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Issue 2 // June 2011
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What are your expectations/plans for Dublin? Clockwise from top: “Visit friends and explore the city and country” - Mingo, USA
56 Upper Leeson St. Dublin 4 (01) 687 0695 Publisher Stefan Hallenius stefan@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695 087 327 1732
“To meet new people” - Josie Rodriguez, USA
Editor Peter Steen-Christensen peter@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695
“To take part in St. Andrew’s International Model United Nations and have some fun” - Jake Blackburn, USA
Art Director Lauren Kavanagh lauren@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695 Advertising Stefan Hallenius stefan@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695 087 327 1732 Distribution Kamil Zok kamil@hkm.ie
Interviews and pictures Ian Pearce
Contributors Aoife Carrigy Conor Creighton Daniel Gray Zoe Jellicoe Ian Lamont Fuchsia Macaree Karl McDonald Aoife McElwain Oisín Murphy Ian Pearce Steve Ryan Cover Image: Ian Pearce
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Wax Museum 2 Foster Place On a leafy cul de sac in the dead center of town, Dublin’s wandering Wax Museum finally found its new home a few years ago. Over four stories of a beautiful Georgian building on Foster Place, visitors can take a stroll through scenes from Irish heritage, discover our scientific history or simply ogle some never aging celebs. A healthy mixture of cool and kitsch ensures that the Wax Museum will keep both the young and not so young entertained of an afternoon.
National Museum (Collins Barracks)
IMMA
Benburb Street, Dublin 7
Kilmainham’s Royal Hospital has been the home of Irish modern art since 1991, but it stands as the country’s most spectacular 17th century building. Indebted Paris Les Invalides, IMMA’s sprawling grounds and super-maintained cloisters and courtyard are as fascinating as the art contained within.
Collins Barracks is home to the Decorative Arts & History leg of the National Museum. Featuring a wide range of objects, which include weaponry, furniture, silver, ceramics and glassware as well as examples of Folklife and costume in one of Dublin’s most historically important buildings, Collins Barracks is an essential spot for any visit to the city.
Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
6 Glendalough Almost unparalleled by any other countryside in Ireland, Glendalough stands apart, with it’s uniquely impressive landscape and ruins, and great variety of flora and fauna. The valley is home to a ruined Monastic city in which an immense round tower stands, 30 metres high (originally constructed to hide from Vikings). The valley was carved out by glaciers, and is also home to Glendalough’s gigantic scary lakes. Depending on if you’re in the mood for a relaxed amble or a longer trek there are nine different walking trails varying in intensity.
Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, 2 Palace Street Nestled in the grounds of Dublin Castle, the Chester Beatty Library is a stunning museum and library, featuring a mindblowing collection of texts and artifacts from religions and cultures around the world. The museum is a cornerstone of cultural Dublin, and one of the finest museums in Europe.
The Old Jameson Distillery Bow Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7
The Old Jameson Distillery is the fount of the real ‘water of life’ in Dublin. An important and fascinating landmark in the history of the city, the old Distillery will also give you a chance to put your taste buds to the test and prove you know your whiskey from your scotch. Offering guided tours daily with a choice of bars to sample a Jemmie, lunch is also served from the mezzanine restaurant.
GAA Museum
Croke Park, Jones Rd., Dublin 3 The GAA Museum at Croke Park houses trophies, cups and medals won by sporting stars Christy Ring, Sam Maguire, Jimmy Doyle, Jack Lynch and Liam MacCarthy to name but a few. Hurleys, jerseys, publications and banners also document the history of the GAA and its unique role as an instrument of Irish nationalist fervour.
8 Words // Aoife Carrigy Any Dubliner can tell you that you won’t get a better pint of Guinness in any other city. And any Guinness drinker can reel off their top ten pubs in which to drink it. (Ours? See the panel below for the crème de la creamy goodness.) No other drink comes under such regular scrutiny from it’s quality control panel, made up of the producers at the brewery, the bar staff who pour hundreds of pints of it every night, and the discerning Guinness drinkers who will pronounce judgment on each and every pint that passes their lips. So, if you want to swill it like a local, you’ll need to know how to recognise a good pint. Fergal Murray is the master brewer at Guinness and the Global Ambassador for the black stuff (or “the black nectar” as he likes to call it). We asked him what the perfect pint of Guinness tastes like. “In terms of the taste of the perfect pint, there are two elements: there’s the sensation, and there’s the flavour. The nitrogenated sensation is crucial in Guinness to give the pint a slight effervescence as well as to achieve the right kind of head. The flavour is achieved through the balance of languid hops at the back of the throat, sweet malt at the front of the tongue and roasted barley along the side of the tongue. So the taste of the perfect pint of Guinness? A combination of sweetness and roasted flavours and those lovely refreshing flavours and sensations.” But the drinking is only the half of it. “We drink with our eyes. And no other drink requires the same visual impact as the perfect pint of Guinness. Part of the allure is witnessing the two-part pour, watching the pint surge and settle.” Having a bartender “who doesn’t disappoint” is crucial too, and “thankfully the bar service in Dublin is truly exceptional”. But perhaps most important is to enjoy your pint in the perfect environment. “This should involve an iconic bar, good people around you, a place that you’re comfortable and feel happy in. Adorers of Guinness have it in their DNA to instinctively seek out these kinds of places to drink Guinness.” Mulligans of Poolbeg Street is one such iconic bar. Gary Cusack runs Mulligans with his brother Ger, having taken over the business from their father Tommy who ran the pub with his brother Con for over 50 years. They’ve poured a few pints in their time. On a busy Friday night, the eight Guinness taps in Mulligans might dispense up to 700 pints of Guinness – each one of them as perfect as the next. Gary reckons that “Guinness have put so much into getting the pint right” so that “you should not get a bad pint in Dublin. It should be smooth and creamy when it goes down and taste like you want another swallow.” So, in a nutshell, what does the perfect pint taste like? Like another pint of plain, please.
THE PERFECT
Pouring the perfect pint There is a perception that Guinness doesn’t travel well, but master brewer Fergal Murray claims this is a myth: “Guinness travels fantastically well” so long as the bar follows these six steps to pouring the perfect pint. 1. The right glassware. You need a clean, well-presented 20 ounce pint glass. 2. The positioning. The glass should be snug under the tap at a 45º angle, with the spout aimed at the back of the harp logo. 3. The pour. The glass should be kept at this 45º angle until the liquid reaches the bottom of the harp logo, at which point you should slowly straighten up, aiming to stop pouring at the top of the harp logo. 4. The cascade. The pint needs to surge and then settle; this step is important for building the strength of the head, which should ideally hold its shape all the way down through the drinking of the pint. 5. The top up. Once the first pour has settled, the pint is topped up. A good head will be 15–18mm in height from the black stuff to the rim of the glass (or the distance from the bottom to top of the harp logo), but crucially it will have a dome of another 3mm beyond the rim of the glass. 6. The presentation. The barman should present the perfect pint with pride (and a steady hand!). If each barman completes each of these steps each time they pull a pint of Guinness, they can achieve and retain the long-term recognition any self-respecting Guinness serving Irish bar could hope for.
Where to order the perfect pint 1. Mulligans, Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2 2. The Long Hall, South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2 3. The Stag’s Head, Dame Lane, Dublin 2 4. The Gravediggers (Sean Kavanagh’s), Prospect Square, Dublin 9 5. Peter’s Pub, South William Street, Dublin 2 6. Grogan’s, South William Street, Dublin 2 7. Fallons, The Coombe, Dublin 8 8. Toner’s, Baggot Street, Dublin 2 9. O’Donoghue’s, Merrion Row, Dublin 2 10. The Palace Bar, Fleet Street, Dublin 2
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& Shane MacGowan has beautiful blue eyes. They’re as clear as seawater and bright like a child’s. They stare back at you from within deep sockets and mesmerize. For Shane MacGowan is a legend in all poetic, charismatic and chaotic senses, and it’s not every day that you find yourself in the home of a legend. For all the reviews, the camera phone images and the two-minute clips on YouTube that point to the contrary, he’s looking pretty good. On Christmas Day he turns fifty and for a fifty-year old who’s spent most of his life touring around the world in bands and doing every drug known to man and beast, Shane MacGowan looks great. Rested, rejuvenated, fresh and smiling. Shane MacGowan could do adverts for Lancome. He’s renting a semi-d in Donnybrook. It’s a nice spot with a long kitchen, hardwood floors and two flatscreen TVs. There’s a post-it on the fridge door saying ‘remind Shane to call dentist’. Shane looks like he’s off to a rockabilly festival or a Blockheads reunion. He’s wearing blue turn-up jeans, a cowboy shirt with red rose motifs and around his neck a madcap collection of jewellery that includes feathers, lockets and bright, white Rosary beads. His hair is greased back into a duck-tail. He slips into a huge leather coat and a mad hatter’s cap and we’re off. “Have you got a car?” he asks. We’re going to Madigan’s, about a hundred yards from where he’s staying. This is Shane’s sense of humour. Like the way he asks for a lot more drink than he actually consumes. So after an hour into an interview, while the journalists are getting drunk, Shane has barely touched the large
gin and tonics and pint of cider in front of him and is stone cold sober. Initially he’s a briar. Diffident and irritable. You’d have thought we were intruding on his Sunday afternoon if it weren’t for the fact that he’s shaved and got dressed up just for us. But still, interviewing him is like trying to make up with your girlfriend after you made a comment about her best friend’s ass, and so you persevere. There were the Pogues, and then the Popes and now it’s the Pogues again, but through it all Shane MacGowan has been the big draw. Even when the Pogues toured the States with Joe Strummer on vocals, there was still a big gaping hole where Shane once stood. He’s one of the few musical personas with the ability to unite three generations of fans. And those fans fall into one of two camps: those who see him as the natural heir to James Charles Mangan and Brendan Behan, and the rest who go to see him perform in the hope of witnessing a car crash. Shane scratches at the stains on the table, pulverises beer mats, runs his long nails round the rim of the glass and eventually mellows and starts talking. He talks about people he’s met. Van Morrison: “When he’s good he’s very good, and when he’s bad he’s horrid”, Sid Vicious: “He was a good friend of mine. He didn’t kill her either, you know? It was set up.” Mickey Joe Harte: “He’s a hell of a lot better than David Gray or Justin what’s his name, ‘Your beautiful, your beautiful’ Blunt.” and Damien Dempsey, “He’s fucking great but he’s too fucking real for people.” He talks about literature. The Beats: “Neal Cassidy was the real thing.
A Sunday afternoon with Shane Patrick MacGowan Words // Conor Creighton Picture // Steve Ryan
Kerouac was just a mammy’s boy.” William Burroughs: “You know why he lived so long? He chose the right drug, morphine.” Charles Bukowski: “He was white trash who couldn’t decide whether to fuck or drink.” And he talks about history, a subject that he can speak about for hours. Michael Collins, DeValera, O’ Higgins, Kashmir, the Middle East, Hugo Chavez – somehow the English always crop up. “We haven’t got the stigma of the Brits, which they deserve for going round everywhere and being cunts.” Even when the conversation turns to producing bands he can’t resist a dig. “A good producer is someone who translates what the band wants to the engineer. Someone like Rick Rubin, that’s a producer or Louis Walsh. Whatever you think of him, it’s not his
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fault there’s a boy band craze but the Irish boy and girl bands were miles better than the English.” Shane grew up near Nenagh in an open house. When the bars were closed people went there to drink, play cards and music. It was also a safe house where IRA men, on the run from the North took cover. Nenagh is a dump. You don’t believe me? Then believe the NRA who had the good sense to construct not one, but three by-passes round the place. “It’s some of the worst farmland in the country,” he says. He remembers climbing into the chasm behind the hearth to get warm in the old family farmhouse. In Shane’s place in Donnybrook, the heating’s at max but he still sleeps with a hat on his head and wakes up at five from the cold. The stories in his songs often have their roots in rainy, cold settings. Somehow you can’t imagine Shane anywhere warm, but then he tells you he’s been going to Thailand for the last twenty years. Him and his girlfriend, Victoria Mary Clarke. “If you go you have to do this retreat in a Buddhist monastery for two-weeks. But it has to be two-weeks,” he says. It’s hard to picture Shane on a beach in summer wear, let alone, cross-legged at the foot of a fat Buddha statue, lost in meditative contemplation. But there’s stage Shane and then there’s regular Shane, the guy who lies across his girlfriend’s lap while she pets his hair and the guy who offers to pay for our taxi home. “You’re not going to walk home are you? Healthy bastards, well that’s encouraging to hear.” And at the end of the interview he offers me his hat. “Take it if you like it, I know where to get ‘em. I’ve had about five at this stage. People are always taking them like this one kid who robbed me when I was at Croke Park last. I chased after the cunt but lost him in the crowd.” Shane MacGowan belongs to an Ireland that most of us would rather forget. The Ireland where grandmothers made petrol bombs, “Milk bottles were better than whisky bottles because the glass was thicker… they used jam rags, as they say down here, as a stopper and a mix of pink paraffin and blue paraffin,” where runaway gunmen were received as heroes in places like Dundalk, Kerry and Nenagh and where the IRA had more meaningful struggles than beating to death 21-year olds in hay barns in Monaghan. Shane MacGowan belongs to an Ireland where you can still smoke in bars. When he goes outside for his first cigarette, he instantly attracts fans looking for autographs. “You’re a gentleman,” they say. Shane MacGowan has black dirt under his nails and his shirt is wrinkled and stained but yes, in all but the most cosmetic of senses, he’s an absolute gent. A guard car zips past. They’ve pulled over
some kid smoking a joint. It’s nothing. The joint is in the gutter before they’ve managed to pull into the footpath. And then they see Shane, and unintentionally of course, Shane saves the kid from getting shit as they circle back and drive towards him. Presumably looking for an autograph. Shane nips back inside before they get the chance. My favourite Shane MacGowan song is ‘A Pair of Brown Eyes’. He says it’s a great leg-over song but that’s as much as he’ll say about his music. He offers to write something for the magazine, something about Rody Boland the IRA man from Nenagh or maybe a travel piece on the good things in Ko Phangan. “Think of your Irish mushrooms times a thousand. You get up to have a slash and suddenly you realise you can’t make it, and this is before you even go to the fucking rave and it’s every fucking night.” Bernadette Devlin, Laurence of Arabia, Wolfe Tone and Ian Paisley: “A showman; a big man with an empty head,” talking to Shane MacGowan is like a history lesson – a manic lesson in Republicanism and socialism and the evils perpetrated by the Brits, punctuated by curses and laughter that discharges from his mouth like air releasing from a tyre. Shane does an impression of Jim Morrison on stage. He adopts a West Coast drawl and lets his arms jiggle free at the shoulders like a preacher caught up in a frenzy: “Hey you there what’s your name? What age are you. What school do you go to? Okay now we know each other a little better why don’t you get up here so we can get dooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooown!”
Unchained Melody comes on the bar’s sound system. Shane sings along to ‘I need your love.’ He gets us to sing along too. So at five ‘o clock in the afternoon the three of us are in a practically empty bar in Donnybrook serenading the bemused Eastern European bartenders who have no idea who Shane MacGowan is, and could probably never fathom our nation’s affection for this guy who can’t reach the Righteous Brother’s high notes. We leave and Shane invites us back to his. He gives us marinated artichokes and beer and we have a smoke while someone in the house plays The Holohan Sisters and the Dubliners from a laptop. Shane isn’t listening to the music he’s too busy trying to explain how James Joyce taught the rest of the world how to use the English language. People around Shane tend to magnify their Irishness, similar in the way that even non-practising Catholics monitor their language and adopt a tone of reverence when around priests or nuns. Shane MacGowan says he’s a little boy inside. It’s true, mischief is written all over him from the way he piss-takes with Victoria and rips the shit out of his entourage and plays up for the camera, and the dictophone. But he’s also got the mind of a brilliant man. He says he’s not writing anything at the moment but the conversation ends with a criticism of contemporary Irish literature. “It’s all agony and the ecstacy,” he says, “I just want the ecstacy.” I ask him would he write a novel himself and he looks away, and for the first time all day he’s left speechless albeit for just a few beats. I’m hoping that silence means yes.
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Neary’s
1 Chatham Street, Dublin 2 There’s a reason that Neary’s has remained so consistent over the last few decades – the formula works. Housed in an elegant slice of Edwardian Dublin with its old-world interior still in pride of place, the early evening buzz in Neary’s is a rare sight to behold. With a crowd ranging from theatregoers to thespians from the nearby Gaeity to local suits and Grafton shoppers, Dave and his team of old-school barmen will take care of all your needs.
Mulligans
8 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2
The International
Originally a shebeen, Mulligan’s has been legit since 1782, making it one of the oldest premises in Dublin city. A magnet for both tourists and natives, traditional pub and sometime Bachelor’s Walk set Mulligans is as renowned as watering holes in town come. Mulligans perfects the basics and in the grand Irish tradition avoids ‘yer fancy stuff’. It’s nonetheless a welcoming refuge for all patrons with an unbeatable back story.
Pygmalion Powerscourt Townhouse, South William St, Dublin 2 Unfolding through the belly of the old Powerscourt Townhouse, Pygmalion is a kind of catch-all venue. By day you can chomp on one of the delicious in-house pies or loll on the pavement seating on a sunny afternoon. By night, armed with dancefloors up and downstairs, the venerable building is transformed into one of the cities most thriving and throbbing clubs, patrons will sweat it out to DJs or take a short break to guzzle a cocktail.
23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2
Famed for both its earnest singer-songwriter nights, as a great place for a close-quarters guffaw with local comedic talent and even as a small theatre venue, the International has always been a bit of an off-beat, if not quite bohemian place. It has served many patrons in its many guises but has always maintained its understated, proper pub vibe. No fancy makeovers here, just an endless stream of stories and laughs to behold.
The Duke
8-9 Duke Street, Dublin 2 A classic post-office haunt if ever there was one, barely hidden just between Grafton Street and Nassau Street, the Duke is one of the best places in Dublin to indulge yourself with that well-earned pint of a Friday (or indeed any) evening. Combining a prime location with all the fundamentals - plenty of comfy seats, wholesome carvery grub and honest pints - let The Duke be the recipient of your blown-off steam.
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McDaids
3 Harry Street, Dublin 2
The Lost Society
McDaids is, if we’re honest, the kind of place where you’d call yourself lucky if you’ve nabbed a seat early in the night. It’s a very cosy, shoulder-toshoulder affair where an unbeatable Guinness is only a quick shuffle away and commenting on overheard banter is de rigeur. The perfect place for whiling a night away righting the world’s wrongs with a few close friends or a quiet pint in Brendan Behan’s memory.
Powerscourt Townhouse, South William St., D2 Lost Society is situated in one of the finest 18th century town mansions in the heart of Dublin City, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. This bar encapsulates the original grandeur of the bygone Georgian er with a modern twist while honouring the heritage of the building. Lost Society is best known for its cocktails - you can even learn to make your own with the bar’s experts mixologists with midweek lessons.
Workman’s Club 10 Wellington Quay, D2
A fairly new nightspot that opened last fall, the Workman’s Club attracts a typical inner-city late-bar clientele in their mid to late-20s. A music venue by design, first and foremost, with a larger main bar downstairs and a smaller area upstairs that both come with no pretensions.
The South William 52 South William St Established in the boom times on one of Dublins trendiest streets, the South William quickly established itself as a firm favourite with locals. In more trying times, The South William’s staying power is testament to the fact that folks just keep coming back. Early in the evening you can lounge and sip on cocktails or pints to your hearts content while later on a riotous soundtrack of funk, soul and afrobeat from a selection of regular DJs gets the punters’ off their backsides.
The Temple Bar Pub 47-48 Temple Bar, Dublin 2
The pub named after and set deep in the heart of Dublin’s most celebrated district is a permanently popular haunt with locals and tourists alike. Convulsing constantly with the sound of chatter, craic and 7-days-a-week music sessions, The Temple Bar also boasts a sun-trap beer garden for revellers to enjoy some fresh air and a celebrated whiskey collection (Ireland’s largest, ahem.) A handy suggestion – treat yourself to the oysters, washed down with a Guinness: top notch!
The Schoolhouse Bar 2-8 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4
It can feel like crossing over the canal brings you to some countryside lodge when you step into the sliver of bucolic bliss in the city that is The Schoolhouse. If lounging on a leather sofa by a fireplace in the lodge furniture surroundings under the high ceilings is your cup of tea, than this is the place for you. Also home a French cuisine restaurant (Olivier’s) and hotel.
Camden Palace
J. McNeill’s
Based in the old Theatre De Luxe from which it takes its name, the Palace lives in the original lavish theatre auditorium of the old Dublin institution. After dark, the Palace is one of the most packed-out clubs in Dublin – if you want to spend a little more quiet time, arrive early and bag yourself a pool table.
In a former life, McNeill’s plied its trade as a one of Dublin’s most famed musical instrument shops, and a window full of banjos, bazoukis and bodhráns still belies that image to the world outside on Capel Street. Inside however, the place has been reborn as the home of some of Dublin most highly-regarded trad sessions with music on a nightly basis, as well as a daycent pint of plain to go with it, as you’d rightly expect.
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Elastic Fantastic The Famous Rubberband Boy Shay Horay recently beat his own Guinness World Record of getting 71 rubber bands around his head in under a minute, and now has it up to 78, justifiably earning his title as “The Famous Rubberband Boy”. His other acts include escaping from a straightjacket whilst bouncing on a pogo, and propelling himself across stage, with the help of the audience and a lot of rubber. Many of Shay’s ideas for props and performance spring from a love of rubber. He got the idea for his act when his friend was pinging rubber bands at him by the pool – Shay began playing with them, and his friend remarked that he’d probably end up doing it as a job. At the time Shay was working as a comedian, with props incorporated – that was always the general feel. He also did indoor bingo shows, where he would perform with props whilst calling out numbers. Contrary to the speed required to break
his world record, Shay prefers his own shows to be like an exhibition. When he manipulates his face into startling new contortions, Shay observes “the gaps between the rubber bands, the negative versus the positive, is where the image is created”. He made an early choice not to juggle – “an act without juggling would be a breath of fresh air… to maintain those kinds of skills, they must almost have to juggle in their sleep”. Building his own equipment is important to Shay – above all, he wants his shows to be unique. “With street performing, you do find the same kind of routines come up. Then there’s the problem of having what you thought was an original idea, then realising someone around the other side of the world had the same one. There’s not really anything you can do about that, but if you build all your own equipment, then not only can you can fix it yourself, but it’s also unlikely that, if you turn up at a festival,
anyone will have the same kind of idea as you”. Originality is clearly the main driving force – Shay strives to put himself within the minority. Shay’s hometown, Christchurch, hosts the World Buskers Festival, and it was always his dream to perform there. This may be why he rates it as one of the top festivals – there’s a lasting potency in a dream becoming reality. Shay mentions some factors needed for a remarkable festival, the most important being the crowd. He cites Finland as one of his most exciting crowd experiences – mainly because of the language barrier. Communication had to be done on a new level, creating a relationship he had never have experienced with an audience who spoke the same language. It’s that mutual communication, the play created between performer and crowd, which is the key element for Shay. Probing further, he says that he had the impression that the Finnish weren’t as familiar with street performance, and so he felt incredibly honoured to have been the one to introduce them to it. Honoured, and quite sorry for them too, he sheepishly adds. “They were kind of being thrown in at the deep end, dropped into such an absurd part of street performance as their introduction. From that point things could only get easier for them”. The Famous Rubberband Boy performs at this year’s World Street Performance Championships, which takes over Merrion Square between the 16th and 19th of June.
Words Zoe Jellicoe
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Bang Cafe 11 Merrion Row, D2 Bloom Brasserie 11 Upper Baggot Street, D4 Coppinger Row Off South William St, D2 DAX 23 Pembroke Street Upper, D2 Eddie Rocket’s City Diner Citywide Eden Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, D2 Havana Tapas Bar South Great Georges Street, D2 Le Cafe Des Irlandais 12-13 South Great Georges Street, D2 Leo Burdocks 2 Werburgh St, Christchurch, D8 Pablo Picante 131 Baggot St, D2 and 4 Clarendon Market D1 Pacino’s 18 Suffolk St., D2 Salamanca 1 St Andrew st, D2
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4 Dame Lane Dame Lane, D2 Alchemy 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Anseo Camden St., D2 The Bankers Trinity St., D2 The Bernard Shaw 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Bia Bar 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Break for the Border 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 The Bull and Castle 5 Lord Edward St, D2 Buskers Temple Bar, D2 Cafe en Seine Dawson St. Club M Temple Bar, D2 Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 Dakota Bar 8 South William Street, Dublin 2. Dandelion Café Bar Club St. Stephens Green West, D2 The Dice Bar Queen St, Smithfield, D7 The George Sth. Great Georges St, D2 The Globe 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 The Gravediggers (Sean Kavanagh’s) Prospect Square, D9 Grogan’s South William Street, D2 Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Hogans 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 The International Fallons The Coombe, D8 Fitzsimons Bar 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 La Cuvee Bistro and Wine bar Custom House Square, IFSC The Long Hall South Great George’s Street, D2 Mulligans Poolbeg Street, D2 The Odeon Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 O’Donoghue’s Merrion Row, D2 O’Reillys Tara St., D2 Panti Bar 7-8 Capel Street, D1 The Palace Bar Fleet Street, D2 Peter’s Pub South William Street, D2 The Pint 28 Eden Quay, D1 Pravda Lower Liffey Street, D1 Pygmalion South William St, Dublin 2 Ri-Ra Dame Court, D2 Searsons 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Shebeen Chic South Great George’s St., D2 Sin Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Sin è Bar 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D1 Solas Bar 31 Wexford St, D2 South William 52 Sth William St, D2 Spy Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 The Stag’s Head Dame Lane, D2 Sweeney’s Bar Dame St., D2 The Village 26 Wexford St, D2 Think Tank Temple Bar, D2 Toner’s Baggot Street, D2 The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Twentyone Club and Lounge D’Olier St, D2 The Twisted Pepper 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1
The Academy and Academy 2 Middle Abbey St, D1 The Button Factory, Temple Bar, D2 Grand Canal Theatre, The Grand Social, Upper Liffey St, D1 The National Concert Hall Earlsfort Terrace, D2 The O2, North Wall Quay, D1 Olympia Theatre, Dame St, D2 The Sugar Club, Lower Leeson St, D2 Tripod, Old Harcourt Station, D2 Vicar Street, 58 Thomas Street, D2 Whelans, Wexford St, D2 The Workmans Club, 10 Wellington Quay, D2
Abbey Theatre 26 Lower Abbey Street, D1 Axis Ballymun Main St, Ballymun Draiocht, Blanchardstown, D15 Gate Theatre Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, D1 Gaiety Theatre 46 King Street South, D2 Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum New Theatre 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 Samuel Beckett Theatre Trinity College, D2
Art Galleries
The Art Park Back of the Convention Centre Dublin, Mayor Street Upper, D1 Blue Leaf Gallery The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2 Centre for Creative Practices 15 Pembroke Street Lower, D2 Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, D8 Clyne Gallery Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, D2 Cross Gallery 59 Francis Street, D8 The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick Street, D2 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Draiocht Blanchardstown, D15 Gallery Number One 1 Castle Street, D2 Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street. D2 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West, D1 IMMA Military Road, D8 The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery MadArt Gallery 56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1 Mother’s Tankstation Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 NCAD Gallery Thomas Street, D8 Oisin Gallery 44 Westland Row, D2 Oliver Sears Gallery Molesworth Street, D2 Origin Gallery 83 Harcourt Street, D2 Pallas Projects 23 Lower Dominick Street, D1 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 RHA Ely Place, D2 Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, D24 Rubicon Gallery 10 St Stephen’s Green, D2 The Science Gallery Pearse Street, D2 Talbot Gallery & Studios 51 Talbot Street, D1 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios 5-9 Temple Bar, D2
Museums
National Museum (Collins Barracks) Benburb Street, D7 Wax Museum 2 Foster Place, D2
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23 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 In an atmospheric basement of a plush Georgian building on Pembroke Street, just off Leeson Street, you find one of Dublin’s finest restaurants. Named Dax after the owner’s home village in France, it deserves the same good reputation as the French cuisine. If a formal restaurant is not for you, step into their new upstairs venture Dax Cafe Bar that will provide you with a warm tapas-and-wine shaped welcoming hug. Regardless of your preference, neither place serve disappointment.
Dillinger’s
47 Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Dillinger’s is situated in the heart of the nice Ranelagh village. A small and American influenced eatery of great popularity among the locals. The food is great, prices modest and it has a good atmosphere. In case you are a militant carnivore, their sister restaurant The Butcher’s Grill down the road might be a better choice.
Bloom Brasserie
Teddy’s Ice-Cream & Grill
Bloom Brasserie is a restaurant with lofty ambitions. With an excellent head chef well versed in the traditions of French cuisine, Bloom’s offers up accessible cuisine that accentuates their quality local ingredients. Head chef Pól Ó hÉannraich has lovingly assembled a menu that sees Angus Beef carpaccio alongside Caramelised King Scallops, and Roast Seabass. All dishes are freshly prepared and cooked to perfection.
99-cone institution for nearly 60 years in Dun Laoghaire, Teddy’s Dundrum Grill offers another side to one of Dublin’s most-loved establishments – Teddy’s offers steak, spare ribs, and burgers par excellence, without destroying your wallet. And yes, they still do the best ice cream in town.
11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4
Dundrum Town Centre
Leo Burdocks
2 Werburgh St, Christchurch, Dublin 8 If you like some history with your chips, Leo Burdocks has as much backstory as it does salt and vinegar. Its Werburgh St. branch has been chopping potatoes for almost a hundred years now, and the chips are only getting better. Pay a visit, and ask about their celebrity fans.
Pacino’s
Salamanca
For over 15 years Pacino’s has been a family-run restaurant known for its delicious ‘Classic & Gourmet’ pizzas and pastas, steaks and salads. It serves traditional, fresh, quality Italian cuisine. Its beef is 100% Irish, and sourced from reputable suppliers, and its pizza dough made fresh, inhouse, daily. Pacino’s offers a modern dining experience, with an old world vibe – stylish brickwork, wooden floors and soft lighting all combine to create a relaxed, rustic, informal atmosphere.
Salamanca Tapas Bars and restaurants, offer fantastic value, great quality food, service and atmosphere. They pride themselves on a wide variety of menus and great value deals, that offer creative, innovative, delicious dishes. Visit either Salamanca and be prepared to be whisked away from the mundane to the excitement of the warm continent, in either of two prime city centre locations.
18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2
1 St Andrew St, Dublin 2 38/40 Parliament St, Dublin 2
Eden
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The acclaimed, award-winning Eden restaurant serves contemporary food with a distinctive Irish flavour, overlooking the vibrant Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. With a set of mouthwatering dishes available for mains, from mushroom tarts to duck confit, and a stunning location, Eden is one of Dublin’s must-eat experiences.
24 Pablo Picante 131 Baggot St, Dublin 2 4 Clarendon Market Dublin 1
Mexican wrestler Pablo Picante is the poster child of burrito bars across California, northern Mexico and, surprisingly enough, two spots in sunny Dublin. Serving up cheap tortilla-wrapped treats, rolled with delicate style, and spiced to your liking, Pablo should be the first port of call for a busy tourist with an empty stomach. The flavours of Baja California – frijoles, chillis, carne asada, fresh vegetables – are the main staples. Vegetarian options exist but we suggest trying the masked warrior’s signature dish – the beefy barbecoa.
Eddie Rocket’s City Diner Citywide
Eddie’s manages to escape the trappings of restaurant franchising - its 100% fresh Irish beef burgers are consistently as excellent as most designer burger joints in town, and its (brilliantly-designed) menu diversifies seemingly by the day, making it the perfect stop for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night munchies, parties, and family days out - we couldn’t hope for a whole lot more from an Irish-owned business.
Le Cafe Des Irlandais
12-13 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2 Located in one of Dublins oldest and most beautiful dining rooms, Le Cafe Des Irlandais serves French style rotisserie food using the best of Irish ingredients. Open from 8am for a delicious Irish breakfast and brunch at weekends. Lunch from 12-5 serving reasonably prices soups and roast sandwiches. The a la carte dinner served nightly from 6 with fresh fish and vegetarian specials.
Havana Tapas Bar South Great Georges Street, Dublin 1 Havana is a lively tapas bar and fully licensed restaurant that specialises in simple, appetising food with an authentic Spanish flavour. Open from lunch ‘til late, Havana excels in both its spread of nibbles and its range of wine and cocktails.
Coppinger Row
Off South William St, Dublin 2 The Bereen brothers from the South William Urban Lounge have created an exciting new option for dining out in Dublin: fresh, simple Mediterranean dishes, perfect for diving in and sharing with friends, family and work colleagues alike, in the funky laid-back atmosphere of Coppinger Row, slap-bang in the middle of the coolest quarter of south city Dublin.
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Danleo » Danleo’s paintings may have the clean lines and bold visual impact of street art, but the delicate colour balance and attention to detail in his works give away a youth spent studying graphic design, rather than recklessly spraying tags on backstreets (though we couldn’t comment on what he got up to outside the lecture halls of IADT). Fittingly, he uses spray paint, but prefers to apply it with a brush – blurring the boundaries between fine art and graff-art. Likewise, his emulation of vector shapes, but desire to create them by hand, breaks down the barrier between the twin realms of art and design. Mostly working with motifs from nature or mythological subjects, Danleo’s colourful creations are now on show in his solo-exhibition Random Specific at KTContemporary. If you’re not familiar with KTContemporary, that’ll be because the D4 gallery only opened its doors in November. The brainchild of industrious twenty-five-year-old curator Katie Tsouros (hence the KT), the new contemporary art space is devoted to younger artists who create quality output but at a more attainable price point, providing a platform for emerging talent from Ireland and overseas. Danleo’s show, organised together with Le Cool, will run until June 18th, and we expect to see plenty more where that came from....
Matisse’s Art Books If you’re a fan of the Chester Beatty Library, you’ll know that their collection of artistically important books – from the opulent and intricate to the ascetic and contemplative – is one of the world’s most enviable. But though it’s the historic religious texts that are the Library’s most celebrated, the book as an art form also reached an aesthetic climax in the twentieth-century. Appropriated by the Dadaists and Futurists as a new medium of expression, the Art Book lent itself perfectly to printmakers and graphic artists, as well as falling in line with the ideals of Modernism. None of this was lost on Henri Matisse, whose Art Books are the subject of a new temporary exhibition at the Chester Beatty, running until September 25th. Works on show include the famous Jazz – a 1948 collection of around one hundred prints made from paper cut-outs. The bold and colourful
graphic style of these works has lead to them being widely reproduced as posters: many, such as the distinctive Icarus, have become iconic images in their own right. An illustrated version of Ulysses will also be on show as part of the exhibition, alongside many other eminent works – most of which have never been on public display in Europe before.
IMMA is 20 Twenty years may seem a long time, but for an art institution on the scale of IMMA, it’s still sprightly young. That hasn’t stopped the Irish Museum of Modern Art becoming one of the leading galleries of its kind though: already it’s hard to picture the Irish art world without it. Through its retrospectives of leading native artists of the past century, the gallery has been instrumental in establishing Irish Modern Art as an internationally respected field (as well, of course, as bringing big-name international shows to our shores). Despite this, IMMA
is celebrating its twentieth anniversary by looking forward. ‘Twenty’, its anniversary exhibition, will feature a younger generation of artists who – though already achieving international acclaim and success – are in the relatively early years of their careers, and who may help shape the course of yet-unwritten art history. Amongst the twenty names on the bill are Corban Walker (the architecturallyinformed artist representing Ireland at this summer’s Venice Biennale, kicking off June 4th), Eva Rothschild, Willie McKeown, Fergus Feehily and Orla Barry. Though linked geographically, temporally and by their inclusion in the exhibition, the event also aims to highlight the diversity of the artists on show, encouraging visitors to appreciate them as individuals, rather than a homogeneous group of Young Irish Artists. Opening on May 27th and lasting until Halloween, IMMA prompts us not only to reflect upon the achievements made since its conception, but also to gain a feel of where we are now, and glimpse forward into the future of Irish art.
Words Rosa Abbott
Jazz June Sundays
6pm, Free
The Merrion Gates Fitzpatricks Castle, Killiney 12.30pm, Free
Globetrotter Quartet Shebeen Chic, South Great Georges St. 10.30pm, Free
Stella Bass Trio Cafe en Seine, Dawson St. 2pm, Free Zinc Jazz Club Pacino’s (Cellar bar), Suffolk St. D2. June 5th Petra Odlozilikova June 12th Colette Henry June 19th Edel Meade’s Swoo-Beh Project June 26th ZoiD Vs Dorota Konczewska 5.30pm, €8/6 Jazz Globetrotters Purty Kitchen, Temple Bar
The House, 4 Main St. Howth, Co.Dublin Jazz 7.30pm, Free
Isotope JJ Smyths, Aungier St. 9pm, €10
Mondays
Swing Factory O’Reillys Bar, Seafort Ave. Sandymount 8pm, Free
Alex Mathias Qrt. International Bar, Wicklow St. 9pm, €8
Hot House Big Band The Mercantile Bar, Dame St. 9.15pm, €8 18 Piece Big Band
Jam Session Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lwr. Pembroke St. 8pm, €7
Essential Big Band Grainger’s Pub, Malahide Rd. 9.30pm, €5 17 Piece Swing Orchestra
Thursdays
La Cuvee Bistro and Wine bar, Custom House Square, IFSC. 6pm, Free
Triple Helix Gilbert and Wrights, Lower George’s St. Dun Laoghaire 9pm, Free
La Dolce Vita, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar Every Friday Jazz Every Saturday Latin/Bossa nova 9pm, Free
Saturdays Kevin Morrow Qrt. Mespil Bar, Burlington Hotel, D4 7.30pm, Free June (One Offs)
Wednesdays
Fridays
Edel Meade’s Swoo-Beh Project The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St. D1 8pm, €5 Tues June 7th Zinc Jazz Club Pacino’s, Suffolk St. D2 5.30pm, €8 Sun June 19th
8pm, €5 Tues 21st June Kevin Barry Rm. NCH, Earlsfort Tce. D4 8.30pm, €10 Thurs June 30th Madame Anne and the Teasers (6 Piece Jazz/Swing band) Tease Burlesque night Break for the Border Fri June 24th 10pm, €15 www.tease.ie
The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St. D1
Clubbing weekly June Mondays Upbeat Generation @ Think Tank Think Tank, Temple Bar, D2 Pop, Rock and Soul 11pm Sound Mondays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Indie, Rock, Garage and Post Punk 11pm, Free Island Culture South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Caribbean cocktail party Free Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 DJ Alley Free King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free
Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free Oldies but Goldies Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free Austin Carter + Company B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Chart, pop, and dance with a twist Piss-up with Peaches The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less 3 Jagerbombs for €10 Tuesdays
Soap Marathon Monday/Mashed Up Monday The George, Sth. Great Georges St, D2 Chill out with a bowl of mash and catch up with all the soaps 6.30pm, Free The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ 8pm Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6 Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5 Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free
Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B 9pm Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock 7pm, Free before 11pm The DRAG Inn The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Davina Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and makeovers. 8pm, Free Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm
C U Next Tuesday Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 A mix every type of genre guaranteed to keep you dancing until the wee small hours. 11pm, €5
DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie 10pm
Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative. 8.30pm - 11.30pm.
Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Andy Preston (FM104) 11pm, €5
Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free
Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O
Rap Ireland The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm
Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5 John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop Wednesdays
Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7
Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year. 9pm, Free
Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free
CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free
Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, Free
Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm
Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer
Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free
Space ‘N’ Veda The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID
Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5
DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm
Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/ rock/alt/hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm
Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free Wild Wednesdays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Frat Party €5 entry, first drink free Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, €8/6 A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free Synergy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 All kinds of eclectic beats for midweek shenanigans 8pm, Free Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska Free Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free First Taste
Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green West, D2 Latin, Salsa 8pm, Free Rob Reid + EZ Singles + DJ Karen G Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Chart, pop & dance with a twist Free, 11pm Space N’Veda The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Exquisite Mayhem with Veda, Davina & Guests Music on the Rocks South William Swing, jive, cabaret 8pm, Free
Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5 Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm Thursdays at Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am. Cocktail promotions. 8pm, Free CBGB Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 Crackity Jones & Readers Wives on the decks Free Guateque Party Bia Bar, 28-30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Domingo Sanchez and friends play an eclectic mix 8.30pm The LITTLE Big Party Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night with DJ Brendan Conroy 11pm, Free Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5 Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm
Thursdays Sounds@Solas Solas, Wexford St, D2 9pm-1am, Free Soul @ Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond. International guests too! 8pm, Free
Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock Free Davina’s House Party The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2
Drinks Promos, Killer Tunes and Hardcore Glamour 9pm, Free before 11pm, €4 with flyer After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired. 6pm, Free before 11pm Big Time! The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups! With a DJ. The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret. 10pm n Mofo + One By One + DJ Jenny T Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am The Bionic Rats The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Dance, Jump and Skii to Reggae and Ska Free, 10pm DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Groovalizacion bringing their infectious and tropical selection including Cumbia, Samba, Dub, Reggae, Balkan, Latin and Oriental Sound 9pm, Free DJ Jim Kenny Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Chewn Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Mincey indie music 11pm, €5 The Beauty Spot Dakota Bar, 8 South William Street, Dublin 2. A new night of Fashion, Beauty, Shopping and Drinks in association with Style Nation and sponsored by Smirnoff. 7pm, Free
M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free
The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts 11pm
Rock n Roll with Rory Montae in the bar while Aoife Nicanna and Marina play House and Latino Breaks and Beats in the club 10pm, Free
The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free
Fridays
War Andrew’s Lane Theatre Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10
Basement Traxx Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Freestyle club with DJ’s Half Dutch and Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, ska, reggae and party nuggets 10pm, Free
Saturdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm. Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free
Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House music magnet with special guests each week 12pm, Free NoDisko Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Indie/Rock N Roll/ Dance 10pm – 2.30pm. T.P.I. Fridays Pygmalion, South William St, D2 Pyg residents Beanstalk, Larry David Jr. + guests play an eclectic warm-up leading up to a guest house set every week. 9pm, Free Hustle The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Dance floor Disco, Funk and favourites. All Cocktails €5/. Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend! 8pm, Free Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border, Johnston’s Place, Lower Stephens St, D2 Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm. Budweiser promotions. DJs until late. Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free
Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart 9pm Fridays at V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance 10pm, €5 before 11pm, €10 after Sticky Disco The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 A gay techno electro disco in the club and indie, rock, pop, mash and gravy in the main room 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7 after Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod 11pm, Free Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics
Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 With DJ Mikki Dee 10pm, Free DJ Barry Dunne Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Anto’s X Factor The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm The search for Dublin’s singing sensation is back! Prize €1,000 & Professsional Recording Session followed by DJ Karen Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC Saturdays
Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without Music with Words The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free The Bodega Social Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Soul and Disco with Eamonn Barrett 11pm, €10 (ladies free before midnight) Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm, Free
Shindig Shebeen Chic, Georges St, D2 Each and every Saturday you’ll find the Shindig Crew rocking Shebeen Chic’s quirky Bar with an eclectic mix of music to move to. Free, 8pm Konstrukt The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Eamonn Barrett. Indie/Electro/Party Anthems. 10pm - 2.30a. Propaganda The Academy, Middle Abbey St. D2 British indie disco conglomerate 11pm, €5 Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 Lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm, Free Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing. Expect the unexpected. 8pm, Free
Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer
Room Service Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free
Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat 9pm, Free
Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm
A Jam Named Saturday Anseo, Camden St., D2 DJs Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends. Jazz, disco, breaks, latin, hip-hop, house, afrobeat, funk, breakbeat, soul, reggae, brazilian, jungle. 7pm, Free
Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5
Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm
John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am
The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen at 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free
Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5
Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics Free
Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10
Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry
Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free
DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm
Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests
Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm
The Odeon Movie Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Classic Movies on the Big Screen at 8pm. Full waiter service and cocktails from €5. June Dark Comedy. 8pm, Free
Late Night Fridays
Green Sunrise The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with some guilty pleasures Free Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2
KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, €8 after Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, €15/€12 with flyer Viva! Saturdays
Guest band + DJ KK and DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 New live band plays every Saturday night 8pm, Free DJ Dexy and DJ Aido Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Dublin’s biggest party night 11pm, Free Saturdays @ Break for the Border Lower Stephen’s St, D2 Current chart favourites from DJ Eric Dunne and DJ Mark McGreer. 1pm, Free Pogo The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Funk, Techno 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) Pentagon POD and Tripod, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Access all areas at the Pod complex with local residents and special guest DJ slots over five rooms 11pm, €12 Flirt Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Sultry, Funky and Sexy Beat alongside Chart Hits 10.30pm The Weird Scientist Eamonn Doran’s, 3a Crown Alley, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, €8/5 Laundry Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Bumpin House, Techno, Disco, Nu Disco 10pm, Free Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin 11pm, €15 Reloaded The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Commercial Electro 10:30pm, €5 before 12, €8 after Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free Space... The Vinyl Frontier Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro with DJ’s Glen and Gary from Beatfinder Records 11pm, Free
9pm Basement Traxx Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock 11pm, Free Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Soul, Chart 10pm, Free Strictly Handbag Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 80s with DJ Mark Kelly 10pm, €10 Toejam The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Afternoon: Car boot sales, film clubs, music lectures, t-shirt making etc. Later on: Resident DJs playing Soul, Funk, House, Electro Sidesteppin’ Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free Saturday @ The Village The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta & Special Guests 11pm Whigfield Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House and techno til late, with special guests each week 10pm, Free DJ Karen @ The Dragon The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 House music 10pm Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Karaoke and DJ Miguel Gonzelez playing super sexy Spanish House. 9pm, Free before 10pm, €10 after Basement Club Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Pop and Electro Saturday @ The Wright Venue The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance 10pm Punch The Good Bits Indie/Disco in one room and Techno/House and Electro in the main room 11pm, €2 between 11-11:30 Saturdays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Goldy mixes beats/breaks/hip hop and funk in the bar and Gaviscon plays everything under the sun in the club 10pm, Free
Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, €5
Eardrum Buzz Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 House party vibes with Thatboytim playing mix of dance floor classics with of hip hop, reggae, ska, rock, electro and teenage memories. 10pm, Free
The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free
DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm
Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs
Rocked O Reillys, Tara St. Launching 9th October with LLUTHER, Rock DJ,All pints €3.20, Pitchers €9 9pm, €5
Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B
Saturdays @ Purty Loft
Purty Loft Nightclub, Dun Laoghaire Funky House & RnB DJs, 10pm, €10 Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC Ragin’ Full On The Button Factory Everything from Thin Lizzy to Wu Tang Clan, Van Halen, The Damned & Prince. 8pm, Free Latin Mix Havana Club With DJ Leo and DJ Steve 10.30pm, Free
Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend. 8pm, Free
The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland. Classes from 6pm, club from 8pm - late, Free
Jitterbop The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/Swinging Sounds. 8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays)
Dancehall Styles The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, €5
The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free
The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm
The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free
The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free
Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm
Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free
12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free
Sundays
Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free
Session Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 40% off all the booze all day & Mr. Ronan spinning only the best Indie, Rock & Roll. Free in before 4pm, €5 after.
DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without
Ear Candy
The Latin Beat
Hang the DJ
The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar
Alan Keegan + One By One + DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 9pm, Free M.A.S.S (music/arts/sights/sounds) Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Power FM curates a night of sights & sounds with Dublin based Arts collective Tinderbox providing visuals and Power FM’s DJ’s playing Soul to Rock n Roll to Punk 7pm, Free
Get Over Your Weekend Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Lounge around with Penny the Hound. All drinks half plrice all day. 1pm, Free DJ Paul Manning Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Sunday Roast The Globe, Georges St, D2 9pm, Free Magnificent 7’s 4 Dame Lane, D2 w The Ultimate Single’s Night Free, 7pm
Clubbing once-offs June Friday 10th June Skitty & Nolige Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €10 With Intinn. Family South William, 9pm, Free Dave Salacious and friends
Friday 17th June Lone/TR-One Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €12 Highly awesome instrumental hip-hop & techno. Belfast’s excellent Defcon also plays as part of the inaugural First Thought Best Thought Pow Wow South William, 9pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Brian Cuddy
Saturday 11th June Anton Pleete Tripod, 11pm, €8 Amsterdam Techno, plus David De Valera Gold Panda Workman’s Club, 8pm, €15 Ignore the venue, this is potentially the gig of the month
Sure Shot South William, 11pm, Free Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dub, Bossa, Samba and Tropical Emil Damyanov South William Backyard, 11pm, Free Back yard beats
Friday 24th June
Joe Syntax Twisted Pepper, 10pm, Free Absys Records presentation as part of Mud
Donnacha Costello Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €10 Irish techno don, plus Barry Redsettaz and Discotekken Live
Juice Box South William, 9pm, Free Chewy and friends
Bizarro 2.0 South William, Free, 10pm DJ Flore and friends.
DJ Wiseacre South William, 9pm, Free NY DJ visits with funk, Latin and house.
Audio Sunshine South William, 10pm, Free With King T and guests
Saturday 18th June
Sunday 19th June
Body and Soul Festival Ballinlough Castle, €109 Electronic heaven - Nicolas Jaar, Darkstar, The Field, Mount Kimbie, and Lamb all feature.
Discotekken vs. Subject Bernard Shaw, 4pm, Free Recommended all-dayer
Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5
8.30pm, €5/€7
Emalkay Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €12 Plus Loud Mouth presenting the Gruesome Twosome Best Foot Forward South William, 9pm, Free Choice Cuts DJ Rizm and Colm K play hip-hop, afrobeat, funk, disco and house Kelp South William, 10pm, Free DJ Shane Hall and guests play deep and progressive grooves.
James Joyce Cafe Bar, 10pm, €16 Esteemed DJ duo, plus our favorite pun fail of the month, the Chillage Idiots. Kyle Hall Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €15 Nothing major, only the future of Detroit techno. Filthy! South William, 10pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Mark Alton Fever South William 9pm, Free With Billy Scurry and Maurice Collier
Saturday 25th June Layo & Bushwacka
Comedy June The International
8.45pm, €8/€10
Wicklow St., D2
Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10
Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10 Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5 Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10 Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop
Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5
The Bankers
Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free
Trinity St., D2
Comedy once-offs
Tommy Tiernan Vicar St, D2 Friday, 16th,17th , 24th & 25th June 8.30pm, €35
Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10
Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre, D2 10th & 11th June 8.00pm, €33.60 - €36.60
PJ Gallagher Vicar St, D2 30th June 8.30pm, €28
La Carnival The Laughter Lounge In aid of the Niall Mellon Township Trust 10th June, €25
Inn Jokes with Colm O’Regan Patriots Inn Pub, Kilmainham, D8 Wednesday, June See innjokes.com for details 9.00pm, Free
The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1
Ha’penny Bridge Inn
Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5
Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2
Anseo
Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9
Camden St., D2
children. Gate Theatre, Until 18th June, 8pm, €20 - 35
Philly lived and played for his team, the jersey, the parish, his friends - the very pitch his enemies are now trying to take from him to turn into a housing estate. New Theatre, June 13th - 18th, 8pm, €15/12
Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10 Shebeen Chic South Great George’s St., D2
Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian
Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch
Des Bishop Vicar St, D2 11th June 8.30pm, €28
Theatre June Pygmalion Bernard Shaw’s most popular play performed at the Abbey for the first time ever. Linguistic professor Henry Higgins accepts a bet to transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady in this play, later adapted into the famous Broadway musical and Audrey Hephburn film My Fair Lady. Abbey Theatre, April 27th – June 25th, 7.30pm, €15-40
Blood Brothers The tale of twin boys separated at birth, only to be re-united by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret. The score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and Tell Me It’s Not True. Gaiety Theatre, June 7th - 25th (No performance Sundays), 7.30pm, €25-55 Memoirs of a Dublin Bus Driver by Rua O’Donnachu New Theatre, June 6th - 11th, 8pm, €15/12
his heart yearning for love, is permanently at odds with the prosaic, hard-scrabble, smallhorizoned, backbiting existence of his fellow farmers in an adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel Mill Theatre, June 8th - 18th, 8pm, €18/15
Iphigenia in Aulis
Living Quarters
When Helen, Queen of Sparta, abandons her husband for the Prince of Troy a thousand ships are launched on a mission to reclaim her and to punish Troy. Performed by Classic Stage Ireland. Project Arts Centre, June 17th - July 2nd, 8.15pm, €20/16
Join the Butler family in Ballybeg, Donegal, as they gather together to celebrate their Army Commandant Father’s bravery in action and subsequent promotion, only for secrets and lies bubbling under the surface to emerge by the evening’s end, with devastating and lifechanging consequences for all. By Brian Friel Draiocht Theatre, June 7th - 10th, 8.15pm, €15
Lovers Brian Friel’s dark comedy classic. New Theatre, June 27th - July 9th, 8pm, €15/12 Bloodknot
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof A wealthy Southern family gathers to celebrate Big Daddy’s 65th birthday. Brick the alcoholic son, married to the beautiful Maggie ‘the Cat’ hasn’t slept with his wife since his friend Skipper died, leaving Maggie sexually frustrated and childless, unlike Brick’s brother Gooper and his wife’s generous brood of
Dream to shreds, exposing a sordid nightmare of lust, rejection, manipulation and self-denial - a darkly comic re-imaging of Shakespeare’s classic tale for the 21st Century Project Arts Centre, May 31st - June 18th, 8pm, €20/16
The story of two half brothers trapped in the madness of South Africa’s apartheid. Project Arts Centre, May 30th - June 11th, 8.15pm, €18/16
Tarry Flynn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Pitch Loose Canon is ripping A Midsummer Night’s
Zocorro Rose of Tralee Poet-farmer Tarry with his nose in a book, his head in the clouds, his hand on a spade and
Zocorro is a Spanish testosterone-fuelled
Nanny who tackles the giants of nannying Foxrock children, hospitals, leprechauns and Ryanair. She will sacrifice love and bare whatever is necessary to achieve her goal: to be crowned the Rose of Tralee, and win the keys to the Volvo that come with it Draiocht Theatre, June 17th - 18th, 2pm/8.15pm, €14 Fast Portraits Inspired by the realistic observations of the true human condition by artists Bill Viola and Caravaggio, Rex Levitates Company explore the layers of emotion and memory that infuse captured images and transfer them into movement. Project Arts Centre, June 22nd - 25th
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Visual Art June 13 North Frederick Street
Chester Beatty Library
Group Show All-female group exhibition showing drawings and paintings by Helen Downey, Laura Mcauliffe and Leeza Marie Romans with photographic works by Irene Siragusa. May 13 – June 8
Dublin Castle, D8
Back Loft 7-11 Augustine Street, D2 Movement of Sound Movement of Sound seeks to combine movement and sound in a way that will speak across a number of artistic platforms, attracting fresh anduntried audiences and creating new and more complete experiences of movement, sound, movement through sound and sound through movement. This project will involve 4 artists: Karen Power (Composer / Live Electronics), Mary Nunan (Dancer and Choreographer), Deirdre O’Leary (Clarinettist) and Kate Ellis (Cellist). This type of program aims to bring a more holistic performance to its audience, where sound, sight and movement are all considered equally, creating a specific type of environment. June 19 Blackrock Market Café Main Street, Blackrock, D4 Veronica Heywood – Ag Seasamh An Fhoid Dún Laoghaire artist, Veronica Heywood showcases her mythological landscapes in a solo show at The Blackrock Market Cafe in May and June. ‘Ag Seasamh an Fhóid’ will feature a selection of works from throughout her career. The exhibition is curated by Tony Strickland. In her practice, Veronica creates a visual diary of Ireland through Watercolour and Drawing. When she sets out to visit a new part of Ireland, she researches it’s history, archaeology, flora and fauna, and it’s people, so that she will know where to look for inspiration. Veronica always works plein-air, to capture the magic of the moment. May 10 – June 19 Blue Leaf Gallery The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2 Suzy O’Mullane New work May 19 – June 10 Centre for Creative Practices 15 Pembroke Street Lower, D2 Janusz Kapusta – ‘The Captive Mind and other illustrations’ ArtPolonia is honoured to present an exhibition of selected works by Janusz Kapusta including his illustrations of “The Captive Mind” along with his other awards wining illustrations. Janusz Kapusta’s work can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries around the world including Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, The IBM Collection. His work ranges from small graphic forms, posters, magazine illustrations, graphic design, book illustrations, to set designs and painting. In 1985 Janusz Kapusta also discovered a new geometrical shape – an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron, used in fine arts and architecture and in the applied arts. In May 2004, Kapusta won a Grand Prix in an international competition in Ankara commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic. As a visiting professor, Kapusta collaborated with the newly established School of Visual Art and New Media in Warsaw. May 26 – June 12
the museum and the canons it values. Painting and drawing, placing and framing are the nuts and bolts of his response to gallery 8. Shanahan’s work is concerned with foreground and background, light and colour and the power of colour quantities to morph the apprehension of space. The installation creates an unbounded wall-painting that is both parasite in and protagonist to its cultural and architectural setting. Each gains meaning according to the other and this reciprocity mirrors our potential dialogue with the artwork. An understandable aesthetic pleasure is thus evoked but the de-materialised nature of the work also interrogates the exhibiting function of the institution and its values. May 18 – August 21
Cross Gallery
crossing present-day Turkey, which was intended eventually to reach the oilfields around Baghdad. The infrastructural system into Anatolia enabled fluent trade of goods, troops and people. The construction of steal structures (designed for longevity and accountability) existed alongside tents that (on the construction sites) appropriated the nomadic lifestyle and material culture that the new railway was soon to extinguish. For this exhibition Raum installs an extensive, tent-like structure stretching from floor to ceiling in the gallery. The tent is made from long pieces of cotton fabric, which were dyed and painted to show what could be traces of time and different usage. Voices reading out reports and file entries by German and British engineers and diplomats fill the space between the fabric. May 5 – June 17
59 Francis Street, D8
Gormley’s Fine Art
Military Road, D8
She would argue a Crow is White Solo exhibition by Ann Quinn June 9 – July 2
24 South Fredrick Street, D2
Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi This survey exhibition of the work of the American painter Philip Taaffe, features 34 mixed media, mostly abstract paintings from the last ten years. Taaffe’s work has been celebrated in museums around the world for its rich fusion of abstraction with ornamentation, combining elements of Islamic architecture, Op Art, Eastern European textile design, calligraphy and botanical illustration. The exhibition includes many of the most striking examples of the vivid, complex images that result from Taaffe’s highly individual use of line and colour. March 23 - June 12
The Art Books of Henri Matisse The Library is delighted to announce that the Library and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will present this exciting exhibition of the art books of Henri Matisse. The exhibition will feature four of Matisse’s most artistically significant books on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection together with works by Matisse belonging to the Chester Beatty Library. This exhibition is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art in our Communities programme. May 26 – September 25
The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick St, D2 Summer Selection ‘Summer Selection’ is a group show including work by Michael Flaherty, Lucy Doyle, Francis Boag, Brian Mc Donagh and sculpture by Seamus Connolly. May 10 – June 8 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Mairead O’hEocha June 10 – July 13 Mark Manders – Two Interconnected Houses June 10 – July 13 Draiocht Blanchardstown, D15
Summer Exhibition Gormleys Fine Art look forward to the Summer season with new works by their many artists, including, Sean Cotter, Peter Monaghan, Jonathan Aiken, Rowland Davidson, Tony Lynch, and Eileen Meagher. June 16 – July 16 Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street. D2 John Cronin – Augmented Reality In John Cronin’s large oil on aluminium paintings called Augmented Reality we see the artist at his best. Few Irish artists can achieve the sumptuousness and visual exuberance in pushing the boundaries of technique and possibilities with colour as Cronin shows himself capable of doing here. The continuing Augmented Reality series points to a hyper-overloaded information age. Layer after layer of lurid purples and greens and yellows assert the vibrancy of colour abstraction that persists in his work, healthy as ever. May 20 – June 18
Desmond Kenny For the past 22 years Kenny has worked as a figurative painter. Through portraiture, landscape, the nude figure and Dublin City Street scenes he has explored diverse subject matter. Over the past 3 years his style has shifted into that of a more abstract painter. The sudden change occurred whilst looking at paintings produced by his grand niece in his studio. Her work appeared free and spontaneous and not bound by art history. To tap into this elemental childlike creativity the artist removed all figuration from his work. Whilst still concerned with painting the resulting body of work is greatly removed from Kenny’s previous practice. This will be the first major solo exhibition of Kenny’s new departure into abstract painting. A retrospective of Kenny’s earlier figurative work will run concurrently in the First Floor Gallery. June 9 – August 27
Hello Operator
Goethe Institut Irland
Ross Bleckner and Jeff Schneider ‘New York Paintings’ May 26 – June 18
37 Merrion Square, D2 Judith Raum Since 2009, Judith Raum has engaged in artistic research dealing with the effects of German profit-orientated expansion on the cultural relations between the German and the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century. In a solo-exhibition and lecture performance for The Return Gallery, Judith Raum will follow a few narrative threads from this research. In 1888, the Ottoman Empire commissioned a corporation founded by Deutsche Bank and German construction firms to construct the Anatolian Railway – a railway
12 Rutland Place, D1 Bridget O’Gorman – Vitreous Humour Vitreous Humour is an evolving collection of drawings and found, invented or crafted objects. Informed by themes of mass-production and consumption, the cast porcelain figurine relates specific association whilst simulating life. Referencing art history and 19th Century artefact, the work alludes to an ethos of anthropomorphism and collation, raising questions about value and function of the inanimate as well as the construction of fiction as a human requirement or didactic device. May 12 – June 12 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West, D1
LUST: Fiona Dowling, John Kindness and Sheila Rennick June 23 – July 22 Hugh Lane Parnell Square North, D1 The Golden Bough: Sean Shanahan Sean Shanahan’s installation for the Golden Bough is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but an open space: an interludium inviting reflection upon the social function and authority of
IMMA
Old Master Prints An exhibition of Old Master prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making. Works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Rembrandt van Rijn are all featured in Old Master Prints: The Madden Arnholz Collection, which is drawn from the Madden Arnholz Collection. It was donated to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) in 1989 by Claire Madden, prior to the opening of the Museum in 1991. The exhibition is curated by Janet and John Banville. March 23 – June 26 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, presents the iconic paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the two central figures of Mexican Modernism. Few artists have captured the public’s imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957). The myths that surrounded them in their lifetime arose not only from their significant body of work, but also from their active participation in the life of their time, their friendships (and conflicts) with leading figures, their imposing physical appearance and spirited natures. The paintings exhibited include key images by Kahlo such as Self Portrait with Monkeys, and Self Portrait as a Tehuana or Diego in My Thoughts, and the major work by Rivera, Calla Lily Vendors (all 1943). The paintings are supplemented by other works including diaries, lithographs, drawings, pastels and collages – all offering a rich visual experience for the visitor. Also included are striking photographs of Kahlo and Rivera by Lucienne Bloch, Héctor García, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray and Bernard Silberstein. April 6 – June 26 Les Levine: Three Works from the 1970s Regarded as the founder of Media Art, New York based, Irish artist Les Levine has donated to IMMA three series of etching and photographic works made in the 1970s. In the works, he mixes text and image to reinforce his belief that social and political problems
are valid concerns for art. March 23 – June 12
The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7
Twenty As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage. Commonalties and dialogues appear between the artworks in Twenty, but the exhibition seeks to allow sufficient space that each artists’ work may be viewed as an individual practice. The show includes installations, photography, painting and sculpture, and featured are artworks from IMMA’s Collection by Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily, Patrick M FitzGerald, John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O’Callaghan, Niamh O’Malley, Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild and Corban Walker. The exhibition also features a borrowed piece by Irish artist Sean Lynch. May 27 – October 31 Barrie Cooke Organised to mark Barrie Cooke’s 80th birthday, this exhibition includes some 70 paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. It draws from the Museum’s own significant holding of his works, including Slow Dance Forest Floor , 1976, Megaceros Hibernicus , 1983 and Electric Elk, 1996, as well as loans from various private and institutional collections. June 15 – September 2011 Instituto Cervantes May 12 – June 10 Carlos Araya Vargas For the first time in Ireland, the Instituto Cervantes together with the Embassy of Chile are pleased to invite you to enjoy the most recent work from the renowned Chilean artist Carlos Araya Vargas – “Carlanga”, with his collection ‘Bucolic Landscapes’ made up of 10 oil canvasses in big format. He trained in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, and has resided for over 20 years in Paris. Carlanga has had a long career as a graphic artist and has won prestigious awards in Chile, France and other countries. In addition, this artist is one of the most relevant representatives of the Chilean current contemporary scene of the last 20 years. May 12 – June 10 The Ivy House
Yvonne Woods & Susan Montgomery Susan Montgomery and Yvonne Woods have created work inspired by the prose of the Canadian writer Anne Michaels. Their inspiration is drawn directly from Michaels’ 1996 novel ‘Fugitive Pieces,’ a profound meditation on loss and love, the dead and the living, and the indestructibility of the human spirit. Taking Michaels’ themes of archaeology, memory, loss and the body as central concerns, the artists articulate these ideas through their individual work processes. June 8 - 14 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 Repo Man Released in 1984, Repo Man is a film produced and set in the economic recession of the 1980s and follows a young punk rocker in L.A. who falls into his first ever job - a repossession agent. Both the role of repossession agent and the film’s underlying theme of youth in revolt present loose departure points to consider the assemblage of respective practices presented in Repo Man at Kerlin Gallery. Sam Keogh, Fiona Hallinan, Ruth Lyons, and Joseph Noonan-Ganley have developed distinctive practices that consider their positions as both artists and political subjects. What is commonly termed in fine art as ‘appropriation’ may also be viewed as ‘repossession’. Time ensures repossession is an inevitable process and although authorship is protected posthumously, future generations will most likely appropriate aspects of work into new contexts, often changing meaning and blurring originality. May 20 – June 25 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Chancery Lane, D8 Mark McGreevy June 2 – 25 Vanessa Donoso Lopez June 30 – July 23 KTContemporary 25-27 Donnybrook Road, D4 Danleo The first big solo show of the London-born Dublin-based graphic designer and street artist. Presented by le cool Dublin. May 12 – June 18
114 Upper Drumcondra Road, D9 MadArt Gallery Grace O’Sullivan – Out of Eden Art at The Ivy House is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by artist Grace O’Sullivan. Grace’s interest in gender representation and religious belief systems comes together in this exhibition entitled Out of Eden. She is fascinated by signs and symbols, myths, mysticism and illusion which are always important elements in her work to create layers of meaning. The work in the exhibition developed from her research into newspaper photography and an ongoing interest in the powerful affect religion has had on society and in particular the repercussions of the story of Adam and Eve. The series of photographs explores the ideas of power and religion, and has a subtle narrative, allowing the viewer some freedom to interpret the work and draw their own conclusions. All the photographs were taken in a former Magdalene Laundry. The paintings developed from the photographs and as such are an extension of the friction between outside powers and the self, and the legacy of the story of genesis. May 5 – August 1
56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1 Jacqueline Nicholson “Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego” is Jacqueline Nicholson’s first solo exhibition since graduating from IADT in 2010 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Arts Practice. This exhibition is a continuation of her graduation piece “Templates” along with new paintings and drawings. Jacqueline’s work explores the theories of psychoanalytical concepts. For this exhibition she has studied Freud’s theory of mourning and melancholia and how this concept affects, shapes and impinges on our lives. This new work is Jacqueline’s understanding of mourning and melancholia. June 2 – 9 Monster Truck Gallery 4 Temple Bar, D2 Meadhbh O’Connor - Biosphere
Biosphere is the first solo show by Dublinbased artist Meadhbh O’ Connor. The show brings together new works arising from the experimental path O’ Connor’s practice has taken since graduating from IADT in 2009. Working predominately through installation, over the last year O’ Connor has begun to experiment with the use of living organisms in her work such as various plants and fungi. The show will also feature a text by Dublin-based curator Seán O’ Sullivan. May 28 – June 7
National Botanic Gardens
2011. Inside a display case positioned metres north of the Spire of Dublin, an exhibition programme will showcase images and artefacts selected by artist Sean Lynch that evoke a variety of the city’s artistic and social histories. With a nod to the by-now cultured Irish tradition of nicknames for public art, the title of the project is part of local slang, and is borrowed from Eamonn MacThomais’ 1974 book Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin. Located on the central axis of the city’s main thoroughfare, the display case suggests a loose alternative to the line of official monuments (Parnell, Spire, Larkin, O’Connell, etc.) that appear there. Instead of commemorating historical achievements or momentous occasions, Me Jewel & Darlin’ will focus on incidental occurances and artistic practices that engage Dublin as a source and subject. January 1 – June 30
Glasnevin, D9
Oliver Sears Gallery
Transformations An exhibition of work by the West Cork Craft and Design Guild. The 15 exhibitors work in a variety of media including: jewellery design, textile design, lace making, wood turning, green wood chair making, ceramics, knife making, blacksmithing and wood/furnituresculpting. ‘Transformations’ focuses on the inspiration, the materials and the process – the design, skill and craftsmanship behind the making of individual pieces. This theme is taken up by the screening of ‘An Inspired Gathering’ – the Guild’s DVD – showing beautiful and accomplished pieces produced with tremendous skill and patience from raw materials, using basic tools and equipment. May 4 – June 12
Molesworth Street, D2
Mother’s Tankstation Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 Kevin Cosgrove June 1 – July 9
O’Connell Street, D1 Me Jewel & Darlin’ Me Jewel & Darlin’ is a public artwork on O’Connell Street, Dublin, beginning in January
Mark Fairnington Born in 1957, Mark currently lives and works in London. He employs “the language of natural history to frame [his] pictorial fictions” and the results are exquisitely executed hybrid images of birds, flowers and insects. These mysterious almost mythical beasts exist alongside studies of real animals and natural history specimens, but in common they share a painstaking attention to detail and co-exist in a frequently luxurious habitat accentuated by the use of rich paint materials such as gold and palladium leaf. This collection will include a body of new plant paintings entitled The Cuckoo Orchids and a painting entitled Zebra Box which depicts a display case from the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring which has also been the source of inspiration for many of the bird specimens featured in previous work. April 28 – June 9
Katherine Boucher Beug – Some Time June 23 – July 29 Pallas Projects
both internationally and in Ireland, Browne’s project hones in on a community story that becomes the lens through which to examine the depth of emotional investment, and resistance to change, in economic systems. May 5 – June 25
23 Lower Dominick Street, D1
medium and action. Through the use of time based structures, contemplative paintings and drawing emerge on carefully manipulated materials. The casting of the support mimics the layering of a painting and allows for control of the work from inception. May 12 – June 14
Gallery of Photography & The National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2 June 7th - 26th
RHA Alex Martinis Roe Workshops, archives, white boards and stenographers. The artworks, documents, objects, images (both moving and still) and texts in Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibitions are dependent on the artwork’s interlocutors (workshop participants and exhibition viewers) who record the history of their specific encounter or production without attempting to transparently communicate the content of that experience/activity. The artist employs the act of writing to engage thoughts and fantasies that are embedded within the human unconscious through interactive, performative sessions. Discussions become, via the coded products of a stenographer’s hand, abstract data banks hung on the gallery wall, while participants write upon white boards with white chalk, the next written layer overwrites the last, accumulations of dust gather beneath the writers’ feet. May 6 – June 4 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 Sarah Browne Sarah Browne’s new film installation focuses on the small French town of Le Blanc, where a coalition of local artisans and shopkeepers have created one of the last refuges for indigenous currencies. Le Blanc is still accepting the franc as payment for goods and services in certain shops although it is technically no longer legal tender, and will continue to accept it until 17 February 2012 a deadline imposed by the Banque de France. Produced against a backdrop of extreme economic vulnerability,
Taylor Galleries Ely Place, D2 16 Kildare Street, D2 181st Annual Exhibition May 24 – June 30 The Science Gallery
The Tenderness of Attention An exhibition in two parts by Melita Denaro June 10 – July 2
Pearse Street, D2
The Workman’s Club
Human + HUMAN+ is an interactive exhibition experience looking into the future of the human race. Will enhancement of humans become the norm? What types of enhancements will we choose? What is our genetic future? Will computer technologies continue to change the way we socialise? HUMAN+ will explore the implications of enhancement on how we define ourselves. Could smart pills, personalised medicine, cognitive enhancement, or genetic manipulation change us into something other than human? Will converging technologies in robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and aesthetics create a new race? April 15 – June 24
Wellington Quay, D2 Traces of the Real An exhibition featuring long exposure photography by Hugh McCabe. Each image shows a gig in a Dublin venue – the shutter button being pressed at the start of a song and closed at the end, creating ghostly, ethereal images of live music performances. May 5 - July Monster Truck I want to get off Simon Flemming and Jennifer Cunningham June 10th to June 28th DIT Design Show
Talbot Gallery & Studios The Complex, Smithfield, Dublin 51 Talbot Street, D1 Jane Fogarty - | p nti NG | Jane’s work roots itself in the realm of painting, exploring the ontology and materiality of the medium while placing a strong emphasis on the process of creation. | p nti NG | is a manifestation of a recent body of work in which equal importance is given to support,
A collaboration of innovative design solutions created by three DIT design courses; Visual Communication, and Interior & Furniture Design and Product Design. June 7th - 11th DIT Graduate Photography Exhibition 2011
Festivals June Mary Swander, Seamus Cashman, and Joan McBreen 9th June, Irish Writer’s Centre Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writer’s Centre and Dublin UNESCO city of Literature. Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, will give a reading. Swander is author of several memoirs and three books of poetry. www.writerscentre.ie Taste of Dublin 9th-12th June, Iveagh Gardens Entry from €15 Held in Iveagh Gardens, Taste of Dublin is a gathering of the city’s most exciting gastronomical offerings, a four-day outdoor foodie playground. Go for the eleven top chefs taking part in the ‘chef theatre’, the wine tastings, and over a hundred artisan food producers. www.tastefestivals.ie Salmon Poetry Book Launch 10th June, 7pm, Irish Writer’s Centre The launch of two new collections of poetry, Joseph Lennon’s Fell Hunger and Padraig O’Morain’s The Blue Guitar.
Dalkey Book Festival 16th-19th June www.dalkeybookfestival.org Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Neil Jordan, John Simpson and Sinead Moriarty are just some of the writer’s who will be taking part in the Dalkey Book Festival, now in it’s second year. Set up as a response to the community’s dwindling trade during the recession, the festival cleverly draws on Dalkey’s great numbers of literary residents.
battling it out in Merrion Square for the AIB street performance world championship title. www.spwc.ie Where’s Wally World Record
Ulysses Day aka Bloomsday
18th-19th June Merrion Square, Price €12 per costume Building upon the success of last year’s space hopper world record, the street performance festival is hoping to gather together a worldrecord breaking Where’s Wally gathering. Tens of thousands of Wallys are needed, so head down and show the love.
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Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival
Sophie Mayer & Nina Karacosta 16th June Cat and Cage, Upper Drumcondra Road Poetry Ireland in association with Wurm Im Apfel. Street Performance World Championship 16th-19th June Merrion Square, Free Contortionists, magicians, breakdancers, comedians and world class jesters will all be
17th-26th June Head down for the visual spectacular that is the pride parade (second only to the St. Patrick’s day festival in size), to be held on June 25th, whether your LGBTQ, have friends or family who are, or are simply interested in celebrating diversity and creating mutual respect. Alongside the parade itself, the festival will feature events like the sports day and dog show, the day of dance, poetry, and song, and stage performances at the post-parade party. Check out www.dublinpride.ie for more information.
Dublin 30km Lunar Walk 25th-26th June, 10pm The diabetes foundation of Ireland holds its second sponsored Lunar Walk through the streets of Dublin, this year venturing North to the coast, ending with a sunrise and a big breakfast at the Burlington. To register or seek out more information, contact Kate Moran on 1850909909 / 018764571, email her at kate. moran@diabetes.ie, or check out www.diabetes.ie Dance Theatre of Ireland’s Block Party 26th June, 2pm, Free A smorgasbord of music, architecture, and dance. The troupe of dancers and musicians have performed throughout Ireland, Korea, and Europe. Brian Flemming and friends will be providing the percussions. Come and be immersed in a world of gigantic toy blocks. For more details, get on to www.dancetheatreireland.com, email danceire@iol.ie, or phone in to 012803455
bike challenge, a 200 mile a day cycle over 2 days, which will starts off in Dublin and heads up to Belfast via the scenic route. Cyclists will have the choice of cycling on either Saturday (the Dublin to Belfast route) or the return journey on Sunday. Hardcore cyclists can participate in both journeys if they wish, and there’s even a Minicycle of 50 miles for the less manic. www.cooperationireland.org/maracycle A Night of Prose and Poetry 30th June, 7pm Irish Writer’s Centre Readings will be given from some of the students at the Irish Writer’s Centre. www.writerscentre.ie Publishing Seminar: Poetry and Short Stories
Poet and Co-organiser of Over The Edge Reading Series. www.writerscentre.ie Irish Youth Dance Festival 3rd July, 19:15pm, Free Pavilion Theatre Taking place as part of the aforementioned Dance Theatre of Ireland’s “Block Party, Summer Tour”. www.dancetheatreireland.com Squarebound 18th June, Irish Writers Centre A One-Day Comics Event concentrating on Irish Comics Creators, both in small and mainstream press here at home, and breaking into bigger markets overseas. Outré Fizz Presents Le Cirque Électronique
25th-26th June Maracycle is co-operation Ireland’s flagship
2nd July, 10:30am Irish Writer’s Centre A day-long Poetry and Short Stories Publishing Seminar with leading figures across a variety of branches of the publishing industry. Talks will be given by Ciaran Carty, Editor of New Irish Writing; Declan Meade, Editor of the Stinging Fly; Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director of Salmon Poetry; Kevin Barry, Short Story Writer and Novelist; and Kevin Higgins,
regular poker tournament in Dublin with 140+ players. 8:30pm
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The Grand Social, July 1st A surreal electronic circus and masquerade ball
Poker June Fitzwilliam Card Club
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