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Talking Heads Totally Dublin meets Jennifer Wrynne, the award-winning milliner turning heads in the fashion blogging world.

Jennifer Wrynne is a milliner and fashion blogger from Leitrim. In creating hats and headpieces, Jennifer’s work requires her to design unique and imaginative pieces, where attention to detail and finish are everything.

Jennifer studied at the Grafton Academy of Art and Design and worked with Louis Vuitton products before launching her first hat collection in 2011. Since then she has been the milliner of choice to: Pippa O’Connor, Alison Canavan, Síle Seoige, Maura Derrane, Claire Byrne and UK Channel 4 Racing presenter, Emma Spencer.

Always on the go, Toshiba decided that Jennifer would be the ideal candidate to try out the new KIRA Ultrabook, so we caught up with her to find out what she thought.

Tell us a little bit about what you do.

I’m a milliner and fashion blogger from county Leitrim. I specialize in hats and headpieces for weddings and days at the races. I recently started fashion blogging as an offshoot from the millinery business.

That side of things has really taken off.

So has it been a busy summer with the races then?

Yeah, it’s been a bit mad. In March of this year I won the Cheltenham Best Dressed Lady over in the UK so that was obviously a huge boost to the business. I’ve also been lucky that the lady that won Best Dressed Lady at the Galway Races was wearing one of my hats. Successes like that create more business so it’s been really, really busy but we’re getting through it all anyway.

And you’ve been using the Toshiba KIRA for the last while, how have you found that?

It’s been brilliant. I got it the week of the Galway Races so it was great for when I was there. It’s just so light, easy to use, and easy to carry around the place. A lot of my work is on the go; going to the races and different things like that, so, it’s lovely to be able to bring the laptop in a neat little bag and be able to blog and work on the go - it’s just been so handy.

It’s been said that the computer has a powerful performance, great battery life and is very lightweight, how did you find it when you took it on the road with you?

Yeah, exactly. The battery life lasts an entire day and I’d be using it pretty much the whole time. It’s certainly the longest battery life I’ve ever had from a computer anyway. It’s been great to start out early in the morning and come back to it and it’s still going with plenty of battery life.

The HD screen on it’s been really good as well. I recently bought new camera equipment so we can put up 360 degree version of each hat online and when you look at it on the Toshiba you can really see the detail and the colour, so it’s been really handy for that sort of thing. We’ve even got a zoom function for looking at each hat and because the screen quality is so good you can really see every little stitch and detail.

Would you say you were capable of doing more and being more creative whilst using the KIRA? Yeah, it’s just so fast and easy to use. It’s been really good for me creatively, from writing a blog to doing some research and even photo editing and the like - it’s been fantastic. Because of the camera equipment we have, we need a special software on the computer for editing and watermarking and it came in so handy for all that sort of thing, it’s been great.

For creative people like yourself would you recommend this computer?

Oh, definitely. I’d recommend it to everyone really but for people working in creative fields, definitely. If you’re into blogging or using a computer on the go it’s great. With my work I need to have access to a computer pretty much 24/7 so it’s great for that. It’s just so fast and easy and light, there’s so many advantages.

Finally, if people want to see your own work, how can they do that?

So the best place is probably my website, jenniferwyrnne.com and then I’m also on all the social media platforms you’d expect; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest.

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So. Farewell then, Twisted Pepper. Even though it was best known for revitalising the city’s club scene, short-lived and long-running gigs for regulars and many dodgy DJ aliases, the Twisted Pepper was more than just a nightclub, and much more than the sum of its parts. One of my favourite moments there came in the back room with just a man and a saxophone, when Colin Stetson let a packed house know just what they were in for with a single elephant’s roar from his gigantic baritone that shook, your clothes, the hair on your body and the walls before launching into absolutely spellbinding performance. (Another favourite moment, conversely, was Morgan Geist dropping Inspector Norse at the end of his set on Record Store Day 2012 – what a banger.)

In amongst the countless nights of dancing, there were two great coffee shops, clothes and record stores, stand-up nights, BeatYard and Ten Days In Dublin festivals, talks and screenings – pretty much anything anyone was willing to try their hand at. The openness to ideas and willingness to help locals get a start should be central to its lasting legacy. Here’s to the next chapter on Middle Abbey Street from the Bodytonic gang.

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Dublin Gallery Weekend Over 30 galleries around the city will be taking part in weekend festival of visual art running from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September. Dublin Gallery Weekend will see galleries like the Douglas Hyde, the Kerlin, IMMA and the RHA amongst others taking part and encouraging folks to see the art they have on show with a series of exhibition openings, artist and curator talks, walking tourings and extended opening times, with all but a handful of events taking place being free-ofcharge. The weekend is an extension of the Dublin Gallery Map launched by Rayne Booth of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios last year, and amongst the highlights will be artist David Godbold and critic/lecturer Dr. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith in conversation in the Kerlin Gallery on Saturday at 2.30, and the Lost Friday party in the RHA. For full list of events, tours and opening times, see dublingalleryweekend.ie

The Long Gaze Back

Traffic Boxes Originally a scheme run by Dublin City Council’s Beta Project, Dublin Canvas is rolling out the next phase of its plan to colour in the grey parts of the city. Traffic boxes are being painted, initially around the city centre before spread out to Ranelagh, Donnybrook, Sandymount and Terenure, by volunteer artists and illustrators including Ruan van Vliet (above), Fuchsia MacAree, Shalom Costa and Anna Doran.

Broadcaster and journalist Sinéad Gleeson, known for her writing in The Irish Times and film coverage on RTÉ, has put together an anthology of short fiction by Irish female writers to be published next this month

by New Island Books. Entitled The Long Gaze Back, the compilation will feature 30 Irish authors, with all work by living authors (22 of them) being new and heretofore unpublished.

Amongst the names on the teamsheet are Belinda McKeon, Anne Devlin, Anne Enright and Lisa McInerney. There will be a panel featuring June Caldwell, EM Reapy and Mary

Keep an eye out as you pound the pavement over the coming months, or find

Costello at Hodges Figgis on Thursday 10th

out how to get involved at www.dublincanvas.com

September to mark the book’s release, with an official launch on Wednesday 23rd September at the Liquor Rooms with guest speaker Anne Enright.

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Breakfast of Champions

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Not only are they offering the best frozen yogurt in the city, the lads at Yogism have now moved into the lucrative delicious, healthy breakfast game.

From protein pancakes to homemade gluten and refined sugar-free granolas served with real greek yogurt, their new menu is building a reputation for having one of the healthiest breakfast offerings in town. For those who don’t do dairy, they also make their own coconut yogurt and almond milk, so the anti-lactose gang don’t have to miss out. Their second store is now open on the corner of Dawson Street and St.Stephen’s Green – the perfect spot for a grab and go brekkie (or to sit and watch the Luas works).

Scoop, a charity founded by Andrew Sweeney in 2011 that supports schools in Cambodia, is launching the Scoop Art Cookbook which features 33 artists who have illustrated their favourite recipes. Amongst the artists featured in the book are Duda, Colm Mac Athlaoich and street artist Morgan. The book will launch on Thursday 10th September in Third Space Café on Smithfield Square at 7pm, where copies of the book will be available. The event will double as an auction of the artwork featured in the book, with the aim of raising €30,000 for educating children in rural communities in Cambodia.

For more information on the project, check out scoopfoundation.com, where you can also pick up copies of the book.

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Simon Community Fun Run The Annual Simon Community Fun Run returns for its 32nd year on Saturday 3rd October in the Phoenix Park. The five mile challenge is a modestly achievable target even for the most casual of runners, and will be a mere stretching session for those already geared up for the marathon later that month. The event raises funds to allow the Simon Community to provide emergency accommodation, soup runs, rough sleeper teams, health advice and housing information for the numbers around the city affected by homelessness.

Anyone interested can register for the race at funrun.ie

Pecha Kucha While the actual summer has been a bit of a wash-out, the Pecha Kucha Summer this past July was absolutely great craic with starring roles from Douglas Carson’s amazing house and Manchán Magan’s ode to the value of gates. Our next event, in collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation, takes place on Thursday 24th September again in the Sugar Club on Leeson Street, with speakers including artist Sven Anderson, illustrator and pun-queen Fuchsia MacAree and design practice Thirty Three Trees. The event will kick off at 7pm with tickets costing €6 available at the door only, so make sure to get down early to get a good seat!

For more details on the speakers, check out our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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First DRAFFts Uncovering the rich world of ideas behind the work of the theatre makers, dance makers and other artists presenting in Dublin, DRAFF has thus far been a web-mag and an exhibition installed in 5 Dame Lane earlier this May, picking up a five-star review from The Irish Times along the way.

This autumn however – in time for the festivals – DRAFF will finally fulfil its original destiny with the launch of its first print edition, stuffed full of curious and unseen content contributed directly by artists. The brainchild of theatre maker José Miguel Jimenez, dance maker Liv O’Donoghue and writer (and TD contributor) Rachel Donnelly, the first issue of DRAFF will be free to pick up from Thursday 17th of September throughout the city centre.

Contributors will include maestro of weird, English performance artist Kim Noble, Irish company Dead Centre (winners of Best Production in the Irish Theatre Awards 2013), as well as artists from Portugal, France and Germany.

Edible Fiasco Dublin-based artists Moira Brady Averill and Isadora Epstein are hosting an ‘edible fiasco’ in the form of their presentation Flemish Proverbs (as part of Tiger Dublin Fringe) which takes place in the arches of the Luncheonette on the grounds of NCAD. The piece is a play, set in a chaotic, medieval hell and features the culinary and comedic talents of two damned cooks from a Pieter Bruegel painting… and perhaps most importantly, includes lunch!

Check out their website (draff.net) or follow them on Twitter (@draffmag), and keep your ears open and

Performances take place at 1pm on weekdays between Wednesday 9th and Tuesday

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When we think of what is underused in Dublin, the almost 300 vacant sites around the city first come to mind, many of them occupied by empty and derelict buildings. In the face of a severe housing crisis, it seems like a no-brainer to restore, transform, and revitalise them. But it’s not only vacant buildings, like the many empty inner city office spaces, that could be transformed into homes. Dublin’s canals also have untapped potential. We put the question, ‘What if Dublin made use of its two central canals?’ to our followers on @What_if_Dublin last month. Could living on boats provide an affordable alternative to city centre living?

Would it benefit its surrounds?

Whereas in Ireland as a whole there are only 60 to100 boaters at present, Amsterdam has as many as 2,500 house-boats. Boat living started off as an affordable alternative there, but with increasing rents and popularity, boats have quickly matched the prices of normal apartments. In Dublin, mooring fees for house boats currently range from €1,250 to €3,500 per annum depending on size of boat, location and services provided. However, there is no legal basis for having your address on the water yet, and permanent permits aren’t available to date.

While many of our followers fancied the idea of living on the water in central Dublin, some were concerned with ecosystem of the canals, while others believed these boats would just be a fashionable addition to an already exclusive inner city property market.

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This month is all about the ‘micro’ on the @What_if_Dublin Twitter account. Send us your vision of small and simple changes – it could be featured here next month!

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GUINNESS POWER HOUSE, ST. JAMES’S GATE, D8 Architects: FRM Woodhouse, Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners

The stretch of road from my Kilmainham flat to the city centre introduces me to an assortment of buildings, each with their own personality. My dual interests in housing design and identity construction has created an addiction to probing how buildings shape, and are shaped by, those who experience them on an everyday basis. I have spent much time in these moments of pedestrian introspection affixing personalities to inanimate floors of brick, glass, steel and concrete. Property façades along James’s Street and Thomas Street are familiar neighbours and a steady constant in a city where so much else is changing. And, on these walks, my attention always returns to one building whose character stands out above the rest – the Guinness Power House.

It was built between 1946 and 1948 to provide power to the Guinness Brewery and sits halfway between St. James’s Hospital and Christ Church Cathedral. The red brick aesthetic is typical of the style found throughout Guinness’s sprawling D8 estate. Its two octagonal red brick towers flank the site while an orange windsock invites the possibility of an unexpected helicopter landing, though its squeezed-in location makes this seem improbable.

From the pavement, six different roof heights obscure the full extent of the building’s industrial beauty. The upper levels best showcase the architects’ vision for detailed brick work and cornering that adds a touch of decadence to an otherwise functional design.

Its long rectangular windows help exaggerate its size and, during December, the Guinness Christmas tree is decorated outside, adding to the building’s conspicuous charm.

On first impressions, the Guinness Power House is an unmistakably confident building.

However, closer scrutiny of its architectural history complicates this identity and exposes a building that lacks the overstatement of other

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comparable postwar power stations. English architect FRM Woodhouse designed the building, with credit also attributed to Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners. The Power House was part of a post-war modernisation project across the Guinness estate, with the building intended to provide energy from oil and gas. The design evoked the work of Giles Gilbert Scott, the English architect behind London’s Bankside and Battersea power stations. The London Power Company invited Scott to provide designs that improved the external look of the Battersea power station ahead of its opening in 1933. Scott then designed the Guinness Brewery at Park Royal, in northwest London, between 1933 and 1935 and consulted on the Bankside power station in 1947.

Whereas the Battersea Power Station became the famous backdrop for Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals and Bankside became the home of Tate Modern in 2000, the Guinness Power House has remained an unassuming presence on St. James’s Gate. The building is less monumental in size and its jumbled arrangement of sections fails to replicate the symmetrical elegance of its London contemporaries. The building’s Art Deco aesthetic, reminiscent of the 1920s or 1930s, also arrived in Dublin a generation too late and seemed nostalgic before even opening, compared to bolder styles such as Brutalism.

Yet, these shortcomings oddly warm me to the Guinness Power House: its projection of bold industrial bravado and high chimneys seem less confident when one learns more about ‘better’ examples of this building form and its tardy arrival to Ireland’s architectural scene. As an example of forward looking modernity, the Guinness Power House brought little innovation to how people thought about architecture. But as a building, in the context of James’s and Thomas Streets, it works well and adds to the area’s list of notable characters.

Kevin Guyan is a Dublin-based researcher exploring men’s experiences of housing design in England in the decades after World War II. (@kevin_guyan)

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souvenirs carefully explores this thinking, filtering it through the local context, embracing the subtleties of the land, weather, histories and people. It is a gathering of objects with meaning and depth that softly speak of a time and place. We wanted to create souvenirs to be collected, used and treasured.

Why London in particular, and would you have any plans to tour the exhibition?

The London Design Festival is one of the best design events of the year and is the perfect location to launch Souvenir. The collection will then go to Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week, and to Dublin Castle in early 2016 to celebrate the big show for ID2015 and Showcase, the trade fair at the RDS.

Rainbow Plate by Nicholas Mosse + Johnny Kelly

THE SOUVENIR PROJECT

Where did the inspiration for Souvenir come from?

With The Souvenir Project we wanted to challenge the perceived notions of how Ireland might be presented in the context of a souvenir.

The term souvenir may have an unfortunate veil of commercialisation drawn over it due to mass tourism but at its root, it is literally about memory and recollection. A souvenir is so much more than useful or beautiful; it is a loved object laced with emotional associations. The collection of new Irish

Whose work in particular are you excited about seeing?

A game that has intrigued us from day one is Brandun. It is the reimagining of an ancient Irish board game by architect Tom dePaor, who has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale for his work with peat.

It was a game played in early Irish literature and its description can imply the game of chess. On a round board, one game is the well-known play of two equal and opposing armies, the other the struggle of a king and his band surrounded and outnumbered on a seven by seven grid of Brandub, played on the interstices. Both arrangements are a game of ground won and lost, and the latter perhaps resonating to the island community. The playing pieces are made from bog, compressed and cut into the figures, from an extrusion of this island, as a gift or a souvenir.

The Rainbow Plate is the result of an exciting collaboration between Nicholas Mosse Pottery and director and animator Johnny Kelly, commemorating the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Ireland.

Johnny was inspired by the pottery’s extensive back catalogue of ceramic designs and strong

use of colour. The resulting rainbow pattern is reconstructed entirely from this archive of motifs, including some elements dating back to the 1970s when Nicholas Mosse Pottery was first established, in Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny.

This souvenir is a small celebration for a big moment in Ireland’s history, a gently waving flag for equality.

Another exciting piece in the exhibition is the collection of cut crystal vases by J Hill’s Standard and Studio AAD. Cut crystal is a classic glass production technique with a strong historical Irish association. A vase is a vessel for flowers, designed to hold water. Flowers need water, flowers get their water from the rain, Ireland has a reputation for its rain. Rain comes in many different forms and there are many different Irish expressions for rain. This is a collection of crystal vases cut with a series of patterns to represent different Irish terms for rain – soft day, spitting, pissing, lashing, bucketing – sophisticated, yet wonderfully playful.

How do you feel ID2015 has impacted upon Irish design?

The Design and Crafts Council are only getting started and the year has been a exceptionally effective way for them to refine how best to serve their purpose. It has been building nicely and I do feel in the next four months there will be some really wonderful projects coming to life.

It’s all the things that happen after this year that I am curious and excited by.

The Souvenir Project opens on Tuesday 22nd of September in Shoreditch, as part of London Design Festival and will be coming to Ireland towards the end of this year.

Future Logos London-based illustrator Rob Lowe, AKA Supermundane, has long evolved a bright, graphic style of drawing, with vector-based, two-dimensional shapes and flat planes of colour being characteristic of his work. With his new ‘zine, Logos For An Unknown Future, he uses his style to create different forms and shapes that could be used as basis for logos, with suggested uses, such as Randomised Town Planning and The History of the Physicality of Paper. Limited to only 50 issues, each comes with a signed and numbered miniprint, and are available now. supermundane.com

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GARB words Honor Fitzsimons

Tissue, founded by the talented illustrator Gráinne Finn and patterncutting wizard Hannah Mullan, bounded on to the Dublin fashion scene this year with their thoroughly modern take on fashion design. Their use of rich heritage fabrics, mixed with original prints in expert cuts have gained them a Future Makers Award and saw their AW15 collection snapped up by Brown Thomas Create initiative.

FORM AND SURFACE

How did you both get started with Tissue?

Gráinne: Hannah and I took part in an exhibition together, where I had some prints and etchings. After the show we were talking about collaborating using some of my original print textiles. The idea was initially that we would produce printed silk scarves, and it kind of mushroomed from there.

Hannah: Yeah, I was thinking about the scarves and thought we could do some t-shirts and it kept growing, so then the aesthetic started developing from there. That was January this year, so from there we decided to put out a SS15 collection. We got the meeting for Brown Thomas Create in March, so we sort of had a month to get the AW15 together, which was pretty intense!

What are your backgrounds in?

G: Visual art is my background, I actually don’t have a background in fashion as such, apart from knowing what I like to wear. I studied History of Art at UCD and then went on to do a masters in illustration at the Manchester School of Art, and then did another masters in Art in the Contemporary World in NCAD. H: I had a long path! I studied History of Art, and then I went on to the Grafton Academy to do a course in pattern cutting. It was called ‘dress design’ but it was more pattern cutting and it actually gave me a really good basis in tailoring. From then I interned in Paris at Sharon Wauchob, and from there I got a job at John Rocha doing the patterns. That was for about ten years, after which I was then working for Simone Rocha. I left to do a masters in Design History at NCAD, while still freelancing for John Rocha and Danielle Romeril, but I left completely when I had my two wee ones. I really felt I wanted something creative to do, and I always loved Gráinne’s style and her prints. I think we both feel that at the base of Tissue are the prints, it might only be one element but it informs the rest of the collection.

What are your processes?

G: We start by getting the visuals together, as that will inform the print. For example, our SS15 was based on the Ballets Russes and Sergei Diaghilev’s costumes. Then for AW15 we were working in a sort of ‘Bauhaus way’ with rulers and geometry, so that informed the print. We also added some block colour knits which had a certain ‘dance’ quality to them. So the print is at the nucleus, but it’s not the whole story either. It would be quite organic really as Hannah would suggest some shapes, and we would design the shape and the print together, as opposed to just designing it on a bolt of fabric. In our Patrova dress for AW15, the print is actually based on pattern pieces of a collar. I quite like the look of vintage patterns, with their red lines, and I just started to play about with them and pritt stick them together.

H: We were actually working in very distinct ways for each of the collections. For SS15 we did a lot of sketching of trees and played with the super-light fabrics, but with AW15 we worked in a different way, using graph paper and rulers. It was a much more deliberate way, which resulted in a stronger, bolder statement with blocks of colour. I feel it’s a stronger collection because of the way we worked. We come from very different backgrounds in terms of the way we both approach things, so the more deliberate route worked much better for the collection.

G: It’s good to know that you can actually do that in a sense, to make what you set out to make, as opposed to ending up somewhere else.

H: I think, actually, the way that Gráinne works is a really important element to Tissue, as she’s not sort of destroyed by fashion! She doesn’t get too bogged down in the ‘how-to’ of making something, in terms of the patterns and details.

I suppose, because my background is in pattern cutting, sometimes you can nearly compromise your design, thinking, ‘Oh, how am I going to work this out?’ That’s definitely allowed me to be a lot freer in how I think.

Could you tell us a bit about the fabrics you use?

H: We used some Donegal tweed, from a company called Molloy and Sons. I love tweed, I love the texture and, not in a cheesy way, but I do love that it’s Irish and unique. It’s a heritage fabric, but it’s so modern as well, and clean. It’s a really rich textile. I would probably work in tweed all the time as it’s such a dream to work with! From a pattern cutting point of view, everything looks great in tweed. It responds really well to tailoring, and it is great to use a fabric produced in Ireland from a tradition that’s a few hundred years old.

There’s such a depth of colour in it, it’s never just one colour, so we can pick up the other colours in the other fabrics for the collection. We also used a plain silk Crêpe de Chine in strong colours that go with the greys in the tweed. For the

prints, initially we did them on a cotton drill, which was nice, and a silk Crêpe Marocaine, which is a heavier silk but which still falls really nicely. Then for the knits, we used lambswool with monofilament, which we collaborated on with a knitwear designer here. So it’s all natural!

How do you find it working together?

G: We really enjoy working together, and it’s great for me to see a whole other way of working.

H: Yeah, I’ve been really enjoying finally getting a creative outlet. Of course in the beginning it’s difficult to make money, but being able to be creative is really the driving force for me. It’s just been so exciting from January to now, between the Crafts Council Future Makers Award, and the shows we’ve done, to BT Create, it’s kind of been like a whirlwind!

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WELL YOU CAN FALL FOR CHAINS OF SILVER… Blocky, bold and sleek, Capulet and Montague’s artful jewellery has been gaining momentum since its inception in 2012 with recent accolades including the coveted Irish Fashion and Innovation Award for Jewellery Designer of the Year and the overall prize for Innovation. We met with Lisa McCormack, the Dublin-based designer and skilled craftsperson behind those attention-grabbing pieces.

What was your path into jewellery design?

I suppose I had always been a maker. My mum’s an artist, so it would have stemmed from there.

I came up to Dublin in 1999 to study film and media at Ballyfermot College, after I left that I managed a café for ten years, and then when I lost my job I had idle hands, so I started making.

I began by making pieces for friends and family, for birthday gifts and such. People were really impressed with what I was making, so I began a part-time jewellery course here in Dublin. I was just practicing at home with different materials and found I really loved working with printable acrylic, so I decided to go on the Back to Work scheme in order to start my own business. I met with my local office and they said they loved my work and that they would help me get my business up and running. After that I went into Om Diva on Drury Street – they have vintage pieces and an Irish designer floor, Atelier 27 – and they really loved my work. I’ve been stocked there since 2012, also in the RHA Gallery, and in Dipili boutique on Ormonde Quay.

Could you talk us through how you make your pieces?

A lot of people would draw up their ideas first, but I would see a shape, for example, the curve of a lamp or something that might inspire me.

Then I would get the materials, either perspex or wood, and cut it onto a shape from that idea, as opposed to drawing it. I just never found that drawing suited me as much as taking the materials and layering them up. I bend the plastic as well by heating it up using a heat gun, then moulding it and bending it into different shapes around wooden moulds which I’ve made also.

There’s a lot of trial and error as acrylic is quite temperamental, it can pop or buckle – you might be working on one side of a piece, then the other side might start bending and changing the shape.

It is brilliant in that simple pieces can be really striking.

You also include soft elements like fringing?

Yes, every season I like to change what I’m doing and develop, so the recent season had a lot of

fringing and that was to add another dimension.

It gave more movement which people loved and was really popular. Having the high shine of the hard plastic and soft fringe was fun and would fall in different ways.

What were your inspirations for AW15?

I started by looking into Bauhaus, it was a school in Germany, and I was specifically interested in the typography. They did a lot of these large U-shaped lettering. Herbert Bayer was the member who designed the typography that I worked the shapes from. So they are very structured, still with some fringing and block colours of blue, turquoise, orange, and still with the wood and the white mixed in.

What music would you stick on while you’re working?

I’m a big fan of Little Dragon, it’s upbeat but also really melodic with such a beautiful voice, so I love listening to that. I really like anything that’s upbeat. A little bit of St. Vincent mixed in, and I’m a big disco diva, depends on how fast I want to work! My studio is at my home in Harold’s Cross, and my view out my window is my beautiful garden, and that makes me really happy. So being at home, listening to music, and having a good atmosphere to work in is great.

How have you found working in Dublin with Capulet and Montague for the past three years?

Working in Dublin has been fantastic I have to say. For a new designer who’s self-taught, it’s brilliant. There’s always someone who wants to help out or be part of what you’re doing, and then you’ll have people who will push you. It’s really connected here, there is always somebody who can connect you to someone. I love living in Dublin, it’s been great for me to be able to walk in somewhere and speak to someone. Say if you were going to London with the start of your business, it could be really daunting but if you get the start in the city that you live and stocked in the city that you live, and people get to know you in the city that you live, it’s a brilliant feeling.

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Th’ time is rotten ripe for revolution

CUBA FACES INTO A TIME OF TURBULENT TRANSITION

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President Barack Obama’s decision to open the lines of communication and begin to re-engage with Cuba late last year, there’s a sense that since that announcement, Cuba and the fate of the Cuban people has once again been reduced to little more than a plaything of the American political elite. Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, there has been a race to adopt a stance on the issue: Hillary Clinton has since taken up Obama’s mantle in calling to end the embargo once and for all, whilst Marco Rubio, a Republican Party candidate and son of Cuban immigrants, enraged by the re-opening of the respective embassies in both Washington and Havana in July, has vowed to reverse all the steps taken so far that even faintly symbolise a thawing of political relations with the ‘anti-American, communist tyranny’.

Posed as the cultural antithesis of the United States, and regularly reinforced as something far more sinister mostly (though not exclusively)

by Republican front-runners, Cuba has long since appealed as the dream holiday destination to would-be radicals the world over. The romance of revolution, long since packaged up and marketed as little more than a commercial fantasy (though crucially, rarely by Cubans themselves) has been further sustained by this lack of reconciliation. Yet a trip to Cuba today is strikingly devoid of anti-American sentiment.

It’s as noticeably absent from the country as the lack of advertising and billboards that the cynical among us might be inclined to recognise as truly synonymous with the American spirit.

It’s not what might be expected from a country that has in so many ways, been stifled for so long by US intervention and severance. But Havana remains beautiful, despite its poverty, and is a city awash with colour. Many of the grandest buildings have been hollowed out and repurposed, corrugated iron serving as makeshift barriers between the inside and out.

In a city peppered with so many monuments it hardly comes as too much of a surprise that when a building falls down, the rubble is rarely cleared away, as if to pay homage to its own former presence in the landscape.

These instances do mean, however, that when one turns a corner and finds the immaculate Hotel Nacional De Cuba or El Floridita – or really any of the establishments that Hemingway might have frequented during his time in Cuba – their impeccable upkeep can be unnerving. It’s said that if Hemingway relieved himself against a building, you can probably find a plaque memorialising it. It is hard not to take pleasure in being transported straight back to the ’50s, however, and though you can at times feel party

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to an eerie exercise in tourism, it’s in those moments devoid of any exchange of money – walking along the Malecón watching the fisherman that inspired The Old Man and The Sea, or strolling through Old Town – that you’re able to feel most at ease.

In these experiences, the Cuba that tourists have been told they can expect for the last 50 years is still alive. But it’s naïve of us to go to Cuba looking for the same things that previous generations might have sought without feeling bound by the moral implications of those finds.

Susan Sontag wrote that she felt what so many visitors to Cuba were seeking was ‘an energy, a southern spontaneity which we feel our own too white, death-ridden culture denies us’ and whether or not that is still the case, it would seem like an injustice to leave Cuba thinking that the upbeat rhythms of the country’s music remain symptomatic of the people’s state of mind. The young Cubans that I spoke to whilst in Havana, were keen to convey frustrations that seem directly at odds with traditional presentations of Cuban living, such as the stifling of creative freedom by the State: ‘Suppose you want to make a band, for example, and you’re good, and you have certain successes… you can’t earn money for your shows or your albums. If you didn’t study in a particular school of arts, you won’t get an ID card, and without the papers that claim you are a professional, you cannot start to do anything. So that’s very bad because there are great things out there and very interesting people that cannot develop or improve their life because they don’t have enough resources and they simply can’t get access to those resources. But so often those who can get the opportunity to get those papers, who the country supports, they’re making bad music, and it’s bad art. These are just some of the limitations I see. I’m not talking about politics...I’m talking about culture.’

Roberto and Juan (whose pseudonyms they agree on collectively, after much goodhumoured debate) are both design students.

They tell me that it’s a great time for designers and their hope is that the cooling of relations with the United States will mean they can travel.

‘I mean, I suppose we can travel, but it’s too expensive – way too expensive – and so much paperwork is required. There are a lot of limitations on it. Working with the States might mean that we can maybe improve that. The idea would be not just to leave here and get out, but instead to stay, having acknowledged other cultures. I’d go straight to Germany see the Bauhaus, and look around the German design schools. It’s such a great place for design. Then Brazil, and later, I’d go to Canada, just because I like it. And then I’d return to Cuba because I think there are things here that couldn’t find anywhere else.’

And yet some Cubans do travel, just as some Cubans can afford to drink in the expensive bars and hotels mainly occupied by tourists. I ask Roberto what he means by the ‘rich Cubans’ they speak about, and what their existence might mean for Cuban Communism. ‘I think it’s a lie, really, or at least it’s made up of lies. It tries to govern by the maxim everything for everyone and it does with health and knowledge, education, and with the fact that you never die of not eating… but it also supposes that everyone should be economically equal, and that’s just not the case. I mean, there are definitely social classes. Workers – normal people – and then people that are somehow just above them. And then there are those people, I don’t know what they do, but they have lots of money… and just

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so much stuff. There is money in Cuba. At first sight, it might be invisible, but it’s here.’

These richer Cubans tend to be the ones who circumnavigate the harder military service placements, compulsory for all Cuban boys when they get to the age of 17. Both Juan and Roberto served, and tell me that the worst part of their time known as ‘The Green’ isn’t the physical hardship, or the labour, but the psychological state they had to assume to get through it. ‘During that time, [that] was the first time –really the only time – that I was scared of my own feelings,’ cites Roberto. ‘One day I was in the desert, crawling along on my front with my gun, and I just stood up and said that I wouldn’t do it anymore. I couldn’t stand it, I hate war.

And my boss wasn’t wild on that. I spent some time on my own after that. It wasn’t the worst.

I read a lot. But perhaps if my Grandpa had been a revolutionary, I could have found myself in a kitchen, or the ministry of Cuban Armed Forces. You know, in an office, with air-conditioning, probably a television.’

Over the course of the evening, Juan jokes about the interview landing them in prison, though they seem to relax as the night wears on.

It’s clear though, that their fears aren’t unfounded. Roberto asks if I’ve read 1984 and tells me that I needn’t look any further for a parallel of Cuban society. But all the while, it’s also clear that their fondness for the country, and what it could be, remains paramount. Fidel Castro commands a certain amount of respect, they tell me, though perhaps not as much as the generation above them are willing to give.

‘Before the revolution most of those people were poor, they couldn’t read, they didn’t have any belongings. And when the revolution came the first thing that Fidel Castro did was nationalise all the enterprises that were from other countries, nationalise all the land, and he gave that land to the poor. He gave them a lot of things that they actually needed, and it was good. But you can’t live on that for more than 50 years, obviously it gets stuck. I understand those people’s loyalty because they got what they needed and in many cases he saved their life, but in the end there’s a new generation with new needs that he cannot satisfy. And so that’s the trouble right now – that we cannot get what we need and want.’

Interaction with the US should, they hope, readdress some of these needs. ‘Even with the little leak of internet in Cuba a lot of information is coming in, and a lot of changes are happening.’ This leak has set in motion the changes that the rest of the world is waiting with baited breath for. It should suffice as proof that the introduction of external influences won’t rupture Cuban society and culture in the way that many seem to fear, but enhance and enrich it.

The greatest worry, for many Cubans, though, lies in the logistics that will have to pave the way for these changes. ‘It’s a slow process, and I’m very skeptical… I don’t know if it’ll work.

I mean, immediately I think there will be a lot of software licensing problems, just taking the example of us as designers, for instance. We use so many programs, and it’s all illegal. We don’t mind, because we’re in Cuba and it works, but that’s not going to be how the USA will see it.

They’ll tell us we owe them, and most of those programs are more expensive than any of us could afford.’

This example, transferrable as it is to so many sectors, poses a real fear for Cuban industry, very much aware, that in this new relationship with the US, it is unlikely to be Cuba calling the shots. The ironing out of such issues, is going

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Though it’s still described as a revolution of consciousness, its cultural counterpart drags behind

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to be a long and fraught process, and it places a tremendous amount of responsibility on the United States to treat Cuba as something far more than a new political or commercial venture. But in turn, as Cuba takes to the global stage once again after its long absence, the rest of the world too must play a culpable part in its observation and critique of the changes. The danger, it seems, is that we will feel the need to hold Cuba to a cultural standard of our own creation, a feeling that a prosperous relationship with the States might go some of the way to undermine the Cuba that we find so interesting.

But much as we, as tourists, might like to visit a land that time apparently forgot, the Cubans do not owe it to us to remain forgotten, and we cannot ask its youth to further maintain such a pretence. To many of the young people of Cuba, the Revolution has faded in significance, and is now simply something that happened to their parents. Though it’s still described as a revolution of consciousness, its cultural counterpart drags behind and leaves Cubans bereft of liberties that we might expect to flourish. The country is poised, and ready for a change that has already begun to happen from within, with the introduction of the internet paving the way for the more dramatic changes that will follow.

The hope is that the USA will be able to divorce their position from party-politics and take the opportunity to really help the Cubans in the ways in which they now need it, much as Castro was once able to. In viewing their exchanges, the rest of the world needs to ignore any of its own outlying anti-Americanism, and also re-evaluate what it perceives to be radical, and thus in keeping with Cuban tradition. Once again, Cuba is ready for a truly revolutionary period of its history, and it can only be hoped that political forces within the States will recognise this, lest in setting it free, they confuse it with little more than political currency in the upcoming election.

ORCHESTRAL MOODS IN THE DARK Earlier this year, Ruban Nielson had to make a decision; to be honest about a complicated and painful aspect of his personal life, or to merely go through the motions of another record release without tipping his hand.

Thankfully, for us anyway, Nielson opted to go public with the details of the polyamorous, cohabiting relationship that he, his wife and a female student shared during the conception of his latest basement funk opus, Multi-Love.

I say ‘thankfully’ because an understanding of the contextual specifics that coloured the record’s creation have afforded the finished product – a dense yet danceable slice of experimental R&B – an even greater emotional heft than found on the previous Unknown Mortal Orchestra records. We spoke with Ruban in advance of Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s much-anticipated Whelan’s show about the perils of public plain speaking and his ongoing struggle to find balance between what’s best for the artist and what’s best for the art.

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The new record is far removed from the lo-fi aesthetic you guys were lumped in with at the start. Did you ever feel any association with ‘lo-fi’ or was the sound just a reflection of the means you had available at the start?

It was more about the means, I suppose. I was trying to make what I thought was the best album possible with what I had and I didn’t really have anything at all. When I first moved from New Zealand to Portland, I didn’t really have any resources and was recording in secret, for myself. I didn’t tell anyone what I was up to. Even when I made the second album things hadn’t got much better in terms of what my resources were. This time around, I thought it would be kind of dishonest to make another album that was all lo-fi when I had money to spend. I was ready to try and expand what I was doing and improve my skills. I thought that a lot of people would probably give up on me if I kept up doing the same sound for three albums! It would have seemed, to me, like a way of saying I was going to stay in the background forever and played to a small audience. It would have been fine to do that but it just seemed boring.

It’s funny how lo-fi stuff is very of-themoment, but can get dated very quickly.

Stuff that is more explicitly informed by older works can somehow appear fresher or more experimental than a lot of bedroom stuff that’s more a la mode.

Yeah. I also feel like a lot of younger bands are starting to figure out what I was doing on those early records. I always try to be really transparent in what I’m doing, how I get sounds, what equipment I’m using and that sort of thing, so at some point what you’re doing becomes a little irrelevant because so many other people are doing something similar.

You brought up transparency there and that’s something I wanted to talk to you about, in particular that Pitchfork article about you recently about the personal circumstances surrounding the making of the album. Did you have any misgivings about speaking so frankly about your personal life? Why did you decide to do so ultimately?

My initial thought was that I wasn’t going to talk about it at all, but then I ended up feeling like I didn’t have a choice. So I thought that if there was one person I was going to talk to about it then it should be that particular journalist [David Bevan], that would be my one chance to do it on my terms. I was at the point where I was either going to talk to him about it or somebody else was going to write an article about it that had nothing to do with me. So yeah, I definitely had misgivings about it. I just felt like it was inevitable.

So now, being in a position where you’re constantly being asked about it, do you regret being so upfront?

I don’t know. I don’t really regret it… there are some things I regret about it, sure. But it is a really important piece of information in understanding what the album is about, so there’s

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upsides and downsides to speaking so frankly, sure. It just comes down to if you value your art or your privacy more.

Can it be hard to disassociate the artistic benefits of a decision like that from the results in your personal life? Especially when your future benefits from you making decisions that will produce the most compelling music? What benefits the art isn’t always going to be the same thing that makes for the happiest life.

Yeah. I guess that’s sort of the whole moral, existential debate that’s been going on in my head all this year. That’s what I’ve been meditating on quite a bit and I’ve yet to come to any conclusions really. It’s pretty interesting to get into that territory where I need to think more about it.

Are you still willing to put yourself in uncomfortable positions for the benefit of the art itself?

Yeah, I think I’ve always been like that, seeing a benefit in putting myself out of my comfort zone. When I was younger I found that it was positive. That something would be really awful at first then help me out later on. When I first started playing guitar, for example, I sat in on a jazz session and got up on the bandstand for some reason. It’s totally ridiculous now, I didn’t know how to play jazz at all. So, I just sort of stood there and they all played a whole tune and I couldn’t play anything they were playing. I don’t know why I even got up there to humiliate myself. I went home and felt totally destroyed just thinking to myself, ‘You’re and idiot, why did you do that?’ But it put a bit of a fire in me

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to get better and to figure out why I failed and what I can do to get better. It helped me to do something impulsive and then think about why it went wrong and grow from there.

It must be interesting for yourself to kind of evaluate that process as you get older. As responsibilities increase it must be harder to make impulsive decisions when you have other people you’re responsible for.

Yeah, and it gets really blurry when music is your job and my lifestyle is being exposed to family members and they may not be thrilled [laughs]. It’s a weird one, I don’t understand why more people don’t have this problem. I wish I could just make a normal record with having to put myself through this stuff.

I’ve always been like that, seeing a benefit in putting myself out of my comfort zone.

Do you think the decision to go for a much lusher, fuller style of production was, despite the clarity of sound, a means of shifting the focus slightly off the hyperpersonal nature of the songs themselves?

I think in some way I might have been trying to keep the lyrics secondary. I wanted people to delve into them afterwards. I had this idea that people would get on Rap Genius and read the lyrics and theorise about what they were all about! There’s a lot of references and private jokes in there. As well, I think that as soon as you know the lyrics you can hear them really clearly, but until you actually know them it can sound like I’m singing in a different language. I really like that aspect. It might not be the most commercial approach, but I wanted it to be something that if people really wanted to know what was going on that it would take some time

and effort to unpack it. There’s a lot of stuff in there, a lot of my life. They’re quite dense with information.

That kind of muddying of something that is so absolutely honest is even reflected in the cover art. It depicts the room where the record is recorded, so it couldn’t be more upfront and biographical in that sense, yet you’ve got that lurid pink light seeping into it, giving the whole image a kind of otherworldly quality.

Yeah. I was trying best to explain what my life is like. If I just had a photograph of the studio it wouldn’t really show how it felt down there, what the vibe of my work environment was like.

I think that photo really captures something about the experience itself. I think the lyrics and the production are the same thing. I feel like when people listen to the album they’re going to understand the feelings I was feeling. I think the undercurrents of darkness and whatnot are just a reflection of the way I see the world, because it was actually a really upbeat time when I was making the record. The darkness is just me and my past and where I come from, and I guess the way I see the world just has a dark edge to it.

Even when I’m happy, I guess I see things in a way that might appear kind of morbid to people.

You were talking about honesty in your work. Do you as an artist feel you have a responsibility to be upfront with your listeners?

Yeah I definitely feel a responsibility. I feel like it’s my job and I get to pay my bills doing what I love so I have a responsibility to make

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it authentic. It’s therapeutic to me, when I’m turning my life into music and everything into a story, it helps me digest things and deal with painful experiences and stuff like that. It just brings some dignity to the ongoing chaos of like, y’know? People that buy my records and support me and help me to continue to do this deserve to see me pushing myself to some sort of limit.

It’s interesting that you suggest that the process of writing songs about what’s going on in your life can offer a means to make sense of it in real time. Do you think writing a song about something affords you the opportunity to look at it from a different perspective even if the situation is ongoing?

I think so, yeah. I think I’m dealing with trying to become a better person as I’m becoming a better musician. At the moment the problem is that I’m starting to become more and more bold in relation to how I live my life and it’s come to a point where you think, ‘When do I back off?

What decisions do I make next?’ That’s interesting to me because I am thinking about that personal stuff all the time, how you’re supposed to live your life. That stuff is really important to me and I figure the best way to think about that at the moment is through music since that’s what I’m best at.

I was reading about your collaborative work with Frank Ocean and Chet Faker – for somebody that’s associated with working alone in your basement, have you kind of garnered a better understanding of your strengths as a songwriter through

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working with people?

I’ve mostly been trying to learn how to do what I do on demand. When you have your own studio set-up that isn’t costing you thousands of dollars a day, you’ve got all the time in the world. But lately, through doing all this collaborating, I’ve learned how to respond really quickly and come up with the best idea I can. It’s interesting to try and learn how to instantly get into the state of mind you need to be in to come up with real lyrics or real melodies. I’ve kind of been discovering that it’s completely possible for me to do that because I used to think maybe I just didn’t have it in me to work like that, to find the ideas that I think are the good ones in an environment where I was rushed. You just have to go there. You know when you see in movies when people go into like a fugue state or something and change their brain, it’s like that. In my brain it’s like there are two different sections, there’s a spiritual mode where my ego disconnects and I can come up with the stuff I need to. Being able to access that part of your mind on demand when there are a lot of people around was kind of scary to me, but I’ve actually been finding it fun to try and learn how to do things quickly.

There’s a spiritual mode where my ego disconnects and I can come up with the stuff I need to.

I’ve been hearing more and more about people like yourself going into collaborative environments that you might not expect, and it’s almost like an evolution of the idea of a hip-hop producer. People can bring in somebody like yourself to work on a track and the whole notion of ‘featuring’ an artist will becomes a bit more worthwhile and less gimmicky.

I think that’s true. It’s started to move in that

direction and you’d hope it’ll be more like that where people in the pop sphere will be able to bring people into improve the music and it won’t have to be a marketing exercise at all. There isn’t really an ‘indie rock’ world anymore, subcultures have all been kind of reduced to a level playing field. I see it in people around me now, so many think that there’s nothing more interesting than to work as if people are going to play your song in a club, after a Beyoncé song. Rather than get scared that the world is changing and being stupid about it, it’s better to see it as another creative challenge.

I really love the independent record label world. I prefer being on the label I’m on rather than trying to work with a major label which is a completely different beast. But, as far as indie rock world goes, I just think it’s kind of boring and it’s just not the time for the idea that these indie labels will be putting out a particular kind of sound. Like the guy from Dirty Projectors [Dave Longstreth, who was one of the team of writers and producers on the Kanye, Rihanna and Paul McCartney collaboration FourFiveSeconds] is working with Kanye and friends of mine are pitching Rihanna songs… if these people start having more of an influence in the pop world it could be really interesting. We’ve gone through a little bit of a lull. Like, the beginning of the 2000s was such an exciting time for pop music and then there was a bit of a dip, but there are reasons to believe it’s starting to get pretty cool again.

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There’s a sense that books sort of drop out of the sky, that they’ll render the world meaningful for us Paul Murray is an ambitious writer who pulls it

off – ‘it’ being layered, sprawling novels that sharply survey Ireland’s institutional systems and do so with energy, warmth and humour. His debut, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was described by Ali Smith as ‘a huge, hilarious elegy’ in its satirically poignant take on class, cash and the working world. This was followed by the Booker-longlisted Skippy Dies (2010), an epic whirlwind of a novel that weaves concepts of string theory and Irish history through the human drama of the schoolchildren and overgrown schoolchildren who alternately attend or run a Catholic boarding school. His latest novel, The Mark and the Void, turns on the meta-textual collision of a sensitive, philosophical banker (Claude) with a despondent swindler/writer character (Paul). The

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book skillfully reflects on art, money and humanity in an Ireland deeply compromised by a crisis both economic and ethical in nature.

The new novel reflects on the way art works in a hyper-commercial society, and how we might value writing or other forms of art in times of boom and in the subsequent crash. I was interested in the character Paul’s annoyance at the writer being considered a type of ‘meaningmonkey’; at the expectation that even in a morally and economically screwed world, people want art to keep acting as a repository of meaning. Is it fair to expect that kind of gift from books and art in this kind of society?

I think that gift, as you call, it is still something we want and need, but that disconnect between art and commerce is only getting worse. Arguably the situation with books isn’t as bad as it is in music, where Spotify has effectively pauperised a whole generation of musicians.

But there’s a sense, nevertheless, that books sort of drop out of the sky, that they’ll render the world meaningful for us, but that that transaction can be totally one way – I mean, we don’t feel like we have any role or responsibility in helping artists to survive in this increasingly money-obsessed world. Paul, the writer in the book, has given up on people altogether – he’s decided the world doesn’t deserve his gifts, such as they are. So the novel is partly about his journey to find some kind of point or worth in making art in a mercantile world, and to redis-

cover some tiny shard of humanity within himself.

In terms of the ‘meaning-monkey’ line – I don’t know, I think that certain readers want novels to be exclusively about the past, about other people, other countries – blue collar workers, people in authentically poor countries and so on. You get home from your hard day at Goldman Sachs or the arms dealer or wherever, and you want to settle down with something meaningful, something authentic. You might not know what that is, but one thing that definitely seems not authentic is you. You and your life feel horrifically compromised and complicated and schismatic, and you certainly don’t want to read about that. So the rich guy wants to read about the poor ‘real’ guy around the corner, and I find that somewhat vampiric and exploitative.

One reason why novels and books have a dwindling appeal is because people perceive [writing] as an inauthentic art form, which constantly has to have recourse to the past, to give people – privileged people mostly – a safe redoubt of ‘aesthetic experience’ – depictions of authentic people in cinematic weather doing manual labour. No one tells a joke. That would shatter the illusion of purity, the message that something serious is happening. Any time a book tries to impress upon me that something serious is happening, I immediately get suspicious.

Similarly, the reviewer character in the book, Mary Cutlass, only wants to know about writing that deals with crisis, famine and death. Where

does humour fit into this vision of the literary?

That attitude seems to me a reductive view of what suffering is and what the tragic is. It’s the difference between reading Primo Levi’s account of being in a concentration camp and some 21st century novelist’s poetic account of being in a concentration camp. Primo Levi’s account is full of shit, and absurd humour, and grotesquerie. It’s not trying to ennoble the suffering. It’s telling you, the suffering is fucking horrible and it’s not there to make people cry 70 years later, it’s real.

Maybe it’s easier to read something difficult but put a character away if they’re a 2D stock figure, or entirely defined by their ‘authentic’ suffering rather than if you have to see them from multiple

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perspectives, with humour, as someone who can laugh, who’s similar to you and still totally alien to you – as a real person, essentially.

Yes, exactly. The novel as a form needs to find a way out of this kind of simplification, and should be finding a way out of this simplification. When people ask about humour in books or literature, I keep coming back to Waiting for Godot. You couldn’t look for a more existential play: it’s staring death and nothingness right in the face. But there’s a moment where – I think it’s Gogo – is about to kill himself. He takes off his belt to hang himself with, and his pants fall down. And that’s the whole thing. Life is embarrassing. Suffering is embarrassing and humiliating and abject, and it’s not quite right to represent it as something other than that. The idea that some things are not worthy of writing about, or that some styles are not the stuff of literature, is absurd.

So, there was the Irish Times review of the book which got a lot of attention [In which reviewer Eileen Battersby wrote a critique of The Mark and the Void described by John Banville as ‘scathing’, and by John Boyne as ‘deeply unkind’]. And there were a significant amount of responses defending the book, which created some debate on the ethics of reading and reviewing in general. You’ve said before that you don’t read reviews.

Yeah, I don’t read them.

To move away from the specifics, then, the reaction afterwards was interesting in terms of how writing gets read and received here in general. A lot of the debate that was sparked focused on whether Irish reviewers should write strongly negative reviews of Irish books.

That seems to me a less interesting question than looking at whether there’s maybe a category error that’s still happening when Irish books get reviewed. Is there a sense that Irish writing in general is still being read according to a certain standard of realism, or even parochialism – where absurdity and caricature are seen as failures in the writing – for some reason ignoring our rich history of literary satire, parody and absurdity?

Well, I think that trying to present the problem as whether Irish reviewers should or shouldn’t review Irish books was just the Irish Times trying to cover its tracks. But satire, caricature, humour even – you’re right, I think to a certain degree, or to certain audiences, those aren’t considered the stuff of proper literature. I don’t think it’s necessarily just an Irish thing, it’s an establishment thing and it’s a fairly old guard establishment thing. Everybody has her own preferences, of course, but it seems crazy to me to say that some subjects or styles aren’t worthy of being in a novel. If you look at the history of the form, in a college undergrad course, the first thing they show you is Don Quixote, and Don Quixote is obviously not a realist novel. It’s a crazy hotchpotch of things, sending up this guy with his fantastical delusions, and it does this through a mix of registers: the realistic and the romantic and the absurd. Cervantes even puts himself in the second part, warning the hero about pirated editions. So it’s postmodern avant la lettre. And the novel has continued to roll in this vein ever since.

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So this idea of a ‘traditional’ or ‘conventional’ novel is almost an invention in itself, and maybe a construction that never quite existed...

Yeah! Think of how non-realist Tristram Shandy is, a novel that literally never starts. And that was written in, what, 1759? But I think this relates again to the demand for ‘authenticity’.

If you’re doing a creative writing course in America, for instance, there’s a certain amount of push to write about your Dominican grandfather or your Russian grandmother as ‘real’ material. When the world outside is so confusing, and so interpenetrated by different ideas, the novel is supposed to be this safe place, this pure thing. But that’s the opposite of what the novel should be.

The novel in its historical form uses a lot of different registers, is often written to make fun of things, and shows us up to be foolish and deluded a lot of the time. It makes fun of the dominant stories we’re told: do this, do that, buy this, buy that. But also, almost because of that foolishness and delusion, it is capable of warmth and care and compassion. Those things are also in there, in the original form of the novel. And it seems to me that, as a form, it’s particularly well-equipped to deal with our weird, multilayered, baffling, continually distracting, atomising world.

But there is a literary establishment, here and elsewhere, that wants books to be like opera, this niche form of entertainment for rich people.

The Mark and the Void and Skippy Dies, seem particularly drawn to describing these ‘dominant stories’ or grand narratives of system-thinking – and then tearing those down and showing them as a fiction that benefits only the few. In this book, it’s Ireland’s faith in economic knowledge and Celtic Tiger ‘progress’ that get dismantled.

We all want to understand the world, and we’re all drawn to strong narratives that claim they can explain the way things are to us in some conclusive, airtight way. Growing up in Ireland, I was told God made the world, and was given a bible, and I thought, ‘Well, this must be the way it is’. And then obviously in the 1990s when the Church collapsed – and the money simultaneously appeared – the explanatory myth changed again.

Transitions which took 200 years or more in the rest of the world happened in a few decades here. We went from being this rural, agrarian religious country to being this super postindustrial state. But the narrative was still very simple: instead of the priests, you had entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and these were the guys who knew the score. Like the priests [we were told] their knowledge was very complex, and only people with special training could understand it, it wasn’t for the ordinary person to understand because it was so complex. So we had to just trust them, and do what they told us. But of course they didn’t know what they were doing.

Life is very complicated! No one knows what’s going on! Yet even though on some level we know that, you still see, not just in Ireland but the world round, these big stories, master narratives, be it the rise of the internet, the War on Terror, Apple – one big explanation that will make the world legible and clear for us.

The need for satirical writing – or writing that makes fun of the dominant stories, in

yours – seems even more pronounced in Ireland then. Do you think satire plays an important role in Irish culture?

I don’t know if satire is an especially Irish form.

It certainly was in Swift’s day, but since then...

Hmm, could you consider Joyce a satirist? I don’t know. We do have great cartoonists, and a culture of sketch radio and TV, Scrap Saturday and so on. I think we could use a lot more satire, and again [the lack of this] comes back a bit to this expectation of the realist novel.

Our political class which should be protecting our sovereign rights as people of Ireland instead seem to be constantly siding with the billionaires

The rights of the Irish author with regards to satire are a timely issue. As was widely reported, the parody website Waterford Whispers recently received a ‘Cease and Desist’ letter from Denis O’Brien for publishing an article entitled ‘Denis O’Brien receives 20 year jail sentence for mobile phone licence bribe in parallel universe’.

It seems ironic that they’re the ones being punished, in this context.

Culturally speaking, I think there’s a really serious problem in Ireland with consequence and punishment and justice for people above a certain wage bracket – which is to say it doesn’t exist. Arguably the artistic community has a role to play in that, in terms of not turning its attention to these things. In ways Ireland is a weirdly submissive culture.

It feels like there’s still a culture where people are scared of what will happen if they cross power, and power does nothing to disabuse that fear. Our political class which should be protecting our sovereign rights as people of Ireland instead seem to be constantly siding with the billionaires, and saying these people are more equal than others. The current lingo is that they’re the wealth creators, the entrepreneurs, so they get a special dispensation.

Yeah, once the magic phrase ‘creating jobs’ is invoked, there is a sense that we need ask no more questions; that more work can only be a good thing. Maybe we’re not encouraged to ask what kind of jobs and who they benefit.

The Onion had a great headline a while back, about George W. Bush campaigning to create ‘500,000 new shitty jobs’. It’s the same attitude, as if we should be grateful for whatever crumbs are available. Meanwhile, we have people like [these billionaires], conducting [their] war on democracy from [their luxury homes abroad].

We should be on the streets about that.

Yes, we don’t have a strong protest tradition. The novel shows the quiet suppression of something similar to the ‘Occupy’ movement. Were you consciously drawing on real situations, showing how public dissent isn’t really tolerated here?

Personally speaking I was really disappointed by the lack of response to Occupy in Dublin. We often forget, this is a really right wing country.

That’s what I was trying to get at in the book, the idea that during the boom we all learned to think like bankers or estate agents. And we’re having difficulty transforming back.

The Mark and the Void is out now, published by Hamish Hamilton.

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Words: Rachel Donnell, Ian Lamont and Aidan Wall

In Dublin, September is the cruellest month… there’s just too much good work to see. Tiger Dublin Fringe is back for its 21st romp through the city, traversing genres and venues to bring Dublin audiences the rough-cut, the heartbreaking, the subversive, the brave, the sublime and the depraved, all jammed into two weeks from Monday 7th to Sunday 20th September. Tiger Dublin Fringe is the lifeblood of performance in Dublin, the space for the experimental, a festival that allows new ideas to flourish and encourages art without boundaries. This year, director Kris Nelson has stretched the definition of creativity just a notch further by including on the programme such non-traditional forms as pro-wrestling, a three-minute ritualistic cleanse involving the Irish language, and performances by artists who won’t fully commit to one thing or another.

We spoke to a wrestling promoter, a dancer making a film, a musician and filmmaker making a piece of work for the stage, and a theatre maker who’s sort of making a piece of stand-up comedy, but isn’t quite. Whatever the form, many of these artists exhibit a palpable awareness of the possibility of art effecting change and revealing truth – and how it should or can do that.

Tiger Dublin Fringe brings in big hitters from outside the country who offer glitzy entertainment value (this year, the Spiegeltent is back and is set to be hopping with hot jazz, cabaret and daredevil acrobatics from Company 2’s hit show Scotch & Soda), but it also gives a space to Irish artists who reflect hard on their craft and what it means – like tiny little think tanks, minus the bureaucracy.

So park any preconceptions about art, what it is and who it’s for – just pick a show, any show, and go be at it. RD

Scotch & Soda crobatics, jazz, old-timey circus tricks, sweat, song and dance: the central show at this year’s edition of Tiger Dublin Fringe, Company 2’s Scotch & Soda, is the kind of highoctane riot that the Spiegeltent was designed for. The infamous travelling venue returns to the Fringe for the first time since 2009 and will set up its stall on Wolfe Tone Square in the heart of the city centre, creating a hub around which the festival atmosphere will simmer throughout its two-week stay, doubtlessly fuelled by the energy provided by this particular extravaganza.

Led by David Carberry and Chelsea McGuffin, Company 2 is an elite gang of many of Australia’s top performing talents, with their backgrounds split between the circus arts, acrobatics (notably, the veteran trapeze artist known only as Mozes) and dance. Company 2 made their name with shows like Cantina and She Would Walk The Sky, each of which have had success across the Irish Sea, but this is the first time their particular blend of performance will reach these shores.

Scotch & Soda sees Company 2 collaborating with The Crusty Suitcase Band, whose live soundtrack to these feats sounds like the intersection between Rain Dogs-era Tom Waits, Beirut and the Pink Panther theme tune. The band, dressed like escapees from the Come On Eileen video, blend genres together with a quartet of brass instruments, over skittering beats conjured by percussionist and composer Ben Walsh from a junk-yard kit.

All of this immaculately controlled chaos takes place in a mash-up of olde worlde aesthetics that’s littered with military jackets, wax-tipped moustaches, fedoras and a fixie. It’s part vaudeville and part Victoriana, part Mad Max and part Bugsy Malone, all adding up to an eye-watering overload of the senses.

Fresh from a lengthy 10-week residency at the London Wonderground festival at the Southbank Centre, as well as previous excursions in Edinburgh and on home soil in Australia, Scotch & Soda will form the backbone of Tiger Dublin Fringe’s programme, with early evening performances taking place each day of the festival (with the excep-

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tion of each of the two Mondays) before the Spiegeltent’s programme of late shows, which feature musical highlights like the Turning Pirate Mix Tape (Sat 12th), Booka Brass Band (Fri 11th), Mx Justin Vivian Bond (Tues 15th) and the newly announced Holly Herndon (Thurs 17th) and Christian Löffler and Laser Tom (Sat 19th).

Considering the pedigree of the performers, the reputations they have garnered for their shows overseas and the melange of voguish arts they combine, this looks set to be one of the most accessible and popular productions at the 21st edition of the Fringe. With all the signs pointing to Scotch & Soda being just the tonic to get you into the festival mood, why not have a sup? IL

It’s part vaudeville and part Victoriana, part Mad Max and part Bugsy Malone Tues

Where Spiegeltent, Wolfe Tone Square, D1

When 8th – Sat 19th September, 7pm; Matinees, Saturdays 12th & 19th September, 3pm; Final Show, Sunday 20th September, 6pm

How much €28 (Tue/Wed/Matinees), €32 (Thu/Sun), €34 (Fri/Sat)

Where The New Theatre, 43 Essex Street East, Temple Bar When Monday 7 - Saturday 12 September, 8pm

hen does something stop being a theatrical monologue and become a piece of stand-up comedy? Martin Sharry knows. Or, he’s not sure but he’s using that lack of clarity to his advantage. The theatre maker and writer hails from Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, where ponies and their traps ferry day trippers around the patchwork of turf crisscrossed with dry stone walls all through the summer season. Now resident in Dublin, he still has the typical islander’s enthusiasm for identifying himself first and foremost by his place of origin – it’s the first point of information on his Twitter and website bios. And yet, he hesitates over the claim.

‘I always preface saying I’m from Inis Oírr with “kinda” – my family is from there, I moved down permanently when I was ten and I’d spend every summer there prior to that. But, I’m not 100% fluent in Irish and that makes me feel like I can’t claim my origins there fully.’

Dithering between two hometowns (he spent his winters in Ballymun prior to moving back to the island) and two tongues, it makes sense that Sharry’s work tends towards what he describes as ‘the other, the liminal and the limits of language.’

‘Growing up in a house where you’re conscious you’re speaking a second language changes your attitude to how you speak – there’s an extra consciousness of language, an extra layer of reflection.’

For this year’s Tiger Dublin Fringe, Sharry is attempting a work that wavers between theatre and live comedic performance. He describes it as a monologue that will potentially straddle both forms. ‘It’s theatrical in that it avails of the possibility of a fourth wall – I want to use that to my advantage, to tease people a bit.’ Titled Marky Mac Sherry Tells It Like It Is, the piece sees Sharry tell it like it is. To an audience. Without actually telling it like it is.

Sound confusing? Sharry explains: ‘You can’t serve how it is by telling people how it is.’

So it’s a satire?

‘It’s probably closer to parody than satire. It looks at form rather than content – the form of one person telling another person how it is.

The theme is representation – I’m telling people how it is about how they see things. I talk about the things that filter our perceptions, like the media, our own bias, psychology, philosophy…’

Sharry seems wary about telling his show like it is, partly because, at the time of interview, it’s still a work in progress. But his reticence is admirable in a way – shows shouldn’t be put into words. That’s why they’re shows.

‘I’m making this show as Marky Mark’s last show ever. That corresponds to my own personal feelings about performance. I was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s disease in 2013. And there’s a lot of material coming out of that year of doing nothing, when I was acclimatising to medication and stuff. I’m not sure I’ll be performing again in the future. I don’t think I’ll perform shows I’ve done before, like I am Martin Sharry, again. This is kind of a last throw of the dice, a last chance of a bit of craic – and with that energy, there’s a kind of freedom. And there’s also an element of a comeback, even though it’s a last show.

How Much €15 / €13 (conc.) / €11 (Monday’s preview performance)

Marky Mac Sherry Tells It Like It Is

Martin Sharry

I haven’t enjoyed being on stage since the diagnosis, so the comedy element allows for the failure of the body. If I was to do a straight show, an honest confession, that would be playing on the audience’s sympathy. So yeah, I guess there’s a kind of freedom about the approach I’m taking. A secondary motivation in making the show is trying to reveal the truth of where we are. Žižek said his job was to show us the deep shit we’re all in – so hopefully I’m showing a layer of that shit.’

But will he keep writing?

‘Yeah. I did Tim Crouch’s mentorship with Pan Pan Theatre, and I got a grant to work on a new piece, provisionally titled Playboyz. I might go to Inis Oírr in the winter to do some writing. It’s a good time of year for it, it’s like having your own personal retreat.’ (The pony and trap trade is slow on the island in winter.)

‘And, you know, the perfectly natural followup to me doing my last ever show, is to do another one.’ RD

It’s theatrical in that it avails of the possibility of a fourth wall – I want to use that to my advantage, to tease people a bit

Medicated Milk Áine Stapleton

he lives of Fringe players, those who inhabit the subplots in the grand narratives of history’s greats, have always fascinated. No man is an island and all that, and family members, friends and lovers can act as walking archives, a stash of memories and anecdotes that were never committed to paper or celluloid. Particularly in the case of literary giants, whose works are raked over repeatedly by fans and legions of first year university students, whose letters and journals are scavenged and picked clean (markedly in this case), acquaintances offer new frontiers of insight. What’s even more tantalising is when there are gaps in the story – missing documents or a lack of documentation that seem to point to an incomplete puzzle.

Lucia Joyce was the daughter of one of English literature’s greatest heroes, a man revered the world over and hailed as one of the fathers of modernism; the subject of an annual day of remembrance, who launched a thousand boaters on a tide of fried kidneys: James Joyce. This year’s Tiger Dublin Fringe will see the screening of a dance film titled Medicated Milk, a tribute to the daughter of this literary titan.

Dance maker Áine Stapleton came to Joyce three years ago through a collaboration with Irish band Fathers of Western Thought, who at the time were concocting a musical interpretation of some of his works. What began as an investigation into James’ writing quickly segued into a closer look at the life of Lucia, a life which culminated in a 47 year period in psychiatric care. As her research progressed, Áine’s contribution to the performance ultimately became all about the famous writer’s little-discussed daughter.

‘I did sing on some of the songs, but ended up spending the majority of the performance holding up cards with information about [Lucia].’

Born in 1907 in Trieste, Italy, Lucia had a somewhat itinerant childhood, moving house and country several times as her father relocated for work. A dialect of Italian spoken in Trieste remained her first language and was the tongue she communicated primarily with Joyce in. At one time an aspiring contemporary dancer who trained briefly with Isadora Duncan’s brother, her life took a bleak turn when she was incarcerated in a psychiatric institution at the age of 28 by her brother Giorgio. An incident in which Lucia threw a chair at her mother is often cited as one of the deciding factors in this incarceration. Lucia remained in care until the end of her life in 1982.

In her research into Lucia’s life, Stapleton was frustrated by the lack of information originating from the voice of the individual herself.

It seemed as though the designation ‘mentally ill’ had come to characterise her entire existence, the incident of the chair throwing writ large over everything.

‘Everything I read online just seemed to repeat itself – she was crazy, she threw a chair at her mother, she threw herself at men, these kinds of things… So I was really interested in making the show as much as possible from her own words.’

The discovery that a great deal of Lucia’s correspondence was destroyed after her death by Joyce’s grandson and Lucia’s nephew Stephen Joyce, only served to increase the motivation to uncover something more about the woman than an account of her mental

degradation. Stapleton purchased copies of some of Lucia’s still existing letters from the University of Texas and began visiting various sites from her life – her childhood home in France, the seaside town of Bray where she visited cousins, even the hospital in Northampton where she spent the significant remaining portion of her years. Footage taken in these locations and scenes shot in areas around Áine’s own childhood home of Wicklow Town, along with material from Lucia’s letters, form the basis for the film, developed in collaboration with theatre and film maker José Miguel Jimenez.

Lucia’s biographer Carol Loeb Shloss, the target of a copyright misuse lawsuit by Stephen Joyce for her work Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, theorises that Joyce’s daughter was his muse for Finnegans Wake, recounting a famous scene wherein Lucia would dance while Joyce would write. In her attempt to get to the heart of the shrouded figure of Lucia, Stapleton has worked references to Joyce’s famously opaque tome into the film, along with an original electronic score by Neil O’Connor (Somadrone) based on songs and music that would have been performed

by Lucia herself, or played regularly in the family home. As a piece of art, Medicated Milk seems to aim to pay tribute to a life clouded by tragedy rather than to uncover hard facts – by assembling emotional fragments from Lucia’s past, Stapleton tries to give her a voice.

‘The scenes in the film may seem like they don’t carry a distinct narrative, but all of the imagery is created by layering various aspects of Lucia’s life, from her dreams to her autobiography. Mostly, I feel she suffered neglect and abuse throughout her life, and I’d like people to understand that. To me, her story seems like a case of the victim being punished. I think it deserves further insight and her memory deserves to be honoured properly.’ RD

Medicated Milk aims to pays tribute to a life clouded by tragedy

Where Smock Alley Theatre Boys School When Tuesday 8 - Thursday 10 September, 6.45; extra screening Wednesday 9 September @ 4.45pm How Much €14 / €12

Where The Spiegeltent, Wolfe Tone Square When Friday 18th September, 9.30pm

Over The Top Wrestling his year, for the very first time in its 21 year history, Fringe will be playing host to a wrestling event.

Over The Top Wrestling (OTT) is a wrestling promotion organised by Leonard Hanna and Joe Cabray. While promoting wrestling events around Dublin marketed towards children, Hanna noticed that more and more older fans were attending the shows: ‘Not parents, but men and women, 18 to 30 and up who came just because they’re big wrestling fans and enjoy the live atmosphere of an independent show.’ Seeing a gap in the market, Hanna and Cabray decided to launch a completely separate promotion which ‘didn’t have to adhere to the PG guidelines’, and so OTT was born.

OTT has been enjoying a residency of monthly events at the Tivoli Theatre since late 2014. Hanna describes the venue as having ‘high quality production values, yet a dark underground feel.’ In 2008 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, the largest televised wrestling promoter on the planet) did away with its colourful displays of blood and cursing in order to adopt a family friendly PG rating. The growing success globally of independent wrestling promotions in recent years is likely due to fans seeking elsewhere the gritty ‘dark underground feel’ that defined the brutal golden age of the ‘Attitude’ era of the ’90s.

With televised wrestling having its corners blunted, the appeal of smaller promotions is obvious: they’re riskier, unpredictable, and uncensored. Hanna’s promise that OTT is ‘unlike anything you may have seen on TV before’ might sound a little exaggerated (considering TV wrestling has included plot lines concluding in the birth of a human hand), but there is definitely something to be said of the infectious power of live entertainment, especially when it channels physicality, drama, and comedy to such extravagant extents as wrestling.

Being included as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe is an honour and a great achievement according to Hanna, who says that ‘wrestling is truly an art form.’

He describes how a good portion of OTT’s regular fans ‘don’t watch wrestling on TV or ever, for that matter’, instead only finding themselves ‘hooked’ after witnessing the live show for themselves. Independent wrestling promotions like OTT seem more attuned to wrestling’s origins as a live form of carnival performance. When asked about how OTT fits in with the typically ‘theatre and arts’ context of the Tiger Dublin Fringe, Hanna confidently said: ‘It’s theatre, circus, sport, melodrama, acrobatics, comedy, comic book violence and much more all rolled into one

How much €16

extreme live entertainment event.’

Professional wrestling has demonstrated its ability to accurately reflect aspects of modern culture, but historically, and contemporarily, it has relied on problematic representations of minorities. Hanna says that OTT attempts to avoid offending people by ‘not featuring any sort of political, sexual, or religious references’, however, the roster features stereotypical characterisations of the travelling community (The Wards are ‘a dysfunctional family of fighting Irish bare-knuckle boxers’) and innercity Dubliners (The Lads From The Flats).

Although Hanna insists that their characters are ‘just parody, for entertainment purposes’, it’s important to note the problems inherent in this kind of stereotyping, which is seemingly an inescapable trope of the genre. Wrestling as a parodic form has the potential to be redemptive and transgressive; it will be interesting to see whether this can be achieved when OTT brings their show of high octane wrestling to the Spiegeltent. Here’s hoping it’s like Fair City, but with piledrivers. AW

It’s theatre, circus, sport, melodrama, acrobatics, comedy, comic book violence all rolled into one extreme live entertainment event.

SPIEGELTENT Scotch & Soda by Company 2 Wild jazz and wilder acrobatic feats in a high-octane mix Tue 8-Sun 20 Sep | 7pm, matinees Sat 3pm | Sun 20 Sept at 6pm | €34/32/28 *No performance Mon 14 Sept Stories Through Sound by Sounds Alive Featuring Nina Perry, Crash Ensemble & Adrian Crowley Wed 9 Sep | 9.30pm | €18 Al Porter Swings with Luke Thomas & The Swing Cats!

The King of Camp mixes swing and comedy Thu 10 Sep | 9.30pm | €22 Booka Brass Band The soon to be ubiquitous brass brotherhood bring the party to the ’tent.

Fri 11 Sep | 9.30pm | €20 Turning Pirate Mix Tape A heady mix of some Ireland’s biggest musical names perform Sat 12 Sep | 9.30pm | €24 Middle of the Road Acerbic, irreverent cabaret presented by Tiger Dublin Fringe and Thisi-

spopbaby, performed by Bourgeois & Maurice and David Hoyle.

Sun 13 Sep | 9.30pm | €20 The Moth StorySLAM: The Fast Lane The art of spilling your guts in five minutes flat Mon 14 Sep | 7pm | €15 Mx Justin Vivian Bond ...And Things of THAT Nature!

NYC trans cabaret star under the musical direction of Thomas Bartlett Tue 15 Sep | 9.15pm | €26 Holly Herndon Platform twisting American laptop composer Thu 17 Sep | 9.30pm | €20 Over the Top Wrestling My god he’s got a folding chair!

Fri 18 Sep | 9.30pm | €16 Christian Löffler and Laser Tom Home Beat presents a night of dreamy electronica Saturday 19 Sep | 9.30pm | €20 Hootenanny!

A night of uproarious music & comedy to finish off the festival Sun 20 Sep | 8.30pm | €25

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT DUBLIN 1 There are several key venues for Tiger Dublin Fringe spread across the North inner city, from the Spiegeltent setting up residence on Wolfe Tone Square, to the Chocolate Factory and the Abbey herself. Over by the Spiegeltent, the Capel Street area provide plenty of places to stop in for refreshments either before or after a show, from The Church on Mary’s Abbey right beside the Spiegeltent, to Jack Nealon’s or Pantibar, both at the river end of Capel Street. Food-wise you can’t go wrong with Musashi or Arisu (both Capel St). Over nearer O’Connell Street end of things, Kimchi at the Hop House (Parnell St) is a fine stop for a post-theatre pint and food, or go for something fancier at 101 Talbot (Talbot St), or Chapter One (Parnell Sq.) Windstealers, photo: Jim Byrne

THEATRE Jellyfish by Alice Malseed & Sarah Baxter Project Arts Centre, Cube Sat 5-Fri 11 Sep | 2pm | €12/10 A one-woman show travelling through ten years of Alice’s life in Belfast and London Our Island by Mirari Productions Project Arts Centre, Cube Sun 6-Sun 13 Sep | 9pm | €15/€13/ €11 A new show from the makers of In Dog Years I’m Dead (Stewart Parker Award 2014) Grounded by George Brant from Siren Productions Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Sat 5-Sat 12 Sep | 6.30pm & 8.45pm | matinees Wed, Fri & Sat 1pm | €22/€20 The Irish premiere of the global phenomenon, directed by Selina Cartmell The Windstealers by Eccles Theatre Group Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Mon 7-Sun 13 Sep | 8.30pm | matinee Sat 3.15pm | €14/€12 A satire full of gurriers, property

developers and mammies in Ireland’s windiest town Remember to Breathe by Orla Murphy Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Mon 7-Sat 12 Sep | 8.45pm | matinee Sat 1pm | €14/12 An attempt to swim free from the ties that bind. Shortlisted for BBC International Playwriting Award 2014 Show in a Bag: Sure Thing by Eric O’Brien & Jed Murray Bewley’s Café Theatre Mon 7-Sat 19 Sep | various times, €13/10 New works on a small scale, this two-man shows dives into gambling culture.

Show in a Bag: The Matador by Shane O’Reilly Bewley’s Café Theatre Mon 7-Mon 14 Sep | various times, €13/10 An awkward Irish story from best performer nominee at Fringe 2011 Show in a Bag: Rebel Rebel by Robbie O’Connor & Aisling O’Mara Bewley’s Café Theatre Mon 7-Sat 19 Sep | various times,

€13/10 Two actors abandon the stage for Irish rebellion in 1916 Abbey Theatre Playwrights Hub Irish Writers’ Centre Tue 8-Thu 10 Sep | 2pm | Free but ticketed A space for playwrights to question, craft and create with the Abbey Literary Team.

Templemore by Studio Perform The New Theatre Tue 8-Sat 12 Sep | 6pm | €15/13/11 Three garda recruits face an eventful day off, exploring friendship and feuds.

Douze by Xnthony Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Tue 8-Sun 13 Sep | 8pm | matinee Sat 1:15pm | €14/12 Xnthony is on a one-man mission to bring the Eurovision crown back to Ireland.

Show in a Bag:The Auld Fella by Michael Glenn Murphy Bewley’s Café Theatre Tue 8-Thu 17 Sep | various times, €13/10 Set in the last days of Dublin’s ‘magnificent garage’, The Theatre Royal

Harder Faster More by Red Bear Productions Smock Alley Theatre 1662 Wed 9-Sun 13 Sep | 7pm | €14/12 The hilarious and heart-breaking world of a sex-line worker from Stewart Parker award nominees Red Bear.

(Not) Belonging by This is Happening Samuel Beckett Theatre Sat 12-Mon 14 Sep | 5pm & 8.30pm | €14/12 Exploring the phenomenon of the subculture through interview, music, poetry and film.

Beneath the Bone Moon by Tintoretto Sect Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Sun 13-Sat 19 Sep | 9.15pm | matinee 1pm Sat, €14/12 This theatre-installation piece is a twilight world of psychic horror that explores the recesses of the imagination Beckett in the City by Company SJ Former Colaiste Mhuire, Parnell Sq. Thur 10-Sun 20 Sep | 1pm | 6.30pm & 8.30pm | €16/14 The Women Speak: productions of

Footfalls, Rockaby, Not I & Come and Go It’s My Party Conference (and I’ll Cry if I Want To) by With An F Smock Alley Theatre 1662 Mon 14 Sep | 7pm | €14/12 Stefanie Preissner is asking for your support to get to the next level. Vote for Stef!

Love+ by Claire O’Reilly Project Arts Centre, Cube Mon 14-Thu 17 Sep | 7.15pm | €15/13 A show that explores the inevitability of human/robot relations.

Sweet Pang! by Lady Grew The Chocolate Factory Mon 14-Thu 17 Sep | 8.30pm | €14/12 A cabarave of Ireland’s best electronica, pole-dancing, BDSM and radical feminism.

Overshadowed by Sunday’s Child The New Theatre Mon 14-Sat 19 Sep | 6pm | €15/13/11 A dark tale of eating disorders told through puppetry and physicality.

Big Bobby. Little Bobby. by Brazen Tales Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School

Mon 14-Sat 19 Sep | 6.30pm | matinee 3pm Sat, €14/12/11 A twisted tender comedy about bringing your demons to life.

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by Justine Cooper & Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane by Dylan Coburn Gray Project Arts Centre, Cube Tue 15-Sat 19 Sep | 2pm | €12/10 A double bill of new works from young Irish talent.

Oh! What A Lovely Rose! by Tragic Spud Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Wed 16-Sat 19 Sep | 6.15pm | matinee Sat 1.15pm | €14/12/11 The tale of a girl who had a dream, then grew up and realised how embarrassing it was.

Scripted The Lir Academy, Studio 1 Sat 19 Sep | 4pm | free but ticketed A showcase of new plays from the playwrights in TCD’s Masters in Fine Art.

MUSIC Susannah with Strings Attached Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Wed 9 & Thu 10 Sep | 9.30pm | €16/14 A mix of jazz, comedy and cabaret from Fringe Benefits Music Company Bottlenote: The Walls Have Ears 13 North Great George’s Street Wed 9-Fri 11 Sep | 7.30pm & 9.15pm | €14/12 Featuring Seán Carpio, Shane Latimer and Seán Mac Erlaine Ailís Ní Ríain: Sklonište Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Fri 11 & Sat 12 Sep | 6.45pm | matinee Sat 3pm | €14/12 Telling the tale of the siege of Sarajevo Irish Youth Opera presents Handel’s Agrippina O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College Sat 12 & Sun 13 Sep | 7.30pm | €20/26/30 A collaborative production of Handel’s first operatic masterpiece Young Hearts Run Free: Life Has Surface Noise #3 Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Mon 14 Sep | 8pm | €15 Featuring Nialler9, Karl Whitney and Annie Atkins Lady Grew – Sweet Pang!

The Chocolate Factory Mon 14-Thu 17 Sep | 8.30pm | €14/12

DANCE It Folds by Brokentalkers & junk ensemble Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Sat 5-Sat 12 Sep | 7pm, matinee 1pm Sat, €16/14 A poignant and humorous portrait of city life Double Bill: Tend by Emma Fitzgerald and Antje O’Toole and Liminal by Liadain Herriott Samuel Beckett Theatre Sun 6-Thu 10 Sep | 8.30pm | €14/12 A double bill of new Irish dance productions Embody the Void by Alba Lorca Samuel Beckett Theatre Mon 7-Thu 10 Sep | 6.30pm | €14/12/11 A combination of dance and voice exploring the human condition Medicated Milk by Áine Stapleton Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Tue 8-Thu 10 Sep | 6.45pm | matinee Wed 4.45pm | €14/12 A film exploring the troubled life of Lucia Joyce Contain-A-Rave from Lords of Strut City Centre… don’t worry, you’ll hear about it.

Fri 11-Sun 13 Sep | 6.15pm | 7pm & 8.30pm | €10 Get sweaty like a Sweaty Betty for a 30-minute dance sesh Ghosts by Ruairí Donovan / Asaf Aharonson Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Sun 13 & Mon 14 Sep | 6.15pm & 8.45pm | €16/14 From the winner of last years’ Judges Choice Award Elk and Saintly by ponydance and Croí Glan The Chocolate Factory Mon 14-Thu 17 Sep | 6.30pm | €14/12/11 A performance with no pause button and no self-reproach Your Own Man / Mad Notions

by Luke Murphy Bewley’s Cafe Theatre Tue 15-Sat 19 Sep | 8pm | €13/11 A fragile and blunt multi-disciplinary work Feathers by Irish Modern Dance Theatre Project Arts Centre, Cube Sun 6-Sat 12 Sep | 7pm | €15/13 A stunning new work of uplifting dance from John Scott

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT TEMPLE BAR & DAME STREET Temple Bar is home to two theatres both with multiple different spaces within them in use during Tiger Dublin Fringe, Project Arts Centre and Smock Alley Theatre, as well as The New Theatre, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, with Sweeney’s Underbelly and The International hosting some shows nearby. In amongst the tourist haunts in Temple Bar there are few gems of bars: Garage Bar (Essex St), Crowbar (Crow St), The Workman’s Club (Wellington Quay) while Stag’s Head (Dame Court) or the Scandi-Asian fusion of Soder + Ko (George’s St) are great if you’re crossing over Dame Street.

The area is also ripe with casual but high quality spots Roasted Brown (now inside Project Arts Centre), to Bunsen Burger (Essex St), Umi Falafel (Dame St), Ukiyo or Fallon and Byrne (both Exchequer St). If you’re treating yourself, why not try Oliver Dunne’s celebrated Cleaver East in the Clarence Hotel (Essex St).

A dominatrix, a rapping pole-dancer, an American phenom Breach & Quinn – score Project Arts Centre, Cube Mon 14-Sat 19 Sep | 9.15pm | €15/13 A once-off performance of a cult musical film. yeahsurewhatever – No Encore The New Theatre Tue 15-Sat 19 Sep | 8pm,€15/13 Musical theatre through indie cover versions Seán Kennedy – boy Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Tue 15-Sat 19 Sep | 8.30pm | €14/12 Seán Kennedy’s classical tenor explores domestic violence, abandonment and love The Late David Turpin – Romances Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Thu 17 Sep | 9pm | €16/14 A sinister exploration of the human heart BK Pepper/ Madra Mór: We Lived in Cities Project Arts Centre, Cube Fri 18 & Sat 19 Sep | 7.15pm | €15/13 A dystopian collision of sound and film Young Hearts Run Free: The Nineteenth Autumn Freemason’s Hall Sat 19 Sep | 8pm | €22 An evening of stellar music in an intimate and unique setting

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT TRINITY & DAWSON STREET Trinity College’s Samuel Beckett Theatre, on the Pearse Street side of the campus plays host to a variety of dance and theatre shows during Tiger Dublin Fringe, but with access from that side of the college restricted, you’re probably best aiming at the college from the south. The nearby Freemason’s Hall on Molesworth Street plays host to Young Hearts Run Free’s musical performance The Nineteenth Autumn, meaning that Dawson Street and environs is a handy spot for pre- or post-show refreshments. A cocktail at Peruke & Periwig shouldn’t leave you needing the toilet during that 90 minute no-intermission show, while The Duke (Duke St) or Grogan’s (Castle Market) are top for pints, and Pygmalion is ideal if you’re heading out after the show. To eat, you can go quick-and-easy at Little Ass Burritos or high-end at the Green House (both Dawson Street) or sit somewhere in-between at KC Peaches Wine Cave (Nassau St).

LIVE ART Mother You by Louise White Meeting point TBC Mon 7-Sun 20 Sep | 7pm & 9pm | €16/€14 A warehouse-setting for liver performance, video art and ritual *No performance on Tue 15 Sept Gaeilge Tamagotchi by Manchán Magan Project Arts Centre, Foyer Wed 9-Sat 12 Sep | 3.30pm | Free and unticketed Adopt an Irish word and care for it Flemish Proverbs by Moira Brady Averill & Isadora Epstein NCAD Luncheonette Wed 9-Tue 15 Sep | 1pm | €14 An edible fiasco! No performances on weekend Twenty First Three instalments of an experiment in theatre and un-curation with a group of 21-year-old subjects. The Lab Rats are viewable from 10am to midnight at the Complex, 15 Little Green Street where all the events take place.

Twenty First: Meeting Time The Complex, Little Green Street Sat 12 - Fri 18 Sep | 4pm & 7pm, matinees Tue-Thu 1pm | €5 Twenty First: Feeding Time The Complex, Little Green Street Tue 14 - Thu 17 Sep | 6.30pm, matinees Sun & Fri 2pm | €25/23 incl. meal Twenty First: Play Time The Complex, Little Green Street Sat 12 - Fri 17 | 9.30pm | €7 Ghosts by Ruairí Donovan & Asaf Aharonson Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Sun 13 & Mon 14 Sep | 6.15pm & 8.45pm | €16/14 From the winner of last years’ Judges Choice Award Portraits in Motion by Volker Gerling Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Thu 17-Sat 19 Sep | 3pm & 6.30pm | €16/14 Gelling’s story telling uses live projection of his flipbook animation

COMEDY Martin Sharry – Marky Mac Sherry Tells It Like It Is The New Theatre Mon 7-Sat 12 Sep | 8pm | €15/13/11 Alison Spittle Discovers Hawaii The International Bar Mon 7-Sat 12 Sep | 7pm, matinee Sat 5pm | €13/11 Abie Philbin Bowman – Developing the Country as a Hole Sweeney’s Underbelly Mon 7-Sat 12 Sep | 8.45pm | €13/11 Foil, Arms and Hog – SkiddlyWup Smock Alley Theatre 1662 Wed 9-Sat 19 Sep | 9pm | €16/14 *No performance Mon 14 Sep The Word of Breda – Breda’s Way The New Theatre Thu 10-Sat 12 & Wed 16-Fri 18 Sep | 1pm | €10

Conor O’Toole – A Retrospective 1995-2015 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Mon 14-Sun 20 Sep | 8pm | €13/11 Double Bill: Gearóid Farrelly – Gearoid Less Travelled & Chris Kent - Stop Stalling Smock Alley Theatre, 1662 Tue 15-Sat 19 Sep | 7pm | €14/€12 Kim Noble - You’re Not Alone Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Wed 16-Sat 19 Sep | 9pm | €16/14 We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at David O’Doherty Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Thu 17-Sat 19 Sep | 7pm & 9pm (Fri & Sat only), €17/15 Katie O’Brien - Billie was Tap Dancing for the Seagulls Sweeney’s Underbelly Thu 17-Sun 20 Sep | 7pm | €13/€11

CIRCUS Behind the Dark by Loosysmokes Meet at Parkgate St entrance to Phoenix Park.

Tue 8-Sat 19 Sep | 10pm | €16/14 One half of Paper Dolls combines aerlialism and a live score in the wild Object Piggy by Dying Breeds The Lir Academy, Studio 1 Wed 10-Sun 20 Sep | 8.30pm, €14/12 Laser Play sessions on Wed 16 Sep | 8 & 9pm An aerial dynamic sculpture project of dance and music Way of the Coconut by Circomara Sailing Circus Meet at Waterways Ireland Visitors Centre Wed 10-Sun 13 Sep | 5.45pm | Matinee 11 Sep 12.30pm | €12/10 A feast for the senses staged on a boat!

THE TIGER UNCAGED One of the most prominent images of Tiger Dublin Fringe’s 21st edition will no doubt be The Tiger Uncaged, a kinetic sculpture-cumlive installation created by brothers Ger and Andrew Clancy. ‘The Tiger had to be visually striking, physically impressive and have a high impact value. Its size, material finish, lighting and sound were very important elements. Equally, expert puppeteers were necessary to perform and finesse the movement of the tiger,’ says Ger Clancy.

Ger and Andrew are themselves Fringe veterans, who work together (and separately) in visual arts, theatre and film from their Ringsend studio. A previous project from 2010 entitled Escape from the Dead Zoo, a choreographed outdoor musical spectacle piece featuring animals which were large scale performable kinetic sculptures in Merrion Square, provided some background for The Tiger Uncaged.

‘The Tiger was significantly more sophisticated than projects of this genre we had made before in our studio,’ says Ger. ‘Creating it demanded a lot of testing. It’s generated a very enthusiastic reaction among audiences – people are taken by surprise to first hear and then see a huge tiger prowling its way toward them.’ You can catch The Tiger Uncaged prowling the streets of the city during the Tiger Dublin Fringe: watch out!

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Frite Haus offers a growing range of craft beers with wonderful authentic Belgian fries and sausages with an Irish twist in the heart of Dublin 2. They have put a great deal of thought in to their menu, from triple cooked house made potato chips, craft sauces and house made condiments, to their locally sourced artisan butcher sausages. Great ingredients, expertly prepared and served in a relaxed Belgian style ‘Chip Shop’ restaurant.

The Porterhouse in Temple Bar opened in 1996 as Dublin’s first microbrewery.

Brewing three stouts, three lagers and three ales in the tiny brewery created much demand for the brews and lead to the growth of the craft beer market. Seasonal beers are available alongside their regular ten drauaght beers they brew, namely Plain Porter which won a gold medal twice for the best stout in the world!

In spite of its playful ethos, this venue takes its cocktails seriously, shaking up popular classics as well as quirky new creations to keep us guessing.

Signature snifters include a startlingly exotic Lychee and Lemongrass Sour, and an Emerald Collins that switches gin with whiskey to delicious effect.

Located in the bosom of Temple Bar, the Meeting House terrace is the perfect spot for sharing pitchers with friends as the sun goes down. Inside, it’s at once cool and welcoming, lively yet laid-back, and the scene hots up at the weekends when DJs mix soul, funk and disco into the early hours. You might even see the sun come up again.

Frites Haus, 87 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2 T: 087 050 5964 www.frite-haus.com @fritehaus1

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Meeting House Square, Dublin 2 All cocktails just €6.66 on Sundays & Mondays themeetinghousedublin.com 01 670 3330

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McDaids is, if we’re honest, the kind of place where you’d call yourself lucky if you’ve nabbed a seat early in the night. Its much cosier, shoulder-to-shoulder affair where an unbeatable Guinness is only a quick shuffle away and commenting on overheard banter is de rigeur. The perfect place for whiling a night away righting the world’s wrongs with a few close friends or quiet pint in Brendan Behan’s memory.

O’Donoghue’s is one of Dublin’s most historic drinking establishments located just off St. Stephen’s Green in the heart of Dublin. Probably best known for its traditional Irish music, session still take place daily, midweek from 9pm, Saturdays from 5pm and all day on Sunday from 1pm. O’Donoghue’s has a rich history in providing a welcome for locals and visitors alike to play a tune or enjoy a pint. A menu of soup, stew and sandwiches is served daily from noon.

Generator hails a return to the proud tradition of innkeeping; providing lodging, food and of course, drinks. A relaxed venue where you can enjoy a selection of craft beers, the trusted classics or something more suited to a backpacker’s budget. Expect to meet guests from all over the world as they stop over in the fair city. It provides a perfect opportunity to practice your rusty Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or German. Situated in the ever-present yet up and coming Smithfield Square, right on the Luas tracks, Generator is a refreshingly different interface beween Dublin and her visitors.

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The Blind Pig

Neary’s

Grogan’s

There’s a reason that Nearys has remained so consistent over the decades the formula works. Housed in an elegant slice of Edwardian Dublin with its old-world interior still in pride of place, the early evening buzz in Nearys is a rare sight to behold. With a crowd ranging from theatre-goers and thespians from the nearby Gaiety to local suits and Grafton shoppers, Dave and his team of old-school barmen will take care of all your needs.

Grogan’s Pub has been a mainstay in Dublin since time began. When you walk through the doors you get a sense of being catapulted back to a bygone era when pubs where a place that everybody knew your name. The decor has not changed in almost 40 years, and that’s the way it should be.

Do try their legendary toasted sandwiches with a pint of plain and admire all the artwork hanging from the walls which are, by the way, available to buy.

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Named after the police, who turned a blind eye to the liquor rooms of the 1920s prohibition era, The Blind Pig launched as a monthly pop-up Speakeasy bar, in secret, at a well-known Dublin venue. Since then, The Blind Pig has developed an affectionate fanbase in Ireland and abroad. The Blind Pig is the brains of the internationally award-winning mixologist Paul Lambert. With his expertly-crafted cocktail menu, The Blind Pig is now in permanent residence and is a full underground cocktail bar and restaurant.

The location, which is less than a 5-minute walk from Trinity College, is revealed upon booking. reservations@theblindpig.ie 085 874 7901

TGI Friday’s European Bartender Championships On September 16th & 17th TGI Friday’s on St Stephen’s Green hosts the European Bartender Championships. We caught up with Becki Egan, the 2014 Irish champion to find out what it’s all about.

When are the 2015 European Bartender Championships taking place and who will be taking part?

The European championships are taking place on the 16th and 17th of September, the 16th being the compulsory rounds including pour tests and recipe tests. Thursday the 17th is the Freestyle round in which all competitors from the qualifying countries have their time to make drinks, show their talent and show the Friday’s way of serving cocktails with a bit of fancy stuff. There is one bartender representing qualifying countries from around Europe.

You are the Irish champion, are you competing again this year? Are you in with a chance of winning?

I sure am. I’ve already competed at restaurant level and came first which lead me into the regional competition, which I had to win to compete in the Europeans in September. There is no reason I shouldn’t be capable of winning, everybody stands a chance if they put in the work. And the winner of the Europeans heads to the World Final in Dallas, Texas!

What’s your signature cocktail?

I wouldn’t say I have a signature cocktail, but without being cocky I’ve been told I mix up a pretty good Purple Rain. Little bit of everything that everybody loves… until the following morning!

Can the general public attend?

The general public can indeed attend and I would appreciate the support from as many members of the public as possible - if you’re up for supporting Ireland of course. It will kick off from approximately 7pm on Thursday the 17th September in TGI Fridays St Stephens Green.

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Sports bars are a tricky beast to master. More often than not their dedication to the idea that they are first and foremost a building to house television screens lends them the air of some sort of nightmarish, dystopian videodrome, with a cacophony of commentaries discordantly clanging off one another to make a relentless, alienating din. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way, as exemplified in Bodytonic’s Phibsborough location, The Back Page. Having made their point re: the right way to do sportfocused pubs, the Bodytonic gang are looking to strengthen their argument with a Southside sister pub, The Square Ball.

Signs dotted about the establishment remind customers that the bar is still very much in ‘pre-season’ (they are probably trim, toned and ready for action by the time you are reading this) but we figured what better time to give the new spot whirl then at the annual peak of sporting optimism, the start of the Premier League season. As we settle in for the pre-match chatter one of the most striking characteristics is how low key everything in the front bar is. Bright and airy, the nods towards Bodytonic’s own inimitable character are tactfully woven through the décor as opposed to rammed down one’s throat. It’s interior design more in the mould of a subtly sophisticated Henry cardigan than an attention-seeking, bulge-hugging Redknapp three-piece number. The starry-eyed hopefulness that comes with the kick-off of a new season’s football is mirrored in the staff ’s palpable excitement and enthusiasm at watching the idea of the pub in an abstract sense becoming manifest before their eyes. Unprompted, one of the barmen speaks effusively of the quality of their

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projector, aghast at the high definition crows feet on usually boyish face of Garry Monk.

To the rear of the more traditionalist front bar the things begin to take on a more idiosyncratic and sporting bent. The back bar is decked out with an artificial grass floor and a series of long, communal picnic tables. Screens encircle the room, piping in the day’s full schedule of matches, offering offering eyefuls of action, regardless of one’s sporting preference while, somewhat miraculously, not entirely subverting the location’s appeal to those unmoved by televised feats of strength and dexterity.

The bar boasts a wider array of craft offerings on tap than most other Bodytonic outposts and we opt for a couple of schooners of Beavertown’s satisfyingly floral Gamma Ray IPA (€5.50) before, as duty demands, sampling their Guinness (excellent and €4.90). My only major complaint has to be presence of a particularly persistent fly swooping about in front of the projector for the duration of the game, giving the impression of a malfunctioning drone marauding about the pitch, though it might be a little unreasonable to hold the management responsible for inconsiderate actions of a solitary insect. That said, I do suggest the introduction of some sort of lizard to the fold, or at least a Venus flytrap.

As the game wraps up, day shifts into evening and we polish off our pints, the nameless Sky Sports automaton presiding over the coverage is silenced in favour of laid-back soul music. The tap heads the staff had been trying to coax into life for the duration of our stay final illuminate.

It looks like everything is coming together nicely.

BARFLY words Ian Lamont

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frilly lampshade or rogue piece of taxidermy has gone unused, and in doing so they’ve created a very digestible and sanitised version of illicit booze culture, curiously at a time when an actually illicit scene of afterparties was experiencing a relative boom in much wilder, grimier venues.

The Blind Pig is neither of these things, though of course it’s much nearer the former.

While previously, the Blind Pig was a pop-up that mixologist Paul Lambert would pitch up in new spots each month, this sub rosa venture is now located in a permanent ‘secret venue’, but even if a nod’s as good as a wink to you in this case, you still have to register your intent and book via their website, rather than just stroll in like any Joe Schmuck off the street demand-

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Much like Lambert’s other cocktail venture, the less clandestine if still somewhat tucked away Upstairs at Kinara Kitchen in Ranelagh, The Blind Pig is a top venue for certain types of night. You don’t spill in here for some predrinks, but if you’re looking for a cosy spot for a date night, a catch-up full of lengthy natters or to simply treat yourself, Lambert’s reputation for his work behind the bar precedes him and the quality of cocktails is as exemplary as we’ve come to expect.

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In Dublin, particularly in recent years, the idea of the ‘prohibition-era’ concept has ballooned and been commodified to give the impression that luxury and exclusivity are readily (or at least occasionally) affordable things on a night out. The Vintage Cocktail Club, the Liquor Rooms and Peruke and Periwig have all poked around every last corner or their respective attics and crawl spaces to make sure that no

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Located in the 19th century Victorian Georges Street Arcade, New Moon has Dublin’s largest selection of Sterling Silver, Gold and Gemstone jewellery.

New Moon 28 Drury Street, Dublin 2

Tel: 01 6711154 Web: www.newmoon.ie Email: info@newmoon.ie Facebook: Newmoon Jewellery Twitter: NewMoonJewel

Suesey Street

Bellucci’s

KAFKA

Michie Sushi

26 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.

Sweepstakes Centre, 22-30 Merrion Road, Dublin 4

236 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6

t: (01) 669 4600 | info@sueseystreet.ie

01 668 9422

01 4977057

www.sueseystreet.ie

www.bellucci.ie

11 Chelmsford Lane, Ranelagh, D6 01-4976438 www.michiesushi.com

@SueseyStreet The Suesey Street name harks back to Georgian times and was the original name for Leeson Street in the 1700s. The venue was formerly Brasserie Le Pont and now offers a more informal approach to drinking and dining. The large outdoor terrace is one of the best in the city, fully heated and topped with a retractable canopy making it the perfect space for al fresco dining year round. With the focus on quality food and great hospitality Suesey Street is the go-to place to socialise and enjoy the finer things in life.

Located in Dublin’s exclusive Ballsbridge area, Bellucci’s is situated close to many of Dublins top hotels, across from the famous RDS venue and a short walk from the Aviva Stadium. The restaurant is also close to both the American and British Embassies and is ideal for business lunches, pre and post-event suppers. The casual atmosphere coupled with great Italian food and service set the scene for a cosy romantic meal. The large outdoor area is ideal for al fresco dining or enjoying one of the something from the extensive cocktail menu.

Kafka offers affordable, wholesome, and well-made brasserie fare at a reassuringly reasonable cost.

The sparse, minimal décor goes hand in hand with the delicious diner-style food; free of pretence and fuss. A varied but not overstretched menu touches enough bases to cover most tastes offering up anything from bangers and mash to porcini mushroom risotto. While their prices are easy on the pocket, Kafka cuts no corners with quality of their food.

The word Michie in Japanese means ‘filled with smiles and laughter’ which is just how the folks at Michie Sushi want their customers to feel when they have eaten their sushi. Since expanding from a take away, catering and delivery service with a restaurant in 2011, they have been winners of McKenna’s Best Sushi in Ireland award each year. Though they specialise in hand-roll sushi, they also offer popular Japanese dishes such as ramen and okonomiyaki. With top quality sushi from chefs only trained by Michel, consistency is guaranteed. Visit them in Ranelagh, Dun Laoghaire, Sandyford, Avoca Rathcoole and Avoca Kilmacanogue or call for delivery.

The 101 Talbot

The Meeting House

100-102 Talbot St, Dublin 1 t: 01-8745011 www.talbot101.ie

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, D2 www.themeetinghousedublin.com 01-6703330 @meetinghousedub

The 101 Talbot is one of Dublin’s best-loved restaurants, thanks to excellent modern cooking and vivacious service. It boasts great food, friendly staff, buzzing atmosphere and a full bar licence. The 101 is highly acclaimed and recommended in many guides. Their food is creative and contemporary, with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern influences, while using fresh local ingredients. Popular with Dublin’s artistic and literary set, and conveniently close to the Abbey and Gate theatres, the restaurant is a very central venue to start or end an evening in the city centre.

The Meeting House serves up superbly balanced, pretty-as-a-picture plates (all priced at €9.99 or €6.66 on Sunday and Monday) that burst with the flavours of South-East Asia. Favourites include a rare and delicate blackened cod, a seared sirloin steak that zings with Sichuan pepper and Asian Salsa Verde, and a signature tomato dish that takes notions of salad to a whole new level. The wine list is both thoughtful and exciting, though with award-winning mixologists behind the bar, cocktails here are a must. Enjoy all this and more in their cool, moody interiors or kick back on the terrace and watch the world go by in the summer sun.

Stanley’s Restaurant and Wine Bar

KC Peaches Wine Cave

7, St. Andrews Street , Dublin 2 // t: 01-4853273 //

www.kcpeaches.com

@stanleysd2

01 6336872

FB: Stanley’s Restaurant & Wine // www.stanley-

@kcpeaches

srestaurant.ie

28-29 Nassau St, Dublin 2

TGI Friday’s

KC Peaches Wine Cave is a true hidden gem located under Dublin’s busiest café on Nassau St. Outstanding chef Ralph Utto continues the philosophy of KC Peaches by designing tasty sharing plates offering seasonal, all natural, additive free and locally sourced wholefood. The wine selection follows the ‘nourishment by nature’ message, allowing you to choose from only the best but affordable natural, biodynamic and organic wines. The Wine Cave is Dublin’s best kept secret on the verge of being discovered as the ‘place to be’ in the capital.

TueSat 5.30pmlate with live music every Saturday.

Stanley’s Restaurant and Wine Bar is located in the heart of Dublin, a short walk from College Green on St Andrews Street. They pride themselves on pairing modern Irish cuisine with an inspiring and unconventional wine list. Chef/proprietor Stephen McArdle has created a unique space across three floors, a modern ground floor wine bar, an intimately classic dining room, and private dining room to cater for all occasions.

Fleet Street, 19/20 Fleet Street, D2, t: 01-6728975.

Stephen’s Green, D2, t: 01-4781233.

Blanchardstown S.C., D15, t: 01-8225990.

Dundrum Shopping Centre, D14, t: 01-2987299.

Airside Retail Park, Swords, Co. Dublin, t: 01-8408525 w: www.fridays.ie

Vikings Steakhouse

Punjabi By Nature

COPPINGER ROW

Table Six

2nd Floor (Bram Stoker Hotel), 225 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3 01 853 2000 info@vikingssteakhouse.com www.vikingssteakhouse.com www.facebook.com/vikingssteakhouseclontarf

15 Ranelagh Avenue,

Coppinger Row, South William Street, Dublin 2

Templeogue Road, Templeogue, Dublin 6W

Dublin 6

01 6729884

01 4905628

www.punjabibynature.ie

www.coppingerrow.com

reservations@tablesix.ie

t: 01-4960808 Nestled away in the middle of Ranelagh Village, food connoisseurs can find a comfortable Indian restaurant unlike any other in Dublin. Punjabi By Nature offers a unique experience that reflects traditional Indian home cooking. Head chef Kaur’s family has long been rooted in a tradition of home cooking and quality food, with Kaur learning her techniques by watching her mother, father, and other members of her family cook. Taste the difference for yourself.

Coppinger Row, named for the lane off South William Street where the restaurant is located is in the heart of the city centre’s shopping district and is known for it’s Mediterranean cuisine, it’s relaxed, funky chic and also it’s cocktails. The menu relies on simple values of quality taste and seasonal change to keep the dishes fresh and appropriate. Between the food and ambience, Coppinger Row is an ideal spot in which to start a night out in the city centre.

Vikings Steakhouse, on the seafront in Clontarf, offers a wide range of juicy steaks (côte de bœuf and steak on the stone are specialities) along with seafood, chicken and vegetarian options. Super starters, healthy salads and a wide range of expertly made cocktails available, along with craft beers and an excellent wine list. Great value, friendly and professional service awaits you. Vikings Steakhouse... because steak does matter!

TGI Friday’s is your number one authentic American style restaurant that makes every day feel like Friday. It’s the home of the famous Jack Daniel’s sauce, grill and glaze making their burgers, chicken wings and steaks some of the best tasting dishes in Dublin. TGI have a fantastic selection of drinks to relax and enjoy with friends including an exciting new cocktail menu, great value lunch deals and a hard to beat two-course menu. #InHereItsAlwaysFriday

tablesix.ie / fb.com/TableSixDublin @TableSixDublin Table Six is a modern European bistro situated in the heart of Templeogue Village. They take their inspiration for dishes from around the Mediterranean coast, and put a new twist on some excellent classic dishes uses the best local ingredients and changing the menu seasonally. Table Six always has a quaint buzzing atmosphere in their dining room, which is brightly decorated with pieces of artwork created from cutlery.

outdoor seating

vegetarian

kid-friendly

full bar

wi-fi

booking recommended

red luas line

green luas line

ely bar & brasserie

CAFFE ITALIANO

The Kitchen Restaurant

The Brasserie at The Marker

Chq, IFSC, Dublin 1

7 Crow Street - Bazzar Galley, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

3 Anne Street South

Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2

www.elywinebar.com

www.caffeitaliano.ie

eat@thekitchen.ie

01-6875104

elybrasserie@elywinebar.com

01 5511206

01 677 4205

bookyourtable@themarker.ie

thekitchen.ie

@themarkerhotel A refreshing addition to the Grand Canal restaurant scene, The Brasserie starts with its stunning interior.

Comfortable modern, minimal furniture, including the legendary Panton chair, the spectacular grey marble table, and private booths and banquette seating, creating the right amount of privacy for intimate dining. In Ireland, the traditional way of cooking is simple dishes, built around one great ingredient. The Brasserie is no different. From succulent rare breed pork or prime dry-aged beef, The Brasserie stays true to Irish roots. For a unique night out visit The Marker Brasserie for one of Dublin’s best dining experiences.

@elywinebars 01 672 0010 ely bar & brasserie, awarded ‘Wine Bar of the Year’ 2014 & 2015 by The Sunday Business Post and ‘Best Wine Experience’ 2014 by Food & Wine magazine, is in a beautifully restored 200 year old tobacco and wine warehouse. Great wines, beers, cocktails and ‘food terroir’ all delivered with passion, make this one of the most unique and atmospheric dining experiences in the country. Check out their sun-trap water-side terrace this summer.

Right in the centre of Temple Bar you’ll find one of Dublin’s best kept secrets, the haven that is Caffe Italiano. The philosophy here is fresh food seven days a week using the best ingredients at affordable prices. All the food and wine comes directly from Italy, from cheese and cured meat boards to lamb cutlets with Black Forest sauce, they believe in doing things the traditional way to capture truly authentic flavours. There’s live music at weekends making this one of the capital’s hotspots, whether it’s for a coffee, a refreshing beer, a chilled glass of wine or a memorable dinner.

www.facebook.com/thekitchendub The goal at The Kitchen, is to deliver an innovative menu, a great selection of wines and Irish craft beers, in fun and stylish surroundings, at an affordable cost. Their Head Chef, Vincent Blake, takes pride in preparing dishes which are made from a selection of nutritious, healthy, and well balanced ingredients.

The Kitchen’s style of food is influenced by many world cuisines. The secret to their food having such great flavour is their use of fresh herbs, and a delicate balance of spices

SALAMANCA

Zaragoza

St.Andrew’s Street,Dublin 2 // 01 6774799 // info@

South William St

salamanca.ie // www.Salamanca.ie //

01 6794020

facebook.com/salamancatapas // @SalamancaTapas Salamanca brings the taste of Spain to downtown Dublin, providing a wide range of quality Spanish tapas and wines. Their aim is to whisk you from the mundane to the Mediterranean with every mouthful. Located on St Andrews Street, right beside the relocated Molly Malone, just off Grafton Street.

Taste the sunshine and sea in the tapas on offer on the menu, such as Jamon Iberico, fried calamares and Prawns in Olive oil, also found in the signature dish, Paella de Pollo There are great lunch and early Bird offers, seven days a week. Also try their Cava & Tapas Platter nights which run from Sunday through to Wednesday. Check it out and transport yourself to Spain, without the check in!

info@zaragoza.com // @zaragozadublin

Asador

Johnnie Fox’s Pub

1 Victoria House, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 // t: 01

Glencullen, Co Dublin 01 29555647 info@jfp.ie www.jfp.ie

fb.com/zaragozadublin Zaragoza restaurant is slap bang on buzzy South William St, Dublin’s hotspot for nightlife. The restaurant takes its name and culinary inspiration from the Spanish City and is a true food lover’s paradise. Treat yourself to a unique dining experience, as local delicacies are married together with authentic Spanish flavours. There is an enticingly extensive menu with Tapas and larger dishes. Choose from tantalizing charcoal tuna, tempura cod and a myriad of other dishes. You can also go for a cold platter and pair it with one of the delicious wines available. Explore, eat and enjoy!

2545353 // www.asador.ie / fb.com/Asador reception@asador.ie // @AsadorDublin Situated on the corner of Haddington Road and Percy Place, just a stone’s throw from Baggot Street Bridge in the heart of D4, Asador is known as a true barbecue restaurant where the best of Irish fish, shellfish, and of course steaks are cooked over fires of oak, apple woods and charcoal. It’s an authentic barbecue experience where the open kitchen allows guests to watch the chefs work the bespoke 7 foot ‘asado’. Go for the great flavours you get from cooking this way, stay for the craft beers and cocktails.

Umi Falafel 13 Dame Street, Dublin 2 01 670 68 66 // umifalafel.ie // @UmiFalafel Umi Falafel want to share with you their passion for the freshest and most authentic falafel in Dublin. Their falafel are prepared fresh daily at their location on Dame Street with an old family recipe – ‘Umi’ is the Arabic word for mother after all. Umi Falafel is a fantastic eatery for vegetarians and vegans, as they serve mouthwatering salads, delicious Lebanese favourites such as hummus and baba ghanoush, as well as their favourites, the Palestinian or Lebanese falafel sandwiches served with a choice of salad and dips for a wholesome meal.

Open 12pm-10pm daily.

One of Ireland’s oldest traditional pubs is just half an hour’s drive outside of Dublin. Located astride a mountain in Glencullen, it’s also the highest pub in Ireland. A great destination for locals and tourists alike, transporting visitors to bygone times with trad music performed every night and during the daytime on weekends. All the produce this green isle is famous for features on the menu: oysters, mussels, crab claws, seafood platters, steak and lamb, as well as vegetarian dishes. The Hooley Show features live music, Irish dancers and a memorable four course meal. Johnnie Fox’s should be on everyone’s bucket list.

le bon crubeen

The Revolution

Hard Rock Café Dublin

ELY WINE BAR

82 Talbot Street, Dublin 1 // www.leboncrubeen.ie //

10 Terenure Road East, Rathgar, Dublin 6

22 Ely Place, Dublin 2 // 01 676 8986 // elyplace@

@LeBonCrubeen // 01 7040126

t: (01) 492.6890

12 Fleet Street Temple Bar, Dublin 2 t: 01-6717777

w: www.therevolution.ie This award-winning brasserie in the north of Dublin city centre is well known for delivering some of the best value for money in the city. The menu delivers a grassroots experience, sourcing ingredients from the very finest Irish producers delivering consistent quality. The pre-theatre menu is hugely popular with diners visiting the nearby Abbey or Gate theatres while a diversity of offerings mean vegetarians, coeliacs and those looking for low calorie options are also catered for. Shortlisted as finalist in 2012 of the Irish Restaurant Awards’ Best Casual Dining Restaurant.

@rathgarcraft The Revolution specialises in artisan stone baked pizza and craft beers. Located just south of the city in Rathgar, they offer creative styles of food including pizzas, steak and tacos, a vast selection of both local and international craft beers, and an array of quality wines by the glass. Their friendly staff will go the extra mile to make your time at The Revolution unforgettable. All their bread and pizza dough are made inhouse daily, and their ingredients are sourced locally when available. At The Revolution, it’s all about good food, good beer, and good people.

If you’re looking for fantastic food and live entertainment in a unique, laid back environment, Hard Rock Café Dublin is the place for you. Located just a few blocks from the Liffey in famous and vibrant Temple Bar, a pedestrian friendly area of Dublin featuring cobblestone streets, wide sidewalks, and plenty of attractions. Hard Rock is a great central stop off point which serves fantastic food with a smile.

Try their legendary burgers with a delicious cocktail or beer to wash it down. Have a rocking day!

elywinebar.com // www.elywinebar.com // @elywinebars Since 1999 ely wine bar has been at the forefront, being the first to truly deliver great wines by the glass. Today ely continues to be the leader in sourcing great wines, 500 in total. Awarded Best Wine Experience 2014 by Food & Wine, Best Wine Bars 2014 & 2015 by Sunday Business Post and 100 Best Restaurants 2015 by the McKenna’s Guide this is a place were you can enjoy prime organic beef and pork from their own farm and match it to wines from all over the world. Brilliant for bar bites too!

Kinara Kitchen

Upstairs@57

The Port House Pintxo

17 Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6 // @kinarakitchen //

56/57 Lower Clanbrassil St, Dublin 8

12 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

01 4060066 // kinarakitchen.ie

01-5320279

01 6728950

57theheadline.ie

www.porthouse.ie/pintxos

Located above 57 The Headline Bar on Clanbrassil Street Dublin 8. Upstairs@57 offers a food menu which is varied and influenced by the seasons. The eclectic wine list has been chosen carefully to offer great choice, and to compliment the food offering.

Upstairs@57 also has a full bar which boasts 24 Irish Craft Beer taps and a premium Irish Whiskey List. If you look for comfort and quality when dining, look no further.

The Port House Pintxo in Temple Bar serves an array of authentic Spanish Tapas and Pintxos plus a wide and varied selection of wines from Spain, Portugal and the Basque Region. With an impressive garden terrace overlooking Meeting House Square the soft candle light creates a romantic and relaxed atmosphere. Does not take bookings

Kinara Kitchen, featured in the Michelin Guide 2015, is the award winning Pakistani restaurant serving tantalising traditional food, paired with delicious cocktails and wines. Offering a great value lunch with ethnic naan wraps and thali style meals, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and open 7-nights for dinner, with early bird available Monday - Thursday for €21.95 per person for 3 courses. Above Kinara Kitchen is Upstairs Bar & Roof Terrace. The award winning vintage-themed ‘secret’ cocktail bar is perfect for brunch or aperitifs in the sun. Call to find out about their cocktails classes and booking highly recommended.

Kokoro Sushi Bento

Yamamori Izakaya

19 Lower Liffey Street, D1, 01-8728787

13 South Great George’s Street, Dublin

51 South William Street, D2, 01-5470658

016458001

Unit N, Liffey Trust Centre, D1, 01-5474390

www.yamamori.ie

FB: @Kokoro Sushi Bento

Yamamori Izakaya is located in what was originally Ireland’s very first café on South George’s Street.

The mix of old Irish architecture, oriental decor and soulful tunes set the scene. Downstairs is the Japanesestyle drinking house, serving small Japanese tapas dishes (‘Japas’), the famous Izakaya cocktails, and plenty of Japanese whiskys, beers and sake.

Walls adorned with 1940s beer ads, movie posters and black and white movies provide a visceral back drop to compliment the eclectic mix of tunes from Dublin’s favourite DJs.

w: kokorosushibento.com Kokoro Sushi Bento takes pride in preparing not only the freshest, but most affordable sushi Dublin has to offer, freshly-made every day. Home to Ireland’s only pick ‘n’ mix sushi bar, at Kokoro you can enjoy delicious Japanese hot food favourites such as Katsu Curry or Yaki Soba. In using premium ingredients, together with highly trained staff, Kokoro has forged a reputation as Dublin’s finest independent sushi restaurant.

mexico to rome

The Green Hen

23, East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

33 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

01 6772727

01 6707238

www.mexicotorome.com

thegreenhen.ie

facebook.com/mexico2rome // @MexicotoRome Across from the Temple Bar Pub, is Mexico to Rome, the Bandito’s Grill House. They serve up wonderful mouth-watering Mexican dishes with a twist with tasty European and Italian dishes available. On the menu are sizzling fajitas, burritos, tacos, chilli con carne, steak, fish, pasta dishes and their famous Tex-Mex baby back ribs with Southern Comfort BBQ sauce. The extensive menu suits big and small groups. All cocktails are €5 and there is a great Early Bird (starter and main for €13.50) and a Lunch Special (starter, main and a glass of wine for €9.95).

Well worth a visit!

Mao

coda eatery

Konkan

Il Posto

Viva

The Gibson Hotel, Point Village, Dublin 1

46 Clanbrassil Street Upper, D8 / t: 01-4738252

10 Saint Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

27 South Richmond Street, Dublin 2

01 681 5000

1 Upper Kilmacud Road, Dundrum / t: 01 2988965

t: 01 679 4769

t: 01 424 4043

thegibsonhotel.ie

w: www.konkan.ie

w: www.ilpostorestaurant.com

w: www.vivaespanatapas.com

Situated on Dublin’s landmark St. Stephen’s Green, Il Posto has been cooking delicious contemporary and traditional Italian Mediterranean dishes using the best local and international produce since 2003.

A firm favourite for business lunches, romantic dinners, pre-theatre meals and great nights out.

Il Posto offers an intimate and elegant setting, an informal relaxed atmosphere and sumptuous food, all served with a generous helping of warm hospitality.

Situated near the canal in Portobello, Viva brings a slice of Spain to Dublin. This Family run restaurant is filled with Latin colour and a vibrant bohemian atmosphere. Serving authentic Spanish tapas from our extensive menu and a delicious selection of Spanish wines, Cava and Cava cocktails, Spanish coffees, a good range of teas and real Spanish hot chocolate. Viva places an emphasis on flavour and wholesome homemade dishes, delicious seafood and paella made to order in a warm, relaxed casual dining space making it the perfect place to share a great meal for any occasion with friends.

It’s the final studio album by rock giants, Led Zeppelin and it serves pretty legendary food too! At Coda Eatery the ingredients speak for themselves.

Their menu offers a wide range of meats for example; dry aged rump, sirloin, rib eye and flat iron which are cooked over burning lava rock at a high temperature to create a charred and smoked finish.

They’ve kept things simple serving these prime cuts with well prepared sauces and seasonal sides.

2 Chatham Row, Dublin 2 t: 01-6704899 w: mymao.ie You can visit Mao in Chatham Row (or their locations in Dun Laoghaire, Dundrum, Balinteer or Stillorgan) to enjoy the extensive Asian menu full of tempting, traditionally prepared dishes. Savour the flavour with delicious curries or try a shared platter to get the full Thai experience, not forgetting their famous Mao Classic dishes. If you fancy making a night of it, why not sip up a low calorie, classic or dessert cocktail or two. Mao are an official Leinster Rugby food partner, so why not try one of their healthy dishes as chosen by Leinster Rugby’s nutritionist. #MadAboutMao. Prepare to tuk-in! Lunch menu: 12-4pm Mon to Fri; Early Bird menu: 4-7pm daily; à la carte menu: from 12pm daily

e: info@konkan.ie Konkan Indian Restaurant is located just two minutes walk from the Dundrum Luas Station with another branch in Dublin 8 near the Harold’s Cross Bridge. The food at Konkan is always fresh with complex authentic and regional flavours. Konkan has garnered rave reviews both for the food and the friendly service and is a firm favourite amongst the locals at both restaurants. Their ‘Early Bird’ is great value and the tasting menu is definitely worth a try.

They also offer restaurant quality food for delivery and take-out at great prices (which can be ordered online at www.konkan.ie).

Located in the heart of the city on Exchequer St., The Green Hen specialises in classic French cuisine with an Irish twist. It is known for its gallic décor, an extensive drinks list of wines, bottled beers, draughts and of course its legendary cocktails. Open 7 days a week, you can try the three-course early bird for €22 from 5.30-7pm from Thursday to Sunday. Delicious food, a lively atmosphere, personable staff and a unique quaintness set this restaurant apart from the rest.

PAUL DIGNAM AT THE REVOLUTION Tell me the story of how The Revolution got started.

I had been working in the States, in San Diego, for about six years, running a couple of restaurants over there and I worked my way up from waiter to bartender to general manager, managing two places in a few years times. I felt like I learned a lot. Craft beer in the States is maybe ten years ahead of what it is here, so when I would come back here, at Christmas or for a holiday, I’d notice that it was slowly building up here.

When I’d come back people were talking about these beers that I’d heard of five years ago, so it just got me thinking that I wanted to leverage that knowledge in the industry over there. I’d worked my way up as far as I could go in these particular two places, so I thought, let’s come home and give it a whack here.

That American style of casual dining was something that I really bought into.

Having good food and quality ingredients but in a casual environment. I loved the way you could go out for a four course meal, or just to share a burger, but it would be casual. People would go

out more then because of that, because it wasn’t so expensive, it wasn’t so formal. I liked that whole Californian vibe and thought that there’s no reason we can’t do this here.

How have you found being in Rathgar?

I love the area. I grew up in Malahide, so it’s a similar small village feel. Where we are, you have Rathgar, Terenure, Rathfarnham which is one demographic, maybe a bit older, who might like to just have a casual meal and a bottle of wine during the week.

Then Thursday, Friday, Saturday it’s a younger crowd, might be a bit more into craft beer, that may have visited similar style places while travelling in the States or Australia. They want to have good food and a good time with their friends. The atmosphere on the weekends is amazing, which is one of the benefits of being quite small.

How did you decide to open a pizzeria?

When I was shown this place when I was looking around, it was still operating as Manifestino, and I saw it had potential and I saw that it had this authentic pizza oven built in that I’d never really come across before. I came back a couple of nights later and had dinner, and when I tasted the pizza… that oven just puts the most amazing crispness and char-grilled flavour into the pizza that I thought I couldn’t pass up this opportunity. There was no one really doing beer and food pairings and I thought pizza and beer are a great combination to start, so if we had an extensive beer list and exciting choice of pizza, I thought we could build on this initial idea. The cost to import them from Italy and to install

photo: Meg Killeen

them – it’s not like you can just order one and plug it in somewhere! It’s a big job, and I saw that we could bypass a lot of costs and effort and then still have this amazing unique piece that not too many Dublin restaurants would have.

I didn’t want to be an Italian pizzeria though, I wanted to have a Californian influence and do things that you usually don’t see.

They wouldn’t put steak on a pizza, or they wouldn’t put avocado on a pizza, it’s just not the Italian way. So built into the name ‘The Revolution’ is the idea of changing people’s minds about everything, about the food, the beer, the service.

Tell me about the beers.

There’s about 30 different craft beers on the menu, all bottles.

We don’t have any of the normal mainstream beers, but we have equivalent styles. We have a good selection of Belgians that you won’t find in most places, like a Cantillon Lambic, a Belgian sour ale, a really rare beer from a very unique style of brewing. The Lagunitas IPA came into Ireland a couple of months ago is one of my favourites, a cracking IPA. 8 Degrees and O’Hara’s are making the best stuff in Ireland at the moment in my opinion. On Thursday we do a tasting day where we open up four different beers each week and offer 150ml pours on a tasting paddle – it gives you the opportunity to try different things and maybe find something that you might like, and just to learn what you do and don’t like.

The Revolution - Artisan Pizza & Craft Beer, 10 Terenure Rd East, Rathgar, D6, 01-4064104

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13 Rathgar Road, Rathmines, D6, t: 01-4060200 Based on the award winning Saba restaurant on Clarendon Street, Saba To Go do Thai and Vietnamese food at high quality for fast paced life.

All their meals are freshly cooked on a daily basis with highest quality ingredients with a mixture of locally sourced produce and key ingredients imported from Fair Trade producers in Thailand and Vietnam to give the real authentic east Asian taste.

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Twitter -- @kanumthai Kanum Thai is an Irish owned authentic Thai food and noodle bar, which also provides take away or delivery to your home. Kanum uses only Irish meats and there is no MSG used in their food preparation. All of the food is cooked to order and is low in fat. Kanum pride themselves on giving their customers restaurant quality food at takeaway prices. Eat in, Takeaway or Home/Office deliveries from Noon until late 7 days a week.

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Mao At Home

www.michiesushi.com Ranelagh Dun Laoghaire Sandyford Avoca Rathcoole Avoca Kilmac

Ballinteer: 01 296 8702 Donnybrook: 01 207 1660 Stillorgan: 01 278 4370 Tallaght: 01 458 50 20 Dundrum: 01 296 2802

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Michie Sushi delivers top quality Sushi and Japanese hot foods all over Dublin. We deliver to your home, office, wedding, party and events. Big or small your sushi order is hand made with love and dedication. All of our sushi and hot foods are made to order, our fish is handpicked and cut daily in our restaurants. We are proud to have been awarded the Best Sushi in Ireland for the past 5 years.

Mao restaurants have been the top Asian restaurant chain in Dublin for over 20 years and now are delighted to deliver their extensive range of Asian and Thai cuisine direct to you. Just order online, over the phone or walk in and take away to experience top quality dishes, from mild or spicy curries, fragrant wok specials to the popular Mao Classics! The Mao At Home chefs are passionate about using only the finest fresh ingredients to create our authentic, healthy and virtually low fat dishes. As an official Leinster Rugby food partner why not try one of their healthy dishes as chosen by Leinster Rugby’s nutritionist. #MadAboutMao Prepare to tuk-in! www.mymao.ie

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Junior Song School

Junior Song School is a great programme for students at primary school level interested in making music and writing songs with others.

The week-long workshop covers subjects such as learning how to write and record songs, make music videos and putting on gigs for family and friends. Aimed at those learning how to play an instrument or those playing already, this workshop offers opportunities to find friends who share a love of making music while having fun jamming with them.

Junior Song School runs from July 27th – 31st. See www.mermaidartscentre.ie for further details.

Deftly mining the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations, Conor McPherson’s spellbinding new play The Night Alive tells the story of Tommy, a middle aged man, just about getting by as he rolls from one get-rich-quick scheme to another.

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They say you can do anything once you put your mind to it, but how do you fancy your chances of walking barefoot over hot coals or broken glass without being harmed? Find out at the Ultimate Firewalk, where participants can opt for the traditional firewalk, a glass walk, or both. An event to raise funds and awareness for CDKL5, a rare and devastating childhood neurological disorder, the Ultimate Firewalk in aid of CDKL5 Ireland takes place from 7pm on Friday 25th September at the Martello Hotel on Bray Seafront. For further details visit www.cdkl5.ie

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Dún Laoghaire Bray Summer Fest

With an eclectic mix of musical, culinary and visual treats, there’s plenty to see and do at this year’s Bray Summer Fest. Attractions include food and craft markets, a seaside funfair, Groove Festival and the ever-popular Bray Air Display (see below). Entertainments at the Summerfest Funfair (Sunday 12th July to Monday 3rd August) include a vintage style sideshow, inflatable cities, jungle gyms and a range of water activities. All are individually priced with regular weekday offers also available on site. Bray Summer Fest culminates in a spectacular fireworks display on Bank Holiday Monday, and runs from Saturday 4th July to Monday 3rd August. Keep up to date on Twitter with the hashtag #bsf15 and check out www.braysummerfest.ie for more.

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Junior Song School is a great programme for students at primary school level interested in making music and writing songs with others.

The week-long workshop covers subjects such as learning how to write and record songs, make music videos and putting on gigs for family and friends. Aimed at those learning how to play an instrument or those playing already, this workshop offers opportunities to find friends who share a love of making music while having fun jamming with them.

Junior Song School runs from July 27th – 31st. See www.mermaidartscentre.ie for further details.

6th Underground Cinema Film Festival Now in its sixth year championing the work of emerging filmmakers, the four-day Underground Cinema Film Festival features a programme packed full of shorts, classic films, documentaries and cinematic gems. Workshop topics include Screenwriting and Acting for the Camera, while the Director’s choice, Dog Day Afternoon screens on Sunday. Documentary highlights include Aonrú, Jason Gaffney and Dominic de Vere’s beautifully filmed study of Cape Clear Island (pictured). Opening with A Day Like Today, a film made on a budget of €450, the 6th Underground Film Festival runs from Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th September at the Royal Marine Hotel Dún Laoghaire. www. ucff.ie

Glasthule Mozart Opera Gala with David Brophy Opera enthusiasts are in for a real treat this month as conductor David Brophy leads the Glasthule Opera Orchestra in a performance of popular classics from Mozart’s de Ponte trilogy. Presented by dlr Glasthule Opera, the programme features favourites from The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte and Don Giovanni. Singers on the night include Sinead Campbell Wallace, Doreen Curran, John Molloy and newcomers Maria Mcgrann and David Lynn. Mozart Opera Gala with David Brophy takes place on Saturday 19th September at the Pavilion Theatre Dún Laoghaire.

Tickets €25. Booking through www. paviliontheatre.ie

Margaret Atwood in conversation with Paula Shields

Curated by Bert Wright, the Dlr Library Voices series features conversations with bestselling national and international authors. This month Canadian novelist, poet and innovator Margaret Atwood returns to Dún Laoghaire to discuss The Heart Goes Last, her first novel in fifteen years.

A sinister, wickedly funny tale about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, the novel sees Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best. Margaret Atwood will be in conversation with Paula Sheilds at 7.30pm on Wednesday 30th September at the Carlisle Suite, Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.

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Simon Cooper: Béni Brasserie It’s all about the fusion of French and Vietnamese cuisine at Béni Brasserie, where Head Chef Marcelo Batista Samuel has devised an extensive, globally inspired menu featuring Vietnamese dishes with a classic French twist. Aromatic dishes such as Green Tea Smoked Duck have been paired with award winning Lithuanian Craft Beers, fine wines and a unique range of signature cocktails. We caught up with Simon Cooper, the man behind the Dún Laoghaire newcomer, for a chat.

Simon, tell us how Béni Brasserie came about.

I’ve been in the food business my whole life. My mother owns the Hairy Lemon restaurant, so I’ve worked in the industry since I was very young.

I’ve travelled a fair bit and I’ve been all around Vietnam and Thailand and I’d never experienced anything like the food I tasted there. I thought the different aromas and flavours were sensational and when I came back I wondered why those kinds of foods weren’t available in Ireland. I experimented with cooking for friends and quickly realized that there’s a huge appetite for this kind of food, so I found this beautiful premises with high ceilings and wooden floors, recruited some great staff and here we are!

What makes Vietnamese French Fusion different?

When the French colonized Vietnam two incredible types of cuisine fused and they created some phenomenal dishes as a result. Vietnamese food is actually the third healthiest food on the planet and it feels very fragrant and fresh. Star anise, cinnamon and black cardamoms are typical of Vietnam and very different to the type of food that you would find in Chinese cooking for instance. Our pho soup is homemade with beef stock, and infused with black cardamom, star anise, ginger and cinnamon.

We add vermicelli noodles and thinly sliced beef and the beef is poached in the soup.

It’s served with herbs and spices such as fresh lime, chillies and Thai basil on the side.

You can add as many or as little of them as you like, so you can almost make your own dish and have it the way you like. It’s very tasty!

You’ve gone to a lot of trouble with your cocktails.

We brought in Milan Ormanovic, an award winning flair bartender, who does the spinning of bottles and the flipping and has some amazing videos on You Tube. He’s a beverage chef and the way he puts a drink together is really impressive. He trained all the staff and because he also created particular recipes for us we have some astounding drinks that you won’t find anywhere else in the world. We offer the Bomb Meringue, which includes chardonnay, plum bitters, egg whites, lime juice and white rum. Sometimes the egg white and alcohol fuse together and they erupt, so because of the explosive element we decided to call it the Bomb Meringue (laughs). We actually keep a spare shirt in the bar now because of that! It’s an amazing drink and it goes down very well. We bring Milan back in for training every now and again and if he’s here when you come in it’s quite a show!

What makes a dining experience at Béni Brasserie different?

Essentially we’re just trying to put our best foot forward in every way, we want the diner to have the best experience possible, so everything we do is about providing the customer with something new and top quality that they haven’t had before. We source our meats from Tony Gray and our seafood is supplied by Glenmire Irish Seafood Company who fish in Irish waters, so at every angle we’re providing the best possible product we can.

How easy has it been for Béni Brasserie to get established in Dún Laoghaire?

One of the reasons we came here is because Dún Laoghaire is such a beautiful place.

It’s on the DART line by the sea and we’re offering a really nice dining experience with good value and good service. We’re here three months now and the reviews are great. With the beautiful building, the award winning chef and great staff it’s all come together nicely. Béni is actually the French word for blessed and that’s partly why we decided to call the restaurant Béni Brasserie. I really feel blessed!

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It’s over a century since the first review of the hamburger. A writer for the New York Tribune described the hamburger as ‘the innovation of a food vendor’ at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The fact that the writer failed to mention the name of said innovative food vendor hasn’t helped the endeavours of food historians to pinpoint the origin of the hamburger, with many different cooks claiming credit for its invention. Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant to Connecticut, served minced beef (in the Hamburg style) between two slices of toast at his diner around the year 1900. Other theories point to Fletch Davis, known as Old Dave, to be the founder of the hamburger and indeed the aforementioned innovative food vendor that pleased the New York Tribune at the 1904 Fair.

Joshua Ozersky, food critic, founder of Meatopia and author of The Hamburger: A History (2008), claimed that a hamburger was only a hamburger when it was held together with a bun, and not just squished between two slices of bread. By this reckoning, the claim of Oscar Weber Bilby’s descendants that the first burger in a bun was served at their family farm in Oklahoma on July 4th 1891 may have some standing. Without a written history or proof of original provenance, the battle for recognition rages on.

Associated with the quaint 1950s ideals of drive-ins and milkshakes, hamburgers remain a cultural symbol of America. Though the reality of the American dream has made the country’s cultural imperialism less attractive over the last two decades, the draw of the hamburger remains. The cultural significance may not have the same appeal, but perhaps now we focus on the taste of this cultural import that has become an international speciality.

Wowburger, in the beer garden of Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay, appears committed to the quintessentially American diner-style burger; a sweet bun enveloping a juicy patty, thinner than what we’ve come to expect from a gastropub, but large enough to get the belly rumbling.

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nents i.e. bun, patty, pickle and sauce. I order from the bar and collect from a second burger bar, where I get a wink (a wink!) from the young burger flipper as he expertly slides my tray of burgers and sides across the counter to me.

I’m supremely pleased with my Wow hamburger (€5.95 with free toppings from a choice of 12) with jalapeños, pickles, lettuce and tomato doused in the Wowburger sauce, a tangy take on the iconic pink sauce immortalised by the Big Mac. The Wowburgers boast a double patty of Irish beef across the board, and the patties are generous yet compact, and juicy as opposed to ginormous, sandwiched between a sweet, soft brioche bun.

The bacon cheeseburger feels a little unwieldy; this is a burger for the gluttonous.

The grilled mushrooms might work well as a topping in a simpler burger but in this behemoth they are one step too far down a rich, umami-lined road. Burger sweats take hold after just a few bites. The regular cheeseburger is more manageable, though my young burger

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flipper was too heavy-handed on the jalapeño toppings this time around.

The sides are all winners. A box of chilli fries (€3.95) covered in rich, meaty chilli con carne splattered with the Wowburger sauce is a hearty meal in itself. The more delicate garlic butter fries let the hand-cut skinny chips take centre stage (€2.95). The crispy onion bits (€2.95) make good use of the milder, sweeter taste of red onion wedges by covering them in crispy batter and frying them until puffed and glistening (€2.95). I’m disappointed by the vanilla shake (€3.95). I was hoping it would be frothy, thick and with a strong hit of vanilla. But, on the evening I visit, the shakes are thin and unmemorable. Room for improvement there.

We already know that Workman’s do authentic food well, with their side bar Bison serving (in my humble opinion) the best BBQ and ribs in Dublin. Wowburger has renewed my interest in the club and reminded me how much I love a good burger, served in a casual setting by friendly staff. Burgers and sides for three people, plus a shake, came to €32.65.

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OUT OF YOUR SHELL Klaw

A Dutch friend visited Ireland at the beginning of this summer and asked where she could try oysters in Temple Bar. If it had been the weekend, I would have happily sent her to The Temple Bar Food Market, where the Oyster Bar there serves superbly shucked native oysters on a Saturday. Mid-week though? I was stumped. I sent her further south to Fallon and Byrne and the Cliff Townhouse, but noted, not for the first time, the scarcity of informal and affordable seafood at the disposal of our visitors.

Less than a fortnight after her visit, however, and there’s a new seafood shack smack bang in the middle of Temple Bar, bringing the bounty of the shore to the centre of our city.

Niall Sabongi, proprietor of Rock Lobster and director of wholesale fish, crustacean and mollusc suppliers Sustainable Seafood Ireland, has brought his enthusiasm for local seafood to Klaw, a tiny twelve-seater spot on Crown Alley.

‘We are an island nation and if Rock Lobster has helped to make fish and seafood dining more accessible and popular, we’re delighted,’ Sabongi tells me. ‘It’s really encouraging to see more seafood restaurants opening in the city; I love what Fish Shop are doing. We hope that Klaw will see people eating more fish and encourage other restaurants to buy and serve more local fish.’

A lobster roll is priced at €14, served in a sweet, lightly toasted brioche bun with a pleasing homemade pickle on the side. It’s positively bursting with plump, juicy lobster meat, coated in a mild Marie Rose-style sauce laced with snippets of chives. I inhale it. The star of the show for me, however, is the ‘krab’ on toast (€10). Toasted rounds of bread spritzed with oil to give them extra crunch are the perfect bed for the sweet crabmeat, and it’s a simple yet thoughtful presentation of one of Ireland’s best

ingredients. A crunch of diced cucumber adds texture and I flip out over the Old Bay seasoning (a mix of celery salt, paprika and pepper) that Sabongi encourages me to sprinkle over the crab. I enviously eye up my neighbouring diners’ substantial seafood platter (€35), which they’re washing down with Picpoul (€7 by the glass). It’s one of five wines available in the shack. Bloody Marys are also on offer.

I get a few freshly shucked Achill oysters, one that I enjoy ‘naked’ (€2 a pop), served in their birthday suits on ice. I top my oyster with Klaw’s house-made jalapeño vinegar, a very successful take on the traditional shallot red wine vinegar sauce, and knock it back. Though I appreciate the theatre of the torched oysters (€3 a shuck), wherein an oyster with a choice of smoky bacon or spinach and cheese toppings are blowtorched right in the middle of the shack, the torched smoky bacon doesn’t make

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my oyster experience richer. I think Sabongi is hoping these will be a gateway oyster to diners nervous about knocking them back in their raw state. I like how the oyster is merely warmed through rather than cooked, but I think this version is missing the moisture a sprinkling of molten cheese might bring.

The shack’s chalkboard walls functions as a shout out to Irish seafood, providing an insight into the richness of our seas to visitors and locals alike. September is native oyster season and Klaw are planning oyster masterclasses and tasting sessions to celebrate it. It makes me happy to think that tourists passing through Temple Bar could happen upon this little shack and get a taste of authentic Irish seafood, sourced and served with passion and care. My bill, which included a bottle of sparkling water (€2.20) and a chewy cookie sandwich filled with thick banoffee mix (€4), came to €25.20.

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1. To Learn Plant food Workshops Combining a passion for raw food with a love of Italian traditional cuisine, Sligo-based chefs Erika and Fabio Rosati (known as Fior di Zucca - Raw Italian Cuisine) are keen advocates of the power of raw food. Citing Erika’s successful recovery from rheumatoid arthritis as a persuasive example of the benefits of a raw food diet, Erika and Fabio will facilitate two workshops on the preparation of plant-based recipes in Dublin this month. The first takes place at the Hopsack Health Food Store Rathmines on Wednesday 9th September, while the second, at the Fumbally on Saturday 12th September, will be followed by dinner at the Fumbally Stables. For more details and to book online visit rawitaliancuisine.com

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2. To Drink The Dublin Coffee and Tea Festival From bean harvesting techniques to innovations in brewing, the Dublin Coffee and Tea Festival celebrates all things new in this part of the beverage world. Programme highlights include the Home Barista Competition and live interactive demonstrations showcasing experimental trends in roasting and brewing methods. Also featuring a food village of handpicked artisan suppliers whose products compliment the tea and coffee drinking experience, the Dublin Coffee and Tea Festival takes place in the RDS from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September. Further details and tickets at dublincoffeefestival.com

3. To Incubate The Newmarket Kitchen Getting a new food business up and running can be both daunting and expensive, so we were interested to hear about the Newmarket Kitchen, an initiative supporting small-scale caterers and food producers getting their businesses off the ground. Set up by Shane Bonner, the commercial kitchen and incubator unit aims to make things easier for food start-ups by reducing normal business setup costs, enabling them to focus on quality food production and brand development. Located just off the M50 on the Southern Cross Road, the Newmarket Kitchen is currently home to a number of food start-ups and also helps members build a collaborative peer-network.

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4. To Eat Raw Vibrant Nutrition Balls from Cracked Nut For those interested in swapping a bar of chocolate for something healthier, things just got even easier. Kelda Clermont and Nikki Carruthers, the siblings behind Ăźber-healthy Cracked Nut on Camden Street have developed Raw Vibrant Nutrition Balls. Made entirely from clean, natural ingredients, these nutritional balls of joy are gluten free, dairy free and vegan. Available in Matcha Orange, Spirulina Lemon, Goji Coconut and Cacao Chia flavours, they can now be sourced from Supervalu Food Academy Stores around Dublin as well as from the mothership at Cracked Nut, 71 Camden St, D2.

5. To Meat Sett Food Club at the South William If you thought the days of good quality burgers and fries for a fiver were well and truly behind us, think again. The guys behind Sett Food are now serving up a heady selection of meaty delights from their new home in the kitchen of the South William. Specialities include their original pesto chicken wings, succulent venison and decadent servings of triple-fried chips. With food available from noon, the fabled Sett Burger and fries will set you back a mere fiver between 12pm and 1pm. Call in at 52 South William St, D2.

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Located in Baggot Street, newly opened café and patisserie Eathos specialises in healthy eating with an indulgent twist. Lisa Murrin who runs the café with her brother Peter talked to us about the global influences behind her new venture and her life-long quest to learn more about feel-good food.

Lisa, you’ve always worked with food, haven’t you?

Pretty much! The whole family is in the food industry and my brother Peter and I have been working with the family business, a high-end catering company called With Taste since we were 16. Running a café has always been my dream, so I studied culinary arts in college, and then travelled around the world looking for ideas and inspiration.

Tell us about your new venture. Is the name Greek?

Eathos is a take on the word ‘ethos’ and we put in the ‘A’ as a way to bring the food pun into it!

Healthy eating is so important for longevity and and everything, so we really wanted to focus on fresh healthy ingredients. It’s a concept that we’ve had in the pipeline for a few years now but because the ingredients we use are so expensive, we wanted to wait until the economy was looking up and everybody was feeling a little more comfortable again. We always wanted to be on Baggot Street, so when a premises eventually became available it was a perfect match with perfect timing for us. The café has been open for a couple of months now and Peter and I run it with Ann Marie Nohl who’s been a great mentor for me. I’ve learned a lot from her.

The design of the restaurant is visually very appealing.

We really wanted the food to speak for itself so that’s why we went with the very clean, plain background, with small pieces of art on the wall.

The design is clean, white and simple which reflects the cleanliness of the food. The colour in the restaurant comes from the flowers, the plates and the food and we’ve taken a lot of inspiration from Ottolenghi in London and the simplicity he tries to get across.

Tell us about the menu.

The menu reflects influences from many parts of the world. We put a lot of time and effort into tastings. Nothing goes on the menu without all of us sitting down, tasting it and getting a feel for what it is, so everyone knows the menu inside-out. We were in the kitchen for about a year and a half testing hundreds of recipes, and eventually we whittled it down to the key proteins and incorporated popular spices such as turmeric and saffron. Greek style food and light eating is very popular at the moment and you can see it filter into a lot of menus in Dublin.

We’ve really focused on Irish provenance, so we list where everything is from on the menu and we have two provenance boards showing who our suppliers are.

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You have a great selection of desserts.

Yes! We wanted to have the indulgent desserts for people who come in who aren’t that interested in healthy eating but wanted to have something nice with their cup of coffee. We’ve created two or three desserts that are paleo, vegan and sugar-free, and people are happy that they can have something that they know is low in sugar, with no wheat, no dairy and no hidden ingredients. They leave feeling full of energy, which is exactly what we want!

You’re geared-up for take-out as well?

Definitely. People might walk past and see a full café seated and they feel a little bit intimidated to come in, but our entire menu is available for takeout. So you can have buckwheat pancakes or Shakshuka eggs with your sourdough, the same way you can have all your proteins or salads and your seafood chowder. Every ingredient we’re using is the best of the best, which makes it a little more expensive, but as anybody who has had cafés or restaurants knows, the labour alone for the kind of stuff that we are doing is

Eathos 13a Baggot Street Upper, Dublin 4 For further details see eathos.com

huge so the price has followed through to that.

Our food is freshly made for today and we don’t use anything again tomorrow. At the moment we’re open Monday to Friday from 7am to 5.30pm focusing mainly on breakfast and lunch and we’ve put a provisional date in the diary to begin opening on Saturdays. We have a lot of repeat customers and we’re still getting new people in the door.

You have an Instagram account, The Health Balance (@the_health_balance) Yeah. Growing up I had a lot of problems with my stomach, so I wanted to figure out a way that I could sort out my own gut without going on any medications. The Health Balance was borne out of a love of feel-good food and that’s where it all stems from for me, just understanding food. I started it about three and a half years ago and it’s grown steadily. If I ever study anything further, I’d go back and do something in nutrition just to further my knowledge there. You never stop learning with food. Every day I’m learning something new. I find it fascinating!

Language. Culture. Our Business.

French Courses for Adults, Teenagers, Children & Toddlers

Autumn Term 21 September - 14 November 2015 The French Language & Cultural Centre in Dublin 1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 / www.alliance-francaise.ie

Welcome to Zaragoza, where you’ll find deliciously fresh Mediterranean tapas served with the warmest Irish welcome.

A contemporary fusion of modern, authentic cuisine presented in a convivial atmosphere, Zaragoza is not just a place, it’s a destination.

South William Street, Dublin 2 Ph: 01 6794020 Opening hours: Monday - Sunday - 12noon - Midnight (last orders 11pm)

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CAFÉ OF THE MONTH Grove Road Café Just over a year ago Grove Road opened its doors to the coffee lovers of Dublin and became the latest addition to the flourishing Dublin speciality café scene. This cute space boasts a bright and inviting interior which sits at the busy Rathmines, Grand Canal and Portobello thoroughfare. That, combined with their large panoramic windows make it an ideal place to sit, relax and watch the world go by. But that’s only the beginning, with great breakfast, lunch and brunch menus, Grove Road is covering all angles. They also now serve filter coffee, wine, and fresh healthy juices which provide a substitute for those who have the willpower to abstain from the wonderful Roasted Brown coffee.

Get in early at the weekends to be assured of a table for their very popular brunch.

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If you’re looking for more from coffee, The Dublin Barista School is the place. A dedicated training centre, offering two-hour lessons in espresso basics or an intensive threeday course to earn their Qualified Barista Award. Dublin Barista School is also the place to pick up any coffee accoutrements, whether you want to weigh it, grind it or pour it. As well as offering the knowledge and the gear, they serve up incredible value take-out coffee which they roast themselves (everything is €2), or even a filter coffee which they source their beans from The Barn, a Berlinbased roastery. Open Mon-Sun 9am-4pm

Roasted Brown has long established itself as one of Dublin’s top coffee spots and one of the city’s nicest hangouts.

Baristas Ferg Brown and Rob Lewis serve beautiful coffee using a variety of beans and brew methods, while Roasted Brown’s own roastery now supplies beans to a selection of the city’s most discerning cafés. But it doesn’t stop at coffee: all of Roasted Brown’s food is prepared on site, with gourmet sandwiches, organic soups and delicious sweet treats, and brunch at the weekends. Roasted Brown have now set up shop upstairs in the Project Arts Centre. Drop in and check out their new space.

Talk about not even knowing what you were missing until it is right in front of you! The latest addition to the Dublin cafe scene is the wonderful and quirky Sasha House Petite – a micro-roastery, French/Slavic pastry bar that will entice even the most diligent of dieters with the mouthwatering “signature desserts” and breakfast menus. Sasha House Petite’s specialties – from the Sacher Torte to the Pork Belly Bread – are delightfully refined and fresh; and if you’d rather go for some specialty coffee, you’ll be able to choose from a selection of several aromas and tastes, carefully picked and micro-roasted in house.

19a South Anne Street, Dublin 2. t: 01-6778756 w: dublinbaristaschool.ie @dubbaristasch

Proprietor/Head Barista: Ferg Brown 39 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, D2 @RoastedBrown

Drury Street Car Park, Drury Street, Dublin 2 www.shpetite.ie t: (01) 672 9570 @SashaHouseDub

Clement & Pekoe

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Clement & Pekoe is your local coffee house in the heart of the city. Pop by for a morning fix or an evening winddown and watch the world go by on South William St. Choose from an array of loose leaf teas and seasonal coffee from select roasters. The owners, Simon and Dairine, are on hand to advise on how to enjoy tea or coffee at home too. Clement & Pekoe are now also open in Temple Bar, housed in the contemporary surroundings of Indigo & Cloth on East Essex St.

Nearly one year ago this cosy café opened in College Green to offer Dubliners an authentic Italian experience of really good artisan coffee and Italian premium quality food and products. The cakes and biscotti display in the window captures the eyes of every gourmet passing by, and the scent of panini and pizza (freshly baked everyday) invite you for a tasty lunch. The perfect place to buy the finest cured and cooked meats and cheese.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30am-7pm. Sat: 10am-7pm. Sun 11am-7pm.

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147 Deli is a small independent delicatessen that is passionate about local, seasonal ingredients and great coffee, located in the heart of Chinatown on Parnell Streett beside North Great Georges Street. Everything is cooked and prepared on-site which includes smoking their own meats and fish for their mouthwatering sandwiches and salads. The menu includes sandwiches, soups, salads and freshly made juices with weekly specials. Great decor, friendly staff, good music and big in the game when it comes to sandwiches.

An arty Bohemian café long established on George’s St, Simon’s place attracts an eclectic mix of students, musicians and working stiffs.

Heart-warming lunches of old-school doorstep sandwiches and home-made soups will always keep winter at bay. Try the cinnamon buns !

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1 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6 www.groveroadcafe.ie t: (01) 5446639 @GroveRoadCafe

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With their funky vintage Citroen HY and friendly staff Mexico K Chido serve up delicious, authentic Mexican street food in an unconventional location! Parked in the entrance of Fegans Foodservice warehouse, K Chido creates a comfy (heated!) space with cushioned upcycled pallet furniture. Gustavo’s home-made marinades and salsas make it truly Mexican, firing out traditional classics such as pulled pork tacos, nachos and tortas weekdays, and transforming into a Mexican Bruncheria on weekends, offering a chilled atmosphere with your huevos rancheros. Freshly ground Ariosa coffee rounds off a perfect café experience. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-6pm

Base has won over the coffee lovers of Ballsbridge.

With their House Blend and rotational Single Origin, there’s always something new to try here. They use the very best coffee sourced internationally from Dublin roasters 3fe. You can also grab a Base signature wood fired sandwich or salad or cake from Dublin micro bakery, Wildflour to make it the perfect working lunch hour.

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18 Chancery St, Dublin 7 Email: kchidomexico@gmail.com @kchidomexico Facebook: Mexico K Chido

Hansel & Gretel Bakery & Patisserie From Trinity College to Baggot Street you’ll notice breadcrumb trails leading to Hansel and Gretel Bakery on Clare Street. Located just beside the National Gallery, this little bakery is the perfect spot to grab something to enjoy in Merrion Square. The freshly baked pastries (especially the almond croissants) and coffee from Ariosa make a great combo to start the morning, especially with the local office crowd. Everything is handmade from scratch with the ingredients sourced from small local producers, from their breads to their pastries to their delicious cakes.

20 Clare Street, Dublin 2 w: facebook.com/HanselandGretelBakeryPatisserie t: 01-5547292

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SPILL THE BEANS BARRY STEPHENS AT 147 DELI How did 147 Deli all come about?

Well, this all came about through a friend of mine owning the building. It used to be a Chinese supermarket and I just saw the opportunity for a sandwich joint. I’d been thinking of setting up a restaurant and at the very last minute this location turned up. I’ve always loved food but I’m not a fully trained up chef, so the idea of starting a full restaurant was kind of intimidating. Out of nowhere, this opportunity popped up so I said, feck it, lets do it. I totally gutted the place and re-did everything and here we are.

It seems like it’s been going really well for you?

It’s great. People around the area love it and we’ve even got people travelling from as far as Belfast to check it out. People see that the emphasis is on quality food and we try to get it spot on every time. We smoke all our own meat and fish, all the sauces are homemade and people have really started to realise that now.

It’s a lot of hard graft, sure, but I love what I do.

I love the team I have. I don’t really see it as ‘work’... unless it’s a Monday morning [laughs].

Parnell Street is kind of having a bit of a resurgence at the moment. It’s great to see considering the area’s historical significance and the fact

it’s been somewhat neglected for so long.

Well hopefully so. There’s a Luas stop coming next year, or so they say. O’Connell Street is within spitting distance and it’s our main thoroughfare, so it was bound to come around sometime. When I first opened the place, everyone thought I was mad for choosing Parnell Street, but I knew that whatever I did, I was always going to put my heart and soul into it and whatever comes out will be the best I can possibly do, so if that’s not good enough then I’m not good enough. I took it as a bit of a challenge, an ‘if you build it, they will come’ sort of thing. There are a bunch of eclectic joints popping up around the place, from The Black Sheep on Capel Street to the Barricade Inn just across the road.

One of things about your place that people have been really going mad about are the doughnuts, can you tell me a little bit about them?

We get the doughnuts off a lady called Hilary Quinn, who set up Dublin Doughnut Company.

She went to college close by and was always in and out and one day she came to me with this idea about doing doughnuts. It’s rare when somebody makes a suggestion to you like that where you immediately know ‘that’s a great, that’s genius!’. There was just such an untapped

A well-made sandwich is a wonderful thing and not easy to find, unless you’re talking about Doughboys.

This bustling counter-service sandwich and coffee shop serves up delicious breakfast, lunch and coffee.

All sandwiches are made fresh in-house with popular favourites such as meatball marinara and porchetta on the menu. There's Cloud Picker Coffee to fill your cup in the morning and freshly made lemonades at lunchtime. And not to forget their brekkie sandwiches – with smoked streaky bacon or breakfast sausage, poached egg and American cheese on a Arun brioche bun – a fine way to start the day!

Charlotte Way, Dublin 2 t: 01-4022000 w: fb.com/DoughboysDublin Twitter: @DoughboysDublin

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The Punnet is the only place in Ireland to offer such a service dedicating itself to fresh, quality food and juices and rich flavourful coffee including the 'Bulletproof'.

94/95 Lower Mount Street pfedublin@gmail.com www.thepunnet.ie @punnethealth

Berlin D2

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Cafe @indigoandcloth niche for donuts in Dublin. I know we’re all on a health kick at the moment, but pop one of those donuts down you and there’s no looking back! She’s just brilliant. As she came to me, I was lucky enough to get them exclusively for the first few months.

Hilary is flying now, she’s got a good head on her shoulders, and I can see her opening up outlets of her own. We sold out 60 of them in nine minutes the other day!

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The newly opened Cafe is a collaboration with our good friends Clement & Pekoe. It sits on our ground floor and has seating for 6 to 8 people. You can grab a perch in the window or at the larger community table, enjoy the surrounds or grab something to read.

Serving Climpson & Sons beans as our House Blend, choose from an ever changing filter menu, loose tea and some delicious cakes too. We hope you like it as much as we do. Open Mon–Sat 10am–6pm & Sun 12 – 5pm 9 Essex St East, Dublin 2 www.indigoandcloth.com/cafe www.clementandpekoe.com @indigoandcloth t: 01 670 6403

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Café Gray opened its second outlet on Dawson Street and is attracting a lot of interest. Owned by Robert Gray, it serves legendary 3fe coffee, loose leaf teas from Clement & Pekoe as well as cold pressed juice from Sprout Food for non-coffee drinkers. Their food offering is based on the best Irish artisan producers and the sandwiches, soup and salad are some of the best in town and the prices are very keen compared to the chains. Go before the crowds do!

A Dublin institution according to some, The Bretzel Bakery first began baking in Lennox Street in Portobello in 1870. It has recently expanded to include a café, offering not only freshly baked, hand-made bread, buns, cakes and confectionary, but a range of freshly made sandwiches and bagels on its signature loaves, not to mention they’ve a good strong cup of coffee or freshly brewed tea. With warm and inviting decor and friendly staff, the café is well worth a visit to beautiful Portobello – even if it has been a long time coming! Mon-Fri 8am6pm, Sat/Sun 9am-4pm

Located on Molesworth Street, Busy Bean Café is a very welcoming home from home. Amongst the favourites on offer is an array of fresh baked scones and breads, homemade soups, daily carvery sandwiches, pasta dishes, salads and a plethora of gourmet signature sandwiches. Simply put, their philosophy is to serve real food and real coffee at a real price where you will always be made welcome. Busy Bean Cafe also offers catering for offices and events. Open Mon-Fri 7am-5pm and Sat 9am-5pm.

This is no ordinary deli. Despite it’s size, it serves up the best handmade Italian style pizza, pressed sourdough sandwiches, wholefood salads, take home meals and deli pots for miles. The two Hughes sisters make everything in-house daily, with a few well-considered exceptions from suppliers such as Tartine organic bakery, Nick’s locally roasted sweet espresso and Sprout cold-pressed juices. Their signature ‘pressed sandwich’ is Devilled Crab with Gruyere - it must be sampled to be believed! They’ve started opening 3 nights for BYOB and 7 days to satiate the growing numbers of Minetta junkies out there.

63 Dawson St. FB @cafegraydublin @cafegraydublin

1A Lennox Street, Portobello, D8 t: 01-4759445 w: fb.com/the-bretzel-bakery

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Wall and Keogh is the original. It’s the tea company that made loose leaf tea important again, with a location to enjoy your cuppa in that compares to no other. They have a full café attached and all the baked goods are homemade. Just go see for yourself, it’s wholesale & retail tea of the highest grade.

A New York-style loft newly established on Dame Street, KC Peaches is the ultimate hangout for tourists, students and working professionals. Serving natural, wholesomely enhanced all-day dining options, you leave the cafe feeling truly nourished by nature. Unlike anywhere else in Dublin, their hot and cold buffet options are delicious, convenient and affordable. With everything priced per plate size you can pile high on that wholesome goodness but make sure to leave room for their famous cheesecake brownie. The philosophy is simple: ‘Eat well, live well.’ Mon 8am-8pm, Tue-Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 11am-6pm

Warm, cosy and friendly, The Birdcage Bakery stands out at its Harcourt location as one of the area’s finest cafes.

With inviting, comfortable décor, the friendly staff offer a selection of homemade pastries, desserts, cakes and bitesized treats all made from scratch daily. The savoury lunch menu is enjoyed all week long and offers an original take on classics such as meatballs and smokey bacon & cabbage among others. With top quality coffee, freshly roasted from the kiosk, enjoy one house blend and one single origin on offer daily, alongside a selection of teas from Clement & Pekoe. Open Mon-Fri 7.30am-3.30pm

Set in the super-cool surroundings of Science Gallery, Science Gallery Café is one of the city’s most interesting meeting places. This bright, contemporary space is home to an enthusiastic team serving up fresh food and great coffee. In fact, café owner Peter is so passionate about coffee that he decided to roast his own, and Science Gallery became the first place in Dublin to serve the amazing Cloud Picker Coffee, handroasted here in Dublin City Centre. You can also choose from a great menu that includes everything from Peter’s Mum’s Beef Goulash Stew to the student takeaway soup-sambo-fruit combo deals (for only €5!)

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RHA Autumn Exhibitions Showing from 4 September – 18 October Admission free

Amanda Coogan, I’ll sing you a song from around the town Selection from the Waterford Municipal Collection Gary Coyle RHA, Into the Woods

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ARTSDESK words Aidan Wall

Remembering the Revival Currently installed at the Garden Galleries in IMMA, El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State, is an exhibition curated by Annie Fletcher and Sarah Glennie. Although the show predominantly features the work of Russian constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky, it functions more as an allegory to the work of Irish Revivalist poet, playwright, and author Alice Milligan. Combining museum-typical informative displays about Lissitzky and Milligan with less museologically conventional offerings from contemporary artists Rossella Biscotti, Núria Güell, Sarah Pierce, and Hito Steyerl, the show’s disjointed feel complements the varied work of Milligan, which ranged from newspaper articles to theatre, always bounding between the poetic and the historic. Assisting as curatorial advisor for the show is Dr. Catherine Morris, whose academic research forms the basis for our understanding of Milligan’s radical practice.

The significance of Milligan’s role in the Irish Revival of the early 20th century is often overlooked due to the scholarly conception that the Revival was a predominantly literary movement, overlooking the importance of other art forms during that period. Alice Milligan’s cultural output, which began during the centenary of the 1798 rebellion, was realised in local newspapers, magic lantern lectures, self-published journals and community theatre shows in the format of tableaux vivants, a form of theatre which featured silent costumed actors posing accompanied by a narrator. By using these tableaux to depict important moments through Irish history, Milligan sought to offer a vision for Ireland’s future which would grow from a critical awareness of its shrouded past.

The accessible format of Milligan’s tableaux performances allowed for them to be cheaply and easily re-enacted, thus reaching a wide audience. Costumes and sets were often built or sourced by the participants; these communal aspects of Milligan’s tableaux are referenced in Sarah Pierce’s works Gag and Wigs. Constructed from debris sourced during the exhibition’s installation, Gag combines the site-specific ethos of Milligan’s tableaux with the jagged geometric forms of Lissitzky’s drawings to create a protruding installation of small sculptural oddities.

Morris suggests that the silence of the tableaux had political connotations. Milligan was frustrated by the silencing of Irish women in the constitutional politics of the time; the pictorial tableaux representations allowed the (often female) participants to re-appropriate their silencing and translate it into an empowering act. While on hunger strike in Kilmainham Gaol in 1923, a number of Irish women prisoners in A Wing performed a series of costumed

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Two of the four surviving photographs of Irish tableaux staged by the Belfast Gaelic League during the Irish Cultural Revival period.

The first scene depicts the Queen Meave tableau staged in Belfast in 1898 The second depicts Princess Grania’s waiting maid from The Gentlewoman, London, 1898 Courtesy The National Library of Ireland

tableaux vivants depicting Republican heroes Robert Emmet and Anne Devlin for their comrades in B Wing. This display, as Morris writes, allowed them to show their allegiance to their historical forebears ‘whose legacy was, like their own experience, one of disempowerment, bodily torture and silence.’

The works of Núria Güell and Rossella Biscotti resonate with the turbulent aspects of Milligan’s life as an Ulster-born protestant Republican who, despite being proud of Belfast’s history of republicanism, felt a longing to be in Dublin. Güell’s work Stateless by choice. On the prison of the Possible is realised through legal documents, video footage, and photography, which charts the artist’s struggles to break free from state representation. The embroidery of Biscotti obfuscates demographic data into abstract chart-like geometric compositions which pose questions about the statistical nature of nationality and statehood.

Milligan once wrote: ‘These anniversaries of ours are no empty celebrations. We mean not alone to honour the dead but their principles that live as well.’ In the lead up to the 1916 centenary, it is apt that Milligan’s unconventional style of commemoration is being honoured and exhibited. Milligan’s work, whether it was performed or published, was equal parts accessible and radical; it was not overly concerned with mourning abstract concepts of the buried past, but rather pursued and made concrete the moments from history that she considered vital for her contemporaries’ understanding of their Ireland. IMMA’s exhibition poses itself as a fitting primer to what is likely to be a year focused on the ideas of commemoration and remembrance: ideas with which Alice Milligan should be synonymous.

The exhibition El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State runs at IMMA until Sunday 18th October.

PRINT words Stephen Cox Eliza A. Kalfa Mònica Tomàs

War of the Encyclopaedists Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite Hamish Hamilton

Authors typically try to mark their own voice and style in their first novel, often with mixed results. War of the Encyclopaedists is a collaborative effort, and so Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite have risked doubly complicating their book for the sake of an original take on form. The story begins in Seattle in 2004, as the writers’ seeming avatars, Halifax Corderoy and Mickey Montauk, prepare for post-college life. Plans to go to grad school in Boston together are foiled by Montauk’s National Guard unit being called up to serve in Iraq. Messy situations with Mani, Corderoy’s ex, and Tricia, his roommate, further test the protagonists’ friendship against the backdrop of George W. Bush’s second term in office.

Having thrown hipster parties in Seattle as ‘The Encyclopaedists’, Corderoy and Montauk stay in touch by editing the Wikipedia page they have made for themselves, reflecting changes in their lives: a postmodern motif that soon begins to wear thin. The prose also shows inconsistency, with well-observed considerations tempered by clumsy bro-speak. The Iraq set-pieces lend new vibrancy to the plot, but, by the end, you are left wishing that Robinson and Kovite had a more rigourous editor, or that the novel had been the work of one engaging – if try-hard – author, instead of two. SC

Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann

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‘Equal rights for all, special privileges for none’: few can forget these words from Atticus Finch, the lawyer who steadfastly pleads a falsely-accused black man’s case in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-Prizewinning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Neither can his now-adult daughter, Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, who in Go Set A Watchman returns to Maycomb County to find that everyone, even Atticus, has changed. It is unsurprising that a young woman returning to the rural South from the big city would be disillusioned; however, the transformation of one of American literature’s most beloved heroes will shock readers as well. This destruction of idols brings the coming-of-age tale that began with Mockingbird full circle, painting a wrenching picture of the entrenched bigotry that continues to stymie a supposedly free and equal society, even now.

Scout herself is no glowing paragon of anti-segregationist ideals.

Beyond reassuring her uncle that she doesn’t ‘want to run out and marry a Negro or something’, she agrees with her father that Black Americans are ‘backwards’ and not ‘ready’ for integration. These seemingly monstrous devolutions are partly explained by the fact that while billed as a sequel, Watchman was reportedly a first draft of Mockingbird, and its characters and themes are therefore still inchoate. Accordingly, the novel is a largely amorphous jumble of anecdotes and observations, essentially plotless for the first 100 pages, for all that it highlights Lee’s talent for humorous banter, character observation, and the moving descriptions of halcyon childhood scenes that made Mockingbird a classic. Scout’s distress at her father’s inclinations takes centre stage; however, this conflict pales in comparison to the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement as lived by Black people (which she admits she hasn’t ‘paid any attention to’). Hailed as timely by some commentators, Watchman’s characters’ stalwart attempts to preserve segregation are in fact a misleadingly peaceful counterpoint to the bloody struggle of race relations in the United States, then and today. MT

Speak Louisa Hall Ecco Press

Speak’s web of interrelated narratives features a 17th century pilgrim, a paralysed girl conversing with a chatbot, a fictionalised Alan Turing, and an imprisoned AI inventor in the year 2040. Comparisons to Cloud Atlas are to be expected, but Louisa Hall is unconcerned with politics and uninterested in stylistic innovation, resulting in a more accessible, though less stimulating, read.

The epistolary format doesn’t work for all the stories, with the strained letters between the Dettmans – a ponytailed computer science professor who eventually turns against AIs and his wife, who becomes enamoured with one – suffering in particular. In these letters, stray ponderings on, say, the politicisation of women’s novels (‘Students barely skim what she wrote, then pen inflamed essays about marginalization, and amid all the shouting, she still falls silent.’) are shoved aside with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball, to make way for yet more awkward exposition. However, when Hall hits her stride, she is both funny and touching. The charming diary of Mary, a 13-year-old girl traveling from England to the New World, provides one of the book’s strongest sections. ‘Have decided to write in style of Sir William Leslie, favorite adventurer’, she ventures optimistically, before realising that the diary was offered by her father as an apology for her impending arranged marriage.

Speak may be an uneven novel, but its shortcomings are easy to forgive. EK

PRINT words Ruairí Casey Roisin Kiberd Gill Moore

Primates of Park Avenue Wednesday Martin Atria Books

For those who cannot bring themselves to be seen reading actual yummy mummy lit, Wednesday Martin’s record of life among the WEIRD (‘Western, educated industrialised, rich, democratic peoples’) of the Upper East Side offers a compromise. A memoir dressed as an anthropological study, Primates of Park Avenue details the lives of New York’s female elite: their circuit of ‘cancer dances’, overdressed school runs and bizarre sex-segregated summers in the Hamptons. Martin observes with scholarly diligence until a kind of Stockholm Syndrome takes hold, driving her to purchase the Manhattan geisha’s totem of choice, an $8,000 Birkin bag.

If there is a lesson to take from Primates, it is that misogyny has been internalised as a lifestyle, inflicted by cliques of women upon themselves.

This, and the grotesque price of maintaining ‘perfection’ (cosmetic upkeep is calculated by Martin as costing $95k per year) makes it difficult when the author asks you to sympathise with her subjects’ upholding social mores as frozen in time as their overly-Botoxed foreheads.

The ‘going native’ trope feels similarly outdated, and unfunny. Martin ends the account with her own relocation to the West Side as a form of redemption, but it does little to improve the bad taste this book leaves behind – like too much kale and Xanax over lunch. If you thought The Wolf of Wall Street was bad, wait ‘til you meet his wife. RK

New American Stories Ed. Ben Marcus Granta

At Columbia University, Ben Marcus teaches a seminar called Technologies of Heartbreak, that considers the strange machinations a writer can use to get inside his reader. With New American Stories, Marcus appeals to a similar criteria for curation: to bring together 32 stories by ‘the most gifted technicians’ in building a ‘chemical pathway to... language-induced feelings’.

The result is a collection of baffling, moving and fabulous pieces.

The stories prowl across diverse generic and thematic space, ostensibly united only in their determination to bend language towards being a kind of sophisticated if unpredictable feelingshack. A sure highlight is Lucy Corin’s absurdist Madmen, set in an imagined universe where insanity and aberration are fetishised.

Both Charles Yu’s Standard Loneliness Package and Kelly Link’s Valley of the Girls skillfully speculate on alternate realities and the horrors that a biotechnically adept society might want to expel.

Other pieces are less conceptually bizarre, but show striking linguistic inventiveness. Rebecca Lee brings psychobabble to new levels in Slatland and Robert Coover’s stylized syntax shows a stream of time hurtling by in Going for a Beer.

In territory this ambitious, there are always dangers, and certain works run the risk of being too shouty, show-offy or inaccessible.

Marcus has been accused of being too much a writer’s writer, too devoted to wordy surrealism. Yet writerly use of radical form and linguistic revision rarely displace these stories’ ability to communicate or emote. Concerns around the short story being reinvented in this collection through avant-garde critical darlings or MFAstyle experiment are purely academic. GM

The Key Máirtín Ó Cadhain Dalkey Archive Press

It is perhaps surprising that the stultifying conformism of mid-century Ireland – to church and to state – has not been the focus of more satire in the tradition of Kafka. But if Myles na gCopaleen was the court jester of the era, Máirtín Ó Cadhain might be seen as the more serious vivisector of Irish society. Ó Cadhain’s The Key (An Eochair in the original Irish) follows the travails of J, a menial paper keeper in some unspecified Civil Service department. J diligently absorbs the wisdom of his objectionable superior S, who instils in him a fearful respect for paper and the order of things. When J gets trapped in his windowless office – his only key snaps off in the lock – the weight of Irish society is thrown against the door to free him. Priests are called, party politicians grandstand and bicker, journalists scribble away, while officials from the Office of Public Works trudge through protocol to no avail. As no precedent exists, all are paralysed until orders come from the top of the Civil Service’s byzantine chain of command. All the while J is haunted by thoughts of female hands stroking trouser legs, and an unspeakable act committed in a pub laneway during his dissolute youth. With his broken key, Ó Cadhain draws great humour from the depths of one of Ireland’s most creatively repressive periods. RC

FILM REVIEWS words Luke Maxwell Oisín Murphy-Hall Bernard O’Rourke

Vacation Director: John Francis Daly, Jonathan M. Goldstein Talent: Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo, Chris Hemsworth Release Date: 21st August 2015 Chances are audiences remember very little of the particulars of The National Lampoon’s Vacation series, and after seeing the latest instalment in the franchise it’s clear that Warner Bros. certainly doesn’t remember much of what made these films appealing in the first place.

To my mind, the 1983 Vacation and ‘89’s Christmas Vacation exemplify the best of the series. These films are silly, sometimes ribald, but mainly sweet pictures that occupy the ‘R-rated movie for kids’ space along with many home video and cable rerun hits of the 1980s.

This film plays more like a horror film than a comedy, as jokes sneak up on you and force a blurt of shocked laughter. Very little of the comedy is well crafted, but it is relentless and earns its age-rating with significantly more swearing and gross-out sexuality than its predecessors.

There’s clearly some reverence for the material here: Chevy Chase makes an appearance as Clark Griswold offering up some of the film’s best (and cleanest) jokes, but these sequences fail to make up for a film that often feels too mean and cynical. Where the older films underpinned their misery with heartfelt schmaltz, this new Vacation humiliates at every opportunity.

There are bigger problems too. Jokes often don’t follow: why, for example does patriarch Rusty Griswold not know what a rim job is, yet he displays an intimate knowledge of gloryholes and assorted other sexual minutiae? All the jokes feel ‘of the moment’, like a series of loose vignettes, with nothing but misery stringing them together.

If there are some bright spots, they’re easy to forget. Audrey Griswold (Leslie Mann) has married a successful weatherman played by Chris Hemsworth, he’s obsessed with faucets for whatever reason and slips in tenuous metaphors wherever possible – it doesn’t sound that funny, and it isn’t really, but it’s better than the rest of the material. Opt for a staycation with this one. LM

Pixels Director: Chris Columbus Talent: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage Release Date: 14th August It’s hard to look at a film like Pixels and not argue that mainstream cinema is getting dumber. It isn’t really much worse than most of the dross Adam Sandler and Kevin James have starred in over the years – it’s just that this time they’ve inexplicably been let into the mega-budget special effects blockbuster game.

The only saving grace for the state of contemporary culture is that – like the protagonists – the filmmakers seem trapped in a previous generation. The heroes of Pixels are all socially awkward manchildren, a stereotype of gamers as retro as Pac Man. Not only that, but the film flips abruptly from making these guys the butt of the joke into pure wish fulfilment, when they’re literally awarded the girls of their dreams (who now, finally, appreciate them for who they are) for saving the day. With any luck everyone involved will feel some sense of shame over what they’ve done and keep a low profile for the foreseeable future. BO’R

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Mistress America

Director: Crystal Moselle Talent: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jadavisa Angulo Release Date: 21st August

Director: Noah Baumbach Talent: Greta Gerwig Release Date: 14th August

We open on a compressed rendition of Reservoir Dogs, kids of various ages with long hair, dressed in oversized suits running about a cramped apartment earnestly acting out gunfights and tense conversations. These kids make up this documentary’s titular Wolfpack, seven home-schooled siblings raised in semi-confinement at the behest of their paranoid father. The six boys and one girl live for movies and for one another, making their own fun through re-enactments like the one seen in the opening sequence. They’re likeable subjects and director Crystal Moselle observes pivotal comingof-age moments as the older members of the pack begin to explore the outside world and rebel against their father. Moselle is a non-entity in the film and this is fine as the characters are interesting in and of themselves, but it means that everything is as mysterious to us by the close of the picture as it was at the beginning. LM

Last year’s While We’re Young, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, saw the light comedy of its first two reels descend in a drastic and ill-advised change of tone into a clumsy, po-faced meditation on the ethics of documentary filmmaking; Mistress America similarly retreats from its ironic and acutely observed metropolitan beginnings to a weird blend of suburban farce and didactic reflection on the moral implications of writing one’s own friends into fiction. Baumbach’s tendency towards the overwrought scuppers what would otherwise be a flawless, arch comedy of manners in the style of Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress), who always had the good sense to allow Greta Gerwig’s warm, unique and brilliant talent for pastiche – at times nothing short of comic genius – to take centre stage. Though Mistress America might be arguably Gerwig’s funniest role yet, Baumbach’s plodding, whitebread style remains an albatross around her neck. OMH

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Destroyer Poison Season [Merge Records]

Beach House Depression Cherry [Bella Union]

Beach House are not a band to be rushed. Over their first four albums, they slowly and deliberately built their sound out from keyboard, guitar and drum machine to gradually include, well, more of those – but louder, and more layered, with a splash of live drumming thrown in.

At first, Depression Cherry seems to be following this straight-line progression. Opening song Levitation floats rather gently along on a bed of organ and ethereal backing vocals for the better part of six minutes, before the album descends into the wheeling distorted guitars and clipped vocal samples of lead single Sparks. Slightly noisier and more elaborate than their previous work, it sounds like the next logical step in Beach House’s development. But it’s instead used as a launchpad into Space Song, a decidedly un-raucous track reminiscent of some of their earlier output, only more delicately constructed.

The rest of the album continues to drift hypnotically in this manner, with the band keeping one foot hovering over the brakes at all times, just in case. While their music has never exactly been unhinged, to understate somewhat, it’s uncommon to see any group with such command over their own expression as Beach House display here.

When the drum line on Bluebird threatens to sound too energetic, Victoria Legrand’s mannered vocals tamp down any over-exuberance. ‘Even I can’t control my nature’, she sings – this could be taken as disingenuous, though she may be referring to her preternatural discipline. Really, this is Beach House at their most wilful and self-confident, and the album is a mesmerising journey. Just don’t take it if you’re in a hurry. LD Like this? Try these: Emily Reo – Minha Gatinha Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See My Bloody Valentine – m b v

On Poison Season, Destroyer trades in the tinny string section of his MIDI-powered 2004 album Your Blues for the real deal, and doesn’t crack under the increased expectation. This is easily his broadest-ranging release, swerving from heartfelt quietude to boisterous piano rock and back again.

The result is as much a compendium of his past successes as it is yet another abrupt and accomplished stylistic shift. There’s simply no knowing where he’ll go from here, nor is there any need to worry. LD

Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba Tokyo Adagio [Impulse!]

The great American double-bassist Charlie Haden died a year ago. He played often with Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett. This beautiful recording is the pinnacle of his collaborations with the pianist genius from Cuba, Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Both are Grammy Award-winners.

Buy it for the exquisite My Love and I and keep coming back for the winsome When Will the Blues Leave. Want a CD to ease you quietly into this coming change of seasons? Here you go! TC

The Jimmy Cake

Cruising

Master [Pilatus]

Cruising EP [Tough Love]

Master marks not only the return of one of the figureheads of Dublin’s semi-dormant post-rock scene, The Jimmy Cake, but also a sharp right turn in their musical progression. In the six year gap between releases, they have moved away from lush, melancholic string and brass arrangements in favour of a brawnier, kraut-informed direction.

Over three mammoth tracks the band luxuriate in heady, propulsive, ever-evolving space rock.

Surprisingly taut considering its 72 minute runtime, Master is a homegrown treat for the psychedelically inclined. DW

Cruising went for the ear-stab approach on You Made Me Do That last year, employing Thermals circa More Parts Per Million levels of audio fidelity to produce a garage-rock belter that sounded like it was actually recorded in a garage straight onto the cassette it was released on. On their self-titled EP, it appears a lot classier, all legible and properly recorded, but perhaps missing some of the crude, dumb charm of the original version. Generally, this EP is at its most fun when Cruising stray further into noisy chasms as on closer Cutlass. IL

Yo La Tengo

Frog Eyes

Stuff Like That There [Matador]

Pickpocket’s Locket [Paper Bag]

With this cosy-sounding collection of cover versions and semi-acoustic reinterpretations of their previous work, YLT continue their unprecedented two-decade hot streak. That said, they aren’t quite operating at the peak of their powers. Sticking within the same twee mould throughout, they fail to showcase the flair for the eclectic that has kept them so engaging for so long. Though throwaway by their standards and extremely narrow in scope, Stuff Like That There remains a pleasure, though not an instant classic. DW

Carey Mercer’s Frog Eyes are one of the few remaining flag-bearers for the once world-beating, now considerably less fashionable indie that emerged from the great white north nearly (yikes) a decade ago. Turning back to acoustic guitar here for his raw material, this is a more pleasant Frog Eyes than we might be used to and many of the jarring sonic shifts that characterise Mercer’s earlier work have been culled. Like early Arcade Fire stripped of all big room bombast. DW

Advance Base

Deradoorian

Nephew in the Wind [PIAPTK]

Exploding Flower Planet [Anticon]

Advance Base is the latest guise of Owen Ashworth, of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Though notionally an entity independent of his previous band, and certainly boasting a denser sound in comparison to Casiotone’s dinky aesthetic, the record is still populated with the same character-driven, minutiae-obsessed tales of small-town angst. Ashworth’s reputation is built on his equal parts amusing and heartbreaking lyrical nous, and as a wordsmith he remains at the peak of his powers. Nephew stands up next to his finest moments. DW

Having parted ways with Dirty Projectors postBitte Orca to spread her songwriting wings, Angel Deradoorian’s solo career has been a slow burn so far, with this debut album following up her Mind Raft EP six years ago. Her routinely exquisite vocals and penchant for melismatic melodies (betraying her Armenian-American heritage) are her bolstered by delightfully varied, well-developed arrangements and songwriting, ranging from Beautiful Woman’s psych-stomp to the throbbing, krauty pulsations of The Eye. Really good. IL

Girl Band Holding Hands With Jamie [Rough Trade] A cover of Blawan’s Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?, which originally surfaced on Quompilation #3 in 2013, was built on by Girl Band for their January 2014 single Lawman, which showed off a band really getting to grips with their dynamics, their power and their own aesthetic. Their live-set even then left you with ears ringing and face happy-slapped, but the intervening 18 months touring hard with the likes of Metz has seen this set – of all new tunes – honed into a filthy dirty fucking horror show.

Opener Umbongo is an hilariously abrasive squall and a totemic calling card for the rest of record: Holding Hands With Jamie is a procession of bludgeoning, uncompromising slabs of sound. For a gang of guys holding guitars and drums, this is a distant cousin to rock music. Instead of distorted chords, guitarist Alan Duggan deals in shapeshifting sheets of abstracted noise, like the screeching car accident soundscape of Sonic Youth’s In The Kingdom #19. Musical shifts here channel the sounds of industrial saws rather than elaborate counterpoint.

Only on Texting an Alien is there something resembling a chord. The main nagging doubt in this thoroughly enjoyable maelstrom is singer Dara Kiely’s reliance on the same faltering sung-spoken melody on a handful of tunes.

This is not music without precedent by any means. It has a long and distinct lineage, but that lineage is added to here with aplomb. IL Like this? Try these: Sonic Youth – Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols Glenn Branca – The Ascension V/A – No New York

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THEATRE The Night Alive Dublin Theatre Festival and Lyric Theatre Belfast present Conor McPherson’s play, winner of New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play last year.

Gaiety Theatre Tuesday 22 September – Sunday 4 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat & Sun 2.30pm, no performance Mon, €15-45

By Heart Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues is a one-man show where he teaches volunteers for the audience to learn a poem by heart, and in the processes makes stories and connections. Presented by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II Smock Alley Theatre (Main Space) Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 September 7.30pm, matinees Sat 2.30pm, €20-25 Wallflower British company Quarantine present a dance marathon by three performers who exhaust their history through dance.

Project Arts Centre, Cube Thursday 24 September, 7.45pm Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September, 4.45pm & 8.45pm, €20-25 A View from the Bridge The Gate Theatre continue their tradition of staging the great playwrights with a production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge throughout the festival Gate Theatre Thursday 24 September – Saturday 10 October 7.30pm, matinees 2.30pm & 7.30pm, no performances Sun, €25-35 I’m Your Man A production from Project Arts Centre and Thisispopbaby, I’m Your Man is a musical production from Mark Palmer, formerly of Life After Modelling and director Philip McMahon.

Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Thursday 24 & Friday 25 September, 7.30pm Saturday 26 September, 6 & 9pm Saturday 3 October, 1pm, €15-25 At The Ford Rise Productions present Gavin Kostick’s interrogation of Irish society.

The New Theatre Wednesday 23 September – Saturday 3 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat & Sun 2.30pm, €10-20 Chekhov’s First Play Dead Centre’s latest production, following on from the huge success of Lippy and Souvenir Samuel Beckett Theatre Thursday 24 September – Sunday 4 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat & Sun 2.30pm, no performances Mon, €15-25 The Last Hotel Enda Walsh, author of Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce, and composer Donnacha Dennehy present a new opera, produced by Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera.

O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Sunday 27, Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 September, Friday 2 & Saturday 3 October, 7.30pm, €30-40 Newcastlewest

Dublin Theatre Festival Wednesday 24 September - Sunday 11 October | Various locations and prices The grand dame of Dublin’s festival season, the Dublin Theatre Festival straddles the end of the month and goes well into October and, under the continued direction of Willie White, will bring a host of exciting productions from both leading Irish theatrical companies like Pan Pan, and rrenowned international groups like tg STAN. Four particularly notable productions during the festival include a new production of Sophocles’ Oedipus at the Abbey Theatre from director Wayne Jordan whose recent work at the Gate has earned high praise; Chekhov’s First Play, the new work from Dead Centre, whose previous play Lippy won best production at the Irish Theatre Awards in 2013 and had a successful run on New York stages the same year; The Last Hotel, an opera which just previewed at the Edinburgh Fringe which brings together the writing talents of Enda Walsh (Ballyturk, The Walworth Farce) with the compositional skills of Ireland’s foremost contemporary composer and Crash Ensemble founder Donnacha Dennehy; and I’m Your Man, a collision of music and theatre from Mark Palmer of Life After Modelling and Philip McMahon writer of the celebrated play Alice In Funderland.

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Acclaimed theatre group Pan Pan present a new comedy by Dick Walsh.

Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Friday 25 September – Sunday 4 October 7.30pm, Sun performances @ 6.30pm, no performances Mon, €15-25 Clôture de I’amour This award winning French play examines a couple in the final stages of a broken relationship.

Samuel Beckett Theatre Monday 28 & Tuesday 29 September 7.30pm, €25 Luck Just Kissed You Hello HotForTheatre and Galway International Arts Festival present a beautiful, relentless and fiercely funny play by Amy Conroy.

Project Arts Centre, Cube Tuesday 29 September – Thursday 1 October, 7.45pm Friday 2 – Sunday 4 October, 8.45pm, matinees Sat & Sun 4.45pm Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 October, 8pm Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Friday 9 & Saturday 10 October, 8pm, €15-20 Oedipus A new version of Sophocles play by acclaimed director Wayne Jordan Abbey Theatre (Abbey Stage) Thursday 24 September – Saturday 10 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat 2.30pm, no performances Mon, €13-45 Corps Diplomatique A thought experiment on the survival of our civilisation created in collaboration with Antoine Defoort and Halory Goerger.

Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Thursday 1 – Saturday 3 October 7.30pm, €25-30 Dancing at Lughnasa Lyric Theatre Festival, in association with the Lughnasa International Friel Festival present this classic work by Brian Friel.

Gaiety Theatre Tuesday 6 – Sunday 11 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat 2.30pm, €15-45 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon’s celebrated novel is transformed for the stage by The National Theatre of Great Britain.

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 October 7.30pm, matinees Wed, Thu & Fri 2.30pm, €15-55 The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Louis Lovett’s presentation of this classic fairytale is a deliciously dark musical fable.

Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School Sunday 4 October, 2pm & 5pm, Tuesday 6 – Friday 9 October, 7pm Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October, 2pm & 5pm, €10-20 The Cherry Orchard Celebrated production company tg STAN present this classic Chekhov play in what is their first appearance at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Wednesday 7 – Saturday 10 October 7.30pm, €25-30 The Train Rough Magic’s production of this play

by Arthur Riordan and Bill Whelan is set in 1971 in Ireland and deals – musically – with the Troubles, contraception, the Church are society.

Project Arts Centre, Upstairs Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 October, 7.30pm, matinees 2.30pm Sat Sunday 11 October, 1.30pm & 6.30pm, €20-30 The Game A new production from THEATREclub exploring the act of buying sex and the subculture of prostitution.

Project Arts Centre (Cube) Tuesday 6 – Friday 9 October, 7.45pm Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 October, 4.45pm & 8.45pm Shibboleth Stacey Gregg’s new play is an energetic and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage Friday 2 – Saturday 10 October 8pm, matinee Sat 10 2.30pm, no performance Fri 9, €13-20 Dancehall A new work made as a collaboration between choreographer Emma Martin, composer Andrew Hamilton and Crash Ensemble.

Samuel Beckett Theatre Thursday 8 – Sunday 11 October 7.30pm, matinees Sat & Sun 2.30pm, €15-25 Family Season at The Ark 10.15am & 12.15pm weekdays, 2pm & 4pm weekends, €12 BEES! by Mark Doherty Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 September Manxmouse by Paul Gallico Thursday 1 – Sunday 4 October Up to Speed Thursday 8 & Friday 9 October Paper Moon by Giacomo Ravicchio Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October Festival on Tour Star of the Sea Moonfish Theatre Company adapt Joseph O’Connor’s novel set aboard a famine ship.

Draíocht, Blanchardstown Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 September 8pm, €18 Hooked!

Verdant Productions take Gillian Grattan’s play on tour of Dublin’s suburban arts centres. axis:Ballymun, Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Tuesday 29 September – Saturday 3 October Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Thursday 8 & Friday 9 October Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Saturday 10 October 8pm, €18 Bailed Out! Fishamble: The New Play Company present Colin Murphy’s new work which tells the story of how Ireland fell into the jaws of the Troika.

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Wednesday 23 September – Sunday 4 October 8pm, matinees 2pm Sat & Sun, no performances Mon ?????HotForTheatre and Galway International Arts Festival Luck Just Kissed You Hello by Amy Conroy

Abbey Theatre By the Bog of Cats Until Saturday 12 September 7.30pm (matinees Sat 2.30pm), €13-45 Gate Theatre A View from the Bridge Joe Dowling produces Arthur Miller\s classic tale of illicit desire.

Previews Thursday 3 - Monday 7 September, opens Tuesday 8 September 7.30pm, €35 Gaiety Theatre Fly Me To The Moon An hilarious comedy y from Marie Jones, award winning author of Stones in His Pockets.

Until Saturday 19 September 7.30pm (matinees Sat 2.30pm) €24.65 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Love Me Tender The musical based on the songs of the King himself. (Elvis).

Monday 21 – Saturday 26 September 7.30pm (matinee Wed & Sat 2.30pm), €25-50 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The musical based on the 1988 Michael Caine film of the same name.

Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 3 October 7.30pm (matinees Sat 2.30pm), €20-60 Mermaid Arts Centre Visual Theatre Workshop A wrokshop for actors with learning disabilities Monday 14 September - Monday 9 November 10.30am each Monday, €200 for course The Nualas: Lock up your Husbands!

Friday 25 September 8pm, €18/16 How to Keep an Alien Thursday 1 October 8pm, €18/16 Pavilion Theatre Dún Laoghaire Patricia Routledge in Conversation Friday 11 September 8pm, €25 The Gruffalo Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 September 3pm & 5.30pm (Mon), 10am & 3pm (Tues), €15/13/10 Me, Michael Monday 5 October 10am, 12pm & 4pm, €8/6.50 Civic Theatre Tallaght The Lonesome West Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 September 8pm, €20/16 Small Plastic Wars Wednesday 23 - Saturday 26 September 8.15pm, €16/12 The Importance of Being Earnest Monday 5 - Saturday 10 October 8.15pm, €16/12 Tiger Dublin Fringe listings can be found on pages 50-52

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Action Bronson Thursday 10 September | The Academy | 7.30pm, €26.50 One of the most likeable figures in the game right now and Flushing, Queens’ premier chefcum-rapper, Action Bronson, is bringing his own modern take on ’90s, East coast hip-hop to The Academy this month. With this being the first European show in support of his major label debut, Mr. Wonderful, and with Bronson’s profile having grown exponentially since the debut of his Vice Network cookery show, Fuck, That’s Delicious, it’s sure to be one of the highlights of 2015’s live hip hop calendar.

CLASSICAL Friday 4 September Virginia Kerr, Soprano; Aisling O’Dea, Violin; Veronica McSwiney, Piano John Field Room, NCH 1.05pm, €15 Friday 4 September RTÉ NSO Tchaikovsky Favourites Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-35 Saturday 5 September RTÉ Concert Orchestra: The Two of Us Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €12-39.50 Wednesday 9 September Listen To My Heart John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €20 Thursday 10 September The Music of Brian Byrne Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-39.50 Friday 11 September Jazz Sketches on Sondheim John Field Room, NCH

1.05pm, €16/13 Friday 11 September RTÉ NSO Beethoven, Liszt, Mahler Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-35 Saturday 12 September Beautiful Lofty Things: An Evening with WB Yeats Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €30/25 Sunday 13 September Symphonies of the Milky Way University Church, St Stephen’s Green 3pm, €20/15 Sunday 13 & Monday 14 September Perspectives 2015: Blood And The Moon 8pm, €37.50/€32.50 Main Auditorium, NCH A Provocation on Yeats Tuesday 15 September ESB Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2015 John Field Room, NCH

8pm, €12/8 Wednesday 16 September The Great War Roadshow John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €20/18 Thursday 17 September RTÉ Concert Orchestra: A Tribute to James Horner Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-40 Friday 18 September “We’re Old Fashioned” John Field Room, NCH 1.05pm, €18/16 RTÉ NSO Janaček, Mahler, Dvorak Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-35 Saturday 19 September Ceol Le Chéile – Family Concert 11am & 12.30pm Engineering Library Garth Knox - Performance Workshop National Concert Hall - Room 103 2pm, €12 Monday 21 September

ESB Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2015 John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €12/8 Tuesday 22 September An Evening with ‘The Gina Jazz’ & Louis Stewart John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €16/14 Wednesday 23 September Sandra Oman - Liberty John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €18/16 Thursday 24 September RTÉ CO Signature Series: Michael Feinstein Sings the Great American Songbook Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €20-45 Friday 25 September The Bugle Babes - 1940’s Harmony Trio John Field Room, NCH 1.05pm, €18/16 RTÉ NSO Barber, Bruckner Main Auditorium, NCH

8pm, €15-35 Sunday 27 September IBO: Concerti Bizarri University Church, St Stephen’s Green 3pm, €20 Workplace Choir of the Year Main Auditorium, NCH 7pm, €15 Monday 28 September ESB Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2015 John Field Room, NCH 8pm, €12/8 Tuesday 29 September ECO Ensembles Gamelan Ensembles Room 107 - Gamelan Room, NCH 6pm & 7pm, €65 Tuesday 29 September Basel Symphony Orchestra Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €44.50-65 Wednesday 30 September Nicola Benedetti, Italia and the Four Seasons Tour

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Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €25-42 Thursday 1 October Paddy Cole Music Show Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €30 Friday 2 October ‘The Scent of Roses’: John Field Room, NCH 1.05pm, €10/8 RTÉ NSO Wagner, Berg, Sibelius Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €15-35 Sunday 4 October The Life and Songs of John McCormack Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €20-30 Tuesday 6 October RTÉ NSO Lunchtime - Rory Musgrave Main Auditorium, NCH 1.05pm, €12 A Gift of Music Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €20

LIVE GIGS Friday 4 - Sunday 6 Electric Picnic Stradbally House, Co. Laois SOLD OUT Saturday 5 September The Delines Whelan’s 8pm, €16.50 Lee Fields & The Expressions The Sugar Club 8pm, from €22.50 Part of Beck’s Rhythm Series Tuesday 8 September ESB Live: Saint Etienne National Concert Hall, 8pm, €30 Classic ‘90s band perform Foxbase Alpha album Patty Griffin Whelan’s, 8pm, €28 Going back to her roots Wednesday 9 September Jesse Malin The Academy 2, 7.30pm, €16 Ryan Adams’ old mucker Thursday 10 September Action Bronson The Academy 7pm, €26.50 MC-cum-chef Florence + The Machine 3Arena 6.30pm, from €45.05 Dog days are still here Petunia Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €15 Canadian punx Friday 11 September Oddisee & Good Company (Live) The Sugar Club7.30pm, €15 Jazzy hip hop from Choice Cuts Saturday 12 September Dope Body Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €11 Drag City scuzzbuckets Eternal Summers + Pleasure Beach The Workman’s Club, 8pm, €5 Sunday 13 September Blood & The Moon: A Provocation on Yeats National Concert Hall

JAZZ

SUNDAY Jazz Brunch Hugo’s, Merrion Row, D2 1.15pm, Free Stella Bass Qrt. Cafe en Seine, Dawson St. D2 2pm, Free Jazz Session JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 4.30pm, €10 Stella Bass Quintet Searsons, Upper Baggot St. D4 6pm, Free Italian Jazz Duo Toscana, 3 Cork Hill, Dame St. D2 6.30pm, Free The Lounge Qrt. The Lincoln’s Inn, 19 Lincoln Pl. D2 8.30pm, Free MONDAY

8pm, €37.50/€32.50 Perspectives Series ft. Anna Calvi & Sam Amidon Larry Coryell The Sugar Club 7.30pm, €30 Jazz fusion guitarist August Wells (Ken Griffin, Rollerskate Skinny) The Workman’s Club, 8pm, €10 Monday 14 September Blood & The Moon: A Provocation on Yeats National Concert Hall 8pm, €37.50/€32.50 Perspectives Series ft. Anna Calvi & Sam Amidon Jarryd James Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €13 Mike Tramp (ex White Lion) The Workman’s Club, 8pm, €14 Wednesday 16 September State Champs The Academy 2, 5pm, €15.35 w/ Knuckle Puck & Roam W.A.S.P. The Academy, 7pm, €30 Classic codpiece metallers An evening with Crosby, Stills & Nash Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 7.30pm, €66.45 Streaming on PONO Thursday 17 September Chris Young The Academy 7.15pm 18, €25 Lady Lamb The Grand Social 8pm, €15 American indie Friday 18 September Kukiz I Piersi feat. Pawel Kukiz Zle Psy feat. Andrzej Nowak The Academy 7pm, €30 Poles apart Danko Jones Whelan’s 8pm, €12

Hot House Big Band Mercantile, Dame St. D2 8.45pm, €5 Essential Big Band Grainger’s, Malahide Rd. D3 9.30pm, €5 TUESDAY Phoenix Big Band Tara Towers Hotel, D4 9pm, Free Tom Harte Quintet Leeson Lounge, Upr Leeson St. D2 9pm, Free Jazz Session International Bar, Wicklow St. D2 9.30pm, €5 WEDNESDAY Jazz Session (1st Weds) The House, 4 Main St. Howth, Co.Dublin

Saskatchewan Roughriders Simeon Kierkegaard & The Existentialists Upstairs in Whelan’s 8pm, €5 Bruce’s Philosopher Song Saturday 19 September Balthazar The Academy, The Green Room 7.30pm, €14.35 Belgian big boppers Welcome to Night Vale Olympia Theatre 7.30pm, from €22.90 Live version of the popular podcast Sleaford Mods Hangar, 7.30pm, €18 Hilarious iconoclastic rockas This Is How We Fly & Lynched Pepper Canister Church 8pm, €15 Part of the Tradition Now Series Sunday 20 September Dublin City Events presents SEL Vicar Street 7.30pm, €39.05/€76 Lithuanian hip-hop legend it seems Garth Knox & Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh National Concert Hall, 3pm, €15 Part of the Tradition Now Series Peter Bruntell w/ Clive Barnes Upstairs in Whelan’s 8pm, €15 Alt-country underdogs Cor Cuil Aodhan, Peadar O’Riada and Sean O’Sé National Concert Hall 8pm, €15 Part of the Tradition Now Series Sunday 20 September Hazelius Hedin John Field Room, NCH 5pm, €15 Part of the Tradition Now Series A Tribute to Pete Seeger Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €35 Curated by Sam Amidon and friends as part of Tradition Now

7.30pm, Free THURSDAY Jazz Session JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 8.30pm, €10 Jazz Session International Bar, Wicklow St. D2 9.30pm, €5 FRIDAY Jazz Session Flanagans (Basement), 61 Upr. O’Connell St. D1 9pm, Free Jazz Duo Toscana, 3 Cork Hill, Dame St. D2 9pm, Free SATURDAY Jazz Session The Fitzwilliam Hotel, St. Stephen’s Green, D2

Monday 21 September Jacob Whitesides The Button Factory 7.30pm, €23 Tuesday 22 September Brand New Vicar Street 7.30pm, €30 Hardcore heroes Tuesday 22 September Joel Plaskett & Mo Kenney Upstairs in Whelan’s 8pm, €12 Irish folkies Mans Zelmerlow Olympia Theatre from €33.50 Wednesday 23 September Remember Me Charity Cabaret The Sugar Club, 7.30pm, €9.50 In support of Alzheimer care Seekae Whelan’s, 8pm, €15.50 Louis?

Thursday 24 September The Strypes The Academy 7.15pm, €25 Better than the Beatles c. Hamburg 1960 Casey Black Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €15 My friend, Mister Black Friday 25 September The Doors Alive The Academy Midnight, €15 The gate is strait, it’s deep and wide!

Friday 25 September Kult The Academy, 6pm, €33.50 Polish cult act Leon Bridges Olympia Theatre 8pm, €21 Moved to Olympia Theatre from Whelans Saturday 26 September Unknown Mortal Orchestra Whelan’s 8pm, €16.50

9pm, Free Jazz Session Flanagans (Basement), 61 Upr. O’Connell St. D1 9pm, Free Piano Jazz Toscana, 3 Cork Hill, Dame St. D2 9pm, Free ONE OFF Sunday 6 September Louis Stewart Qrt. JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 4.30pm, €10 Tuesday 8 September Jamie Oehlers Qrt. JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 8.30pm, €10 Wednesday 9 September Davis Rogan (USA) JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2

Ruban and his ffunny ffriends Jacco Gardner The Workman’s Club 7.30pm, €12.50 is een Nederlandse multi-instrumentalist The Henry Girls The Unitarian Church 7.30pm, €16 Folk singin’ sisters Sunday 27 September Paradise Lost The Academy 6.30pm, €25 The metal-est name in town Sunday 27 September Blank Realm The Workman’s Club 7.30pm, €10 Dense psych and wild live shows Tom Russell Whelan’s 8pm, €22 The Rose of Roscrae Monday 28 September Don McLean: The American Troubadour Vicar Street 7.30pm, €42/50 Starry, starry night Wheatus Whelan’s 8pm, €19 Thirtysomething dirtbags Lifehouse Olympia Theatre 7.30pm, €26.50 Veteran blandcore from the States Rich Robinson The Workman’s Club 7.30pm, €23 Support from Poor Robinson Tuesday 29 September Bullet For My Valentine Olympia Theatre 7.30pm, from €29.50 Obviously not that funny then B. Dolan The Workman’s Club 8pm, €12

8.30pm, €10 Friday 11 September Stella Bass John Field Rm. NCH, D2 1.05pm, €16/13 Stella Bass Draiocht, Blanchardstown, D15 8.15pm, €18/15 Sunday 13 September Dave Allen (USA) Qrt. JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 4.30pm, €12 Larry Coryell (Guitarist) Sugar Club, Lwr. Leeson St. D2 7.30pm, €30 Saturday 19 September Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 9pm, €15 Sunday 20 September

Underground hip-hop with bite Thursday 1 October Fall Out Boy 3Arena 6.30pm, €43.50 Look out, Radioactive Man Friday 2 October Dublin Gospel Choir Vicar Street, 7.30pm, €28 Oh happy days The Minutes Upstairs in Whelan’s,8pm, €15 First of two Dublin gigs on Irish tour Saturday 3 October Hunter Hayes – Let’s Be Crazier Tour Vicar Street, 7.30pm, €23 Country music ‘star’ Albert Hammond National Concert Hall, 8pm, €25-35 Dad of a Stroke and Joe Dolan hitmaker The Minutes Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €15 Sunday 4 October Perfect The Academy, 7pm, €45/€55 Nobody on stage them, right?

Juan Wauters + No Monster Club Upstairs in Whelan’s, 8pm, €13.50 Captured Tracks crooner and local weirdoes Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Whelan’s, 8pm, €23 Veteran folk singers team up Monday 5 October The Lemonheads The Academy, 7.30pm, €23 A shame about it being on Monday night Tuesday 6 October Weird Al Yankovic Vicar Street, 7.30pm, €35 Eat It! Wednesday 7 October Gun The Academy 2, 7pm, €20 Word up!

Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 4.30pm, €15 Wednesday 22 September Paul Jost (USA) JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 8.30pm, €10 Thursday 24 September Michael Feinstein (Great American Songbook) Main Auditorium, NCH 8pm, €45/20 Saturday 26 September Stella Bass The Mill, Dundrum, D16 8pm, €15/13 Saturday 26 September Perico Sambeat (Spain) JJ Smyths, Aungier St. D2 8.30pm, €15

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CLUBBING Mondays Soul, Funk and Disco with Upbeat Generation Industry Club and Venue, 11.30pm Sound Mondays Turk’s Head, Parliament St Indie rock, garage and post-punk 11pm, free Dice Sessions Dice Bar, Smithfield DJ Alley King Kong Club The Village, Wexford St, 9pm, free The Industry Night Break For The Border, Stephens Street Pool competition, karaoke and DJ DJ Ken Halfod Buskers, Temple Bar Chart pop, indie rock, rock, 10pm Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, Wexford St Soul music, 8pm, free Thank God It’s Monday Ri Ra, Georges St Electro, indie and big beat 11pm, free Simon S Fitzsimons, Temple Bar 11pm, €5 Floor fillers Language Exchange Ireland DTwo, 6.30pm Like speed-dating, but for learning languages Tuesday We Love Tuesday Ri Ra, Georges St Martin McCann’s eclecticism 11pm, free C U Next Tuesday Indie, pop, hip hop hipsterdom Lost Society, Sth William St, 11pm, €6 Ronan M Fitzsimons, Temple Bar 11pm, €5 Lost Tuesdays Deep House The Pint, Free Admission, 8pm Wednesday FUSED! Ri Ra, Georges St 80s and electro, 11pm, free Fubar!

The Globe, Georges St 11pm, free Dirty Disco Dtwo, Harcourt St Chart pop Wednesdays at Dandelion Dandelion, Stephen’s Green Student night Moonstompin’ Grand Social, Liffey St Ska and reggae 8pm, free Bruce Willis Lost Society, Sth William St 10.30pm, €10 Dance music for students Somewhere?

Workman’s, Wellington Quay Free before 11 Indie and dance Simon S Fitzsimons, 11pm, €5 Kling Klang Wiley Fox Every second Wednesday, 8pm Krautrock, shoegaze, industrial,

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Thursday Decades Club M, Bloom’s Hotel, Temple Bar FM 104’s Adrian Kennedy plays classics Free before midnight Boo! Wiley Fox Every third Thursday, 8pm Cold Wave, post punk, synth pop, deathrock LITTLE big Party Ri Ra, Georges St Soul, indie and rock ‘n’ roll 11pm, free Mischief Break For The Border, Stephen St 11pm, €8 After Work Baggot Inn, Baggot St Quiz night with band and DJ from 11pm, 8pm, free Take Back Thursdays Industry Bar and Venue, Temple Bar 10pm Blasphemy The Village, Wexford St, 11pm Get Loose, Get Loose Mercantile, Dame St Indie, Britpop and alternative 10.30pm Push Workman’s, Wellington Quay Soul, funk, disco and house Phantom Anthems Workman’s, Wellington Quay Rock, indie rock, other rock Weed and Seven Deadly Skins Turks Head, Parliament St 11pm, free, Live reggae Loaded Grand Social, Liffey St 8pm, free Indie and alternative Zebra Whelan’s, 11pm, Free Bands and DJs show their stripes Poison: Rock, Metal, Mosh & Beer Pong The Hub, €4/7, 10.30pm Flashed Techno / House / Hiphop / Reggae / RnB €5, 10pm Friday My House Buck’s Townhouse, Leeson St With special guests Ladies Night Baggot Inn, Baggot St Cocktail masterclasses from 7 7pm, free Club M Friday Club M, Bloom’s Hotel, Temple Bar DJ Dexy on the decks We Love Fridays Dandelion, Stephen’s Green DJ Robbie Dunbar Friday Night At Vanilla Vanilla Nightclub, D4 Chart-topping hits, 11pm Car Wash Sin, Temple Bar Retro disco 9pm, free before 11 Friday @ Alchemy Alchemy Nightclub, Temple Bar Chart floor-fillers, 11pm Living Room Lost Society, Sth William St

Moves from 7, music from 10 7pm, free WV Fridays Wright Venue, Swords €10, 11pm Irish DJs Resident DJ Café en Seine, Dawson St, 11pm, free War Andrew’s Lane, 10pm, €8 Pop for students and hipsters Darren C Fitzsimons, 11pm, €10 Chart hits Babalonia Little Green Café Samba, reggae and mestizo, 9pm, free Saturday Simple Sublime Saturdays Club M, Bloom’s Hotel, Temple Bar Chart pop, dance and r’n’b Free before 11.30 Saturday @ Alchemy Alchemy Nightclub, Temple Bar Chart floor-fillers 11pm Dandelion Saturdays Dandelion, Stephen’s Green Two floors of summer sound Space: The Vinyl Frontier Ri Ra, George’s St Intergalactic funk, electro and indie 11pm, free Saturday Night SKKY Buck’s Townhouse, Leeson St Signature night Indietronic Grand Social, Liffey St Electro and indie, 8pm, free Propaganda The Academy, 11pm, €10 New and classic indie Saturday Night at Vanilla Vanilla Nightclub, D4, 11pm Andy Preston’s latest pop and rock Sports Saturday Baggot Inn, Baggot St Sports from 3pm, DJ til late, 3pm, free Sugar Club Saturdays Sugar Club, Leeson St, 11pm Hidden Agenda Button Factory, Temple Bar, 11pm International techno and house Djs The Best Suite 4 Dame Lane Suck My Deck The Village, Georges St, 11pm High Voltage Foggy Dew, Temple Bar, 10pm Bounce Sin, Temple Bar R’n’b and chart, 9pm, €10 Gossip Andrew’s Lane Indie, electro and pop, 11pm Workman’s Indie Residents Workman’s, Wellington Quay New and classic indie, 11pm, free BW Rocks Wright Venue Over 21s, neat dress, €10, 11pm A Jam Named Saturday Anseo, Camden St Lex Woo and friends, 7pm, free Reggae Hits the Pint Reggae, ska, Rocksteady The Pint, Free, 9pm The 33 Club Thomas House Last Saturday of each month, authen-

tic ‘Harlem’ funk and soul night 9pm, free Sunday The Burning Effigies Turks Head, Parliament St Real funk and soul Sundays at Sin Sin, Temple Bar Tribal and electro house 9pm, €10 Well Enough Alone Dice Bar, Smithfield Bluegrass The Beat Suite 4 Dame Lane Indie, electro and pop 10pm, free Mass with Sister Lisa Marie Workman’s, Wellington Quay 80s classics and hip hop, 10pm, free Saucy Sundays Grand Social, Liffey St Live music, 4.30pm, free Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady Foggy Dew, Temple Bar, 7.30pm, free Darren C Fitzsimons, 11pm, €5 Saturday @ Alchemy Alchemy Nightclub, Temple Bar Chart floor-fillers, 11pm

Pyg presents Harri & Domenic & Colin Perkins Pygmalion 9.30pm, €5/10 Saturday 26 September Bleep Test with Dungeon Meat Hangar 10.30pm, €10/12/15 Friday 2 October Strictly Deep with Denney Hangar 10.30pm, €10/12/15 Saturday 3 October Sense with Chris Lorenzo Button Factory 11pm, €12/15 Out To Lunch presents Laurel Halo and Andras Fox Bar Tengu 10pm, €12 The Building Society with Fake

Blood Hangar 10.30pm, €10/12/15 Friday 9 October Mashed presents Yousef The Grand Social 10pm, €5/10 Paradox presents Format B Button Factory 11pm, €13/15/18 James Zabiela The Academy 11pm, €20 Saturday 10 October Sense with Max Cooper Button Factory 11pm, €10

ONE-OFFS Friday 4 September Techno & Cans presents: Bjarki [Live] Hangar 10.30pm, €8/10/12 Friday 11 September Melodic presents: Marcus Worgull [Innervisions] Hangar 10.30pm, €10/12 Paradox presents Marco Bailey Button Factory 11pm, €10/12/15 Dolphin Friendly Tunage Label Party with Dene Antony Pacino’s 11pm, €13/15 Hidden Agenda: Wankelmut District 8 11pm, €10/1215 Pressure V with Djipe Venue TBC 11pm, €12/10 Saturday 12 September Sense with Alex.Do Button Factory 11pm, €10 Techno Bash! Excess: The Movement Turks Head 9pm, €10 Saturday 19 September Boxed Off Festival Fairyhouse Racecourse, Ratoath, Co, Meath 1pm, €35 Mike Skinner & Murkage present Tonga.

Hangar 11pm, €8/10/15 Pyg presents Shit Robot Pygmalion 9pm, €5/10 Friday 25 September Hidden Agenda: Bondax & Friends Button Factory 11pm, €12/15

Out to Lunch presents: Laurel Halo (Live) and Andras Fox Saturday 3 October | Yamamori Tengu | 10pm, €12 The Michigan-born, Berlin-based artist and critical darling Laurel Halo is bringing her much lauded live show to Yamamori Tengu.

The folks behind Out to Lunch have really set out their stall as the one of the most interesting bookers in the city at present and this lineup alone is set to be yet another night to remember. Getting everyone warmed up for Halo’s twisted, shapeshifting take on outsider house is Andras Fox, a laid back, Antipodean new age synth experimentalist. Early bird tickets are already sold out for this one so get down early.

ART Art Box James Joyce Street, D1 The Anti-Room A group show curated by Hilary Murray and Sara Muthi featuring the work on Janine Davidson, Naomi Sex, Nicky Teegan about the relationships between artist, artwork, viewer and exhibition site.

Friday 4 September 4 - Sunday 7 October Cross Gallery 59 Francis Street, D8 Mary Ruth Walsh Walsh’s work explores architecture and how it affects our movements and behaviours Thursday 3 - Saturday 26 September Draíocht Gallery The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown, D15 Marc Guinan Guinan’s physical exploitation of paint forces the viewer to reconsider the difference between paint and illustration.

His work directly questions the space in which his paintings are shown, whilst unlocking the possibilities concerning the materiality of paint Until October 3 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Luigi Ghirri Ghirri’s photographs contain places such as seaside resorts, amusement parks, farmhouses, tourist attractions, and nondescript city streets; He did not make fun of his subjects or invest them with emotion or authenticity instead Ghirri’s was an enigmatic vision of the everyday; he chose to make strange the ordinary, revealing life as a little empty and alienated but never especially unhappy or disturbing.

Until September 30 Aleana Egan, Shapes from Life

Aleana Egan’s new exhibition provides an intimate encounter with a single new sculpture. The form of a canopy suspended above the low constructions on the floor gives some sense of the leisurely resistance often found in the artist’s elusive work; traces of fleeting memories and interactions between people are revealed intuitively through the palette, texture and weight of the materials used.

Until September 30 Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane Parnell Square, D1 Declan Clarke, Wreckage in May Artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke presents an installation of a trilogy of films produced between 2013 and 2015. Together, Clarke’s three films reflect on industrialisation and modernism in Europe in a spy-thriller inspired format.

Until October 4 Hugh Lane (1875-1915): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss This exhibition presents Hugh Lane’s vision for the visual arts in Ireland at the turn of the 20th century with works by Impressionist artists Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir hanging together with their Irish contemporaries including Walter Osborne, Frank O’Meara, John Lavery and Roderic O’Conor.

Until October 4 Gormley’s Fine Art Semblance An exhibition of new works by four of Ireland’s most promising contemporary figurative painters; Catherine Creaney, Stephen Johnston, Kyle Barnes and Gordon Harris.

Thursday 24 September to Thursday 15 October Irish Museum of Modern Art

Miitary Road, D8 Etel Adnan Now in her 90s, Adnan is an extraordinary creative voice and force of artistic renown. She moves freely between writing and art, poetry and tapestry and all aspects of her creative output will be reflected in the exhibition. Born in 1925 in Beruit, Adnan has been one of the leading voices in contemporary Arab-American literature since the 1960s. A selection of Adnan’s enigmatic and colourful oil paintings will showcase her use of rapid, thick stokes representing the landscapes of California and the Mediterranean Sea. The exhibition will also include a black and white film, poetry and the recordings of the artist reading from some of her most recent published poems and writings.

Until September 13 Stan Douglas, Mise en Scène This is the first major solo exhibition of Stan Douglas’ work in Ireland. The exhibition focuses on Douglas’ recent photography, including the critically acclaimed series, Malabar People, Mid Century Studio and Disco Angola.

In presenting both photographs as well as recent film work, reveals Stan Douglas at an exceptional moment in his artistic career.

El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State Curated by Annie Fletcher, Chief Curator at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Sarah Glennie, Director of IMMA, and includes works from Rossella Biscotti, Maud Gonne, El Lissitzky, Alice Milligan, Hito Steyerl, Jack B. Yeats.

Until October 18 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2 David Godbold: More like living that life itself

An exhibition of new work from David Godbold that features this important figure in the Irish art scene revisiting earlier, ‘finished’ works and breaking an unspoken rule in painting by disturbing the finished surface. Opening night, Thursday 3 October.

From Friday 4 September to Saturday 10 October Gerard Byrne, A Late Evening in the Future After numerous solo exhibitions, for the first time the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen will allow visitors to thoroughly engage with the work of an extraordinary representative of contemporary art in the comprehensive exhibition A Late Evening in the Future. The title itself points to the various temporal levels that meet in Byrne’s large-scale works to constitute the present.

Until September 13 The Library Project 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 U-Turn The Black Church Print Studio presents a group show from studio members Aoife Dwyer, Mary Fitzgerald, John Graham, Robert Kelly, Anja Mahler, Fiona McDonald and Alison Pilkington curated by Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll themed on the concept of progress in the contemporary context.

Mother’s Tankstation Lee Kit Solo show Opens Wednesday 16 September The National Gallery of Ireland Clare Street, D2 Sean Scully This exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland charts the two decades, the 1980s and 1990s and juxtaposes paintings from that period with works, principally multi-part photographic se-

quences, made over the past decade.

Until September 20 Olivier Cornet Gallery 3 Denmark Street, D1 Eoin Mac Lochlainn Opens September Pallas Project + Studios 115-117 The Coombe, D8 Diagrams A mixed media show of work by 7 artists, comprises lens-based media, drawings, paintings and sculptures.

Each artist uses the diagram to describe a previous work or to make a preliminary sketch for a new work. The diagrams apply a logical procedure to the spatial organization of elements in order to experiment with material production. The show explores how the dynamic space of the diagram visualizes different sets of relations between elements and so generates multiple reading narratives.

Thursday 10 - Monday 21 September Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 David Claerbout David Claerbout is a master of visual ambiguity, presenting scenes built from a complex association between photography, film and sound.

Claerbout’s multiple video installation at Project Arts Centre will challenge conventions of exhibition-making, attempting to further our efforts to perceive what it is to exhibit while exhibiting.

14 August - October 10 The Royal Hibernian Academy Ely Place, D2 Amanda Coogan: I’ll sing you a song from around the town I’ll sing you a song from around the town will include both sculpture and live performance. Week one, Coogan will perform the first piece. Week two

will see Coogan begin the second performance while a collaborator will continue the first piece, culminating in all six performances running simultaneously by week six.

Friday September 4 - Sunday October 18 Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght D24 Deadeye Deadeye presents a diverse range of work including sculptural, photographic and film work from 3 of Ireland’s most important artists – Martin Healy, Lorraine Neeson and Niamh O’Malley – which touches on issues from the personal to the universal, and in the interplay of various works in the gallery suggests and teases out how the individual exists within the global.

(Galleries 1&2) Friday 18 September - Saturday 24 October Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Temple Bar, D2 Rhona Byrne: Huddle tests Irish artist Rhona Byrne transforms the gallery into a testing ground for the exploration of social relations, group dynamics and associated anxieties.

The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort.

Friday 11 September - Saturday 7 November 2015

David Godbold: More like living that life itself Friday 4 September – Saturday 10 October | Kerlin Gallery, Anne’s Lane, D2 More like living than life itself is an exhibition of new work from Dublin-based artist David Godbold. Having first achieved recognition as part of the duo Godbold and Wood, Godbold has been a key player in the Irish art scene since the 1990s, and his work oftentime takes a wry look at conventions of painting, mixing highbrow and lowbrow ideas within the same context. This new exhibition seems him playing with the construction of internal narratives within the works as opposed to straight-ahead representation, and in doing Godbold has revisited previously ‘finished’ works, correcting, redacting and vandalising his own work to create new meanings within them. The opening reception takes place on Thursday 3rd September at 6pm.

David Godbold, Untitled (Duelists with Green Clouds) 2015

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Culture Night Thursday 18 September | Various | Free Celebrating its tenth year, Culture Night returns Thursday 18th September to a huge array of venues across both the city and the country. The ‘Downstairs Dublin’ program will see doors around Merrion Square and other parts of Georgian Dublin will be thrown open so the public can check out the workings of many parts of the country’s cultural industry, in an array of talks, installations, projections, music and more. There’s guided tours of the President’s residents. The national broadcaster will be pitching in with performances from the RTÉ Philharmonic, along with the Army No. 1 Band in Trinity College, while the Alliance Française on Kildare Street will have a special French concert at 9pm on the evening. The streets of the city will be a hive of activity – and, of course, it’s all free. The whole list of events can be found at www.culturenight.ie

COMEDY

Wicked Wolf Comedy Night Wicked Wolf, Blackrock 8pm, €5 Every second Tuesday The Comedy Improv The International 9pm, €5 Every Monday Talk Talk Panel Show The International 9pm, €5 Every Tuesday The Comedy Cellar The International 9pm, €8 Every Wednesday International Comedy Club The International 8.30pm, €10 Thursdays, Fridays & Sundays 7.30pm & 10.15pm, €10 each Each Saturday Battle of the Axe The Ha’penny Bridge Inn 8pm, €5 with flyer Capital Comedy Club Chaplins Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays Doors 8.15pm €10 (students €5 Thursdays), €3 Tuesdays The Comedy Crunch The Stag’s Head 7pm, free event Each Sunday & Monday Alan Carr Anseo Comedy Club Anseo 9pm, Pay what you want

Every Wednesday Wicked Wolf Comedy Night Wicked Wolf, Blackrock 8pm, €5 Every second Tuesday The Comedy Improv The International 9pm, €5 Every Monday Talk Talk Panel Show The International 9pm, €5 Every Wednesday The Comedy Cellar The International 9pm, €8 Every Wednesday International Comedy Club The International 8.30pm, €10 Tuesdays, Fridays & Sundays 7.30pm & 10.15pm, €10 each Each Saturday Battle of the Axe The Ha’penny Bridge 8pm, €5 with flyer Tuesdays or Thursdays Capital Comedy Club Chaplins Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays Doors 8.15 pm €10 (students €5 Thursdays), €3 Tuesdays The Comedy Crunch The Stag’s Head 7pm, free event Each Sunday & Monday ONE OFFS Dara O’Briain - Crowd Tickler Vicar Street Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 September,

Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 September, Friday 18 & Saturday 19 September 7.30pm, €30 Dylan Moran - Off The Hook Vicar Street Wednesday 23 - Sunday 27 September Wednesday 30 September - Thursday 1 October 7.30pm, €30 Weird Al Yankovic Vicar Street Tuesday 6 October 7.30pm, €35 Kai Humphries with Johnny Candon The Laughter Lounge Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 September 7pm, €26 10 Comedy Acts with MC Simon O’Keeffe Chaplin’s Comedy Club Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September 8pm, €3 Gearóid Farrelly with Johnny Candon and Michael Mee Chaplin’s Comedy Club Friday 11 & Saturday 12 September 9pm, €10 Danny O’Brien with Kieran Lawless and Colum McDonnell Chaplin’s Comedy Club Friday 18 & Saturday 19 September 9pm, €10 One Year Chalinniversary ft. Aidan Strangeman Chaplin’s Comedy Club Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September 9pm, €10 John Colleary with Paul Tylak and Willa White Chaplin’s Comedy Club

Friday 2 & Saturday 3 October 9ppm, €10

FESTIVALS

Electric Picnic The biggest music festival in the country has been marked ‘sold out’ for some time now, testament to its continuing popularity. Headliners include Blur, Sam Smith and Florence and the Machine. For details see www.electricpicnic.ie 4 - 6 September Tiger Dublin Fringe In its 21st year the Tiger Dublin Fringe is going from strength to strength, welcoming back the Spiegeltent to Wolfe Tone Square and featuring an array of mayhem and magic over its two week course. For more see our centre fold or go to fringefest.com 5 - 20 September Dublin Coffee and Tea Festival The RDS plays host to the second edition of the Coffee and Tea Festival, full of, as you can imagine, caffeinated goods and all the treats that go with them, as well as exhibitions and workshops from the industry. See www.dublincoffeefestival.com 11 - 13 September Dublin Gallery Weekend Galleries around the city throw open their doors all weekend with extended opening times and a large program of special talks and events.

For details see www.dublingalleryweekend.ie 11 - 13 September Culture Night A night of free access to culture as buildings around the city and county

become venues for talks, exhibitions, installations, performances and more. For a list of events, see www. culturenight.ie 18 September Dublin Theatre Festival The Theatre Festival continues festival season with three weeks of big name theatre productions from at home and abroad. For details of the events see our listings or go to www. dublintheatrefestival.com 24 September - 11 October Dublin Festival of History Lecturers and historians talk about the past for sure.

24 September - 3 October Frank Harte Festival A festival of traditional, unaccompanied singing and collecting of songs, taking place in the Teachers Club on Parnell Square.

25 - 27 September Fingal Film Festival A local film festival for emerging independent film makers taking place at Movies@Swords.

25 - 27 September

POKER

Fitzwilliam Casino & Card Club Monday 8:30pm: €75 + €5 No Limit Freezeout.

Tuesday 8:30pm: €50 + €5 No Limit Double Chance Freezeout.

Wednesday 8:30pm: €20 + €5 Hold’em Multirebuy.

7:30pm: Satellite Tournament.

Thursday 8pm: €45 + €5 + €10 Scalp No Limit

Freezeout.

9:30pm: €30 + €5 Pot Limit Omaha Triple Chance.

Thursday End of Month €250 + €20 Freezeout.

Friday 8:30pm: €70 + €5 No Limit, Double Chance.

Saturday 8pm: €100 + €10 Deepstack No Limit Freezeout.

9pm: €20 + €5 No Limit Freezeout.

Sunday 8:30pm: €50 + €5 No Limit Freezeout. www.fitzwilliamcardclub.com

KIDS Family Season 2015: Bees!

The Ark, Temple Bar Tuesday 22 Sunday 27 September 6pm (Tue/Wed), 10.15 & 12.15pm (Thu/ Fri), 2pm & 4pm (Sat/Sun), €12 Culture Night at The Ark The Ark, Temple Bar Thursday 18 September 6.30pm & 8.30pm, Free but ticketed An extravaganza of poems, songs and nonsense verse for all the family Family Season 2015: Manxmouse The Ark, Temple Bar Thursday 1 Sunday 4 October 10.15am & 12.15am (Thu/Fri), 2pm & 4pm (Sat/Sun), €12

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BEST OF… SEPTEMBER

BEST LATE VENUE

BEST ONLINE STORE

BEST FOR FASHION

The BUTTON FACTORY

KIOZQ

TOLA VINTAGE

In the heart of the city centre formerly the Temple Bar Music Centre, the Button Factory is one of the longest serving live & late night venues in Dublin. It’s adjoining late craft beer & cocktail bar Crowbar is a perfect place to start your night before heading into the main room.

Over the coming months the venue will host the likes of Boddika, George Fitzgerald, Max Cooper, Joris Voorn, Bondax, & Scuba with many more exciting shows still to be announced. This intimate venue really does have an amazing history and reputation, producing exciting shows on a weekly basis.

Launched in early July, KIOZQ already stocks over 50 periodicals focusing on design, food, art, culture, travel and crafts from around the world.They carefully select and collaborate on a great range of creative indie magazines available to buy online. KIOZQ is driven to provide the community something worthy of buying, something of the highest quality, and above all, something great to read. But KIOZQ is not only about magazines, it’s a colourful world full of ideas and stories.

Browsing is mandatory.

Tola Vintage is not your typical vintage shop, it’s a lifestyle boutique filled with a selection of treats and one-offs from the U.S, Italy, UK & Amsterdam that are unavailable anywhere else in Ireland.

Famed for their smart re-works and stylish twists on retro pieces,Tola Vintage was recently voted number one vintage store in Dublin by LovinDublin.

The Temple Bar outlet has been fully restocked for September with an exciting new range that’s available now, both in store and online.

See Buttonfactory.ie / Sense-live-music.com for further details on upcoming shows.

Visit www.kiozq.com or send an email to hello@kiozq.com with any additional inquiries.

www.TolaVintage.com 10 Fownes St Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin

BEST MEAL IN TOWN

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAR

Mao, Chatham Row

GENERATOR

Treat your taste buds to delicious Asian food and sip up Low Calorie, Classic and Dessert Cocktails shaken to perfection while listening to funky tunes pumping by star DJ’s from Musicmaker Dublin. This is the scene you’ll find Friday and Saturday nights at Mao Chatham Row. Savour the flavour with mouth-watering curries, a shared platter, or a Mao classic for the full Thai experience. Then sip a CosMAOpolitan, Ginger Dragon or Toblerone to tame the flames! As an official Leinster Rugby food partner check out healthy dishes as chosen by Leinster Rugby’s nutritionist, just look for the little blue rugby balls on the menu. Call your besties, pick the perfect outfit, pack your selfie stick then drop in for a night you won’t forget.

Mao, 2 Chatham Row, Dublin 2 01 670 4899

Great grub, drink specials and a packed events schedule combine with a captive audience of tourists to give one of the best international bars in the city. Located just off the Luas Redline in the exciting Smithfield District, this bar is a winner for those looking to practice “speaking foreign”.

An ever-changing crowd guarantees a unique experience every time. Don’t miss out on the burger, rumoured to be among the best in the city.

Smithfield Market Fair, Generator Hostel Dublin, Smithfield Square, Smithfield, Dublin 7

BEST GERMAN CLASSES

BEST THEATRE EVENT

BEST CULTURAL EVENT

Goethe-Institut

Language of The Mute By Jack Hearte

The IV ISLA Literary Festival

The Goethe-Institut provides you with a wide range of German language courses in different levels and intensity.

They support you in finding the course which best suits your needs, by offering assessment tests and personal consultation.

The courses are coordinated internationally and are subject to regular quality controls. Examinations are acknowledged globally and are accepted in universities. You not only learn modern German through modern teaching methods, but also get to know about Germany in events arranged by the programme department and library.

A charismatic teacher, supporter of fundamentalist republicanism, Irish Language activist – whose public idealism masks a history of sexual and psychological exploitation – is confronted by his former pupils. The play examines how charisma and idealism can be used to exploit people, sexually, politically and socially. The core of the problem, and of the solution, is language - communication. The play by Jack Harte, directed by Liam Halligan, shows how ultimately love can triumph over cynicism, how idealism can endure.

The IV ISLA Literary Festival is the only event for creators from Ireland, Spain and Latin America to meet.The festival includes discussions about books, photography, science or graphic novel. Historian Diarmaid Ferriter opens ISLA on October 2nd, with memory as the driving theme. For 2015 IC Dublin also presents ISLA Extended; a series of workshops, film screenings and an open call for the Memory Wall collective exhibition about memory (all nationalities welcome).

62 Fitzwilliam Square North, Dublin 2 www.goethe.de/irland +353 (0) 1 680 1100

Aug 24th - Sep 5th, 7.30pm, Tickets: €15 (€12 conc.)

The New Theatre 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Telephone +353 (0)1 670 336

2–4 October. Opening at 5pm on 2nd at IC Dublin Free admission, except workshops ISLA Extended: 29 September to 8 October Full program: dublin.cervantes.es More info: bookings.dublin@cervantes.eses

BEST GADGET

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BEST TOUR OUTSIDE DUBLIN

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The Gaiety School of Acting

Tullamore D.E.W. Visitor Centre

With a unique flat design, solid aluminium core for acoustic stability and a polymer shell designed to withstand the ruggedness of a life on the go. If your phone runs low on battery, recharge it from the built-in USB charger.

The rechargeable battery gives up to 24 hours of battery life – enough to keep the music going all day long.

The latest Bluetooth technology boasts best-in-class streaming performance. BeoPlay A2 remembers up to 8 users, and can connect with 2 devices at a time – so you can take turns being the DJ.

The Gaiety School offers a lot more than just acting classes. With the autumn term starting on September 28th the school, which will celebrate 30 years in 2016, is launching a range of new courses. Alongside old favourites such as “Introduction to Drama”, “Acting for Camera” and “Stand-up Comedy”, you can now also try out dramatherapy in the all new course “The Untold Story”, as well as perfecting your presentation skills in “Master the Media”, or working on developing your own piece of theatre in “Manifesto”.

Situated right in the heart of Ireland, there is an incredible experience that has been waiting for you since 1829.Take a trip to the beautifully restored home of Tullamore D.E.W. and immerse yourself in the history and magic that lies inside the walls of this 19th century bonded warehouse, where their whiskey making tradition began. Enjoy a guided tour which blends audiovisual and traditional storytelling and put your new knowledge to the test with your very own Tullamore D.E.W. personal tasting session. Glasses Up!

Bang & Olufsen 6 Main Street Donnybrook Dublin 4 Tel: 01 260 2404

www.gaietyschool.com Essex St West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 (01) 679 9277

Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

057 9325015 www.tullamoredewvisitorcentre.com