The Dublin Tourist Guide Issue 1

YOUR INVALUABLE GUIDE TO DUBLIN WITH CITY CENTRE MAP INSIDE

Issue 1 // May 2011

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What are your expectations/plans for Dublin?

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Clockwise from top: “Visit friends and explore the city and country” - Mingo, USA “To meet new people” - Josie Rodriguez, USA “To take part in St. Andrew’s International Model United Nations and have some fun” - Jake Blackburn, USA

Publisher Stefan Hallenius stefan@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695 087 327 1732 Editor Peter Steen-Christensen peter@hkm.ie (01) 687 0695 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

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Wax Museum 2 Foster Place, Dublin 2

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) Benburb Street, Dublin 7

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.

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Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 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.

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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.

Powerscourt Estate Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow

The Powerscourt estate, probably one of the most beautiful in Ireland, is comprised of an absolute mammoth of a house with heaps of history, Italian and Japanese gardens, a golf course, and even a pet cemetery. This place is well worth your while to visit, no matter what season. Avoca provide the food for the Terrace café, where you can sit by the tall windows and admire the loveliness of Wicklow.

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Once home to the migratory Shelbourne FC, Shelbourne Park has since, quite literally, gone to the dogs. A Ringsend institution, the greyhound track’s environs have changed over time from working class core to Dublin’s tech quarter - it’s adapted suitably, but there’s still few more old school Dublin thrills.

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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.

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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.

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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 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 theatre-goers 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.

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.

The Brazen Head 20 Bridge St. Lower, Dublin 8

The Brazen Head is Ireland’s oldest pub. A short walk from Christchurch Cathedral and The Guinness Brewery, it is well worth a visit for both its historical value and reputation as one of Dublin’s best Irish music venues.

The Long Hall

51 S Great Georges St., Dublin 2 Memorabilia-hung and unerringly popular, George’s Street’s Long Hall is the epitome of traditional Irish pub. Just that little bit out of tourist HQ, the Long Hall caters to a healthy percentage of natives, and is best known for one of the highest levels of conversation in town - or maybe the Guinness is just stronger.

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Situated on the ground floor overlooking the Georgian splendour of Pembroke Street, Dax Café Bar offers French flair in stylish and informal surroundings.

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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.

Foggy Dew

1 Fownes Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Situated overlooking Central Bank Square in the heart of Dublin city centre, The Foggy Dew offers a charming blend of old world tradition fused with an appealing contemporary atmosphere.This historical bar is the perfect spot for a quiet afternoon pint or alternatively a great meeting place before heading out on the town.

The Lost Society

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 mid-week lessons.

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.

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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

THE POINT

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 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.

Bang Cafe

11 Merrion Row, Dublin 2.

Bloom Brasserie

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4 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.

After a brief hiatus, Bang Cafe is back. Known for its sumptuous Euro-cuisine, superb service, and extensive wine and cocktail list, Bang is one of the city’s finest restaurants. Dine at Bang Cafe and you’ll be always be in the company of artists - with walls adorned with original artwork and rare prints by leading Irish and international artists such as Patrick Scott and William Crozier, Bang stands apart in the Dublin dining scene.

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

18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2 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

1 St Andrew St, Dublin 2 38/40 Parliament St, Dublin 2 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.

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.

22 Pablo Picante 131 Baggot St, D2 4 Clarendon Market D1

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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Live gigs May Mon 2nd May

Crawdaddy, €tbc, 8pm Lead zeppelin-esque launch party

Ryan Sheridan Whelans, €12, 8pm

€28, 7.30pm 1990s alt-troubador

Rea Garvey The Workmans Club, €14.50, 8pm

Sat 7th May

Fri 13th May

Wed 18th May

Katzenjammer Academy 2, €16, 7.30pm He sounds like he plays a keytar

Drive-By Truckers The Button Factory, €20, 7.30pm Making another Dublin pit-stop

Legend – A Tribute To Bob Marley The Academy, €15, 23.15pm Also known as Ligind in Munster

Sufjan Stevens Olympia Theatre, from €39.20

Wed 25th May

Wilko Johnson Whelans, €26.50, 7.30pm Two English Rubgy World Cup winners team up

The Frank and Walters The Workman’s Club, €21, 8pm Cork’s finest, still going

Moon Duo The Workman’s Club, €16, 8pm Looney Two-nes

Tue 3rd May

The McGetigans Academy 2, €11.80, 7pm It’s a family affair

Sat 14th May

John Grant (Bella Union) The Button Factory, €19.50, 7.30pm Wed 4th May Terry Reid The Button Factory, €10, 7.30pm Once turned down Robert Plant’s job in the Zep

Talvin Singh and Niladri Kumar Crawdaddy, €20/24.50, 8pm Tabla and sitar virtuosi to blow yizzer minds The High Kings Vicar Street, €33.60, 7.30pm Creepy boyband-Paddywhackery hybrid

Sanzkrit The Workman’s Club, €8/€6, 8pm Speaking in tongues

Sun 8th May

Thu 5th May

Dan Deacon The Button Factory, €20, 7.30pm Explorer of the square waves

Bill Callahan The Academy, €19.50, 7.30pm Morose, brilliant songwriter/indie lothario Kitty Daisy & Lewis The Button Factory, €tbc, 7.30pm Gimme summa that rock ‘n’ rollin music

Noah and The Whale The Academy, €23, 7.30pm You again?

Royseven Academy, Sold Out, 1pm & 7pm Afternoon and evening shows Scout Niblet Whelans, €16.50, 7.30pm Offbeat songer-singwriter

Perfume Genius The Sugar Club, €19.50, 7.30pm Ever-so-fey indie balladry OBCD The Workman’s Club, €tbc, 8pm Rockers with a weight problem

Queens of the Stone Age Olympia Theatre, €44.20 Is Jack Bauer even in this band anymore?

Grimes Upstairs in Whelans, €9, 8pm Hotly tipped Canadian pop weirdist with support from Catscars

Warpaint Tripod, €17/20, 7.30pm More hotly-tipped than a branding iron

Mon 9th May

Mon 16th May

Wallis Bird Whelans, €23, 8pm Special acoustic show

Manic Street Preachers Olympia Theatre, from €39.20, 7.30pm Smarter than Mensa, Miller and Mailer

Jamie Lawson Vicar Street, €18, 8.30pm

Eric Clapton The O2, €70/81.25, 6.30pm Got them arena rock blues

Explosions In The Sky Vicar Street, €25, 7.30pm Need some slow motion part of your life soundtracked?

Fri 6th May

Tue 10th May

Relish Crawdaddy, €17.50, 8pm Ballymaloe’s finest export Fri 20th May

Fri 3rd June

The Mountain Goats Whelans, €20, 8pm The best ever death metal band in Denton

Roger Waters presents The Wall The O2, €59.80-86.25, 8pm So ya thought ya might like to go to the show?

Barry McCormack Crawdaddy, €tbc, 8pm Former Jubilee Allstar returns

3OH!3 The Academy, €21, 7.30pm 808 State’s younger brother

Jack L Vicar Street, €35, 7.30pm Give ’em L.

Forbidden Fruit Festival Royal Hospital, Kilkainham, €49.50/90, 2pm Flaming Lips, Wild Beasts, Jape & more

Sat 28th May

Sun 5th Jun

Katherine Jenkins The O2, from €49.80, 6.30pm Whales, whales, bloody great fishes are whales

Forbidden Fruit Festival Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, €49.50/90, 2pm Aphex Twin, Battles, Caribou & more

Futures Academy 2, €13, 7.30pm Trading well

Peter Delaney Whelans, €8, 8pm Plays the “ukelele role”

Grant Lee Buffalo Vicar Street

Emeralds Whelans, €16.50, 8pm

Stella Bass Trio Cafe en Seine, Dawson St., 2pm, Free Zinc Jazz Club Pacino’s (Cellar bar), Suffolk St. D2.

May 1st TBC May 8th Suzanne Savage May 15th Jenna Harris May 22nd Aoife Doyle May 29th Georgia Cusack 5.30pm, e8/6

Essential Big Band Grainger’s Pub, Malahide Rd. 9.30pm, e5

Jam Session Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lwr. Pembroke St., 8pm, e7 Thursdays

International Bar, Wicklow St. 9pm, e8

Kevin Morrow Qrt. Mespil Bar, Burlington Hotel, D4, 7.30pm, Free

Fridays

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La Cuvee Bistro and Wine bar, Custom House Square, IFSC., 6pm, Free May 6th Anne Marie Kelly May 13th Midnight Blue May 20th Kristina G. May 27th Colette Henry

The Chet Baker Story with The John Leighton (Piano) Trio JJ Smyths, Aungier St., Mon May 2nd

La Dolce Vita, Cow’s Lane, Temple bar, 9pm, Free Every Friday Jazz Every Saturday Latin/Samba Saturdays

Brass Jaw feat. Ryan Quigley (Trumpet) JJ Smyths, Aungier St., Mon May 9th

Peter King (Alto Sax) Qrt. JJ Smyths, Aungier St., Fri May 6th

Wednesdays The House, 4 Main St. Howth, Co.Dublin May 4th Louis Stewart Trio May 11th Rock Fox Trio May 18th Son Son Bossanova Trio May 25th Hugh Buckley Trio

Isotope with Cleveland Watkiss (UK) May 5th playing the music of Thelonious Monk May 19th. 9pm, e10, JJ Smyths, Aungier St. Alex Mathias Qrt.

The Deans + The Hounds Crawdaddy, €10, 8pm Crusty Olds + Release The…

Mon 23rd May

Suede Olympia Theatre from €44.20, 7.30pm Return of the Wild Ones

Swing Factory O’Reillys Bar, Seafort Ave. Sandymount, 8pm, Free

Thu 2nd June

The Story of Motown Olympia Theatre, €25, 7.30pm Make brilliant single, screw artist, repeat

Cold War Kids The Academy €26.50, 7.30pm Hot Peace Parents

Hot House Big Band The Mercantile Bar, Dame St. 9.15pm, e8 18 Piece Big Band

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Button Factory, €16, 7.30pm Travails of the Arsenal Fan

Peter Doherty The Academy, €28, 7.30pm Shambolic, baby

Roger Waters presents The Wall The O2, €59.80-86.25, 8pm Well its sold out.

Fitzpatricks Castle, Killiney 12.30pm, Free

Jinx Lennon Whelans, €10, 8pm The Nations Greatest Protest Singer (SelfProclaimed)

Ellie Goulding Olympia Theatre, €28, 7.30pm

Sun 22nd May

Sufjan Stevens Olympia Theatre, from €39.20 Adz Future

7.30pm, Free

Suede Olympia Theatre, from €44.20

The Tallest Man On Earth Vicar Street, €24, 7.30pm Robert Wadlow’s Ableton side-project

Olly Murs Vicar Street, €39.50, 8pm Future “I’m A Celebrity…” contestant

Maria & Kieran Whelans, €17.50, 8pm Maria Doyle Kennedy and Kieran Kennedy in a specially acoustic show

Mondays

Wed 1st June Cass McCombs The Grand Social, €15, 8pm Woebegone songwriting genius

Chris De Burgh Grand Canal Theatre, €44.50, 7.30pm “There’s nobody here…”

Tue 24th May

Sundays

Ellie Goulding Olympia Theatre, €28, 7.30pm Brit school pop starlet

Spring Break Tripod, €26.50, 7.30pm Support from Girls with Low Self-Esteem

Tue 17th May

Jazz May

Sade The O2, €54.80-86.25, 8pm With help from Jamaica’s Jolly Boys

Meat Puppets The Button Factory, €17.50, 8pm “I’m thing one, this is thing two”

Fri 27th May

Wed 11th May

No Roller

Tue 31st May After The Explosions Crawdaddy, €7, 8pm Robocop’s third favourite band of all time

Sat 21st May

HAL Whelans, €10, 8pm I’m afraid I can’t allow that

Rush The O2, from €57.80, 6.30pm What about the voice of Geddy Lee, how did it get so high?

Jessica Lea Mayfield The Grand Social, €16, 7.30pm “A cool Taylor Swift”

Phosphorescent The Workman’s Club, €18.45, 8pm All attendees must wear beards

Soilent Green Whelans, €21, 7pm With guests Dripback

Rakim (Paid in Full Tour) The Button Factory, €22.50, 7.30pm No sign of Eric B

Henrietta Game The Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm With guests String Arrangements

Sun 29th May

Roddy Woomble The Workman’s Club, €15.00, 8pm Disappointing, his solo moniker is not JFK

My Passion Academy 2, €12.50, 7.30pm …Is doing the listings

Thu 12th May

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Whelans, €19, 8pm Raucous and overblown Texan rock troupe

Soul Jam for The Musical Youth Foundation The Workman’s Club, €15, 8pm Its for charidee

Boyce Avenue Olympia Theatre, €23, 7.30pm Me, Alejandro, Daniel and Fabian down by the schoolyard

MATMOS The Button Factory, €20, 7.30pm Seated gig for lauded experimental electronica duo

Max Tundra The Workman’s Club, €15, 8pm Hyperactive, borderline-annoying nerd-pop

Suede Olympia Theatre, from €44.20

Kings of Leon Slane Castle, Meath, Sold Out! With Elbow, Thin Lizzie and Mona

Thu 26th May

Sun 15th May

Love Minus Zero Whelans, €12, 8pm Dylan tribute act

Justin Sullivan & Dean White Academy 2, €16.50, 7pm From New Model Army

The Secret Sisters Academy 2, €12.55, 7.30pm New-age traditional country rears it head

Thu 19th May

Vladimir The Sugar Club, €22.50, 7.30pm President Putin’s speaking tour hits Dublin

Guided by Voices Celebration Night The Workman’s Club, Free, 8pm Game of pricks

Mercury Rev Perform Deserter’s Songs Vicar Street, €33.60, 8pm Hope they perform that hidden track too

Eleventy Four The Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm Bill Callahan’s songwriting nemesis

Alex Winston The Sugar Club, €13.50, 7.30pm Not the only Lower Peninsula Michiganian in town this month

Ryan Sheridan Whelans, €12, 8pm Starting to think he lives in Whelans

Sweet dronescapologists with heart

Honor Heffernan Qrt. Bewleys, Grafton St. Sat May 14th, 8.30pm, e18

Sat 4th June

Georgia Cusack Quintet Kevin Barry Room, NCH Sun May 8th, 8.30pm, Free Patrick Groenland Qrt. International Bar, Wicklow St. Tues May 10th, 9pm, e8 Kevin Barry Room, NCH Thurs May 12th, 8.30pm, e10 The Back Loft, 7-11 St. Augustine St. D8 Tues May 17th, 7.30pm, e10 Hello Operator, 12 Rutland Place, D1 Fri May 20th Madame Anne and the Teasers Break for the Border, Fri May 27th, 10pm, e15

Classical May Sun 1st May

NCH, John Field Room, €12, 1:05pm Claire Roche plays Irish and Classical harps

Macra National Talent Final NCH, Main Auditorium, €20, 6:30pm 100 performers from the Macra na Feirma branches

John O’Conor NCH, Main Auditorium, €25-40, 8pm An evening of chamber music

Tue 3rd May

Sat 7th May

Final Year Degree Concerto Performance NCH, Main Auditorium, €10, 8pm Students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music

“And The Band Played On” 150th Anniversary of the R.I.C. Band NCH, Main Auditorium, €15-20, 8pm Celebrating Irish police bands

Wed 4th May

Sun 8th May

Let There Be Love NCH, Main Auditorium, €11-38, 8pm A celebration of Nat ‘King’ Cole

Celebrating 30 Years of The Fields of Athenry NCH, Main Auditorium, €25-35, 8pm A celebration of the music of Pete St. John

Kaleidoscope: A Night of Music Odessa Club, €8, 8.30pm An evening of specially created music, old and new

Mon 9th May “Playing Time”!

NCH, John Field Room, €8, 7:30pm Young European Strings School of Music

Thu 5th May Tue 10th May Blow the Dust Orchestra Bealtaine Concert NCH, Main Auditorium, €5, 1:05pm Senior citizens orchestra celebrates Bealtaine Brian Kennedy & His Musicians NCH, Main Auditorium, €35-25, 8pm Featuring songs from the northern singer’s career Fri 6th May Songs From The Harp Room

Horizons Featured Composer: Philip Hammond NCH, Main Auditorium, Free, 1:05pm Celebrating the composers 60th birthday Michael O’Toole Guitar NCH, John Field Room, €10-16, 8pm Classical guitar recital Wed 11th May

Oilean & Other Worlds NCH, Main Auditorium, €11-38, 8pm Micheál Ó Súilleabháin with RTÉ Concert Orchestra Thu 12th May High Achievers NCH, John Field Room, €5, 7:30pm Students from CDVEC Music Centre, Kylemore College plus guests

Tue 17th May

Presented by the Culwick Choral Society

Horizons Featured Composer: Jerome de Bromhead NCH, Main Auditorium, Free, 1:05pm Celebrating the composer’s music

Mon 23rd May Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra NCH, Main Auditorium, €30-75, 8pm International Concert Series - music of Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev

Wed 18th May Julian Rachlin & Itamar Golan NCH, Main Auditorium, €25-45, 8pm Part of the International Concert Series 2010-11 Thu 19th May RTÉ Concert Orchestra - American Salute NCH, Main Auditorium, €11-38, 8pm Featuring music of Gershwin and Bernstein

Ilse de Ziah and Lioba Petrie NCH, Kevin Barry Room, €10, 8:30pm Presented by ICC

RTE NSO Hamilton – Cries and Whispers NCH, Main Auditorium, €10-35, 8pm Featuring the music of Sibelius and Nielsen

Fri 20th May

Fri 27th May

Sat 14th May

Classical Cool: Jazz Meets Classical NCH, John Field Room, €15, 1:05pm The Jerry Creedon Ensemble mix things up

Stride Plays Ragtime & Stride Piano NCH, John Field Room, €15, 1:05pm Conor ‘Stride’ O’Brien presents ragtime piano music

Fergus Sheil NCH, John Field Room, €12 1:05pm An evening of piano jazz and boogie-woogie

Don Giovanni NCH, Main Auditorium, €20-48, 7:30pm Mozart’s famous opera

The PreMadonnas presents “The Leading Man” NCH, John Field Room, €10, 1:05pm Movie Classics NCH, Main Auditorium, €11-38, 8pm RTÉ Concert Orchestra play hits from films Sat 4th June

RTE NSO - Mozart NCH, Main Auditorium, €10-35, 8pm Music from one of the greats Sat 21st May

Mon 16th May

Meet the Orchestra NCH, Main Auditorium, €10, 12:00pm A special family for school-aged children and families

Don Giovanni NCH, Main Auditorium, €20-48, 7:30pm

A Sea Symphony NCH, Main Auditorium, €15-30, 8pm

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

and bust. ‘ Draiocht, May 21st, 8pm, €18

Trio Time €7.50, 10:30am, 11.20am, 12:10pm NCH, Kevin Barry Room Workshops for young maestros

RTE NSO - Full Circle NCH, Main Auditorium, €10-35 8pm With the music of Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov

Sun 15th May And I Love You So ... The Perry Como Story NCH, Main Auditorium, €25-38.50, 8pm Tony Jones as the voice of Como

Fri 3rd June

Tue 24th May Final Year Degree Concerto Performances NCH, Main Auditorium, €10, 8pm More RIAM performers

Fri 13th May

Odessa Club, €8, 8.30pm An evening of specially created music, old and new

Sun 5th June ECM Perspectives NCH, Main Auditorium €20-25, 7pm A showcase of the worlds finest jazz label

Wed 1st June Richard Marx in Concert NCH, Main Auditorium, €40-46.50, 8pm Schmaltzy singer Kaleidoscope: A Night of Music

Theatre May Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Quare Times

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 children.

Gate Theatre, Until 18th June, 8pm, €20 - 35

Frankie Flynn is a northsider with long settled views on everything from child rearing and the role of women, to the quality of the pint in Dublin’s pubs. This doesn’t equip him well to cope with the endless challenges thrown up by his family, friends, and the changing world around him.

New Theatre, May 23rd - June 4th, 8pm, €12/15 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

The Beauty Queen of Leenane High in the mountains of Galway liev a lonely spinster Maureen and her devilishly manipulative mother Mag. Maureen longs for the romance that will spirit her away. But if she goes, who will stir the lumps out of Mag’s Complan?

Gaiety Theatre, May 11th - June 4th, 8pm, €15 -50 No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs Set in 1981, South London – against the backdrop of Thatcherism,’suss laws’, Brixton Riots, IRA bombing campaign,The Yorkshire Ripper and a Royal Wedding., this play interweaves between factual events and fiction, mixing theatre with installations.

New Theatre, May 16th - 21st, 8pm, €15

For programme, see www.projectartscentre.ie Project Arts Centre, May 2nd - 14th, €15/13/10

The Shaughran The story of how a roguish poacher named Conn becomes embroiled in personal, social and political struggles in county Sligo amid a plethora of comic situations.

Mill Theatre, May 17th - May 21st, 8pm, €18/15 According to Sydney

Righteous Money Dishing out advice on deal-making, stock buying and sleeping with your assistant, a sexually rapacious and insanely rich TV provocateur takes on the tanking economy.

Project Arts Centre, May 9th - 14th, 9.30pm, €15/13 Bloodknot 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 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Loose Canon is ripping A Midsummer Night’s

Sold out in early spring, featuring Rose Henderson in Gerry Lynch’s new work.

Mill Theatre, May 23rd - June 3rd, 1.10pm, €14/12

Rank Carl, an overweight Dublin taxi driver, owes Jackie Farrell three grand in gambling debts.

Jackie wants the money and he wants it now, not least because an armed robbery he masterminded has just gone badly wrong.

Draiocht, May 19th - 21st, 8.15pm, €16

Paula is all heart and fire. In a tumbledown flat in Ballymun, she lives for others; her two kids, her mate and her reckless sister Roxanna who couldn’t care for anyone but herself. Paula’s ex fella is a waster, her Ma is hard work and her mates are all being rehoused Axis Ballymun, May 11th - May 14th, 8pm, €15/12 Blake

After emigrating to Germany to find work during the 80’s, Eoin made a new life for himself with the help of his wife Frieda and son Dieter.

Now he returns to an Ireland that has boomed

6pm/8pm/8.30pm, €25/€30/€28

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

The Witches

Pineapple

The TInker’s Curse The story of a travelling man who climbs Croagh Patrick to do penance for the sins of a lifetime Draiocht, May 5th - 6th, 8pm, €15/12 Axis Ballymun, May 25th - 26th, 8pm, €15/12 The Parting Glass

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

As part of the two-day tribute Across the Boundaries: Talking about Thomas Kilory, being put on by the Oscar Wile Centre, the Abbey will present a reading of Blake, directed by Patrick Mason in the Samuel Beckett Theatre.

Samuel Beckett Theatre, April 30th – May 11th, 8pm Pygmalion

Sharon Sexton plays Liza Minelli. An original script written by TG4’s Cillian O’ Donnachadha, an extract of this piece was the hit of the 2009 DIGTF Winter Festival Theatre Shorts.

Civic Theatre, May 6th, 8pm, €20-16

Magical Comedy Show Join and be amazed. Irish magician Jack Wise will treat attendees to a night of food, mystery, and ventriloquism. A three course meal will also be served by the Interval Bistro.

Civic Theatre, May 27th – 28th, 8pm, €36

Roald Dahl’s classic, as adapted by David Wood, performed by a mixture of three year olds and adults.

Civic Theatre, May 30th – June 4th, 7pm, €10-15

The Tinker’s Curse A travelling man climbs Croagh Patrick, doing penance for the sins of a lifetime. Along the way we meet his wife Julia, his daughter Michelle, and Johnny Reilly, a settled man who comes a-courting. Performed by the writer and accompanied by musician Finbar Coady.

Civic Theatre, May 12th – 14th, 8pm, €16-20 Grumpy Old Women Join the three stars of “Menopause, the musical” for “an orgy of middle aged mayhem”.

Don’t forget your rolling pin and bifocals.

Civic Theatre, May 24th – 28th,

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Clubbing weekly May 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

The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less 3 Jagerbombs for €10

Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5

Tuesdays

John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am

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 Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative.

8.30pm - 11.30pm.

Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free Rap Ireland The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free

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

Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo

The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ 8pm

Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm

Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm

Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free

DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm

Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free

Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer

Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B 9pm

Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6

Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free

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 n 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

Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock 7pm, Free before 11pm

DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop Wednesdays Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year.

9pm, Free Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/ rock/alt/hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D1 Showcase live music night 8pm, Free Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5 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

Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm 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 DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm 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

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

Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm

Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm

DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie 10pm

1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska Free

Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Andy Preston (FM104) 11pm, €5

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

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

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 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

Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm

Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5

Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm

Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5

Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock Free

Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry

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

Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests

After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired.

6pm, Free before 11pm

M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free Fridays

Thursdays

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

Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O

First Taste Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free

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 CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer

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

Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5

DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm

Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm

Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm

Thursdays at Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2

Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2

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

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

Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend!

8pm, Free

Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, 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.

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)

Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free

Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 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 Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics Free Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm Late Night Fridays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts 11pm War Andrew’s Lane Theatre Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10 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 Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill

Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10

Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, €5

KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, €8 after

The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free

Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, €15/€12 with flyer

Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs

Viva! Saturdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free Saturdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm. Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free 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

Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B 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 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 DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Rocked O Reillys, Tara St. Launching 9th October with LLUTHER, Rock DJ,All pints €3.20, Pitchers €9 9pm, €5 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 Sundays Ear Candy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend.

8pm, Free Jitterbop The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/Swinging Sounds.

8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays) 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 Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free The Latin Beat 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 Dancehall Styles The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, €5 The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm 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.

Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm 12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free 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 May Thursday 5th May Summer Sumo Smack-Down The George, Free, 9pm Sumo Suit Fight Night, prizes for Ultimate Battlers. Special Japanese themed Cocktails on the night Cinco De Mayo Party South William, 8pm, Free A special edition of MASH Friday 6th May Afrobass South William, 9pm, Free Afrobeat, jungle, dancehall, dustup and funky Saturday 7th May Pogo Twisted Pepper, €15, 10pm With Greg Wilson, Prosumer, and Steffi Mr Whippy Soundsystem/ Music On The Rocks South William, 9pm, Free Chill upstairs, swing downstairs.

Sunday 8th May The Queens Visit The George, Free, 9pm Featuring the “Belfast Belles” Bunny & Portia and some special guests (none of whom are Queen Elizabeth).

Tuesday 10th May Euro Trashed Tuesday The George, €12, 8pm Get your lipstick on for Jedward

Tom Beary Bernard Shaw, Free, 8pm As part of Scribble Family South William, 9pm, Free Dave Salacious and friends Saturday 14th May Jam The Box presents…

Twisted Pepper, €10, Free February & Mars Down on the Farm Fatty Fatty & Radiomade will be busing people from Portobello to their secret farm for a full day of House, Disco & Hip Hop. BYOB as usual. At 1 am, everyone will be dropped back to Dublin for a sweet after party.

12 noon, €25 - covers travel & entrance to farm & afterparty DJ T-1000 The Button Factory, €10/7, 11pm Aka Alan Oldham of Pure Sonik and Tresor The European Nail Biting Final Slash Thong Contest The George, Free, 9pm With Annie Balls, M.I.L.F. Veda, The Divine Davina Devine und DJ Anto in the haus.

Pow Wow South William, 9pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Brian Cuddy Sure Shot South William, 11pm, Free Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dub, Bossa, Samba and Tropical Sunday 15th May

Friday 13th May

12 Sundays Bernard Shaw, Free, 4pm With John Daly

Saturday 21st May

girls are heading back in time to celebrate the music, style and events of a previous decade.

Friday 20th May

A Guy Called Gerald Twisted Pepper, €15, 10pm House legend, plus Ceephax Acid Crew

Dirty Dubsters Bernard Shaw, Free, 8pm As part of Scribble

Electropical Soundclash South William, 9pm, Free With Lex Woo

Dazboy Bernard Shaw, Free, 8pm As part of Scribble

Juice Box South William, 9pm, Free Chewy and friends

King T’s Audio Sunshine South William, 10pm, Free With Adam F, Dazboy, and Marcus Dunne

Bizarro 2.0 South William, Free, 10pm DJ Fassman and friends. Chicago & Ibiza house, classic disco

Sunday 22nd May

Best Foot Forward South William 9pm, Free Choice Cuts DJ Rizm and Colm K play hip-hop, afrobeat, funk, disco and house

Time Tunnel Bingo The George, €TBC, 9pm As part of a new monthly series, Shirley & the

Kelp South William 10pm, Free

DJ Shane Hall and guests play deep and progressive grooves.

Saturday 28th May

Friday 27th May Mr. Whippy South William 9pm, Free You must chill.

Filthy!

South William 10pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Mark Alton

Comedy May Sweeney’s Bar Dame St., D2 Comedy HaHa Free shot on the door Wednesdays, 8.30pm, €5 The Bankers Trinity St., D2 Comedy improv with The Craic Pack Thursdays & Fridays, 9.00pm, €8/€10 Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne Saturdays, 9.00pm, €8/€10 Shebeen Chic South Great George’s St., D2

The International Improv night Mondays,8.45pm, €8/€10 Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits Tuesdays, 8.45pm, €5

Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop Thursdays & Fridays, 8.45pm, €8/€10

Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9.00pm, €9

Pantibar

The International Comedy Club Early and late shows Saturday, 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10

Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9.30pm, €7/€5

A bear, a bull and a chicken walk into a bar Gay comedy night every Monday.

Mondays, 9.00pm, Free

Capel Street, D1

The Wool Shed Baa & Grill

The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night Wednesdays, 9pm, €8/€10

What’s New at The International New material night Sunday, 8.45pm, €5 Ha’penny Bridge Inn

The International Comedy

Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2

Anseo Parnell Street, D1 The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke Mondays, 9.00pm, €5

Camden St., D2 Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian Wednesdays, 8.30pm, €5/€7

Comedy Crunch Stand-up comedy Sundays & one man Mondays Sundays & Mondays, 9.00pm, Free COMEDY ONCE-OFFS Peter Kay The O2 2nd & 3rd May 6.30pm, €44.20 Good Mourning Mrs Brown Olympia Theatre, D2 2nd – 14th May 8.00pm, €30-35 Neil Delamere Implement of Divilment & Bookmarks

Vicar St, D2 Friday, 6th May 8.30pm, €25 Katherine Lynch Vicar St, D2 13th – 14th May 8.30pm, €28 Simon Munnery & Edward Aczel Two truly brilliant alternative comedians The Workman’s Club, D2 20th May 8.00pm, €18 Jason Byrne Cirque de Byrne Vicar St, D2 21st May 8.30pm, €28 Thomas Ngijol The Sugar Club, D2 29th May 8.00pm, €18.45 Inn Jokes with Colm O’Regan Colm McDonnell, Conor O’Toole and guests Patriots Inn Pub, Kilmainham, D8 Wednesday, 18th May 9.00pm, Free Lucan Comedy Club John Colleary, Kieran Lawless & Simon O’Keeffe Courtneys’ Bar, Lucan 7th May 9.00pm, €10

Visual Art May The Art Park

Clyne Gallery

Back of the Convention Centre Dublin, Mayor Street Upper, D1

Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, D2

Maser is HomeMade A new video piece by the street artist Maser, projecting nightly from dusk until midnight.

Until May 8 Blue Leaf Gallery The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2 ‘Line of Fire’ – Ray Sell Taking images and magazine clippings from a vast swath of media over the last 60 years, Sell is determined to create a forum for self-reflection and debate, and question the very ethos by which our culture rears its male brood. By capturing and re-appropriating images of motorcycles and muscle cars, nude women and fierce beasts, cowboys and Indians – Sell has created a different message with his assemblage of fantastic collage arrangement, vivid colours and these poignant relics from media of days past. By removing the images from their original environs, he has stripped them of their intended meaning and given them his own voice. Often whimsical and rarely intended to elicit political response, Sell’s electric, colourful work provides its viewers with an opportunity to really look at what’s being transmitted through imagery and decide how they themselves will respond.

April 14 – May 6 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 Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, D8 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

David Folan, This exhibition, entitled Flight Test, includes a series of framed sculptures and installations dealing with ethics in contemporary society by exploring themes such as transience, the commodification of living creatures and complicity. The focal piece consists of a series of resin cast life size quails suspended from the gallery ceiling. The birds graduate in tone from white to black occupying the entire length of the gallery. The two accompanying installations also feature cast life forms.

Clear glass bottles hover a shelf displaying rat pups and words, which construct a poem by the artist when seen together. The third installation comprises dozens of white spoons projecting from the wall of the gallery, each of which holding a coloured cast chick. When experienced together the colours form an intended pattern.

May 19 – 31

film-maker Alexander Sokurov is structured like a diary; the narrator records and comments on the lives of Russian soldiers guarding the frontier of Tajikistan and Afghanistan in 1994. It is bleak mountainous terrain, the source of some of the highest peaks in the world. Despite the specific social and political context of the film, Sokurov draws the viewer’s attention to the inner spiritual world that lies at its heart. Nothing violent appears on screen; the film’s slow pace, which is both inexorable and gripping, reflects the boredom and anxiety that fill the lives of the soldiers. They are in limbo, with little to do but wait until they can go home to Russia. In every sense this is a film about borders and liminality; the soldiers live in no-man’s-land, in the shadow of continual, if distant, awareness of death. It is not, however, a disheartening story; Sokurov’s commentary is intimate, and the tone of the film is elegiac and dreamlike.

April 1 – June 1 Draiocht

Ronan McCrea – Autodidact Ronan McCrea’s first solo exhibition at Green on Red Gallery combines photographs from his recent School Play project with new works that further elaborate themes of play and educational institutions in relation to the photographic and cinematic image, subjectivity, and artist’s ongoing interest in the form and function of highly symbolic social spaces. School Play was a public art commission for Castleknock Educate Together School in Dublin 15, completed in 2009. For this work McCrea made a permanent architectural intervention in the form of a painted set of circles and arcs on the school yard for the (unspecified) use of children at play. This design also then functioned as a kind of ‘set’ for a series of photographs shot from an elevated position of children during break-times. These images reframe the children’s exuberant movements and interactions as a kind of choreography, and in their composition recall the angles and framing of Rodchencko’s photography of the early Twentieth Century.

April 15 – May 14

Blanchardstown, D15 Cross Gallery 59 Francis Street, D8 Blue Works by John Boyd May 5 - 28 The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick Street, D2 Sentinels by Padraig McCaul.

There is a simple beauty in the silent, stone farmhouses that are found along the west coast of Ireland. The peeling whitewash, the cracked walls, give these old buildings each their own character, while the twin chimneys, one at each gable end, give them their unique, distinctive look. They have become part of the fabric of the countryside, in tune with the land they rest on, sympathetic to their surroundings. And that is how I try to capture them, as another element of the landscape alongside the changing skies, the rolling fields and bogs, the mountains and the seas. But there is a sadness and a loneliness about them too. These old houses have borne witness to over 100 years of Irish emigration.

Like Sentinels standing guard, they look out to sea, watching yet another generation of Irish men, women and children emigrate in search of work and a better life. Waiting quietly for their return.

March 25 – May 30 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Shiva Linga Paintings These rare Tantric images by anonymous modern painters from Rajasthan in northwestern India were intended to further the practice of meditation; they are part of an unbroken tradition in which originality is not considered important. Nevertheless, as in many forms of traditional art and craft, there are subtle and beautiful differences between the touch and sensibility of the individual paintings. Although the exhibition includes a few examples of other imagery from the Tantric canon, most of the paintings depict ‘Shiva linga’. The Sanskrit word ‘lingam’, originally meaning ‘mark’ or ‘sign’, often refers to the phallus or symbol of male creative energy that is complementary to the ‘yoni’, which means both ‘source’ and ‘female’. The term ‘Shiva lingam’, however, describes one of the forms of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and transformation and one of the trinity of deities that also includes Brahma and Vishnu. It shows him in his unborn and invisible state.

April 1 – June 1 Spiritual Voices (From the war diaries) This beautiful documentary by the celebrated

Derelict by Michael Wann Wann’s work is specifically drawing-based and juxtaposes arbitrary or transient images of cleared landscape, with more thought provoking depictions of the dereliction of habitation. The work is as much about a process of mark-making as it is about representing a seemingly neglected landscape.

April 8 – May 28 Earliest Memories Through a Pinhole Camera Draíocht is delighted to host this exhibition of photography created by the participants of our Intergenerational Project, who have been working steadily since last November with artist in residence Garvan Gallagher. This photography-based project involves both transition year students from a number of local second level schools and older residents (retired or 65yrs+) of the Dublin 15 area. During the workshops the group discussed themes for the exhibition, made their own pinhole camera, learned about shape, form, contrast and colour and produced photographs in our purpose build Dark Room in our Artist’s Studio.

May 8 - 28

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 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West, D1 Michael Canning: New Works April 28 – May 21 Ross Bleckner and Jeff Schneider ‘New York Paintings’ May 26 – June 18 IMMA

Gallery Number One

Military Road, D8

1 Castle Street, D2

Romuald Hazoume Winner of the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta 12, Romuald Hazoumè is one of Africa’s leading visual artists. He has worked with a wide variety media throughout his career, from discarded petrol canisters, oil paint and canvas, to large-scale installation, video and photography. The exhibition at IMMA focuses on his iconic sculptures made from discarded plastic canisters which resemble the primitive tribal masks that were so influential to the early Modernists, such as Picasso and Braque.

February 9 - May 15

Bear Bicycles The bicycle exhibition focuses on bicycle lifestyle, and showcases bicycle products, bicycle films, and bicycle art by Matthew Knight – a diverse Irish artist, influenced by Celtic, Aboriginal, Street, and Lowbrow art.

According to Bear, the Irish bicycle lifestyle is similar to the Dutch bicycle lifestyle; more than most think. However, Bear observes one big difference: Irish see cycling predominantly as spring and summer activity. In the Netherlands, cycling is for all seasons. Bear sees no reason why winter and autumn would be unfit for cycling in Ireland. To convey that message, Bear introduces ‘Cycle the Seasons’. With Cycle the Seasons, Bear will offer a new bike model for each season in the course of 2011.

Bear’s Spring Bicycle will be revealed at the opening of the Gallery Number One exhibition: ‘Embrace the Spring’. Bear’s Summer Bicycle will be revealed on 21st of June – during National Bike Week. Finally, Bear’s Autumn and Winter bicycle will be revealed in September and December, respectively. The design, colour and build of the new models will each allude to the season in which they are launched, but all models retain the distinct Dutch style. Bear’s overarching message: cycling is for all seasons.

April 1 – May 31 Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street. D2

Philip Taaffee - 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 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 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 The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7 Open to the Public At a time when public and private places coalesce and where private life is blurred by access to the virtual, photography is both reassessing its role and confirming its heritage. Open to the Public, an exhibition of photographs by year two photography students from IADT-Dun Laoghaire explores these notions through a diverse collection of images. From street photographs to contemporary interiors the work tries to assess what is public and what is private.

May 5 – 12 Ark: Suzanne Van der Lingen Using a combination of her own recordings, family documents and public archive film, Suzanne van der Lingen draws parallels between the different ways in which experience is attempted to be preserved through stories, objects and documents. The resulting values attached to these artifacts are as much a product of time as they are of personal signification. By weaving together religious stories and her own family history, her work attempts to expose the situatedness of temporal perception rather than a universal historical truth. The work on show includes a video piece entitled ARK, a photographic series called La Nostalgie des Origines, and an accompanying publication.

May 18 – 23 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 Brian Maguire Through a reading of history and economics Maguire finds entry points that ask us to look again on what constitutes public endeavour. Since leaving his position as Head of Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin early last year, Maguire has spent time developing work in Europe and Central America, and this is borne out by the broadening themes emerging through this new body of work.

April 8 – May 14 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 Sarah Dwyer May 7 - 28 MadArt Gallery 56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1 In Your Hands A collection of paintings and sketches created by artist and the owner of MadArt Gallery Sofia Monika Swatek. The exhibition includes expressive female nudes, portraits and mandalas with Celtic and Indian designs. The artist uses a wide range of methods to apply paint to the canvas creating very textured, unique and works full of emotions. Between 6-9pm on May 19, the collection – worth over 20,000 euro – will be given away to visitors for free, no questions asked.

May 19 Mother’s Tankstation Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 I Want to go Somewhere Where the Weather

Suits my Clothes – a fall of light on fabric The apparent optimistic simplicity of this exhibition title; Going where the weather suits my clothes…a fall of light on fabric 1, belies a plethora of darker meanings that relates examples of contemporary art practice to (the perhaps-failed idealism of) Sartrian existentialism. A early notion developed by Sartre in Existentialism And Humanism, attempted to place the concept of humanity as being wholly responsible for itself, and in control of our future with a constant regard to the collective good of society. This show examines some case studies where it would appear that the opposite were perhaps more the case, suggesting the greater plausibility of the world being composed of individuals, simply attempting to discover themselves, or ‘to be’, despite the collective good, rather than in advancement of it. Given the time and context of much of Sartre’s writings, the above-mentioned text was, we must assume, a strategically calculated (and certainly idealistic) one, considering the all-consuming guilt of the recent and appallingly destructive world wars. Sartre questioned whether such horrors could have taken place if everyone truly took responsibility for their actions, instead of existing in a culture based upon the assumption of answering to, and being dependent upon the will or whim of a ‘higher power’?

April 13 – May 28 NCAD Gallery Thomas Street, D8 Nigel Graham Cheney: Gone to the Dogs ‘Gone to the Dogs’ brings together NCAD lecturer Nigel Graham Cheney’s most recent work, a group of intricately embroidered and quilted textile prints. These richly coloured works feature images of decommissioned banknotes and purebred dogs, reflecting upon associations of value and speculation and playing on notions of the counterfeit.

While celebrating the beauty and detail of

the imagery of these, decommissioned banknotes, Cheney’s heavily hand-worked surfaces also invest a new value into the objects. This exhibition showcases a body of work that treads a line between craft, fine art and design. The work exploits both hand operated and computer driven machinery, placing it at the centre of current debates around the role of technology in contemporary craft practice. However, The ‘hand-made’ is also an essential element in this work, with the hundreds of hours spent stitching each piece clearly in evidence.

May 6 – 28 Oisin Gallery 44 Westland Row, D2 Seasons by Ronan Goti “My paintings are about harmony within Nature. Last year I created a painting about a tree blossoming in springtime. This spring, as the tree starts to bloom again, the painting will join a section of work produced over the past ten years. These paintings reflect the many seasons of my work as it has developed throughout the years.”- Ronan Goti, 2011 May 7 – 14 Oliver Sears Gallery Molesworth Street, D2 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

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

Origin Gallery

Project Arts Centre

83 Harcourt Street, D2

39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2

Geraldine MacDonald Geraldine MacDonald is a Dublin born artist with a previous career in music and song writing. Geraldine’s experience of nature was awakened while living and growing up in Howth at a time when children were free to explore and discover its natural unspoilt beauty. Her time spent in the south of Spain, America, India and North Africa reopened her eyes to light and colour. And this exhibition contrasts the hot exotic colours of these places with the cool blues and greens, greys a nd whites of Southwest Kerry and in particular the area around Ballinskelligs where she had a residency at the Cill Rialaig Project.

April 20 – May 8 Pallas Projects

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, 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

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

Ely Place, D2 181st Annual Exhibition May 24 – June 30 Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, D24 New Connections New Connections is a continuation of Alternative Enterainments’ series of exhibitions over the years in which it groups the works of emerging and established contemporary Irish artists in exciting juxtaposition to each other. The pieces - paintings, video, sculpture

- explore a synthetic/organic dichotomy in artist expression. Established artists such as Ronnie Hughes, Robert Armstrong and Gillian Lawler share gallery space with emerging artists such as Alan Butler, Barbara Knezevic and Hugh Delap in this challenging and modern show. Participating artists: Alan Butler, Ronnie Hughes, Robert Armstrong, Gillian Lawler, Barbara Knezevic, Hugh Delap, Susan Connelly, Ann Hendrik, Hugh McCarthy and Helen Hughes.

April 9 – May 7 Rubicon Gallery

Jane Fogarty - |ˈpānti 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. |ˈpānti NG | is a manifestation of a recent body of work in which equal importance is given to support, 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

10 St Stephen’s Green, D2 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Alexis Harding – Tondos & Bi Products London based artist Alexis Harding presents his new Tondo paintings, sculptures and over 60 works on paper.

April 7 – May 21 The Science Gallery Pearse Street, D2 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

5-9 Temple Bar, D2 Offline Offline is an exhibition bringing together five artists whose work reflects the documentation and consumption of reality and how it is intrinsically linked with and conducted via online platforms. Much of the ‘Net Art’ produced in the early years of the Internet was made to be viewed on a computer screen, but more recently, the physicality of how we receive these messages has become less important than the psychology of how we understand and experience them. The five artists in this show use the Internet in their everyday lives and, by extension, in their art.

Their work uses the Internet as its primary medium and appropriates it’s language and aesthetics . This mode of art making can be seen as a development from the last decade’s move in focus from art producer to consumer, and the transmission to a hybrid producer/ consumer model.

April 7 – May 14

Talbot Gallery & Studios 51 Talbot Street, D1

Festivals May Bealtine Festival Celebrating creativity in older age, Bealtine is organised by Age & Opportunity, and is Ireland’s largest collaborative arts festival.

Last year saw 2,500 different performances, exhibitions, dances, films, workshops, and concerts, and 101,000 attendees. Programmes like the cultural companions have done much to bring together a network of people interested in arts and culture, while Blow the Dust off Your Trumpet invites older musicians to return to their instruments and perform.

May 1st – 31st For more information: http://bealtaine.com

group, the Rathmines Writers’ Workshop will be giving a prose reading from their most dedicated and original writers.

May 5th, 6.30pm, Irish Writers’ Centre, Admission Free

class system May 10th, 6pm, Abbey Theatre €3

David Butler and Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Readings from the works of Jack B and WB Yeats with Professor Maurice Harmon and Kathleen Watkins.

May 11th, 1pm, National Gallery of Ireland For more information: www.nationalgallery.ie

An integral figure in the world of experimental writing and performance, Gavin Selerie is known for his gritty and brash voice, and his writing which mixes jumbled syntax with elements of fluent discourse.

May 17th, 9pm, Cat and Cage, Drumcondra Road

Poetry Introduction Series 2011

Catch Up On Culture Week

Catch Up On Culture Week

Events such as the International Museums Day and European Museums At Night will be taking place this week in May, in a valiant effort to promote museums and cultural institutions. Get thee to www.irishmuseums. org for more info.

May 18th – 29th

Events such as the International Museums Day and European Museums At Night will be taking place this week in May, in a valiant effort to promote museums and cultural institutions. Get thee to www.irishmuseums. org for more info.

May 18th – 29th

Dublin City Soul Festival

Dublin Toy and Train Fair Collectible toys of all kinds, from jigsaws and toy trains to antique dolls and bears will be available, as well as books and manuals from famous manufacturers.

Gavin Selerie

The festival will open with the Soul Picnic in Merrion Square. Entry is free to the event, which will bring local and international musical talent together to perform in a relaxed picnic surrounding. Other events planned include various live music acts, a soul food restaurant trail, a soul cinema club, and soulthemed event planned in the Laughter Lounge, and a Peace, Unity, and Love Parade.

May 26th – 29th For more information: www.dublincitysoulfestival.ie

Mon €75+5 Texas Holdem Freezeout 8:30pm

Wed €20+5 Texas Holdem Rebuy 8:30pm

Fri €55+5 Texas Holdem Scalps 8:30pm

Sun €50+5 Texas Holdem Freezeout 8:30pm

Tue €50+5 Texas Holdem Double Chance 8:30pm

Thur €95+5 Texas Holdem Double Chance 8:30pm

Sat €120+5 Texas Holdem Freezeout 8:30pm

Special Event Last Thursday of every Month - €250+20 Freezeout. Biggest

Poetry Ireland launches Via Crucis by David Butler and Anatoly Kudryavitsky’s Capering Moons.

May 5th, 6.30pm, Damer Hall, Stephen’s Green West For more information: www.poetryireland.ie Dublin Dance Festival

International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival With an emphasis on contemporary Irish and International drama, the Gay Theatre Festival will re-examine surrealist art, mental health, the glamour and fame of old Hollywood, and, of course, the stereotypes associated with gender and sexuality.

May 3rd – 16th For more information: www.gaytheatre.ie

The good people at DDF have organised a stellar series of performances, which this year focuses on Asian choreography. Get your mitts on some tickets right away, they’ll be going fast.

May 13th – 28th, Various locations, including the Grand Canal Theatre, IMMA, the Button Factory, the Alliance Française, and the Light House Cinema.

Pygmalion: The Social Class

Rathmines Writers’ Workshop Reading Celebrating 21 years together as a writing

Author Tony Farmar (Privileged Lives – A Social History of Middle-Class Ireland 1882-1989) will lead a discussion on the Irish

Readings from the works of Jack B and WB Yeats

Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2011 Featuring Ainín Ní Bhroin, Kimberly Campanello, Michael Farry, and Donna Sørensen.

May 12th, 6.30pm, Irish Writers’ Centre Amanda McKittrick Ros Remembered The unintentionally hilarious Amanda McKittrick Ros will perhaps be mostly remembered for her stupendously dreadful writing.

However, she is also remembered for her self-confidence and obstinate individualism.

An event taking place as part of the Bealtine Festival, May 16th, 11am, €5.00, Dublin Writers’ Museum

Featuring Eleanor Hooker, Susan Lindsay, Barbara A. Morton, and J.S. Robinson.

the French musette, salsa, and gypsy swing, all performed by a trio of musicians on violin and guitars.

May 26th, 8pm, Airfield, €16/€14 Call (01) 2984301 for bookings Dublin Writer’s Festival

May 18th, 6.30pm, Irish Writers’ Centre

May 22nd, 10am, Clontarf Castle, Price TBC For More Information: http://www.dublintoyandtrainfair.com

Among other top Irish and International authors will be comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter Michael Palin, who will be speaking about his career at the National Concert Hall on May 25th.

May 31st – June 5th See www.dublinwritersfestival.com for more information Bloom in the Park Alongside almost thirty gardens from top Irish horticulturalists that will be showcased, there will be live cookery and craft demonstrations, not to mention the gardening advice workshops and mega farmers market. Children attend the workshops for free, so bring your tots to learn about the wonders of obscure strains of geraniums.

June 2nd, Phoenix Park

Café Orchestra Café Orchestra is an evening dedicated to jazz,

Poker May Fitzwilliam Card Club

Online booking www.fitzwilliamcardclub.com

regular poker tournament in Dublin with 140+ players. 8:30pm

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Alex Martinis Roe

Pallas Projects have always put on stellar exhibitions, but their old premises in Stoneybatter could be tricky to get to without a Joycean knowledge of Dublin nooks and crannies - or the benefit of a GPS smartphone. So we’re happy they’ve up-rooted and set up new home on the more central Lower Dominick Street, just around the corner from the Hugh Lane.

With a web and logo redesign also on the cards, Pallas look set to be reborn as one of the city’s foremost contemporary art spaces.

For the month of May, the Berlin-based Australian artist Alex Martinis Roe is taking over the agenda. Inspired by the writings of Belgian feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray, Martinis Roe will explore the concept of communication: probing and querying the realm of human interaction via performative sessions. Gallery visitors will scribe messages in white chalk on a white chalkboard, overwriting one another to form a dense and abstract tapestry of words; chalk dust gathering on the toes of each attentive scrawler (so leave the blue suede shoes at home, eh).

The exhibition runs from Friday 6th May until June 4th.

Augmented Reality

It’s no surprise that John Cronin has caught the beady of hawk-eyed collectors both in Ireland and in foreign fields. A graduate of NCAD, the Dubliner quickly charged ahead to become a leader of Irish abstract painting: his bold and vivid works are enough to induce a state of retinal ecstasy. Intense yet finely attuned colours are thickly applied, layer-uponlayer, over an aluminium sheet. The heady concoctions take on both a textural tangibility as well a disconnectness akin to virtual reality: buzzing in front of you like a swarm of jilted megabites, despite being analogue creations.

‘Augemented Reality’ is a pretty apt name for an exhibition of his works then. His oversaturated and multi-layered approach mimics the inescapable and all-consuming digital culture which has swallowed modern existence whole. The result burns brighter than the flicker of a thousand laptop screens logging on and off worldwide; but the electrical jolt emanating from these exuberant works is far more spiritually affecting than any online creation. You can catch Augmented Reality at the Green on Red Gallery on Lombard Street from May 19 until June 18.

In Your Hands

Few artists would claim to be in the industry for cash, but even so, it would take some steely bohemian principles to turn down 20,000 big ones. Nevertheless, Sofia Monika Swatek, the Polish artist behind the MadArt Gallery, is doing exactly that. On May 19, between 6 and 9pm, Swatek is hosting an exhibition of her works at her Lower Gardiner Street gallery (spot it by the pink bicycle outside), at which visitors are free to pillage and raid the gallery wall – no questions asked.

Why the sudden act of philanthropy?

“I always wanted to make art available for everyone, and to help people be truly in touch with it,” Swatek explains. There are also some psychological reasons at play: a lot of emotional intensity and personal angst go into Swatek’s expressionist paintings – her last exhibition, which explored her recent pregnancy and childbirth, was titled Please Shoot Me. “I don’t need any emotions from 2008 lying in my studio,” she muses. “I’m a completely different person now.” Just as painting can be an act of catharsis for many, so, it seems, can be letting them go.

Words Rosa Abbott

3000 kg of rice are used to create the Dublin Dance Festival’s showcase piece, Songs of the Wanderers, danced by the sensational Cloud Gate theatre group of Taiwan. Cloud Gate have achieved such immense recognition and popularity that in Taiwan there is actually a day dedicated to their group. They are recognized internationally as Asia’s leading dance company.

The festival this year focuses on Asian dance. Though festival director Laurie Uprichard insists that DDF never would pretend to embark upon the hubristic attempt to portray “all” of the most exciting world of contemporary Asian dance, the festival has achieved a wonderful harmony in their lineup. The dancers and choreographers participating in DDF have, on one hand roots in traditional Asian dance – Balbir Singh uses a precise, mathematical eye in his interpretation of north Indian Kathak dance, while Mugiyono Kasido is schooled in Javanese dance.

There is also a great breadth of the contemporary to choose from – Hiroaki Umeda, for example, is well known for his use of digital mediums. His performance combines a dense electronic score to create an unearthly, disorientating atmosphere, with undulating liquid movement inspired by street-dance. Umeda was born Japanese but is now based in France, and originally studied photography, eventually putting together his own dance company, S20, in 2000.

Yasuko Yakoshi will treat audiences to what is set to be a groundbreaking accomplishment. She will perform Bell, an interpretation of one of the most important and complex pieces of Kabuki theatre, the story of female metamorphosis from youth to mature beauty, using Dojoji, an account of revenge and unrequited love, as its source. When it emerged in the 1600s, kabuki was performed only by women – it was quickly assimilated into Japanese Edo culture, and became the only social gathering within which social classes were mixed.

Eventually, female-only Kabuki was banned for being too erotic. There followed a transition to male-only Kabuki, which is still today the status-quo in Japan. Yasuko Yakoshi was trained in Tokyo by master Kabuki teacher Masumi Seyama, and has been banned from per-

Winged creatures Dublin Dance Festival forming her re-working of the kabuki repertoire in Japan. Her performance will represent a daring and revolutionary new step for traditional Japanese dance.

Now in their seventh year as a festival, in previous years, the Dublin Dance group have brought together performances which centre upon age, the nomadic lifestyle, and cultural identity. As festival director, Laurie Uprichard remarks, in years before the focus was more on the conceptual – themes often spark a love/ hate reaction. The choice to concentrate upon Asian dance is partly based upon the shifting cultural balance, which in many ways characterizes our current era, but also a sense of differences and subtleties not immediately apparent in contemporary Western dance.

Tickets are available either online at www.dublindancefestival.ie, by phone at (01) 672 8815, or in person at the Dublin Dance Festival Box Office, The Culture Box, 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar. It will take place in various venues across the city, including the Grand Canal Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, the Samuel Beckett Theatre, The Ark, DanceHouse, the Button Factory, and IMMA.

Words Zoe Jellicoe

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