart Dress. Both dresses blend fashion with wearable technology, and are capable of expressing the wearer’s emotions. The Spider dress integrates Intel’s Edison chip and a range of sensors to show on the outside what the wearer is feeling within. It also measures people’s proximity to the wearer and if they are making her feel uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the Synapse dress monitors the EEG brain activity and heart rate of its wearer, and communicates this data via lighting embedded in the dress.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

Celebrating 40 Years of Free Concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council’s city-wide music festival “MusicTown” will bring free lunchtime and afternoon concerts throughout the week to the gallery.

The programme is:
+ Saturday 11 April: Fishamble Sinfonia at 13:05
+ Sunday 12 April: Sunday at Noon with Alexander Hawkins, piano at 12:00 // Hard Rain Ensemble at 15:00
+ Tuesday 14 April: Carron at 13:05
+ Wednesday 15 April: Landless at 13:05
+ Thursday 16 April: The Ivory Lady at 13:05
+ Friday 17 April: Collailm Duo at 13:05
+ Saturday 18 April: Concorde at 13:05
+ Sunday 19 April: Sunday at Noon: Callino Quartet & Ailish Tynan, soprano at 12:00

Admission is free to all concerts.

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The next Dublin City & Irish Folklore lecture in the Council Chamber in Dublin City Hall is “One Day for Recreation: Eilis Brady and Frank Harte as chroniclers of Dublin” with Bairbre Ni Fhloinn. Admission is free and no booking required (first come, first served basis).

The painter and printmaker, Margaret Irwin West will discuss her work with Dr Éimear O’Connor, former White Post-Doctoral Fellow, and a Research Associate, TRIARC. The discussion will be chaired by Dr Angela Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department
of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD. The discussion will be preceded by a short film “Mining the Image”, on the process of
etching, featuring Margaret Irwin West, curated and filmed by Éimear O’Connor.

To register for this free event please email Angela Griffith griffiam@tcd.ie

RIAM present this three-day (13-15 April) percussion extravaganza which will feature workshops, masterclasses, an array of pop-up performances and highly-charged collaborative concerts by percussionists from Ireland and the US. The three-day event is a collaboration of transatlantic talents featuring the combined percussion nous of the RIAM Percussion Ensemble and the Jim Royle Drum Studio US, amongst others.

The individual events are:

Monday 13 April
17:30 Cuban Percussion Masterclass with Frailan Moran Mendive
19:00 Concert featuring a screening of Les Invinsibles with live music written by Nigel Westlake

Tuesday 14 April
17:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Jim Royle
19:00 Concert featuring a performance of Ian Wilson’s Apparitions

Wednesday 15 April
15:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Chris Lamb of the New York Philharmonic presented in association with the National Concert Hall
19:00 Concert featuring the world première of Dubinina’s Tongue, a new work for Percussion Quartet by Ailis Ni Riain

Admission is free, but booking is required. All details on the website below.

Milk and Cookie Stories is a storytelling event for for anyone who has a story to tell, or wants to hear a tale told well, in a relaxed, friendly environment.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome and stories of all kinds are welcome. If you would like to tell a story, just come along and sign up on the night, or “if you feel inspired to share your own home-baked goods with Dublin’s friendliest audience, we’ll also be having our awesome Bake-Off.”

This month, inspired by April Fool’s Day, the stories should be of trickery, anecdotes of the ultimate pranks and tales of risk and reward. The theme is “Risk It For A Biscuit”.

There will also be a featured storyteller. Gordon McCormick has a very special talent allowing him to pull off an epic form of storytelling that to others would be risky, but he makes it look effortless. He has the ability to create a story interweaving through the worlds of stories told before his own on the night. So pay close attention to the stories of the night!

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“The Opportunity of Climate-Smart Agriculture” with Forbes Elworthy (Chief Investment Officer of Craigmore Sustainables), who will outline the greenhouse gas emissions challenges posed on dairy and beef farms globally, drawing on his direct experiences of farming and forestry practices in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He will discuss the economic return to farmers from promoting climate-smart agriculture, focusing on afforestation strategies in particular. Craigmore Sustainables is responsible for 40 New Zealand farms in the dairy, sheep-beef, horticultural and forestry sectors.

Forbes Elworthy will be joined by Mike Magan, a dairy farmer from Killashee, Co. Longford, who will discuss the implications of Climate-Smart Agriculture from an Irish perspective and the transformative impact the end of milk quotas could have on rural Ireland.

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

“The Usefulness of the Middle Ages” by Prof. Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University) is a lecture in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture Series. The talk is organised in collaboration with the Department of Music.

Admission is free.

The Workshop “What is Community Safety?” will increase your awareness and knowledge of tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in your community. You don’t have to be part of a Group or organisation to make a difference in the area you live in – come along to the Workshops and find out what you can do to make your area Safer, Stronger and Healthier.

Workshop will be delivered through the South West Clondalkin Community Safety Forum in the Action Enterprise Centre, Bawnogue Road, Clondalkin. Admission is free, but booking is required via richard.costello@sdcpartnership.ie or Tel 0864118813 / 01-4576055.

Xcake, incorporating Xcake:labs, is a regular Dublin-based meetup for all who are interested in mobile app development, with a particular bias towards iOS-based apps. They do talks on development of apps, new technology services and tools, the design considerations for making apps and interactive books and up-to-date opinion pieces on how to win at app development.

Find out all details about this motnhs meeting on the website below. Admission is free, but booking is required.

Pete Holidai, member of The Trouble Pilgrims, songwriter and producer, looks at the development of the Irish music industry in the ’80s and ’90s. This event takes place in connection with the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 8905563

The same event will take place in Balbriggan Library, George’s Square, Balbriggan on 15 Apr at 18:45. Book via 01-8704401

The next History Ireland Hedge School will be a debate entitled “The road to Gallipoli”.

In April 2015 the centenary of the World War I Gallipoli landings of 1915 take place, in which the 10th (Irish) Division participated. The debate will be chaired by History Ireland editor Tommy Graham, and the panel is made up of Myles Dungan (RTÉ), John Horne (TCD), and Lar Joye (NMI).

Admission is free. No booking required.

The album “Caitlín & Ciarán” will be launched by Caitlín Nic Gabhann & Ciarán Ó Maonaigh and guests.

Admission is free.

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

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.

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 and 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

There will be free comedy upstairs in the Wicked Wolf in Blackrock on every second Tuesday. New acts and surprise guests will entertain you and the event is organised by Maxine Jones.

The dates are 14+28 Apr, 12+26 May, 19+23 Jun, 07+21 Jul, 04+18 Aug. Put the dates in your calender as I will probably not be able to include the event every week.

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.

Trinity Week is the yearly celebration of academic and scholarly achievements of staff and students in Trinity College Dublin. Every year it is somewhat unlcear if the MANY free events are only for students and staff or for everybody, but this year I found the statement “The public are invited to participate in this week long programme which will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role light possesses in all its forms and how it affects and enhances life, both now and for the future.” So if “Public” means “Public”, then we are definitely welcome to take part.

The theme this year is “Light” and there are a HUGE amount of events. So many, that I can’t list them all here, but luckily the website is really good and nicely organises the events by day. Trinity Week runs from Monday (13 April) until Friday (17 April). All (or nearly all) events are free, but some require booking, so have a look at the list and enjoy the great programme.

All details can be found here: www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/

There will be a walking tour of the Monuments of the Phoenix Park, featuring the Phoenix Monument, the Papal Cross and the Wellington Monument. Admission is free. Meeting point is at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre.

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.

From Tuesday until Thursday, Intel will run the last “Lab in the Science Gallery” at the current Lifelogging exhibition because the exhibition is coming to a close on Friday 17 April.

Intel will show the work of Anouk Wipprecht, an experimental designer who is pushing the boundaries of wearable technology and showing how personal data can be represented in our clothes, using computer chips embedded in two beautifully designed and 3D printed dresses.

The Lab will feature an interactive exhibit of the Intel Edison powered Spider Smart Dress and the Synapse Smart Dress. Both dresses blend fashion with wearable technology, and are capable of expressing the wearer’s emotions. The Spider dress integrates Intel’s Edison chip and a range of sensors to show on the outside what the wearer is feeling within. It also measures people’s proximity to the wearer and if they are making her feel uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the Synapse dress monitors the EEG brain activity and heart rate of its wearer, and communicates this data via lighting embedded in the dress.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

Celebrating 40 Years of Free Concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council’s city-wide music festival “MusicTown” will bring free lunchtime and afternoon concerts throughout the week to the gallery.

The programme is:
+ Saturday 11 April: Fishamble Sinfonia at 13:05
+ Sunday 12 April: Sunday at Noon with Alexander Hawkins, piano at 12:00 // Hard Rain Ensemble at 15:00
+ Tuesday 14 April: Carron at 13:05
+ Wednesday 15 April: Landless at 13:05
+ Thursday 16 April: The Ivory Lady at 13:05
+ Friday 17 April: Collailm Duo at 13:05
+ Saturday 18 April: Concorde at 13:05
+ Sunday 19 April: Sunday at Noon: Callino Quartet & Ailish Tynan, soprano at 12:00

Admission is free to all concerts.

Enjoy a fun afternoon for families in the Alliance Francaise. The event is specifically for Children (5-10 years old) and their parents. There will be lots of free entertainment: discover the new children’s section in the Alliance Francaise Library, participate in workshops, enjoy a French Goûter (afternoon snack) with a complimentary French pastry & beverage. The children’s show “La Mer & le Rêve” by actor and theatre-maker Miriam Needham will also performed.

Admission to all events is free, however, booking is required for the children’s show. To book send a mail to rsvp@alliance-francaise.ie with the Subject “Family Day”.

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.

A historical lecture will be presented by the Ballsbridge, Donnybrook & Sandymount Historical Society in association with Pembroke Library. The lecture this week is “History of Ballsbridge From My View” with Hugh Oram.

Hugh Oram is a freelance journalist, writer, historian and broadcaster who has contributed to around seventy books, many newspapers and magazines. He has written several local history books including Ballsbridge Then and Now (2012) and The Little Book of Ballsbridge (2014).

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-668 9575

“Midland- Lár Tíre: Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present: Public Interview” is the title of a series of public interviews between the artist Pamela de Brí and the Curator of the National Photographic Archive Elizabeth Kirwan will take place in the National Photographic Archive on Wed 15 Apr (13:00), Fri 24 Apr (14:00) and Fri 08 May (13:00).

Admission is free and no booking required.

The interview will focus on the conception, development and realisation of the Midland Project, which is the culmination of four years research and documentation, gathered when the artist cycled and explored the route of the former Midland Great Western Railway as it made its way across Ireland.

The current NPA exhibition, Midland- Lár Tíre: Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present is a bilingual (Irish and English) multimedia exhibition of photographs, audio clips, maps, video, notebooks and sculpture by artist Pamela De Brí. Midland-Lár Tíre documents the former Midland and Great Western Railway (MGWR) as Pamela found it between 2011 and 2013.

“Mustang Sally Strikes Again – Music from The Commitments” performed by Bob McQuaid of ‘The Voice of Ireland’ fame. This is a Dublin: One City, One Book event.

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

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/or strollers. No booking required.

The Lecture “Conifers in Crisis: the work of the International Conifer Conservation Programme” with Martin Gardner (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) will take place on Wedensday.

Some 200 of 615 conifer species worldwide are known to be threatened with extinction by human activities. Since 1991, the ICCP, based in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has developed a range of initiatives – taxonomic, genetic and horticultural – to conserve the most threatened species.

This week’s Creative 55+ event is a “Life Drawing Workshop” with Sarah Edmondson (artist).

The Creative Art 55+ programme is designed so that everyone aged 55+ can have fun and be creative in the National Gallery. Events are free and no booking (or experience) is necessary.

RIAM present this three-day (13-15 April) percussion extravaganza which will feature workshops, masterclasses, an array of pop-up performances and highly-charged collaborative concerts by percussionists from Ireland and the US. The three-day event is a collaboration of transatlantic talents featuring the combined percussion nous of the RIAM Percussion Ensemble and the Jim Royle Drum Studio US, amongst others.

The individual events are:

Monday 13 April
17:30 Cuban Percussion Masterclass with Frailan Moran Mendive
19:00 Concert featuring a screening of Les Invinsibles with live music written by Nigel Westlake

Tuesday 14 April
17:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Jim Royle
19:00 Concert featuring a performance of Ian Wilson’s Apparitions

Wednesday 15 April
15:30 Steel Drum Masterclass with Chris Lamb of the New York Philharmonic presented in association with the National Concert Hall
19:00 Concert featuring the world première of Dubinina’s Tongue, a new work for Percussion Quartet by Ailis Ni Riain

Admission is free, but booking is required. All details on the website below.

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.

Wearable Wednesdays is an open community forum focused on the blending of technology, art and humanity in the Wearable Technology ecosystem.

The Dublin Wearable Wednesday quarterly brings together Ireland’s leading authorities on Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things, as well as those with in an interest in the solutions available to both consumers and businesses across the following spaces: – Internet of Things – Wrist – Motion Tracking/3D – Connected Devices – Health – Fitness – Retail – Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality – Components / B2B.

At the meeting Prof. Bryan Duggan of DIT will be demonstating the work he has been conducting on Virtual Reality and Dr. Graham Healy of the DCU Insight Centre will talk about the potential of EEG and brainwave measurements in relation to the Internet of Things.

For more details and to register check the website below.

“Out of the Closet, Into the Courts: The Struggle for Marriage Equality in the U.S. and Ireland” is a public lecture by Dr Kris McDaniel-Miccio (University of Denver) during her term as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in collaboration with the School of Law.

This lecture will be on the marriage equality movements in both the USA and in Ireland. Dr McDaniel-Miccio has a rather unique perspective as both scholar and litigant: she and her wife were lead plaintiffs in the law suit that overturned Colorado’s marriage celebration and recognition ban. Her lecture will focus on the legal and political challenges and outcomes in the struggle for equality.

Admission is free.

The next talk in the RDS Library Speaker Series will be “Great Libraries of the World” by Peter Fox (Trinity College Library Dublin).

As the oldest and largest library in Ireland, Trinity College Library has played a major role in the country’s intellectual life for 400 years. In this talk, Peter Fox will examine some familiar aspects of the history of Trinity College Library from a less familiar perspective.

Find out more about the talk at the website below. Admission is free, but booking is required via the same website.

Author Donal Fallon examines the historical context and backdrop to Roddy Doyle’s “A Star Called Henry” and “The Commitments”. This is a Dublin: One City, One Book Festival event.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8905563

How do historians choose the topics that they write about? For personal reasons, or as a response to the debates of their own time? For example, the recent rise of interest in the history of knowledge looks very much like a reaction to discussions of today’s ‘knowledge economy’ or ‘information society’. Again, there is increasing interest in the history of migration, whether forced or voluntary, at a time when unprecedented numbers of people are on the move.

Prof Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge) and Prof Raymond Gillespie (Maynooth University) will discuss this.

Professor Burke’s current research on exiles and expatriates in the history of knowledge therefore follows a common pattern. Among its case-studies are the Protestant exiles of the 16th and 17th centuries (especially after 1685) and the Jewish exiles of the 20th century (especially after 1933 and 1938). The lecture will focus still more sharply on refugee historians such as Jacques Basnage or Pierre Bayle in the 17th century, Hans Baron, Geoffrey Elton, Peter Gay and Eric Hobsbawm in the 20th century.

Admission is free and no booking required.

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The next Comhlamh “First” Wednesday Debate has the topic “The Revolution will not be funded” and behind that theme is an interesting topic:

What have decades of professionalisation meant for the capacity of the not-for-profit sector to effectively challenge the political agenda? Has the pressure of threats to funding led to a shying away from engaging with grassroots activism? What impact does a distancing from the political process have on our ability to effect radical change?

As a membership-based NGO, Comhlámh wants to open a space to discuss these questions, to critically reflect on the role of an NGO in challenging an austerity agenda that’s responsible for the cutbacks facing organisations in the community sector.

An array of speakers from the community and NGO sector will contribute:
+ Brian Harvey (independent social researcher)
+ Hans Zomer (Director of Dóchas, the Irish national platform of Development NGOs)
+ Rita Fagan (grassroots activist)
+ Eilish Dillon (Co-ordinator of Education and Training Programmes at Kimmage DSC) — Moderator

Admission is free and more details about speakers and topic can be found on the Facebook Page below.

“Translating Medieval Literature into Modern English” by Prof. Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University) is another talk in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture Series. The talk is organised in collaboration with the Department of Music. It will take place in the Mhairtin Ui Chadhain Theatre in the Arts Building.

Admission is free.

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 in Kilmainham is on Wednesday and it has a cracking line-up: Barry Murphy (Apres Match), Fred Cooke and Colm McGlinchey will join organiser and MC 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.

Every Wednesday 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 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).

Trinity Week is the yearly celebration of academic and scholarly achievements of staff and students in Trinity College Dublin. Every year it is somewhat unlcear if the MANY free events are only for students and staff or for everybody, but this year I found the statement “The public are invited to participate in this week long programme which will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role light possesses in all its forms and how it affects and enhances life, both now and for the future.” So if “Public” means “Public”, then we are definitely welcome to take part.

The theme this year is “Light” and there are a HUGE amount of events. So many, that I can’t list them all here, but luckily the website is really good and nicely organises the events by day. Trinity Week runs from Monday (13 April) until Friday (17 April). All (or nearly all) events are free, but some require booking, so have a look at the list and enjoy the great programme.

All details can be found here: www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/

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.

Spring Awakening is the first event of Culture Dublin 1. It is a one-day festival (unfortunately in the middle of the week) full of free events

Culture Dublin 1 is a group of arts organisations based in Dublin 1 who want to provide access to the arts through programmes of exhibitions, seminars, lectures and events to make Dublin 1 an attractive and desired destination for Dublin communities and visitors/tourists.

The detailed programme is available on the Facebook Page below or on www.culturedublinone.com/?p=11270 Some of the events require booking and you can find the links to book via the Facebook Page.

Here is an outline of the programme:

10:30 Authenticity Tour Preview – meet at Mountjoy Square West – free, limited number of tickets
13:05 Young Folk – Gig in The Lab, Foley Street. free
15:00 Dublin City Literary Bike Tour – free, limited number of tickets
17:00 Hugh Lane Gallery Children’s workshops and guided tours. Late opening until 20:00
18:00 James Joyce Centre Dublin – Free Joycean walking tours (18:00+19:00) with emphasis on local area. Booking required.
16:30 Two “Novel Writing Workshops” in Irish Writers’ Centre until 18:30, free, but booking required.
17:00 Talk from Architectural Preservation Society and tours of North Great George’s Street, darc Space
17:00 – 19:30 Dublin Writers Museum – Late Opening and performance of Neil O’Shea’s ‘The Writers Entertain’ at 18:00
19:00 Launch of the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair Competition in Irish Writers’ Centre
19:00 Argentinean Tango Fiesta Evening: Open classes from 19:00 with tango display and open dance at 22:00 (The Pillar Room)
20:00 Performance of Val O’Donnell’s ‘Flann’s Yer Only Man’ in Teacher’s Club

Hillsboro Fine Art: Late opening until 20:00 with free hardback Hillsboro publications for all attendees and reduced rates
Belvedere House: Open evening to view the stunning refurbished surroundings of Belvedere House
ArtBox: Late opening until 20:00 of ‘Dead Zoo’
Glasnevin Museum: Free entry (for the museum only) if you quote ‘Spring Awakening’

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.

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.

“Music and technology are getting cosy for this novel musical installation which will allow 12 people at a time to create musical loops by pressing buttons on a system of electronically controlled but mechanically played acoustic instruments. Each electronic sequencer will control one note of a marimba and a chime, the sound they make is up to you! The installation takes its name from the latin word for 12 and was designed and built by Ed Devane only last year. Ed will be on hand for the duration of the installation to show visitors how the system works and get the creative juices flowing.”

Admission is free and no booking required. The event will run from 16-18 April.

From Tuesday until Thursday, Intel will run the last “Lab in the Science Gallery” at the current Lifelogging exhibition because the exhibition is coming to a close on Friday 17 April.

Intel will show the work of Anouk Wipprecht, an experimental designer who is pushing the boundaries of wearable technology and showing how personal data can be represented in our clothes, using computer chips embedded in two beautifully designed and 3D printed dresses.

The Lab will feature an interactive exhibit of the Intel Edison powered Spider Smart Dress and the Synapse Smart Dress. Both dresses blend fashion with wearable technology, and are capable of expressing the wearer’s emotions. The Spider dress integrates Intel’s Edison chip and a range of sensors to show on the outside what the wearer is feeling within. It also measures people’s proximity to the wearer and if they are making her feel uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the Synapse dress monitors the EEG brain activity and heart rate of its wearer, and communicates this data via lighting embedded in the dress.

Admission to the Lab in the Science Gallery is free.

Celebrating 40 Years of Free Concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council’s city-wide music festival “MusicTown” will bring free lunchtime and afternoon concerts throughout the week to the gallery.

The programme is:
+ Saturday 11 April: Fishamble Sinfonia at 13:05
+ Sunday 12 April: Sunday at Noon with Alexander Hawkins, piano at 12:00 // Hard Rain Ensemble at 15:00
+ Tuesday 14 April: Carron at 13:05
+ Wednesday 15 April: Landless at 13:05
+ Thursday 16 April: The Ivory Lady at 13:05
+ Friday 17 April: Collailm Duo at 13:05
+ Saturday 18 April: Concorde at 13:05
+ Sunday 19 April: Sunday at Noon: Callino Quartet & Ailish Tynan, soprano at 12:00

Admission is free to all concerts.

The next topic of the talkseries “In the Psychologists’ Chair” is “Politics in the Brain: dictators, democracy, demonstrations and the struggle for power” by Prof Ian Robertson (Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and founding director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience). A very very interesting topic not only to analyse behaviour of politicians but also of protesters!

He explains his lecture like this:
The philosopher, mathematician and peace activist Lord Bertram Russell said that power was the essential substance of human relationships in the way that energy is the fundamental entity in physics. He believed that power is man’s (and woman’s) ultimate goal. In this lecture I will show that power is one of the most potent brain-changing agents known to humanity and how political life is essentially a struggle to gain power, and then to find ways of protecting people from its effects on the brains of people who hold it. I will discuss how in-group feeling can empower individuals, but that a common consequence of strong in-group feelings is that they tend to dehumanise the out-group: this is one of the mechanisms by which people in groups may behave in ways in which they would not behave on their own. In this lecture I will explain the neuropsychology of power and attempt to understand different types of political behaviour in terms of the underlying brain processes.

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

To celebrate this year’s One City One Book choice “The Barrytown Trilogy” by Roddy Doyle, Garrett Fagan will introduce the book in the Library Building at 2/3 Kildare Street. This will be followed by a curated viewing of a selection of Roddy Doyle manuscripts. Following the viewing, there will be an opportunity for further discussion.

Admission is free, but booking is essential as numbers are limited: Book via roddydoyle-april16@mail.com

If you can’t make it on Thursday, the event will be repeated on Friday 17 April from 13:00-14:00. To book e-mail roddydoyle-april17@mail.com

The Barrytown Trilogy, brings Roddy Doyle’s three novels featuring the Rabbitte family together in one volume:
+ The Commitments (1987) charts the rise (and even more rapid fall) of Jimmy Rabbitte’s soul band and their bid for stardom in 1980s Dublin.
+ The Snapper (1990) centres on the speculation around Sharon Rabbitte’s pregnancy and
+ The Van (1991) follows Jimmy Rabbitte Senior and his pal Bimbo as they attempt to cash in on Ireland’s legendary adventures at the 1990 World Cup.

Tenor Ryan Morgan and Baritone Conleth Stanley, are performing a lunchtime recital in the Peppercanister Church. They will perform works from Vaughan Wiliams. Admission is free.

The lunchtime lecture “Meiji Japan (1868-1912) – from Hearn’s ‘Fairyland’ to Major Power: Forty-Four Years of Transformation” with Dr Declan M. Downey (RAH, School of History & Archives, University College Dublin / Trustee, Chester Beatty Library) will take place.

Admission is free and no booking required.

The next film in Pearse Street Library’s CineCafé Spanish Film Club (in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes) is “Diamantes negros / Black Diamonds”, a drama based on the real situation faced by many young Africans who are brought to Europe to be turned into football stars. The film will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.

Admission is free.

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

Admission is free.

The DCU LGBTA community are hosting a Panel Discussion on Marriage Equality with the follwoing panelists:
+ John Lyons, TD – Labour Party
+ Laura Harmon – President USI
+ Steve Conlon – YesEquality Dublin NorthWest
+ Grainne Healy – YesEquality

Admission is free and the event will take place in CG86 in the Henry Grattan Building.

Working in the world of marketing is an enticing career prospect. But it’s a challenging jobs market out there, so if you’re an aspiring marketing professional, how can you stand out from the crowd?

The event is for marketing, communications, PR, sales and advertising professionals and will provide you with an insider view of the industry, along with tips and advice about how to get to the top.

Speakers at the event are:
* Dena Walker, Head of Advertising, Irish International
* Ian McShane, Managing Director, Behaviour & Attitudes
* David Field, Marketing Director, Brown Thomas
* Rory Brennan, Marketing Career Recruitment (MCR)
* Pat Mannion, Commercial Director, JCDecaux
* Robert Ward, Marketing Director, National College of Ireland

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

A Piano Jazz session on a 150 year old ‘Cottage Grand Piano’ built in London will take place and James Mullen (piano/vocals) will perform on Thursday. The Jazz Supper Club is in Clery’y in Doran’s at the Tea Rooms on the 1st floor.

Admission is free.

“The Writers Entertain” is a one-man show about Irish writers performed by Neil O’Shea. Writers that are featured are Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, WB Yeats, James Joyce and more.

Admission is free.

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale which starts so early (06:00!!) that you need to be an insomniac or a super early bird, there is now a Thursday evening Car Boot Sale in the same location. It starts at 18:30 and runs until 22:00. Late night car boot shopping. :-) Admission for buyers is free.

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.

They will take place on Thursdays from 18:30-20:00 between 02 April and 07 May.

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:

02 April: An Introduction to Self Employment
09 April: Ideas Generation & Market Research
16 April: Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship
23 April: Digital Marketing Strategy
30 April: Financing your Business
07 April: Writing the WINNING Business Plan

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

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

A weekly live music gig of the genres Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul will take place in Arthur’s Pub with weekly changing performers:

+ 1st Thursday: Ben Prevo
+ 2nd Thursday: Declan Kennedy
+ 3rd Thursday: Dermot Byrne
+ 4th Thursday: Mick Pyro

Admission is free.

Karl Whitney, author of “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin”, highlights the easily overlooked marginal zones and dark corners of Dublin.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

The Novel Fair is an Irish Writers Centre initiative to introduce up-and-coming writers to top publishers and literary agents, giving novelists the opportunity to pitch their ideas and place their synopsis and sample chapters directly into the hands of publishers and agents.

This event marks the beginning of the Novel Fair 2016 submissions period which will remain open for six months, with the Fair itself taking place in February 2016.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

Every Thursday, the Xchange invites to a Language Exchange (19:00-20:30), followed by live music (21:00-23:30) by up and coming local and international artists.

Admission is free before 20:00 and free finger food is provided.

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.

British Bluegrass band “Jaywalkers” are for a free gig in the Harbour Bar.

A Gig Night ro raise funds for the Marraige Equality campaign takes place on Thursday. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. The line-up is:

Christian Collins
Bonnie Ann Clyde
Dia Buit
Enda Danite
Temper-Mental MissElayneous
More TBA

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.

The Lecture “Trinidad: A Look at New-World Tropical Birding” with Frank Turpin is organised by the Tolka Branch of BirdWatch Ireland. Admission is free.

The Dive Bar Open Mic Night is a weekly Open Mic night where no performers are prearranged. Just arrive between 20:30 and 21:00 and ask for Conor or Alan to get your name down. The first performance is at 21:00.

Singer songwriters, poets, instrumentalists and comedy and sometimes even bands are invited to perform. All levels of experience welcome.

Admission is free.

The launch / first live performance of the new album “Corazon – An Instrumental Jazz Album of Eleanor McEvoy Tunes” will take place in the Leeson Lounge.

The album features Ciaran Wilde sax & clarinet, Dave Fleming dbass, Myles Drennan piano and Tom Dunne on drums.

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.

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

Trinity Week is the yearly celebration of academic and scholarly achievements of staff and students in Trinity College Dublin. Every year it is somewhat unlcear if the MANY free events are only for students and staff or for everybody, but this year I found the statement “The public are invited to participate in this week long programme which will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role light possesses in all its forms and how it affects and enhances life, both now and for the future.” So if “Public” means “Public”, then we are definitely welcome to take part.

The theme this year is “Light” and there are a HUGE amount of events. So many, that I can’t list them all here, but luckily the website is really good and nicely organises the events by day. Trinity Week runs from Monday (13 April) until Friday (17 April). All (or nearly all) events are free, but some require booking, so have a look at the list and enjoy the great programme.

All details can be found here: www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/

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.

At the IMMA Modern Master Series Symposium “Gerda Frömel – Reconstructing an Artist’s Career”, join a range of scholars, writers and enthusiasts on Gerda Frömel’s work who will critically assess key developments of the artists’ short yet prolific career. Speakers will consider what Frömel’s story can teach us about the broader history, record and practice of sculpture in Ireland.

Chaired by Paula Murphy (Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, UCD), papers and contributions will be presented by Riann Coulter (F.E Mac William Gallery, Banbridge), Jason Ellis (Sculptor and Conservator), Sean Kissane (Curator, IMMA), Sarah Kelleher (Lecturer, UCC), Livia Hurley (Lecturer and Director/co-founder of Graph Architects), Killian Schurmann (Gerda Frömel Estate) and others.

Admission is free, but booking required via the website below. Tea/Coffee will be provided.

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.

“Music and technology are getting cosy for this novel musical installation which will allow 12 people at a time to create musical loops by pressing buttons on a system of electronically controlled but mechanically played acoustic instruments. Each electronic sequencer will control one note of a marimba and a chime, the sound they make is up to you! The installation takes its name from the latin word for 12 and was designed and built by Ed Devane only last year. Ed will be on hand for the duration of the installation to show visitors how the system works and get the creative juices flowing.”

Admission is free and no booking required. The event will run from 16-18 April.

Celebrating 40 Years of Free Concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council’s city-wide music festival “MusicTown” will bring free lunchtime and afternoon concerts throughout the week to the gallery.

The programme is:
+ Saturday 11 April: Fishamble Sinfonia at 13:05
+ Sunday 12 April: Sunday at Noon with Alexander Hawkins, piano at 12:00 // Hard Rain Ensemble at 15:00
+ Tuesday 14 April: Carron at 13:05
+ Wednesday 15 April: Landless at 13:05
+ Thursday 16 April: The Ivory Lady at 13:05
+ Friday 17 April: Collailm Duo at 13:05
+ Saturday 18 April: Concorde at 13:05
+ Sunday 19 April: Sunday at Noon: Callino Quartet & Ailish Tynan, soprano at 12:00

Admission is free to all concerts.

To celebrate this year’s One City One Book choice “The Barrytown Trilogy” by Roddy Doyle, Garrett Fagan will introduce the book in the Library Building at 2/3 Kildare Street. This will be followed by a curated viewing of a selection of Roddy Doyle manuscripts. Following the viewing, there will be an opportunity for further discussion.

This is a repeat of the same event on Thursday: To book, e-mail roddydoyle-april17@mail.com

The Barrytown Trilogy, brings Roddy Doyle’s three novels featuring the Rabbitte family together in one volume:
+ The Commitments (1987) charts the rise (and even more rapid fall) of Jimmy Rabbitte’s soul band and their bid for stardom in 1980s Dublin.
+ The Snapper (1990) centres on the speculation around Sharon Rabbitte’s pregnancy and
+ The Van (1991) follows Jimmy Rabbitte Senior and his pal Bimbo as they attempt to cash in on Ireland’s legendary adventures at the 1990 World Cup.

A lunchtime recital with Encanto (Annalisa Monticelli and Siobhra Quinlan) will take place. Admission is free.

The Tiny Tot Workshops are for children from walking age to 3 years and their grown-ups. And they will have fun exploring colours, shapes and sounds with storytelling and art. The next workshop is “Little Stars” with Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire.

Admission is free, but booking is required via education@ngi.ie and bookings open on 13 Apr.

This event is a discussion about Music, Audiences and Spaces within our capital, hosted by Jim Carroll with contributions from key influencer, makers and shakers within the Irish music scene. More details about the event, the three (!) panels and how to book your place is on the website below. Admission is free. This is a MusicTown event.

A grassroots gathering is intended to bring together people involved in different community campaigns and social movements to learn from each other’s experiences, talk about what works and what doesn’t, develop networks and make alliances. The Grassroots Gathering is running from 17-19 April and will feature talks, workshops and networking.

Admission is free, but booking is required. Check the Facebook Event Page below for all details.

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 weekly European Folk Dance Workshop/Session takes place in the Tap Bar every Friday.

The dances are French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese folk and traditional dances and everybody interested to join in or to learn is welcome. Admission is free, but donations (suggested: EUR 3) are very welcome

The Ben Prevo Band will bring you a night of Blues in all variations. Vocal and instrumental, Covers and Original.

Admission is free,

A weekly Gig Night in Sin É, organised and presented by Super Happy Fun Times takes place every Friday and admission is free. The line-up can be found on the Facebook Page below.

The line-up is Radio Room and Broom Child.

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.

Peter Moore & The Raindogs are playing Jazz, Blues and Soul in Arthur’s Pub. They are a top notch formation with many years of experience and are very well respected.

Admission is 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.

Dick Farrelly will perform. What type of music you ask? Unfortunately I don’t know EVEN after reading everything in this gig listing here.