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FRINGE WORTHY Culture vultures nationwide are prepping themselves for one of the highlights of this year’s festival line up, the 2011 Absolut Fringe. The Fringe is Ireland’s largest multi-disciplinary arts festival and for 16 days this September it promises to transform Dublin city into a veritable melting pot of creative talent featuring acts from around the globe. Offering up live entertainment as well as dance, theatre, visual art, and music shows there’s something to please all tastes. The importance of these festivals can’t be stressed enough and the Fringe is fast becoming recognized as one of the most important platforms for emerging artists in Ireland today. As a wholly curated festival, Absolut Fringe has always been seen to push the envelope in terms of showcasing the most innovative works from avant-garde artists with an eye to truly impacting and captivating its audience. The talent in store for us this year is no exception and under the theme of Brave New World works will no doubt address Irish society’s need to embark on radical change. We talked to some of our top Fringe picks for 2011.

INTERVIEW // Sarah Allen

No Man’s Land According to poet John Donne, no man is an island. However Fergal McCarthy will make a stab at proving him wrong by holding up on a man-made oasis anchored on our very own Liffey as part of this year’s Absolut Fringe. Totally Dublin talked to Fergal about this upcoming spectacle. We have seen you use the Liffey in your work before, what is the appeal the river holds for you? Well the Liffey is the central axis of the city yet we tend to forget about it and as an artist this is very interesting. I actually started swimming in the Liffey and these swims became almost like prayers, it felt like I’d gotten into the blood of the city. For this project I tried to make a work that would really allow people to relate to the Liffey, so I thought, what better way than to actually live on it! The idea of how we relate to our surroundings reminds me of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work. Does art such as this influence you? Yeah, they would be an influence. I loved Casten Höller’s work in Tate Modern too; I like the idea of playing with space! I don’t think you need to permanently colonize a space; work that’s not permanent can remain in the imagination for a really long time. You plan to make paintings while on the island which is quite a traditional art practice yet No Man’s Land is strikingly non-traditional. Do you think non-conventional art is more effective at conveying a message these days? Well I think traditional art certainly has the ability to be really powerful but nowadays shock value is paramount. If we think of Chris Ofili’s Virgin Mary, cow dung was used in its making and this was a very clever way to harness attention. Yet after the reaction to the medium wears off people realise that it’s an incredible painting too. I think people will appreciate the novelty factor in my work as well but it can also be seen as a metaphor for Ireland which seems slightly adrift in the financial global landscape. I’m going to dress in a suit while on the island, kind of like the last marooned businessman! Do you think you will view the island as paradise or prison when you set up camp there? That’s definitely one of the levels that this piece works on but as an artist you’re well accustomed to spending long periods by yourself so I’m not too worried! The theme of this year’s Absolut Fringe is Brave New World, how does your piece relate to this theme? Well I think Ireland went through its teenage years during the boom, but now we have to grow up and we must re-imagine our future and perhaps this process can begin by re-imagining what we can do with our city.

Man of Valour Escaping into a dream world which sees him cast in the role of intrepid hero is Farrell Blinks’ antidote to the monotony of office work and humdrum quotidian life, however living vicariously through a fictitious action man comes with its price. Annie Ryan, director of Man of Valour, talks about her little corner of this year’s Fringe. Could you talk a little about the piece and what the impetus was to deal with the theme of the interior life and the alter ego? The play is basically about an office drone who has a very active inner demon, as we all do in a way, but this guy’s one is starting to take him over until an event transpires which forces him to really consider who he is. So the play is about confronting the darker parts of ourselves. Having said that, it’s also a crazy action movie with very little dialogue and any ideas about consciousness are all pretty subtle. The Corn Exchange has become synonymous with the Commedia dell’Arte style (improvised comedy), can you explain what distinguishes this style from others? Well sometimes the style is really right for a particular show and sometimes it’s rather a tool for devising and I should say that this piece borrows from the Commedia style but doesn’t fully adhere to it. This style forces our player to improvise in a very structured manner and helps them become very physically connected with what’s happening from moment to moment. It gives us a starting point and a language and is really more of a useful tool for making the work than it is for seeing the work. As you mentioned the role is quite physical, what methods do you employ to prepare an actor for a performance such as this? It’s funny you should say that, because here in Edinburgh there’s a very quick turnover of shows but it’s crucial that Paul does a strong physical warm up and warm down because he really works his pitutty off during each show! We do a lot of yoga and in many ways this is more for the mind than the body. Although Michael West is the writer, the script is very plastic and could change at any moment which means a lot of brain work needs to be done to find the narrative, so the yoga is also essential for me to get into the right headspace. Finally, as a board member of Absolut Fringe, how important are such culture festivals? They are absolutely vital and we are really trying to engage a younger audience, the kind of Electric Picnic crowd who are unfortunately all leaving! Fringe artists have a genuine excitement and passion for Dublin and a determination to stay in Ireland and make things better, which really shows through in their work. For a full Fringe guide, flick to our listings section, and check out www.fringefest.com

Dublin might have a National Gallery and two major modern art galleries, but until now, it has lacked one art world staple: the biennale. What started in Venice in 1895 has now become the standard for culturally thriving cities worldwide, from Berlin to Beijing, with leading contemporary artists coming together to present new artworks across a myriad of venues in each of them. This year, Ireland will be launching it’s own take on the recurring contemporary art show, Dublin Contemporary. At the forefront of the event, intended to run every five years rather than the traditional two, are super-curators Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné. We caught up with Jota to get the lowdown what is now Dublin’s biggest cultural happening, and how the city could change as a result of it. INTERVIEW // Rosa Abbott

At the programme launch it was said that Dublin Contemporary’s not going to be about ‘big names’. What is it going to be about? Well, we do have a lot of big names. But there are two ways to make shows. Some curators just like big names because it’s good for their careers. I don’t think in that way - you can make shows with a lot of beautiful pieces, and not only names. I invited mid-career artists and absolute newcomers. I like the mixture: you might have a prize-winning artist of seventy-eight next to a kid of twenty-four from Galway and see links. And that creates new possibilities... You’ve worked on the Venice Biennale before. Is this going to be like a Dublin version of Venice? It’s going to be quite different. The Venice Biennale has over a hundred years of existence; it’s kind of like the world championship of art. We hope to run every five years, like Documenta in Germany, but we want to challenge the existing model - otherwise it becomes like going to church. We need more ideas, we need exciting subjects, we need fight, we need conflicts, we need people - and not only people wearing black shirts and pants. As a Franco-Peruvian based in Brussels, what made you think of Dublin as somewhere to launch an event? The size, and the opportunity of the place - Dublin is very central; it’s so wellconnected by flight. My feeling is that after this one, each five years a lot of arty people will travel here and see the show. Also, Ireland is a nice country with nice people. And nice weather – no! [laughs] I’ve lived here since February and, though I suffer a bit from the weather, I like it here... I’ve discovered Guinness! How do you know Christian, the other lead curator? Have you worked together before? Yeah, Christian is a person that I’ve known for some years now. I’m artist, he’s a writer, so we decided to make

shows together. It’s nice – we’re both originally from Latin America, and we have a good working relationship. The main venue is the National Concert Hall. What’s it like having creative reign over such a vast and historic space? It’s great. When Christian and I arrived to plan the show, we were shown some different places, and this place was just gorgeous inside. It’s right in the middle of the city, yet there’s not so much cultural activity happening there. In art, most exhibitions either have the ‘white box’ aesthetic or the warehouse aesthetic. But why not make something in a real European patrimony in the middle of the city? When you have a kind of gem like that, that’s so central, you need to utilise it. There are lots of other venues across Dublin taking part as well. How did you go about matching venues to artists? It depends - each case is different. For example, in the National Gallery, our aim was to show something totally different to what you’d usually see there, so we commissioned a new, site-specific piece by Brian O’Doherty. But not all the pairs were based on contrast - sometimes you find a piece that would just be perfect in a certain environment. Which exhibitions are you particularly looking forward to? I’m very curious and excited about the commissioned works from the young Irish artists, because it’s the first time they’ve had the opportunity to show on a large scale alongside big names. We commissioned some big works from them. Essentially, though, I just love art - we chose the artists we chose because they feel perfect for the show, and because they have incredible potential. The theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 is ‘Terrible Beauty’, from Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’. Why do you think these words are so relevant today? Well the full title is ‘Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of NonCompliance’. For me, these words of Yeats are a kind of introduction to the problem - in each crisis you have a kind of renaissance, and now we’re in a big crisis, I expect a renaissance. The situation at the moment is incredible: the continent has suffered for a lot of different reasons and realities, and it’s art’s place to talk about it. To offer solutions, to offer motivations, to offer discussion. And do you think Dublin will be “changed, changed utterly” by Dublin Contemporary? Ahhh, this is pretentious [laughs]. But why not? Ireland is an artists’ country, but it is a country determined by writers, songwriters and musicians. There’s definitely a lot of interest in art, but now we need to put these guys in the right position to showcase them. Dublin Contemporary runs from 6th September until 31st October. For more info see www.dublincontemporary.ie

Willie Doherty, The Hugh Lane One of Ireland’s foremost fine art photographers, Willie Doherty’s most celebrated works dive lens-first into the political tensions of his native Northern Ireland. Yet Doherty eschews the sentimentalism and the emotion-piquing tableaux of violence and chaos most documenters of Nordie conflict thrive on, instead opting to capture static and almost serene scenes vacant of figures. The resulting quiet lends his photographs an eeriness and air of discomfort lacked by his more overstated, action-seeking counterparts. Brian O’Doherty, National Gallery of Ireland The man formerly known as Patrick Ireland (amongst a medley of other alter-egos) tends to linger on the theme of identity – unsurprising for someone so polymorphous. For Dublin Contemporary, O’Doherty will be presenting a site-specific work at the National Gallery - and as a veteran of both Documenta and the Venice Biennale, O’Doherty will also perhaps teach the young pups of the Dublin art world a thing or two on how to work the biennale exhibition. Cleary and Connolly, Earlsfort Terrace Slightly less established – but no less exciting – than O’Doherty and Doherty is the Paris-based duo of Anne Cleary (from Tullamore) and Denis Connolly (Dun Laoghaire). Sparked from the writings of French urban theorist Bernard Huet, their work explores themes of movement and urbanity. In 2009 they scooped up the AIB Prize for emerging Irish artists and since then they’ve exhibited in the Barbican, so catch ‘em while they’re on the brink of the big time. Alice Neel, Douglas Hyde Gallery One of the few artists on Dublin Contemporary’s line up who is no longer living, Alice Neel was an American painter with a distinctive style of her own. This individualism, and her works’ resulting lack of compatibility with any of the modern art trends of the twentieth century, caused her to be critically underappreciated in her lifetime. But her evocative paintings of people, landscapes and still life, inspired by Spanish and Northern European art, are now starting to acquire the recognition they deserve. They’ll be on display at the Douglas Hyde. mounir fatmi, Earlsfort Terrace Moroccan deconstructivist mounir fatmi will be exhibiting his subversive explorations of religious icons, dogma and ideology in the flagship venue for Dublin Contemporary, Earlsfort Terrace (better known as the National Concert Hall). Seemingly expressing a bubbling glee at surfacing our inherent “doubts, fears and desires”, the media-flexible artist creates video, drawing, painting, sculpture and installation based art to challenge your perceptions of faith.

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INTERVIEW // Karl McDonald and Danny Wilson PHOTOGRAPHS // Paddy Hough It doesn’t make sense to the Horse Show patrons, bound for the nearby RDS. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me either. Standing briefly in the doorway of D4 Hotels in Ballsbridge amongst a group of friends in the middle of the afternoon, there is a teenager dressed as David Bowie from Labyrinth. He’s laughing, talking and generally looking a lot more comfortable than you’d expect a young man dressed as a Goblin King would be. This is one of the very places and times he can do this without a torrent of abuse. He’s one of the attendees of Nom-Con.

Returning for its second year, 2011’s Nom-Con is ostensibly an anime convention with guests, panels and a trade hall. But to a great extent, it is simply a place for an active but small subculture to gather together and hang out. It’s also a magnet for cosplay, a culture based on home-made costumes of characters from anime, manga, video games and general cult culture. “People are more accepting here,” says Patrick, who travelled from Cork to the event. He has approached the Totally Dublin team in the smoking area outside the convention, possibly because we look very lost and intimidated. He looks like a fairly normal dude, in that he’s not dressed as a Japanese demon. “I don’t cosplay – I’d say Nom-Con’s about 70% cosplay.” In spite of this, he was voted king of Nom-Prom at the big Saturday night Debs-surrogate – you get the impression that some of the Con’s attendees hadn’t attended their own Debs,

or didn’t plan to. “People thought me and my partner were a cute couple. It might have seemed controversial cos he was a guy, but people are accepting.” If that doesn’t constitute controversy at Nom-Con, there’s plenty of things that do. Patrick reports that there’s been “a lot of drama” and introduces us to Leigh, who’s been at the heart of – what else? – 4chan beef in the run up to the convention. There’s another animé convention in Dublin, based in the Helix in DCU, called Eirtakon. “They were badmouthing me, and the cons got brought into it.” It seems crazy that Ireland’s cosplay scene could have internal animosity given how weird it’s important to remember that most people on the street probably think they are, but it’s true, and it’s a talking point amongst many of the attendees. Nom-Con committee member James Sharkey, or ‘Wolfie’, acknowledges this,

but is quick to deny any staff involvement. These are squabbles between fans, not – Lord save us – all-out con-on-con war. “It started two or three months ago as a personal thing between people on 4chan. People started to bring up cons and it descended into ‘my con penis is bigger than yours’. Eirtakon’s been running for seven years and we’ve only been going for two, so there’s obviously some rivalry. Some people prefer Nom-Con, and we’re closer to town, but three of Eirtakon’s committee are on our committee as well. We’re just fans, and we want to have things that we’d want to see in a con. People come to cons to see friends and meet friends. The ideal would be to have a con every two or three months, so people aren’t waiting half the year to have somewhere to go and hang out.” Nonetheless, the con attendees can be partisan. Leigh makes reference to a

controversial incident on the Saturday where a Nom-Con staff member made an allegation about an attendee and ended up banned with their weekend pass dramatically burnt (“it was awesome” – Patrick), and lauds the Nom-Con staff for their response. “They dealt with it really quickly when it happened. It was really good. Eirtakon’s staff are too cliquey, they wouldn’t have done that.” All of this is revealed to the Totally Dublin delegation, who by appearance and admission are utterly clueless outsiders, within about half an hour of arrival. Patrick’s right: they are an accepting bunch. This unexpected display of openness makes it a lot easier to get over the initial surreal confusion of walking into a series of conference rooms with upwards of five hundred people dressed as characters we’d never seen before in them. Contrary to expectation – it was difficult not to arrive with Attenborough goggles ready to scoff at eve-

rything and retain distance – the cosplayers earned our understanding and, to a certain degree, our support. We decide to wander around and soak in the ambience. We stroll through, noting the ubiquitous debris of empty crisp packets and Coke bottles everywhere, from the foyer area where hardened Yu-Gi-Oh! card game players took up residence, to the nooks and crannies where backpacked kids in and out of costume hung out, to the registration table itself. Despite the fact that there are definitely some unchaperoned teenagers here, potentially for the full weekend, it seems like their card duels are fuelled by junk food rather than sneaky naggins. Upstairs, there is a games room, cloaked in the distinct aroma of teenage boy. There is one young man keeping it icy in the corner playing Minesweeper while small crowds gather around beatem-ups, Call of Duty and even Streets of Rage elsewhere. In the trade hall, people buy air-fix style sets, t-shirts, Gothic Lolita clothing and, especially, plushies – “they sell like crack,” according to Wolfie. In the biggest room at one point, there is a Weakest Loli competition, which appears to be some type of quiz between teams that would presumably in an ideal world all be dressed in super-kawaii Loli style. In reality only about half are, and at one point an applause-o-meter style Lovely Loli Laugh competition is cruelly snatched from a teenage boy who received easily the best response for doing a metal roar into the microphone instead of even trying. It comes off a little like package holiday entertainment, but the contestants and gathered crowd seem to be enjoying it. At every stop, we are pointed towards

“the girl with the blue hair and red eyes” in the trade hall. This girl, who it turns out is cosplaying as Rei Ayanami from Angelic Days, if that means anything to you, is a little older than the average cosplayer, in her twenties, and she comes across as incredibly passionate about the entire culture. Her name is Amy King, and she, it turns out, has been in Totally Dublin cosplaying before a few years ago. “Cosplay is a good way for people to make friends. You can say ‘oh, I like that character’, and get talking. People go way out in the States, but it’s about having fun.”She’s setting up a social network called Cosplay Ireland for the local community. There are some celebrities of varying real world notability hanging around too. Kyle Hebert, who voices Ryu in Street Fighter IV on top of roles in Dragonball-Z, Naruto and more, is in his element in his Heineken-style Street Fighter t-shirt – Hadoken, obviously conversing casually with any fan who approaches him. He’s enjoying himself. “I’ve been going to cons for eleven years, but things are a little more frenzied here. It’s a chance for people who might be shunned in their social circles, or suffer from social awkwardness, to get together. And it’s a chance for people who might want a little attention to show off their costumes too. Hats off to them.” Veronica Taylor, who has legitimate claim to legend status as the voice of Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon TV series, is a little more tentative, coming across like she probably wouldn’t be at an animé convention if it wasn’t effectively her job to, but she’s still glowing about Nom. “It’s amazing the amount of creativity.

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GLOSSARY ANIMÉ Japanese and Japanese-style animated cartoons. COSPLAY An artform in which people create and wear costumes representing characters from anime and broader pop culture. CON A convention at which fans of a genre (e.g. sci-fi, anime, etc) gather to attend events and meet like-minded people. 4CHAN The chaotic imageboard from which all internet memes spring, featuring boards for anime and cosplay, amongst other things. The energy is different at this con. In the States people take it very seriously and know a lot about obscure animé, and that’s good too, but the spirit of the people here is more exuberant.” She’s right, in the sense that there are no cynical Comic Book Guys in sight, just plenty of teenagers (possibly up to 1,500 over the three days) having fun, and the ratio of girls to boys might surprise the average person in the street. “Sci-fi cons skew older,” says Hebert, “but Nom-Con is a blend.” The guys tend to be attracted to the games room, the Yu-Gi-Oh! competition and the art side of things, with Sean, down from Galway and in cosplay featuring a baseball bat, claiming to be here “just for the art”, but the girls, equally invested in anime culture, seem to enjoy the opportunity to create elaborate costumes, something that they’re probably not going to get anywhere else nowadays. It didn’t even seem that weird, leaving Nom-Con at the end of the day, that groups of catgirls and Final Fantasy characters were strolling casually out of a hotel in Ballsbridge and getting into their fathers’ jeeps to go home. It’s probably safe to say that cosplay skits, one of the biggest attractions of the weekend despite the fact that it’s essentially just people dancing to music on a stage by themselves, aren’t going to infiltrate the mainstream any time soon. But it feels snobby to begrudge it to the people who want to do it. Even Steven, the hotel’s barman, is a fan. Despite every effort to get him to say the clientele were strange, he’s unerringly positive. “They’re friendlier than most groups we have in here. I think it’s great.” ■

GOTHIC LOLITA An anachronistic, Victorian-based fashion subculture featuring modest but elaborate dresses.

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28/30 Lower Stephens St., Dublin 2 If you’ve got even primary school knowledge of the mothertongue, you’ll know ‘bia’ translates to ‘food’. Lower Stephens Street is home to some of the most exemplary pub fare in Dublin - Bia Bar offers a wide-ranging menu with sophisticated flourishes. Their meat, fish, and ice-cream is appropriately Irishsourced and top of the range, resulting in some neat twists on classics such as Bangers and Mash.

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Restaurant Guide

Ormond Wine Bar

Odessa

Kafka

The Ormond Wine Bar is a hidden gem in Dublin. Looking like a quaint shop from the outside, you would nearly miss it walking by. On entering you realise it is a huge townhouse with 2 levels. Exposed brick, skylights in the high ceilings and comfy couches set the tone for a bottle of wine and nibbles. The breathtaking restaurant has a fully Irish bistro menu. This is possibly the best value in the city. The walls are dripping with artwork. Only a few weeks ago the place was taken over by new management. With new menus and an eclectic wine list the place seems to be pulling in the foodies. Located at Capel St bridge, this is worth crossing out of Temple Bar to try. They also run monthly wine tastings.

Odessa is Dublin’s original dining lounge, a mesh of style and substance. Thanks to its newly-popular Fivers menu, its defining quality has become offering affordable sophistication. The restaurant offers a mouth-watering menu renowned for its tapas-style offerings and an unparalleled cocktail menu, all in a chilled-out atmosphere.

On the doorstep of the Swan Centre lies one of Rathmines’ best kept secrets. 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 dinerstyle food; free of pretence and fuss. With a varied but not overstretched menu, Kafka touches enough bases to cover most tastes. Appetizers range from delicious chicken wings to golden breaded brie, while the main menu offers up anything from hearty bangers and mash, to porcini mushroom risotto. While their prices are easy on the pocket, Kafka cuts no corners with quality of their food.

At Capel St Bridge, Dublin 1

14 Dame Court, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 7634 www.odessa.ie

t: 01 497 7057

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The Best Western Dublin Skylon Hotel

Upper Drumcondra Road

The Rendezvous Room Restaurant is open for both breakfast and dinner. Enjoy a delicious meal in the relaxing and pleasant surroundings, with both A La Carte and Table d’Hote Menus available. The Skylon also boasts a superb selection of wines to choose from. Enjoy a drink or a meal in the Cosmopolitan Bar, newly decorated in traditional Irish style. This is the ideal meeting point for any occasion and is a favourite with locals and visitors alike. Evening menu is also available.

Eddie Rocket’s City Diner

Zen

Eddie’s manages to escape the trappings of restaurant franchising - its 100% fresh Irish beef burgers are consistently as excellent as most designer burger joints in town, and its (brilliantly-designed) menu diversifies seemingly by the day, making it the perfect stop for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night munchies, parties, and family days out - we couldn’t hope for a whole lot more from an Irish-owned business.

Celebrating its 20th year of serving imaginative, authentic Sichuan food in the unique setting of an old church hall. Real Sichuan cooking is unlike Cantonese, eastern or northern Chinese styles, and unlike any other outside China. Zen is the only Chinese restaurant in Ireland listed in the MICHELIN Guide. Using only the finest ingredients, favorites such as prawns with wild Sichuan pepper and fresh chilli and fillet of beef in hot bean sauce with broccoli have maintained a very loyal following. An early bird menu from Sunday to Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 offers excellent choice and incredible value.

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89 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines

t: 01 4979428 www.zenrestaurant.ie

Salamanca

Mexico to Rome

Teddy’s Ice-Cream & Grill

Salamanca Tapas Bars and restaurants, offer fantastic value, great quality food, service and atmosphere. They pride themselves on a wide variety of menus and great value deals, that offer creative, innovative, delicious dishes. Visit either Salamanca and be prepared to be whisked away from the mundane to the excitement of the warm continent ,in either of two prime city centre locations. Salamanca Dame street offers the €10 lunch and the €15 early bird 7 days, Salamanca Andrew st offers the €11 lunch and the Tapas tower early bird menu. Exciting new Tapas launches in both restaurants in Feb 2011.

Mexico To Rome restaurant over looks the historic cobbles of Temple Bar, and is ideallly situated across from the world wide known Temple bar pub. It’s renowned for its combination of Mexican and Italian dishes and its newly introduced grill menu adds to its popularity. At Mexico to Rome they boast friendly, efficient and extremely helpful service. Their unique dishes are prepared in full view of the customer, which adds to the attraction of the restaurant. Great for a group reservation or an intimate meal for two. Best lunch deal around, starter, main + glass of wine or soft drink all for €8.95.The Early bird menu is a starter, main + dessert all for €14.95.

99-cone institution for nearly 60 years in Dun Laoghaire, Teddy’s Dundrum Grill offers another side to one of Dublin’s most-loved establishments – Teddy’s offers steak, spare ribs, and burgers par excellence, without destroying your wallet in the run-up to Christmas. And yes, they still do the best ice cream in town.

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Eden

Acapulco

The Chophouse

The acclaimed, award-winning Eden restaurant serves contemporary food with a distinctive Irish flavour, overlooking the vibrant Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. With a set of mouthwatering dishes available for mains, from mushroom tarts to duck confit, and a stunning location, Eden is one of Dublin’s must-eat experiences.

Acapulco is an authentic and colourful Mexican restaurant situated on South Great Georges Street. With an invigorating atmosphere and friendly staff, the memorable dining experience offers something out of the ordinary. Not only do they offer authentic Mexican cuisine, they also offer a wide range of desserts, including their deep fried ice cream, and drinks, including their famous margaritas. Open 7 days a week, Acapulco welcomes patrons for lunch or dinner specials.

The Chop House is Dublin 4’s newest Gastropub. The menu offers diversity but the main focus is worked around traditional French cuisine with inspiration also taken from Japan and across Asia. Situated on one of the busiest junctions in Dublin 4 – The Chop House is a neighbourhood gastropub – serving Michelin quality food – in a pub atmosphere with prices that certainly won’t break the bank. Worth a visit, whether it’s match-day or not.

1 St Andrew st, Dublin 2

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 5372 www.edenrestaurant.ie

236 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6

23 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

7 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 677 1085 www.acapulco.ie

Dundrum Town Centre

t: 01 2964799 ek@teddys.ie

Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Rd, Dublin 4

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The Counter

Havana Tapas Bar

Bang Restaurant

Counter’s two outposts in Dublin represent an alternative dining future - patrons are offered complete control over their burger’s fillings. The variety of options is bewildering - you’re in safe hands with the expanded menu of Counter’s own recipes. Their shakes, beer and wine menu is nicely expansive too - if you want to make sure you never eat the same meal twice, Counter’s your Mecca.

Havana is a lively tapas bar and fully licensed restaurant that specialises in simple, appetising food with an authentic Spanish flavour. Open from lunch ‘til late, Havana excels in both its spread of nibbles and its range of wine and cocktails. With early bird discounts of up to 20% off, a Spanish language exchange on Wednesdays between 5 - 7pm, and Salsa lessons on Saturdays from 11pm - 1.30am, Havana has plenty of extracurricular reasons for a visit too.

Reopened in April 2010 Bang’s goal is to create a restaurant experience that is second to none. The philosophy at Bang is simple: great quality food at affordable prices, in relaxed and informal surroundings. Recommended by the Michelin Guide 2011, Frommers, Georgina Campbell and Paolo Tullio, the entire team at Bang work diligently to live up to its award winning reputation.

Suffolk Street/Dundrum Shopping Centre

www.thecounterburger.com Suffolk St: 01 611 1689 Dundrum: 01 2164 929

South Great Georges Street, Dublin 1

t: 01 400 5990 www.havana.ie

11 Merrion Row, Dublin 2

t: 01 400 4229 www.bangrestaurant.com

The French Paradox

53 Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4 Since the opening in 2002, The French Paradox Wine Bar & Wine Shop have been dedicated to bringing the finest and freshest of produce from France and the Mediterranean right here to Ireland. With the simple philosophy of serving directly imported wines from family-owned wineries, and quality cured meats, cheeses, fish and pâtés in an environment reminiscent of those charming wine bars in France, The French Paradox is the perfect place to relax and indulge in delicious French tapas and exquisite wine. What is more, the restaurant offers the unique chance to taste the delectable wines and foods in the tasting room with the possibility of purchasing them in the shop downstairs.

www.thefrenchparadox.com t: 01 660 40 68

Oliviers at The Schoolhouse

La Maison Restaurant

2 Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

15 Castle Market, Dublin 2

Two years ago this place transformed from a café and boulangerie into a fully blown restaurant. With their range of experience and nous, La Maison’s chefs and staff have impeccable credentials in presenting an authentically French high-end culinary experience and are in receipt of universally glowing reviews. Opens at 12.30pm each day until 10pm (11pm at weekends) and from 1 until 9 on Sundays.

Olivier’s Restaurant at the Schoolhouse Bar on the banks of the Grand Canal offers high-end cuisine with a seasonal menu and locally sourced ingredients in this retreat within the city. Breton head chef Olivier Quenet spent part of his time learning his trade in the Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud amongst other places and a little of the Michelin-star magic has rubbed off on him. Serves lunch from 12 til 3 weekdays with an a la carte menu on offer from 6 to 10 from Tuesday til Saturday. And 8 course tasting menu can also be availed of.

www.lamaisonrestaurant.ie t: 01-6727258

www.oliviers.ie t: 01-6675014

Tante Zoe’s

Eataly

Temple Bar, Dublin’s own French Quarter - is an appropriate home for this lively Cajun/Creole restaurant where great music meets great food. Try the gumbos, Jambalayas and blackened dishes... You won’t find better this side of the Mississippi. Originated from Louisiana, and is a combination of American Indian, African, French and Spanish cuisines - and it’s Tante Zoe’s speciality.

Take a trip to Glasnevin or Rush’s Eataly pizzerias and you might mistake the place for Naples. The Eataly team are constantly busy, in a way that only Italians can be in this authentic pizzeria whose owners hail from from Fontechiari, the tiny South Italian village. They have even designed their own ovens that can heat to 450 degrees, so you can imagine they achieve the perfect crispy while moist formula (ovens and pizza bases with Eataly sauce are for sale to the trade). Try the Spicy Barby, or the house special Eataly pizza and you will be transported to birthplace of the most remarkable of Italian cuisine.

66A Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9 3-5 Main Street, Rush

1 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Tante Zoe’s also has private rooms to cater for parties of 20, 40 and 100 people.

t: 01 6794407 www.tantezoes.com

t: 01 857 1888

The Chili Club

Bloom Brasserie

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4

174 Pembroke Rd.,Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Koishi

Salamanca

Quietly hidden away in Anne’s Lane opposite Kehoe’s Pub, the Chili Club was Dublin’s first Thai restaurant and has since its heyday been consistently serving, delicious, authentic Thai food. A recent makeover of cool greens and vibrant fuschia, along with a new bar breathes fresh life into the premises. It has long been a popular spot with local stockbrokers and visiting celebrities and continues to draw an eclectic clientele. A two course lunch is €9.95, three course €12.95 and a recessionary early bird menu is priced at a tempting €14.95. Combine these reasonable prices with cool tunes, friendly staff and a carefully selected wine list, this makes the Chili Club an ideal place for after work supper or a great night out.

Bloom Brasserie is a restaurant with lofty ambitions. With an excellent head chef well versed in the traditions of French cuisine, Bloom’s offers up accessible cuisine that accentuates their quality local ingredients. Head chef Pól Ó hÉannraich has lovingly assembled a menu that sees Angus Beef carpaccio alongside Caramelised King Scallops, and Roast Seabass. All dishes are freshly prepared and cooked to perfection.

Exquisite simple Japanese food. Freshest fish, meat, and vegetables are cooked with care to retain delicate flavours and tantalizing textures. Try the sushi with tempura and wild salmon and feel your energy lift. The teriyaki beef is sensational. No wonder this eatery is frequented by foreign diplomats, embassy people and local CEOs entertaining clients. Check out the special lunch menu from 12 noon and enjoy a light Japanese meal that leaves you feeling great for the afternoon. Located beside the American embassy and a stone’s throw from Aviva and the RDS. Prices are customer friendly too.

1 Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2

www.bloombrasserie.ie t: 01 668 7170

t: 01 677 3721 info@chiliclub.ie

t: 01 668 8393

t: 01 6719308 f: 01 6774795 email salamancadamest@salamanca.ie

Seagrass

Pacino’s

Il Primo

The Farm

For over 15 years Pacino’s has been a family-run restaurant known for its delicious ‘Classic & Gourmet’ pizzas and pastas, steaks and salads. It serves traditional, fresh, quality Italian cuisine. Its beef is 100% Irish, and sourced from reputable suppliers, and its pizza dough made fresh, inhouse, daily. Pacino’s offers a modern dining experience, with an old world vibe – stylish brickwork, wooden floors and soft lighting all combine to create a relaxed, rustic, informal atmosphere.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Il Primo has abundant experience in serving rustic Italian food with some of the best wines that Tuscany has to offer. Most of its wines are imported directly to Il Primo and cannot be found anywhere else in Ireland. The restaurant is located in a romantic period house, which has been converted into a lively, homely bar area and a cosy and intimate dining room, located five minutes from St. Stephen’s Green. The emphasis throughout Il Primo is on providing some of the finest wines from Tuscany with a range of simple and delicious Italian dishes in the heart of Dublin.

The Farm is about tasty homemade locally sourced free range, organic and fresh food. Healthy vegetables and fresh herbs. All their food is freshly prepared and cooked to order.

18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2

t: 01 677 5651 www.pacinos.ie

16 Montague Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 478 3373 Email: info@ilprimo.ie

38 - 40 Parliament St, Dublin 2

3 Dawson St, Dublin 2

11 am to 11 pm 7 days a week

t: 01 671 8654 hello@thefarmfood.ie

30 South Richmond Street, Portobello, Dublin 2 Seagrass has a simple philosophy: to offer great food and service at affordable prices, They have a great BYO wine policy where no corkage is charged. They source the best local and international produce They can find. They are passionate and progressive in what they do and also offer a genuine and friendly atmosphere Check out their incentive page for special offers. They also have a group menu available for dinner parties priced at €25 per person which enables you to bring your own wine.

t: 01 478 9595 www.seagrassdublin.com

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J. McNeill’s 140 Capel Street

In a former life, McNeill’s plied its trade as a one of Dublin’s most famed musical instrument shops, and a window full of banjos, bazoukis and bodhrán’s still belies that image to the world outside on Capel Street. Inside however, the place has been reborn as the home of some of Dublin most highly-regarded trad sessions with music on a nightly basis, as well as a daycent pint of plain to go with it, as you’d rightly expect. t: 01874 7679

The Temple Bar

The Long Hall

47 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

51 South Great George’s Street

The tourist quarter’s most packed-out bar, day and night, The Temple Bar has been doing something right for the last 160 years. Continually voted as the best spot for trad music nights in the city, there’s a constant line-up of entertainment to keep patrons busy while their pints are flowing.

Surrounded on all sides by boom-era glass and concrete, The Long Hall is literally a slice of the old Dublin in its prime location on George’s Street. Befitting of the name, the further you tread down the red-carpeted lounge towards the back, the more distant and inconsequential the hustle and bustle of the city centre seems. Catering equally to both tourists and locals, The Ling Hall even earned an in-song shout-out from Bruce Springsteen during his last visit to the RDS.

t: 01 672 5286

t: 01 475 1590

Neary’s

1 Chatham Street, Dublin 2 There’s a reason that Neary’s has remained so consistent over the last few decades – the formula works. Housed in elegant slice of Edwardian Dublin with its old-world interior still in pride of place, the early evening buzz in Neary’s is a rare sight to behold. With a crowd ranging from theatre-goers to thespians from the nearby Gaeity to local suits and Grafton shoppers, Dave and his team of old-school barmen will take care of all your needs. t: 01 677 8596

The Duke

8-9 Duke Street, Dublin 2 A classic post-office haunt if ever there was one, barely hidden just between Grafton Street and Nassau Street, the Duke is one of the best places in Dublin to indulge yourself with that well-earned pint of a Friday (or indeed any) evening. Combining a prime location with all the fundamentals - plenty of comfy seats, wholesome carvery grub and honest pints - let The Duke be the recipient of your blown-off steam. t: 01 679 9553

The Palace Bar

Madigan’s

27 Fleet Street, Dublin 2

16 Lower O’Connell Street

Carr & O’Connell 30 Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1

Famous for its literary heritage, the Palace Bar is an unspoiled slice of Dublin’s erudite history. Frequented by Irish Times writers since the dawn of time, and some of the city’s most well-respected authors, the Palace is the thinking-man’s spot for a jar. Despite changes all around, the Palace remains untarnished and popular as ever.

A popular haunt on GAA match days with live coverage available on a large technicolour TV, Madigan’s is a cosy home away from home with all your mother’s cooking you could want available down stairs from bacon & cabbage, Irish stew, and bangers & mash to salmon with Cajun spices for the more adventurous.

t: 01 679 9290

t: 01 874 3692

Whether a business meeting, or simply meeting friends, the warm comfortable seated area at the heart of Carr & O’Connell is the perfect venue. Offering both an excellent food menu and range of cocktails on top of a selection of your favourite beers, Carr & O’Connell is also home to weekend DJs and a selection of big screens for sporting events - a little something for every patron. t: 01 874 5730

The International

Bia Bar

23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

28/30 Lower Stephens St., Dublin 2

Famed for both its earnest singersongwriter nights, as a great place for a close-quarters guffaw with local comedic talent and even as a small theatre venue, the International has always been a bit of an off-beat, if not quite bohemian place. It has served many patrons in its many guises but has always maintained its understated, proper pub vibe. No fancy makeovers here, just an endless stream of stories and laughs to behold.

One of Dublin’s best-established modern bars, Bia Bar has built its success on a diverse drinks range, excellent food, and a classy interior. Bia Bar pulls off cool, without ever seeming arch or inaccessible - their choice of DJs always impresses, and the chilled-out atmosphere of the bar during the day makes it a perfect spot for both lunchtime pints and nocturnal partying. t: 01 4053653

t: 01677 9250

McDaids

Mulligans

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.

Originally a shebeen, Mulligan’s has been legit since 1782, making it one of the oldest premises in Dublin city. A magnet for both tourist and native, traditional pub and sometime Bachelor’s Walk set Mulligans is as renowned as watering holes in town come. Mulligans perfects the basics and in the grand Irish tradition avoids ‘yer fancy stuff’. It’s nonetheless a welcoming refuge for all patrons with an unbeatable back story.

3 Harry Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 679 4395

8 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2

www.mulligans.ie

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THE PIG’S EAR WORDS // Aoife McElwain PHOTOGRAPH // Patrick Hough

The Pig’s Ear is the type of name that must make vegetarians feel ill. For meat-lovers like myself, it’s basically a siren’s call to a restaurant. The Pig’s Ear has been snuggled above The Runner Bean vegetable shop on Nassau Street since 2008. The only evidence of it at street-level is a black door with a little pink awning over it and an inviting board stating the day’s deals. You walk up a flight of stairs and find yourself, rather suddenly, at double doors that open into a large and bright room, overlooking The Pav at Trinity College. My boyfriend Niall and I were seated close to the window. Perfectly situated to gaze out upon the revellers partaking in a bit of Dutch Gold action on that sunny Friday evening. My, what a long way we had come, we congratulated ourselves.

But not too far. The Pig’s Ear is a smart place, but not too smart. Not uncomfortable smart. Not pretentious smart. It has a relaxed atmosphere where jeans are welcome and the food is served with care, but not fuss. We were well looked after by our servers throughout the evening, but not overbearingly so, with our main waitress getting more politely familiar with us our meal went on. My starter was a delicate Castletownbere Crab Mayonnaise with Celeriac, Orange & Fennel Salad (€10.95), exquisitely light and summery. Niall went for the more robust Burren Smokery Wild Mackerel with Potato Salad, Beetroot and an outrageously creamy Horseradish & Walnut Dressing (€10.95). Our waitress recommended two glasses of the French Picpoul de Pinet (€6.95) to compliment our fish. And compliment it did.

It’s a long yet entertaining trek where you pass the restaurant’s second room on the second floor, which was buzzing at 8pm on a Friday night. When I asked our waitress about it, she explained they divided the rooms to couples on the first floor with bigger groups and families on the second floor. How considerate is that? For my main, I was drawn to Maurice Kettyle’s Dry Aged Rib-Eye Beef served with Truffle Mash, Stuffed Bone Marrow and Mushroom Ketchup (€26.95). It was thoughtfully served on a chopping board, with the steak taking centre stage with each side surrounding the meat. The Truffle Mash was served in a baby-sized copper saucepan, and although it got a little too oily towards the end thanks to the truffle oil, it was a wondrously creamy mash. The Stuffed Bone Marrow was filled with a rough mushroom pate and the Mushroom Ketchup was like a posh Chef’s Sauce. The star of show, however, was the meat, cooked stunningly rare as I had ordered. Really good stuff. Niall went for The Pig’s Ear Lough Erne Milk Fed Lamb Shepherd’s Pie. He could have opted for a choice of sides such as Duck Fat Roast Potatoes or a Pea and Mint Bacon Salad (€3.95 each) but this Shepherd’s Pie needed no accompaniments. It drew a very profound statement from Niall: “If all shepherd’s pies tasted like this shepherd’s pie would have a shit hot reputation.” Quite. Our waitress chose two glasses of the Tinto de Toro Semi-Crianza (€8.95 per glass) to wash down our mains, keeping us in high spirits until dessert time. I was tempted to get the The Bag of Sweets of Chocolate Mice, Cola Bottle and Flying Sauces for my dessert. And at €4.95 a pop, in hindsight I wish I had to ensure those chocolate mice were made in-house. Instead I opted for the Gold River Farm’s Organic Strawberries with Whipped Mascarpone served in a large glass of Rosewater Jelly and Mini Meringue (€7.95). It was like tasting a romantic summer’s day at Wimbledon in a by-gone era. Niall went for the more hurling-style dessert of Brown Bread Ice-Cream with Crushed Yellow Man and Garibaldi Biscuit (€7.95). I don’t know who the Yellow Man was or what a Garibaldi is, but there was definitely honeycomb sprinkled within the brown bread ice-cream, adding some childish crunch to the old staple. With three courses each, four glasses of wine, one bottle of sparkling water and one macchiato, our bill came to the rather hefty amount of €121.40. I mean, you could buy, like, 100 cans of Dutch Gold for that. What I would recommend is going for their Lunch deal (2 Courses €15.95 / 3 Courses €19.95 served from 12pm to 2.45pm) or perhaps the Early Evening deal (2 Courses €19.95 / 3 Courses €24.95 served from 5.30 to 6.30pm). If the food is even close to what we enjoyed on our visit, that’s very good value indeed. The Pig’s Ear 4 Nassau Street Dublin 2

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what Dublin really needs?â&#x20AC;? Ask anyone on our cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets this question and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get myriad of answers from the sensible to the ludicrous. Once we got the important things out of the way (public services, transport etc) - my vote would be to have more casual and affordable dining options. It might seem silly to prioritise such a luxury sport, but hear me out. In Dublin, there is a huge gap between low-end and high-end. With a few exceptions, if you want to eat well, you have to splash out major bucks for it. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the cash, be prepared to eat stodgy, beige food, you lowly reprobate! Restaurateur Joe Macken is showing us there is another way. Macken has been a key force pushing for more choice in casual dining in the city for the last few years. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had his cheap, cheerful and nomtious burger joint Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Burger since 2007. Then there was Crackbird, which started as a pop-up restaurant specialising in fried chicken earlier this year and has now found a permanent nest on South William Street. The place has been packed every night. And I mean every night. And now, we have Mommaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place. Opened in early August above Filmbase on Curve Street in Temple Bar, the cafe is Mackenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby in conjunction with GCN Forever, the fundraising wing of the magazine whose aim it is to raise â&#x201A;Ź50,000 per annum for the next two years through charitable donations and fundraising events, to ensure GCN is around to stay. You can do your bit to support the magazine and our LGBT brothers and sisters by popping into Mommaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks. A deliciously selfish act of philanthropy. The menu changes weekly and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks. The choice is small but it is all amaze. The lunch speciality is a tartine (a kind of fancy French open sandwich) with choices of

toppings including fig, bacon and brie or whipped feta cheese and cucumber. In the evenings, there are whole tarts made to order which are perfect for sharing between two or four. The tarts are served whole at your table alongside a giant salad bowl, so that you can pass it around your group, serving yourselves and making yourselves at home. Much like you might in your own motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place. And how fabulous that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open between 10am and 10pm, so that you can grab a late, light, affordable meal with a few glasses of wine before hitting the tiles? My friend Chelsea and I did just that. We went into Mommaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place at around 7pm and left a couple of relaxed hours later. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d shared a beautiful bottle of Voignier (â&#x201A;Ź24), a French white wine which had a wonderfully fruity finish. I had a breakfast for dinner (a brinner, if you will) of beetroot hash with an egg on top (â&#x201A;Ź6.25), while Chelsea had a fig, bacon and brie tartine (â&#x201A;Ź5.95). We indulged ourselves in their chocolate chip and rhubarb brownie (â&#x201A;Ź3.50) which could be the most dangerously addictive slice of shop-bought cake that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tasted in our city to date. A cappuccino (â&#x201A;Ź2.50) and a macchiato (â&#x201A;Ź1.75) brought our total to â&#x201A;Ź43.95. Eating out - and eating well - should be for everyone. We all deserve to be able to enjoy a meal out with friends on a more than monthly basis. It should be a regular treat, and not just a special one. Mommaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place is perfect for that kind of eating out. So, how about we keep the high-end spots for those celebratory events and see more of the in-between opening up? The gap in the market is as large as my appetite. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big.

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Rigby’s Deli

Fancy a New York-style deli with an emphasis on the seasonal and local? And no menu in the evenings, just a pot-luck of cuts of meat and fish? And a BYO wine policy? The newly opened Rigby’s Deli could be the spot you’ve been waiting for. Described as shabby chic with rock and roll food, head to Rigby’s Deli at 126 Upper Leeson Street to see it for yourself. Follow them on Twitter @rigbysdeli for more info.

NATIONAL ORGANIC WEEK

It’s Bord Bia’s National Organic Week from the 12th to the 18th of September and if I were you, I’d double up on your dinner’s yumminess by going organic and seasonal. Denis Healy’s farm at The Temple Bar Market on Saturday should have some amazing organic Irish peas this month, ready for you to take them home and de-pod. There is nothing like fresh peas from a pod to make the summer last longer.

Craft Beer Festival at The RDS

If you’re a beer lover, you’ll have noticed the Irish craft beer community has been growing at an exceedingly pleasing rate. Head to the RDS on the 23rd to the 25th of September to meet the whole gang in one go. You’ll be able to sample the goods from the Dungarvan Brewing Company, Trouble Brewing, Eight Degrees Brewing, the Dingle Brewing Company and lots more. Day tickets are €10 and a three day pass is only €15, both which include entry, a souvenir pint glass and a complimentary half pint of craft beer. See www.irishcraftbeerfestival.com for all further details.

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Kitchen 72 brings you recipes from a Dublin kitchen, with the talented self-taught cook and photographer David at the helm. Check out www.kitchen72.com for seriously delicious looking food and inspiring ideas for mid-week and weekend suppers.

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There are a million things to do with peas but one of my favourite ways is to have them as a side to a good hearty beef dish. To make enough of a side for six people, fry about 350g of chopped pancetta until browned and lush. Meanwhile, get 600g of fresh peas and de-pod. Cook these peas in boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes. Now add to the cooked bacon and let the flavours mingle. Transfer to a serving bowl and mix in 1 to 2 tablespoons of finely chopped mint and season to taste.

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Make it yourself Mini Pork Pies with Bacon Jam By Aoife McElwain Makes 12 pies

PUMP UP THE JAM WORDS AND PHOTOS // Aoife McElwain This month, we talk to Ed Hick from J Hick & Sons, the gourmet pork butchers famous for impeccable pork cuts and their dangerously delicious Bacon Jam. Tell us about the history of J Hick & Sons. The Hick family first came to Dublin in 1919, when three brothers Eddie, John and Henry left Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish Border. Their father was born in Germany and started his apprenticeship circa 1878. Since then, the family have become synonymous with pork in the capital, and 91 years later still continue to meet our customers’ needs. We’ve been based in Dun Laoghaire since 1985. How has the family business changed in recent years? With regard to produce, production values, sourcing of pork, use of pork etc. Since 1996 we no longer kill our own pigs, but buy whole carcasses and prime cuts of Irish only pork. Where do you source your pork and how do you choose it? We purchase pork cuts from various Irish suppliers, and we get whole Certified Organic Pigs from Gold River Farm in Aughrim. We also get the offal allocation of those pigs which enables us to make traditional puddings with fresh blood and plucks. Have you noticed a change in your customers’ awareness of the provenance of your products? Those that are interested are very much so, but as a whole I’d say that provenance is less important than price at the minute. Where did the idea of Bacon Jam come from? Drunken musings and trials in the kitchen at home .... (do not print that!)

You’ve connected well with the Irish food bloggers and the on-line foodie community. How valuable is that community to a business like yours? In terms of freshness, and engaging with a new customer base it’s been great, but it also harks back to the point about provenance. It is always nice to know your customer/producer... that’s very much a two way street. I kinda like the concept that Carlo Petrini of Slow Food suggests that we are all “co-producers”. It sounds a little simplistic, if not simbiotic, but for me and the values we’ve always had in business, it strikes a chord. You have a stall in the Temple Bar Market on Saturdays. Where else can people get their hands on your products? At independant retailers within the Dublin area, our factory outlet in Rear 15A, Georges St Upper, Dún Laoghaire and at my brother’s shop in 17 Castle St, Dalkey. Tell us about your Makin’ Bacon classes, past and future! I’ve been running kids and adults workshops for about five years now, initially for the local Slow Food convivium, then as evening courses for the general public or for people who have kept their own animals and would like to know a bit more about processing at home. We give basic instruction on the processes, with a “hands on and take home” approach. Evening courses are informal, but generally require wellies and apron! J Hick & Sons Rear 15A Georges Street Upper Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin 01-2842700 www.hicks.ie

3 to 4 sheets of shop-bought shortcrust pastry (or use 2 blocks of ready-to-roll shortcrust pastry. Or by all means make your own if you can!) 6 of the finest, most delicious pork sausages you can get 12 heaped teaspoons of Ed Hick’s Bacon Jam available in Sheridan’s Cheesemongers or from Hick’s direct 1 free-range egg for brushing the pastry, beaten Leaves from a few sprigs of thyme, for a garnish ■ Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. ■ Start by greasing 12 holes of a muffin tin with a bit of olive oil or butter. ■ Using two to three sheets of the shop-bought pastry, cut out 12 x 11cm circles with a pastry cutter. Put these into the 12 muffin tin holes, pushing in with your fingers. Leave a little pastry overhanging each hole so that you can pinch it together with the lid once filling is in. ■ In a large bowl, squeeze the sausage meat from its skins. Add one heaped tablespoon of sausage meat into each of the pastry cases. Now add a generous teaspoon of bacon jam on top of that. ■ Take the last sheet of shortcrust pastry and cut 12 smaller circles – 8cm would be good – to create lids. Add to the filled cases, pinching together the two pastry circles so the filling can’t escape during cooking. Using a skewer, make a little hole at the top of each pie. ■ Brush the edges of the filled mini-pies with some of the beaten egg. Set aside the leftover egg for later. ■ Put the muffin tin into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the tin and carefully remove the pies. Transfer to a baking tray. Brush the sides and top again with the beaten egg. Arrange a couple of thyme leaves on top of each pie. Turn the oven up to 200C/180C fan/Gas Mark 6 and cook the pies for another 25 to 30 minutes, until they’re a beautifully golden colour. Remove and cool on a wire rack. Best eaten cold!

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WORDS // Zoe Jellicoe It can often seem that most games are heavily focused on action, with dauntingly intricate control systems to master. This can be off-putting for gamers not used to exercising the reflexes required for combat-heavy games. For those with a penchant for puzzles, point-and-click adventure games offer exploration and depth that can be experienced at their own pace. Rather than combat, your main tasks include puzzle solving and using items. So, using items to solve puzzles to get more items to solve more puzzles. Adventure games also tend to be fairly plot-driven and linear. There’s often only one thing you can do before progressing within the game. The point-and-click adventure game arguably reached its zenith in the ‘90s. It had graduated from text-based adventure (like the absurdly tricky 1984 Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game) thanks to the innovative Macintosh point-and-click interface. Aside from the occasional helpline on the back of the box or possible magazine with a cheat sheet, there was no real help given by developers. The difficulty, aside from the puzzles themselves, would often be that you just didn’t know where you were supposed to be going and what you needed to do once you got there. In Grim Fandango, for instance (a 1998 Lucas Arts, of Star Wars fame, adventure game in memorable Mexican Day of the Dead style), you might find yourself wandering aimlessly for a solid ten minutes. But they also offered a level of comedy that you couldn’t really fit into a straight action game, the Monkey Island series typifying this. Point-and-click enthusiasts develop a special kind of stoicism, one which mightn’t be necessary for other genres. It asks for something different from the patient concentration required for platforming, or the neuroticism necessary for RPGs. Elements of the point-and-click genre are still evident in newer games, most heavily influencing recent blockbuster LA Noire. A rare, modern point-and-click game, Machinarium, recalls the classic formula. For the most part, you progress from room to room in the city of rustbucket robots first and foremost by solving puzzles. Though Machinarium is simple in its intentions, the puzzles are precise and rewarding, igniting the hope that there might still be a future for the point-andclick genre.

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With Francophone steampunk catgirl/ foxboy bounty hunters on giant robots, could Solatorobo be anything other than a Japanese RPG? It conforms to the genre, being dialogueheavy and with a convoluted story about some world-destroying evil, but avoids the usual monotony. Combat astride your stomping robot is simple, frantic and satisfying – pick them up, throw them down, do it again – and although it threatens to bore, it never quite does. The “job centre” in each town offers a plethora of varied missions with little recycling, and mini-games like flying and fishing keep things fresh – even item collection quests feel like less of a chore. The characters and scenery are drawn in a cute anime style, but pixelation problems really show how dated a system the DS is. Aching for a 3DS sequel to really spread its wings, Solatorobo isn’t quite the epic adventure it aspires to be, but there is delight to be found in the details.

Departing from the cowboy setting of the two previous Call of Juarez games, The Cartel follows the story of three utterly unlikeable US law enforcement agents as they take on a Mexican drug gang. A capable shooter, in some respects, The Cartel delivers some decent firefights but is plagued with technical issues. The draw distance is abysmal, enemies and obstacles pop in and out of a foggy blur – all you can do is shoot at the muzzle flash and hope for the best. At one point the guy I was chasing and the traffic I was supposed to chase him through didn’t even load, leaving me running around an empty street. These malfunctions frustrate and some parts, like the awfully claustrophobic driving sequences, were just badly thought out. The addition of a secret mission for you to complete without your companions seeing works well in co-op mode but doesn’t work in single player. This, coupled with writing that’s both cringey and offensive, makes for another vanilla modern shooter you’ll want to forget.

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BLACK AND WHITE No matter how dazzling the lure of kaleidoscopic colour, there will always be those that stray towards the simplicity of black and white. This applies to artists also, whether adopting monochrome for its ascetic minimalism and Zen-like restraint, a la Franz Kline, or for the optical potency of Bridget Riley et al. The Oliver Sears Gallery are celebrating the expressive qualities of non-colour under the aptly understated title Black and White, drawing together works from gallery and invited artists ranging in date from the fifties until the present day. Now this sounds basic enough, but given that a number of high-calibre names such as Royal Academian and IMMA solo exhibition star Hughie O’Donoghue feature on the list of artists represented by Sears, we’re inclined to ditch our technicolour dream coats and embrace the polarity of blanc et noir. Catch it at: Oliver Sears Gallery, Molesworth Street, until October 28th. Also check out: This video interview with contributing artist Hughie O’Donoghue by GAFTV, in which he discusses the theme of memory in his works at this summer’s Galway Arts Festival http://gaftv.ie/mdisp/321

SIOBHÁN HAPASKA It may not be Hanukkah yet, but that’s not stopping Siobhán Hapaska from getting the oil lamps burning. Or rather, a figurative representation of them: in the confines of the Kerlin Gallery this month, she has lined up nine brass and solderclad, polished industrial engine stands in place of the sacred candelabrum’s arms. In lieu of the traditional olive oil, eight displaced and mutilated trunks of onetime olive trees flank one central, complete botanical entity. Belfast-born Hapaska is internationally celebrated for both her use of unconventional materials and poignant appropriations of religious and political iconography. This new work is clearly no exception, drawing upon the long cultural and spiritual potency of not only the Menorah but the accompanying olive oil, which of course has a 7000 year anthropological heritage of its own. Her unlikely materials question what it means to render an object sacred, and the spiritual value mankind has always bestowed on the inanimate. Catch it at: Kerlin Gallery, South Anne Street, until October 1st. Also check out: Hapaska giving a talk on her works at the Glasgow School of Art via the School’s online video archive http://www.gsaevents.com/videoarchive/hapaska

SO LONG ROGER FENTON... In 1855, Roger Fenton was sent to Crimea by Prince Albert, with the task of documenting the war waged there by the British. But instead of returning with a reams of horrific images bearing witness to dismembered corpses and disfigured survivors, his photographic collection was typified by serene, dignified scenes of military comradeship and ‘camp life’ - virtually all of which were staged. Fenton had not been sent to document the war as he saw it, but to document a version of events that would help reverse negative public opinion on the ordeal. By doing so, Fenton was in a sense one of the first purveyors of the pre-ordained photograph - now a taboo in journalistic photography, but a standard in fine art snaps. Using this theme of manipulation as their starting point, Monster Truck’s Temple Bar gallery are laying on a group show exploring “negotiation and commitment in contemporary art”, featuring photographic work from Bruno Serralongue, Chris Evans, Johannes Maier, David Lamelasm George Levantis and James Merrigan - and, of course, Fenton himself. Catch it at: Monster Truck Gallery, Temple Bar, until October 8th. Also check out: Monster Truck’s recently launched lines of t-shirts, which you can snap up at the gallery.

GO BUY: the ALCHEMY of appropriation Published by the bizarre DIY intercontinental zinemakers Drippy Bone Books, the ALCHEMY of appropriation, the SCIENCE of visual theft and the NEW COLLAGE collates the work of six “mind-melting” and magpie-ish visual artists. Some of their creative offerings are disconcertingly eery (and some down-right macabre), but all demonstrate a mastery of their cut-n-paste medium. True to the publishers’ zine-bassed roots, the forty page publication is more of a pamphlet than a ‘proper’ book, but high quality paper and dynamic content render it no less desirable. And at only $9 for a hand-number edition of only eighty-eight copies, we recommend appropriating one for yourself.

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Live gigs September THURSDAY 1st SEPT ■ The Civil Wars The Sugar Club, Dublin, €13.50, 7.30pm Causing local unrest Fri 2nd Sep ■ Pierce Turner Whelans, €18/20, 8pm This guy has been at it for ages Sat 3rd Sep ■ Friends In Low Places -The Ultimate Garth Brooks Experience Vicar Street, €23, 7.30pm Rumours of Chris Gaines’ demise were premature ■ Lumiere Whelans, €14, 8pm Sweetly blended Irish trad voices ■ Covenant The Button Factory, €26, 7.30pm Has metal not been banned by David Cameron yet? ■ No Bother/AFA Ruta, €5, 8pm Ska, reggae and dancehall ■ Red Enemy, Jody has a Hitlist, Hero in Terror, East Island City The Workman’s Club, €6, 8pm Presented by High Five City Mon 5th Sept ■ Owl City The Academy, €21.50, 7.30pm Postal Service imitation service ■ Community of Independents Series Whelans, €tbc, 8pm Short films about local independent acts Tue 6th Sept ■ Cathy Davey, David Geraghty, Tiger Cooke and friends The Workman’s Club, €15, 8pm Kicking off a week of birthday celebrations for the Workman’s ■ Community of Independents Series Whelans €tbc, 8pm Short films about local independent acts ■ Lynched and guests Ruta, €Free, 9pm Free trad session Wed 7th Sept ■ Brian Wilson Grand Canal Theatre, €61.80, 7.30pm Bonkers granddad of dream pop music ■ Paul Kelly Sugar Club, €23, 7.30pm

Presenting his A-Z recordings over four nights Thu 8th Sept ■ Literary Death Match The Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm ■ Paul Kelly Sugar Club, €23, 7.30pm ■ Tupelo Whelans, €10, 8pm The word Tupelo seems to guarantee rootsiness Fri 9th Sep ■ Rarely Seen Above Ground The Workman’s Club, €12, 8pm Kilkenny’s favourite one-man band ■ Junip Whelans, €20, 7.30pm José González’ Swedish post-rock (rescheduled from earlier this year) ■ Damien Dempsey Vicar Street, €27, 8pm Dublin folk heavyweight ■ Kate Voegele The Academy, €16, 7.30pm Slashie award nominee ■ Paul Kelly Sugar Club, €23, 7.30pm ■ Army Of Bandits Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm Support from History of Harry & Halcyon Daze Sat 10th Sep ■ Bipolar Empire Whelans, €12, 8pm Crowd pleasing Tallafornians ■ Kill It Kid Academy 2, €12.50, 7.30pm Leather jackets ahoy ■ Paul Kelly Sugar Club, €23, 7.30pm ■ A Night with Turning Pirate The Workman’s Club, €tbc, 8pm ■ Thread Pulls + E+S=B The Joinery, €8, 8pm BYOB art-rock fest Sun 11th Sep ■ 1st Birthday All Dayer The Workman’s Club, Free, 8pm With Ghost Estates, Overhead The Albatross and many more ■ Miracle Fortress Crawdaddy, €14, 8pm Minty Canook indie dreamwhirls ■ Martin Sexton Whelans, €23, 8pm

Americana stalwart Wounded Bear Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm Acoustic chill-out channeling ghost of John Martyn Mon 12th Sep ■ What the Folk? Final Workman’s Club, Free, 8pm Who can out earnest the next man? Tue 13th Sep ■ Lynched and guests Ruta, Free, 9pm Free trad session ■ Daniel Martin Moore The Workman’s Club, €11.50, 8pm Kentuckian folk singer Wed 14th Sep ■ Dolly Parton The O2, €60-96.25, 7.30pm Lurleen Lumpkin’s inspiration ■ Chris Thile & Michael Daves Whelans, €15, 8pm Deliquent bluegrass miscreants ■ Peter Doherty The Academy, €28, 7.30pm Calling yourself Peter makes you sound more mature Pete Thu 15th Sep ■ Handsome Furs Whelans, €16.50, 8pm Messrs. Boeckner and Perry present political messages Fri 16th Sep ■ Spilly Walker @ Absolut Fringe The Workman’s Club, €12, 7.30pm Kittser’s disco biscuits ■ Republic Crawdaddy, €tbc, 8pm Hungarian rockers, inspired by Koncz and Zsuzsa, obviously ■ Teatronik + Gentle Boy The Joinery, €8, 8pm BYOB art-rock fest MK. II Sat 17th Sep ■ Sam Amidon Sugar Club €16.50, 7.30pm Sparse and soulful America, recommended ■ Squarehead The Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm Local garage rock scuzzers celebrate their album release ■ Shove ■

Upstairs in Whelans, €6.50, 8pm Hard-hitting, non-trendy unmarketable music ■ Whipping Boy The Academy, €21.50, 7.30pm Reformed relegation candidates ■ B Dolan with guests Dan Le Sac and Buddy Peace Whelan’s, 7.30pm Hip hop and spoken word show ■ Rory McLeod, Captain Moonlight and Lynched Ruta, €10, 8pm Agit-prop folk ‘n’ roll Sun 18th Sep ■ Squeeze Vicar Street, €44.20, 7.30pm Cool for cats ■ Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Whelans, €13.50, 8pm Hardcore man goes folk-punk Tue 20th Sep ■ Lynched and guests Ruta, Free, 9pm Free trad session Wed 21st Sep ■ Brendan O’Shea + Jenna Nicholls Whelans, €10, 8pm Irish American indie folk troubadour Thu 22nd Sep ■ Fiach The Workman’s Club, €12, 8pm Toothy singer songwriter Fri 23rd Sep ■ Echo and The Bunnymen Olympia Theatre, €28, 7.30pm Barnets and ballyhoo ■ Ultrakugel @ Absolut Fringe The Workman’s Club, €14.00, 7.30pm Once off electronic & kraut night with Twinkranes & Bruno Spoerri Sat 24th Sep ■ Emeralds Whelan’s 7.30pm Rescheduled psych and drone blissout ■ David Gray, Lir, Pugwash-With A Little Help From Our Friends Vicar Street, €26, 7.30pm Benefit show for the Dublin stalwarts Lir’s legal troubles ■ Arcadian Songbook @ Absolut Fringe The Workman’s Club, €12, 8pm Featuring Serafina Steer and Katie Kim

■ Primordial

Celebrate the release of Build Me Swan

The Academy, €25, 7.30pm Sludgey ■ These Charming Men The Village, €10, 8pm Charming because the actual Morrissey is not involved Sun 25th Sep ■ The Glee Experience Olympia Theatre, from €15, 7.30pm [Audible sigh] ■ William Tyler (Silver Jews, Lambchop) + Cian Nugent Band The Joinery, €10, 8.30pm BYOB folky-guitar fest Mon 26th Sep ■ Ghostpoet Whelan, €12.50, 8pm Radio 1-fuelled London scenester dips toe in Irish water Tue 27th Sep ■ Crosby & Nash Vicar Street, €59.80, 7.30pm One half or two thirds of 70’s folk-rock combos ■ Fink Crawdaddy, €14, 8pm This polymath has got his finkers in many pies ■ Lynched and guests Ruta, Free, 9pm Free trad session Wed 28th Sep ■ Batman Live The O2, €23-44.20, 7.30pm Anything Spiderman can do, the caped crusader can match Thu 29th Sep ■ Autumn Long Upstairs in Whelans, €tbc, 8pm Autumn is another acoustic instrument signifier ■ The Revival Tour The Academy, €20, 7.30pm Featuring members of Gaslight Anthem, Alkaline Trio and The Loved Ones ■ The 1922’s The Workman’s Club, €8, 8pm The Artist Formerly known as The Evil Harrisons ■ Batman Live The O2, €23-42.40, 7.30pm Fri 30th Sep ■ The Chakras The Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm

■ Scott Matthews

The Sugar Club, €18.50, 7.30pm This man has an Ivor Novello, stand back ■ The Guggenheim Grotto (Acoustic) Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm Long-running acoustic duo return home ■ The Devlins Vicar Street, €28.70, 7.30pm Soundtracking a hospital drama near you soon ■ Batman Live The O2, €23-44.20, 7.30pm ■ Foo Fighters vs AC/DC Tribute Night Crawdaddy ,€tbc, 11pm Surely someone’s idea of hell ■ Silent Front Ruta Live, €5, 8pm With pop-punk supremos Jogging and Guns or Knives. Sat 1st Oct ■ The Answer Whelans, €14.50, 7.30pm Seriously lads, who asked? ■ Hefty Horse All Day Fest #2 Upstairs in Whelans, €5, 12pm 12pm til late, lineup tbc ■ Kina Grannis Academy 2, €10, 7.30pm Youtube sensation comes good ■ Batman Live The O2, €23-44.20, 7.30pm ■ No Bother Ruta, €5, 8pm More ska Mon 3rd Oct ■ Rihanna The O2, from €54.80, 6.30pm ■ Gruff Rhys Olympia Theatre, €23, 7.30pm Thu 6th Oct ■ Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler The O2, €60.45-91, 6.30pm Song and dance man continues to tour ■ Julie Felix Whelans, €20, 8pm Sat 8th Oct ■ The Rubberbandits Olympia Theatre, from €19.45, 7.30pm ■ Y&T The Village, €25, 8pm AKA Yesterday and Today AKA “The Butcher” Album

Brian Wilson

Wednesday 7th September Wouldn’t it be nice if he were saner? If Beach Boy BW’s autobiography is anything to go by, we’re all pretty fortunate to still have the opportunity to see him in (relative) action. Up against the “real” Beach Boys on the touring circuit at the minute, Wilson’s credentials as the only cog in the one-time hit machine that was ever vital. While his solo work has never really eclipsed his magnum opus, the evergreen Pet Sounds, that’s really no reason not to fund more drops of genius by paying up for this show.

Jazz September Sundays ■ Kevin Morrow Trio Hampton Hotel, Donnybrook, D4 12.30pm, Free ■ Rebecca Sinnamon Quartet The Gibson Hotel, The Point Village, D1 12.30pm, Free ■ Stella Bass Trio Cafe en Seine, Dawson St. 2pm, Free ■ Rebecca Sinnamon Duo

The Bank Bar, College Green, D2 6pm, Free ■ Jazz Globetrotters Hogans, South Great Georges St. 6pm, Free ■ Globetrotter Quartet Shebeen Chic, South Great Georges St. 10pm, Free Mondays ■ Hot House Big Band The Mercantile Bar, Dame St.

9.15pm, €8 18 Piece Big Band ■ Essential Big Band Grainger’s Pub, Malahide Rd. 9.30pm, €5 17 Piece Swing Orchestra Tuesdays ‘Jazz at 23’ ■ Mullan (Drums) and Friends International Bar, Wicklow St. 9.30pm, €6

■ The Jazz Kitchen

Thursday

The Grand Social, Lwr.Liffey St. (2 Bands nightly) 8pm, €6 Wednesdays ■ Jazz Session The House, 4 Main St. Howth, Co.Dublin 7.30pm, Free Swing Factory O’Reillys Bar, Seafort Ave. Sandymount 8pm, Free

■ Jazz session

National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 8pm Tue 13th Sep ■ At Last “The Jerome Kern Show” National Concert Hall, John Field Room €25, 8pm A night of showtunes Wed 14th Sep ■ Brad Mehldau - Solo Piano National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €25-35, 8pm Solo piano show from celebrated interpreter Thu 15th Sep ■ Lang Lang National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €30-75, 8pm Lang Lang is so hot right now Fri 16th Sep ■ 25 Years Celebration National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 1.05pm Colma Brioscu celebrates 25 years at the top ■ A French Revelation National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room €16, 7.30pm Small ensemble plays French chamber music ■ RTE NSO Prokofiev, Scriabin, Stravinsky National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €10-35, 8pm Playing modern Russian greats Sat 17th Sep ■ An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium

€25-45, 8pm This man has EGOT-ed!! Mon 19th Sep ■ Young Platform Series 2011 National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 8pm Tue 20th Sep ■ RTE NSO September Lunchtime Concert National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €10, 1.05pm Lunchtime concert series continues Wed 22nd Sep ■ Mabel Swainson Prize-winners Piano Recital National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 8pm Featuring Nadene Fiorenti Thu 23rd Sep ■ La Dolce Roma National Concert Hall, John Field Room €18, 1.05pm Romantic Italian songs by Derby Browne and Capuccino Ensemble ■ RTE NSO Stravinsky, Copland, Hillborg, Beethoven National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €10-35, 8pm Featuring Martin Frost on clarinet ■ Quartet National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium Unreserved €5, 10.15pm Featuring the Vanburgh Quartet, free for

attendees of early concert Fri 24th Sep ■ Casta Diva National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €25-46.50, 8pm The Life, Loves & Music of Maria Callas Sat 25th Sep ■ An Evening With Des O’Connor National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €35,-50, 8pm CBE is the measliest of the Royal Honours all the same Sun 26th Sep ■ Young Platform Series 2011 National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 8pm Mon 27th Sep ■ RTE NSO September Lunchtime Concert National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €10, 1.05pm Lunchtime concert series Wed 29th Sep ■ Verdi - Requiem National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €22-38, 8pm Featuring soprano Fiona Murphy Thu 30th Sep ■ Autumn Songs National Concert Hall, John Field Room €10, 1.05pm Featuring contralto Elizabeth Pink ■ RTE NSO Mozart National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium

International Bar, Wicklow St. 9pm. €6 ■ Isotope Sept 8th Play the music of Thelonious Monk Sept 29th Play the music of Miles Davis JJ Smyths, Aungier St. 9pm, € 8 Friday vFrench Jazz trio

Brasserie Le Pont, 28 Fitzwilliam Place, D2 5.30pm, Free ■ Jazz session La Cave, South Anne St. D2 Midnight, €10 Saturdays ■ French jazz trio Brasserie Le Pont, 28 Fitzwilliam Place, D2 5.30pm, Free

Classical September Thu 1st Sep ■ Cormac Kenevey & Cian Boylan: Making Other Arrangements National Concert Hall, John Field Room €20, 8pm Exciting jizzazz arrangements ■ Night of the Machines National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room €5, 8.30pm A night of electronica Fri 2nd Sep ■ “Don’t Mean a Thing” National Concert Hall, John Field Room €15, 1.05pm Sax and piano jazz recital Sat 3rd Sep ■ Mr Acker Bilk & The Big Chris Barber Band National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €22-38.50, 8pm Niiiiiiiice Tue 6th Sep ■ Zahr CD Launch National Concert Hall, John Field Room €15, 8pm European contemporary jazz with European folk musics Wed 7th Sep ■ We’ve Only Just Begun - The Love Songs National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €20-35, 8pm The music of the Carpenters ■ Kaleidoscope: A Night Of Music The Odessa Club

€8, 9pm Curated music, first Wednesday of every month Thu 8th Sep ■ A Celebration of Fiachra Trench National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €22-38, 8pm RTÉ Concert Orchestra and guests celebrate Irish film composer Fri 9th Sep ■ Istvan National Concert Hall, John Field Room €12, 1.05pm Violin recital ■ RTE NSO Mendelssohn, Mahler National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €10-35, 8pm Free late night concert from Gabriele Montero follows show Sat 10th Sep ■ Friends of The National Concert Hall Gala Concert National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €25-35, 8pm Celebrating 30 Years of The National Concert Hall Sun 11th Sep ■ Guests of the Nation National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €25, 8pm Film with live orchestral score Mon 12th Sep ■ Young Platform Series 2011

Arthur’s Day

Thursday 22nd September Just like Love Day, Arthur’s Day was invented by marketing executives to make us spend our money on their delicious products. Using the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Guinness Brewery as its starting point in 2009, this auxiliary autumnal St. Patrick’s day also provides punters with an array of secretive once-off gigs splattered all around the city by an bevy of local and international artists. So lets all raise our pints of Breo and toast the fact that we have work the next day: To Arthur!

€10-35, 8pm Featuring soprano Lenneke Ruiten Mon 3rd Oct ■ Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers National Concert Hall, Main Auditorium €35-45, 8pm The dean of Latin jazz Wed 5th Oct ■ Mario Lanza: The Lovliest Night Of The Year The National Concert Hall, Main Auidtorium €20-38.50, 8pm Vladimir Jablokov and the Slovakian Festival Musicians ■ Kaleidoscope: A Night Of Music The Odessa Club €8, 9pm Curated music, first Wednesday of every month Thu 6th Oct ■ Mario Lanza: The Lovliest Night Of The Year The National Concert Hall, Main Auidtorium €20-38.50, 8pm Vladimir Jablokov and the Slovakian Festival Musicians

Clubbing once-offs September Friday 2 September ■ Cause N Effect, Moshi Moshi (Japanese Animation & Manga Party) The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €10 DJs Taxtix and Navi join forces as Cause N Effect to mix drum and bass, hip hop, dubstep and more for the Twisted Pepper crowd. Tomas Stratakis (a.k.a. Tomas Es) and George Papadakis (a.k.a. Jo Papa), who make up Moshi Moshi – a dj/producer duo based on House and Techno, will also be hitting the stage. ■ Cause N Effect, Moshi Moshi (Japanese Animation & Manga Party) The Twisted Pepper DJs Taxtix and Navi join forces as Cause N Effect to mix drum and bass, hip hop, dubstep and more for the Twisted Pepper crowd. Tomas Stratakis (a.k.a. Tomas Es) and George Papadakis (a.k.a. Jo Papa), who make up Moshi Moshi – a dj/producer duo based on House and Techno, will also be hitting the stage. 10.30pm, €10 Saturday 3rd September ■ Fever South William With Billy Scurry 9pm, Free ■ Pogo Twisted Pepper With Paudi Ahern, WAE Underwater Party, the Vertical Rhythm Joint, and more. 11pm, €10 Sunday 4 September ■ Conor L and Joma The Bernard Shaw, 16:00, free DJ Joma from Madrid has shared gigs with artists such as Abel Ramos, Raver and Clubbervision, and will be teaming up with Irish DJ Conor L at The Bernard Shaw. The young DJ has performed his house, techno and trance mixes at many discos around Spain. Wednesday 7 September ■ Brazilian Independence Day South William With DJ Izem and some Brazilian bites. 8pm, Free Thursday 8 September ■ Junior Spesh &!Kaboogie present Kingdom The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €8 Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Kingdom seems to have an otherworldly sound. Influenced by grime, club, house and R&B vocals, Kingdom rose to fame with his debut single “Mind Reader.” Friday 9 September

■ Luke B and Sam K

Friday 23 September

The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free The Twisted Pepper, 10 p.m., €10 Durrrty, Spaceship Club ■ Family South William Salacious and friends 9pm, Free Saturday 10 September ■ Nic James and Skkatter The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free England-based DJ and producer Nic James joins electro/house/techno DJ Skatter at the Bernard Shaw for this installment of the weekly “ToeJam” events, including exhibitions and music workshops. ■ Pow Wow & Sure Shot South William Two club nights in the SW bring a mix of Funk, Jazz, Hiphop, and Carribean beats. 11pm, Free Thursday 15 September ■ Juice and Flush The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €8 Friday 16 September ■ Tom Beary and Friends The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Expect reggae, hip hop, dubstep and more from host Tom Beary and friends from around Dublin. ■ Best Foot Forward South William Choice Cuts DJ Rizm and Colm K 9pm, Free ■ Mud & World Service Twisted Pepper Goulash Disko present Gypsy Box and the North Strand Kontra Band. 10.30pm, €10 Saturday 17 September ■ Shortie and Frankie Grimes The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Blawan Twisted Pepper Creator of probably the best dubstep track this year (Getting Me Down), plus distractions from Meljoann and Kassem Mosse. 10.30pm, €12 ■ Jungle Swingerz South William With DJ Obese of Dirty Dubsters fame 10pm, Free Thursday 22 September ■ Cooly G Twisted Pepper Hyperdub queen, with support from Dublin upcomer Bingo. 10.30pm, €10

■ Meschi, the Textbook Lover

The Sweeney Mongrel, free Dublin Cultureclash Night South William East Meets West European DJ Exchange Programme 9pm, Free Saturday 24 September ■ Handsome Paddy The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Formerly DJ Fonetik, Dublin-based DJ Handsome Paddy mixes everything from ‘80s and ‘90s hip-hop to dubstep. ■ Mr Whippy Soundsystem & Filthy South William The SW main bar and basements hosts DJs Mark Kelly, Mark Alton, and more. 10pm, Free Thursday 29 September ■ White Collar Boys Pygmalion Indie, rock, and pop 10pm, Free Friday 30 September ■ Scribble Soundsystem The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Formed in February 2009, the Scribble Soundsystem started with DJs Tom Beary and G. Frequency, MC Little Tree and musician Chucky. Mixes include dancehall, reggae, dubstep, soulful beats and original hip-hop. ■ DJ Flip, DJ Mog-Y The Twisted Pepper, 20:00, €18 DJ Flip may be only 21 years old, but he already has five years of experience mixes at various clubs. He will be joined by Irish DJ Mog-Y and his funk, electro, techno, drum and bass and hip-hop sounds. ■ Electropical South William DJs Lex Woo and Nic James 8pm, Free

Nicky Siano

Saturday October 1st The Grand Social 9pm, €10 If you’ve ever read seminal beat-fiend bible Last Night A DJ Saved My Life you’ll be au fait with disco king Nicky Siano, Famous for his decadent sets at Gallery and Studio 54, Siano is one of the few (non-dodgy) disco legends still on the grind - his last show here in 2009 was supposed to call time on his DJ days, but you can’t hold a good hedonist down. He visits the Grand Social this month for not only a DJ set, but an exclusive screening of ‘Love Is The Message’, a new documentary on his Gallery days and nights.

Clubbing weekly September Mondays ■ Upbeat Generation @ Think Tank Think Tank, Temple Bar, D2 Pop, Rock and Soul, 11pm ■ Sound Mondays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Indie, Rock, Garage and Post Punk 11pm, Free ■ Island Culture South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Caribbean cocktail party ■ Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 DJ Alley ■ King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free ■ Soap Marathon Monday/Mashed Up Monday The George, Sth. Great Georges St, D2 Chill out with a bowl of mash and catch up with all the soaps 6.30pm, Free ■ The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ

■ Make and Do-Do with Panti

Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm ■ DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm ■ Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer ■ Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6 ■ Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5 ■ Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free ■ Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free ■ Oldies but Goldies

Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free ■ Austin Carter + Company B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm ■ DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm ■ Piss-up with Peaches The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less, 3 Jagerbombs for €10 Tuesdays ■ C U Next Tuesday Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 A mix every type of genre guaranteed to keep you dancing until the wee small hours. 11pm, €5 ■ Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative. 8.30pm - 11.30pm. ■ Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free

■ Rap Ireland

The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free ■ Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo ■ Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm ■ Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free ■ Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free ■ Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B ■ Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free ■ Jezabelle

The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock 7pm, Free before 11pm ■ The DRAG Inn The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Davina Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and makeovers. 8pm, Free ■ Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm ■ DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie ■ Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Andy Preston (FM104) 11pm, €5 ■ Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O ■ Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5 ■ John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B

Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am ■ DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop Wednesdays ■ Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year. 9pm, Free ■ Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/ rock/alt/hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm ■ Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, Free ■ Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free ■ Blasphemy

Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5 ■ Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free ■ Psycho Paul’s The Village, Wexford St., D2 Dubstep, hip-hop, electro, indie. ■ Wild Wednesdays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Frat Party €5 entry, first drink free ■ Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, €8/6 ■ A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free ■ Synergy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 All kinds of eclectic beats for midweek shenanigans 8pm, Free ■ Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm ■ 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska ■ Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night ■ The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free ■ First Taste Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free ■ Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm ■ Space ‘N’ Veda The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID ■ DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) ■ Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green, D2 Latin, Salsa, 8pm, Free ■ Rob Reid + EZ Singles + DJ Karen G Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C ■ DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Chart, pop & dance with a twist Free, 11pm ■ Space N’Veda The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Exquisite Mayhem with Veda, Davina & Guests ■ Music on the Rocks South William Swing, jive, cabaret 8pm, Free ■ Strangeways Here We Come The Lost Society, South William St., D2 Dubstep and clubstep, 11pm Thursdays ■ Sounds@Solas Solas, Wexford St, D2 9pm-1am, Free ■ Soul @ Solas

Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond. International guests too! 8pm, Free ■ CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free ■ Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer ■ Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5 ■ Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm ■ Thursdays at Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am. Cocktail promotions. 8pm, Free ■ CBGB Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 Crackity Jones & Readers Wives on the decks Free ■ Guateque Party Bia Bar, 28-30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Domingo Sanchez and friends play an eclectic mix 8.30pm ■ The LITTLE Big Party Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night with DJ Brendan Conroy 11pm, Free ■ Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Electro, Bassline, 11pm, €8/5 ■ Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 ■ Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm ■ Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House, 9pm ■ Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock , Free ■ Davina’s House Party The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Drinks Promos, Killer Tunes and Hardcore Glamour 9pm, Free before 11pm, €4 with flyer ■ After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired. 6pm, Free before 11pm ■ Big Time! The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups! With a DJ. ■ The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret, 10pm ■ Mofo + One By One + DJ Jenny T Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am ■ The Bionic Rats The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Dance, Jump and Skii to Reggae and Ska Free, 10pm ■ DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm ■ Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm ■ Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Groovalizacion bringing their infectious and tropical selection including Cumbia, Samba, Dub, Reggae, Balkan, Latin and Oriental Sound

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Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Chewn Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Mincey indie music 11pm, €5 ■ The Beauty Spot Dakota Bar, 8 South William Street, Dublin 2. A new night of Fashion, Beauty, Shopping and Drinks in association with Style Nation and sponsored by Smirnoff. 7pm, Free ■ The Odeon Movie Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Classic Movies on the Big Screen at 8pm. Full waiter service and cocktails from €5. 8pm, Free ■ Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5 ■ Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5 ■ Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry ■ Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests ■ M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free Fridays ■ Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House music magnet with special guests each week 12pm, Free ■ NoDisko Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Indie/Rock N Roll/ Dance 10pm – 2.30pm. ■ T.P.I. Fridays Pygmalion, South William St, D2 Pyg residents Beanstalk, Larry David Jr. + guests play an eclectic warm-up leading up to a guest house set every week. 9pm, Free ■ Hustle The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Dance floor Disco, Funk and favourites. All Cocktails €5/. Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free ■ Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm ■ Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm ■ Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free ■ Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend! 8pm, Free ■ Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border, Johnston’s Place, Lower Stephens St, D2 Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm. Budweiser promotions. DJs until late. ■ Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free ■ Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer ■ Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2

The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm ■ Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics, Free ■ Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free ■ Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm ■ Late Night Fridays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts, 11pm ■ War Andrew’s Lane Theatre Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10 ■ Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart , 9pm ■ Fridays at V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance 10pm, €5 before 11pm, €10 after ■ Sticky Disco The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 A gay techno electro disco in the club and indie, rock, pop, mash and gravy in the main room 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7 after ■ Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod 11pm, Free ■ Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics ■ Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without ■ Music with Words The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free ■ Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free ■ The Bodega Social Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Soul and Disco with Eamonn Barrett 11pm, €10 (ladies free before midnight) ■ Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm, Free ■ Room Service Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free ■ Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm ■ John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am ■ DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm ■ Green Sunrise The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with some guilty pleasures Free ■ Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Rock n Roll with Rory Montae in the bar while Aoife Nicanna and Marina play House and Latino Breaks and Beats in the club

Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Freestyle club with DJ’s Half Dutch and Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, ska, reggae and party nuggets 10pm, Free ■ Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 With DJ Mikki Dee 10pm, Free ■ DJ Barry Dunne Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Anto’s X Factor The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm The search for Dublin’s singing sensation is back! Prize €1,000 & Professsional Recording Session ■ Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre 11pm, €TBC Saturdays ■ Shindig Shebeen Chic, Georges St, D2 Each and every Saturday you’ll find the Shindig Crew rocking Shebeen Chic’s quirky Bar with an eclectic mix of music to move to. Free, 8pm ■ Konstrukt The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Eamonn Barrett. Indie/Electro/Party Anthems., 10pm ■ Propaganda The Academy, Middle Abbey St. D2 British indie disco conglomerate 11pm, €5 ■ Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 Lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm, Free ■ Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing. Expect the unexpected. 8pm, Free ■ A Jam Named Saturday Anseo, Camden St., D2 DJs Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends. Jazz, disco, breaks, latin, hip-hop, house, afrobeat, funk, breakbeat, soul, reggae, brazilian, jungle. 7pm, Free ■ The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen at 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free ■ Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10 ■ KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, €8 after ■ Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, €15/€12 with flyer ■ Viva! Saturdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free ■ Saturdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm. Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free ■ Guest band + DJ KK and DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 New live band plays every Saturday night 8pm, Free ■ DJ Dexy and DJ Aido Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Dublin’s biggest party night 11pm, Free ■ Saturdays @ Break for the Border Lower Stephen’s St, D2 Current chart favourites from DJ Eric Dunne and DJ Mark McGreer. 1pm, Free

The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Funk, Techno 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) ■ Pentagon POD and Tripod, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 AAA at the Pod complex with local residents and special guest DJ slots over five rooms 11pm, €12 ■ Flirt Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Sultry, Funky and Sexy Beat alongside Chart Hits 10.30pm ■ The Weird Scientist Eamonn Doran’s, 3a Crown Alley, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, €8/5 ■ Laundry Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Bumpin House, Techno, Disco, Nu Disco 10pm, Free ■ Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin , 11pm, €15 ■ Reloaded The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Commercial Electro 10:30pm, €5 before 12, €8 after ■ Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free ■ Space... The Vinyl Frontier Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro with DJ’s Glen and Gary from Beatfinder Records 11pm, Free ■ Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae, 10pm, €5 ■ The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco , Free ■ Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs ■ Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2, 9pm ■ Basement Traxx Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, 11pm, Free ■ Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Soul, Chart, 10pm, Free ■ Strictly Handbag Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 80s with DJ Mark Kelly , 10pm, €10 ■ Toejam The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Afternoon: Car boot sales, film clubs, music lectures, t-shirt making etc. Later on: Resident DJs playing Soul, Funk, House, Electro ■ Sidesteppin’ Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free ■ Saturday @ The Village The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta 11pm ■ Whigfield Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House and techno til late, with special guests each week 10pm, Free ■ DJ Karen @ The Dragon The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 House music 10pm ■ Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Karaoke and DJ Miguel Gonzelez playing super sexy Spanish House. 9pm, Free before 10pm, €10 after ■ Basement Club Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Pop and Electro ■ Saturday @ The Wright Venue The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance

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The Good Bits Indie/Disco in one room and Techno/House and Electro in the main room 11pm, €2 between 11-11:30 ■ Saturdays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Goldy mixes beats/breaks/hip hop and funk in the bar and Gaviscon plays everything under the sun in the club 10pm, Free ■ Eardrum Buzz Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 House party vibes with Thatboytim playing mix of dance floor classics with of hip hop, reggae, ska, rock, electro and teenage memories. 10pm, Free ■ DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Rocked

O Reillys, Tara St. Launching 9th October with LLUTHER, Rock DJ,All pints €3.20, Pitchers €9 9pm, €5 ■ Saturdays @ Purty Loft Purty Loft Nightclub, Dun Laoghaire Funky House & RnB DJs, 10pm, €10 ■ Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC ■ Ragin’ Full On The Button Factory Everything from Thin Lizzy to Wu Tang Clan, Van Halen, The Damned & Prince. 8pm, Free ■ Latin Mix Havana Club With DJ Leo and DJ Steve 10.30pm, Free Sundays ■ Ear Candy

Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend. 8pm, Free ■ Jitterbop The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/Swinging Sounds. 8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays) ■ The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free ■ Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free ■ The Latin Beat The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland. Classes from 6pm, club from 8pm - late, Free

■ Dancehall Styles

■ 12 Sundays

The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, €5 ■ The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm ■ Session Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 40% off all the booze all day & Mr. Ronan spinning only the best Indie, Rock & Roll. Free in before 4pm, €5 after. ■ Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free ■ Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm

The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free ■ DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without ■ The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free ■ Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free ■ Alan Keegan + One By One + DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 , 9pm, Free ■ M.A.S.S (music/arts/sights/sounds) Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2

Visual Art September Alliance Francaise 1 Kildare Street, D2 ■ Sommes-nous? ‘Sommes-Nous ?’ (‘Are We?’), Is an intimate chronicle, the fruit of a common reflection, a concerned look focused on our time. Tendance Floue continues the questioning began in his previous works, with a new perspective and new respect. July 1 - September 9 Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, D8 ■ The Art Books of Henri Matisse The Library is delighted to announce that the Library and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will present this exciting exhibition of the art books of Henri Matisse. The exhibition will feature four of Matisse’s most artistically significant books on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection together with works by Matisse belonging to the Chester Beatty Library. This exhibition is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art in our Communities programme. May 26 – September 25 The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick Street, D2 ■ Characters in Their Own Story The theme of this exhibition portrays a quiet place, where life and characters are also being represented. Although there is variation in each painting of the series, the scenes are all interior, where the main character is depicted by an empty chair. September 8 – October 6 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 ■ Alice Neel: Family Alice Neel (1900 - 1984) was an American artist known for her portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. A recent touring retrospective of her work, which visited the Whitechapel Gallery, London, has proved to confirm her status as one of the twentieth century’s most influential figurative painters and women artists. September 8 – November 16 Draiocht Blanchardstown, D15 ■ Garvan Gallagher, My Way Interpreting the word ‘invisible’, a word commonly used by older people about their place in society, is the basis of this body of work, which was carried out during Garvan’s 15-month residency at Draíocht. Evolving from a participative approach, the work will include both personal and fictional representations on growing old. In one series, the younger body is replaced with the older body in recreated fashion shoots. Another series deals with the idea of self-image, something that was raised by the participants, as they discuss coming

to terms with aging through the mirror. A short film, photographic portraits and personal texts from the participants themselves will also be exhibited, documenting the participant’s involvement and thoughts on aging and fashion. The exhibition is the result of many conversations around growing older, and in particular, growing older with fashion. You are asked to consider whether older people abandon fashion, or does the fashion industry simply abandon older people. September 2 – November 5 Gormley’s Fine Art 24 South Fredrick Street, D2 ■ ‘A Passing Thought’ by Owen Rohu Owen Rohu presents a new body of work of his renowned still life paintings in our forthcoming show this August. ‘A Passing Thought’ represent unusual displays of still life and a play with everyday objects in how we view them. August 15 – September 8 Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street, D2 ■ ‘O’ Group exhibition featuring Damien Flood, Sofia Hulten, Jiri Kovanda, Jonathan Monk & Douglas Gordon, Roman Ondak September 2 – October 1 Hugh Lane Parnell Square North, D1 ■ Civil Rights etc.: Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is pleased to present this major retrospective exhibition by two of Britain’s most respected artists, Richard Hamilton and Rita Donagh. The exhibition includes works from the 1960s to this decade that primarily relate to Ireland, but also to seminal moments of social change in recent history. The two artists share a viewpoint of ‘political or moral motivation’ and a concern for human rights and justice, while also using images directly taken from popular culture and the mass media. The Hugh Lane has worked closely with the artists on this exhibition which explores both their shared concerns and divergent practices. September 5 – January 15 ■ Willie Doherty: DISTURBANCE Willie Doherty is renowned for his video installations and photographs. DISTURBANCE at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane surveys the artist’s works from the early 80s to today, including his most recent video, Ancient Ground, shot earlier this year on the peat bogs of County Donegal. September 5 – January 15 ■ The Golden Bough: Tim Robinson Tim Robinson is both a writer and artist based in Roundstone county Galway. He left London in 1972, for the Aran Islands where he began to research and make maps of the islands and later of the Burren and Connemara. These maps comprise drawing and collage and are

Outside the Lines County Hall Dun Laoghaire Outside the Lines is an exhibition commissioned by the Arts Office of Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council and curated by Ashleigh Downey and Síle O’Sullivan. It examines the diverse drawing practices of nine artists who are originally from Dún LaoghaireRathdown or who are now living or working in the area. Featuring Kate Betts, Cecily Brennan, Brian Fay, Anita Groener, Niamh Jackman, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Patricia McKenna, Julie Merriman and Joe Stanley. September 1 - 20

Power FM curates a night of sights & sounds with Dublin based Arts collective Tinderbox providing visuals and Power FM’s DJ’s playing Soul to Rock n Roll to Punk 7pm, Free ■ Get Over Your Weekend Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Lounge around with Penny the Hound. All drinks half plrice all day. 1pm, Free ■ DJ Paul Manning Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Sunday Roast The Globe, Georges St, D2 9pm, Free ■ Magnificent 7’s 4 Dame Lane, D2 w The Ultimate Single’s Night Free, 7pm

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informed by the historic/folkloric associations of the topography as well as the geographical positioning. Hand drawn, the attenuated marks recall his experiences of walking this terrain and acknowledge the human imprint on the landscape as he encountered it. September 5 – January 15 IMMA Military Road, D8 ■ Twenty As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage. Commonalties and dialogues appear between the artworks in Twenty, but the exhibition seeks to allow sufficient space that each artists’ work may be viewed as an individual practice. The show includes installations, photography, painting and sculpture, and featured are artworks from IMMA’s Collection by Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily, Patrick M FitzGerald, John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O’Callaghan, Niamh O’Malley, Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild and Corban Walker. The exhibition also features a borrowed piece by Irish artist Sean Lynch. May 27 – October 31 ■ Barrie Cooke Organised to mark Barrie Cooke’s 80th birthday, this exhibition includes some 70 paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. It draws from the Museum’s own significant holding of his works, including Slow Dance Forest Floor , 1976, Megaceros Hibernicus , 1983 and Electric Elk, 1996, as well as loans from various private and institutional collections. June 15 – September 18 ■ Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection This exhibition is drawn from a collection of more than 450 photographs brought together by the Irish born American collector David Kronn. The collection ranges in content from 19th century Daguerreotypes to the 20th century photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award-winning contemporary photographers, such as the husband and wife team of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Sondergaard, and the Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi. It is particularly strong in its representation of Harry Callahan, Kenneth Josephson, Irving Penn and Brett Weston. IMMA’s exhibition Out of the Dark Room presents a selection of 165 works across

all photographic media. It explores themes emerging through the collection like portraits of children, abstracted landscapes and portraits of artists, such as Irving Penn’s Frederick Kiesler and Willem de Kooning, New York, 1960. There are numerous iconic works, examples being Herb Ritts’s image of pop star Madonna from 1986; the portrait of Laurie Anderson by Robert Mapplethorpe from 1987; or Dr Harold Edgerton’s time-lapse photograph of a boy running from 1939. Dr Kronn is a paediatrician with a specialisation in medical genetics, a fact which underlies the many images of children in the collection – Diane Arbus’s Loser at a Diaper Derby, 1967, for instance; or Martine Franck’s images of children from Tory Island (1994-97), and Irina Davis’s poignant portraits of children in a Russian state orphanage (2006-2007). July 20 - October 9 ■ Gerard Byrne Artist Gerard Byrne works primarily in film and photography, which he presents as ambitious large-scale installations, to question how images are constructed, transmitted and mediated. Influenced by literature and theatre, Byrne’s work consistently references a range of sources, from popular magazines of the recent past to iconic modernist playwrights like Brecht, Beckett, and Sartre. As a part of its two-year series of solo exhibitions, IMMA highlights Byrne’s international relevance within current artistic discourse, bringing together leading European cultural institutions for the first time. The exhibition at IMMA consists of a series of film works and photographs that provides a survey of his work over the last decade. July 27 - October 31 ■ Apichatpong Weerasethakul: For Tomorrow For Tonight Apichatpong Weerasethakul, from Thailand, is a renowned independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, winner of a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and is the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. July 27 – October 31 Instituto Cervantes Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, D2 ■ Luis Ramón Marín Luis Ramón Marín, known to the press simply as Marín, was one of the first photographers to get out into the streets to record daily life and the news with his camera, supplying magazines and illustrated dailies which were

enjoying a heyday during the first decades of the last century. Moreover, Marín is a pioneer of aerial photography in Spain, an aspect of his work begun in 1913, hardly a decade after the development of aviation itself. Marín was essentially a press photographer (he published more than 1,000 photos per year). He was, amongst his other jobs, press correspondent to the Royal Family, which he followed even during the holidays (thus many of the photographs have an unusual family air). He recorded the main events of Spanish cultural and political life and portrayed its leading figures. He also turned his lens on street scenes and anonymous faces of the common people. According to the exhibition’s curators, Rafael Levenfield and Valentín Vallhonrat, “his work draws the profile of a photographer who lived what he did, independently of who his client was. The variety of the subjects reflects the immense vitality with which he carried out his countless activities. We don’t know if it is the photography and its content which contribute this vitality to his life or vice versa. We think it is his fabulous appetite to live intensely which stamps character on his enormous work. By car, plane or motorbike, Marín was able to photograph the most diverse events one after another.” July 7 - September 24 The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7 ■ Colin Crotty, Vanya Lambrecht-Ward and Justin Larkin: Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance takes both the title of a 1914 August Sander photograph and a Richard Powers novel of the same name as its anchor. The photograph, which was taken on the brink of World War I, depicts three young men in rural Germany on their way to a dance. The novel follows the fictional fates of these men in war time, as well as two other characters including the narrator – who is obsessed with ideals surrounding technology and photography. The novel looks at the disparity between historical record and personal experience, at the technological advancements that contributed to the substantial loss of life in World War I with those that provided art for the masses – in the form of photography. September 8 – 15 ■ Hide Those Dirty Hands: Keith Winters In his sculptures Northern Irish artist Keith Winter explores the aesthetic potential of stock building materials through works inspired by the extreme cases of order and chaos in the city, assembled in the style of the handyman or bricoleur. Between the extraction of rubble from rogue office squats to the replication of glimmering corporate high-rise, Winter presents a sym-

biotic relationship between State and Rebel, action and inertia, glory and tragedy, where one cannot exist without the other. September 22 – October 3 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 ■ Siobhan Hapaska: a great miracle needs to happen there ‘a great miracle needs to happen there’, takes a structural starting point from the Hanukkah menorah and the story of the miracle of the oil. Each of the eight ‘candlesticks’ is replaced by industrial engine stands that have been carefully and beautifully clad by hand in polished brass and solder. The traditional and sacred olive oil is replaced with the limbless trunks of uprooted olive trees, displaced, distressed and burnt. At the same time the common place, industrial machinery is transformed into something precious, almost sacred. At the centre of the installation a complete olive tree, the Shamash, replete with root ball is held high by a similarly adorned engine crane. August 26 – October 1 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Chancery Lane, D8 ■ Dunkle Kammer By Ulrich Vogl September 4 – October 1 Monster Truck Gallery Temple Bar, D2 ■ So Long Roger Fenton... The career of Roger Fenton, arguably the first war photographer, is exemplary of an all too contemporary phenomenon: that of the embedded journalist. Having been sent to the Crimea in early 1855 by the British state, Fenton was blocked from taking pictures of the dead, the maimed or indeed any other subjects that would reflect poorly on the war effort abroad. September 1 – October 8 Mother’s Tankstation 41-43 Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 ■ Not for Nought Nothing comes from nothing (ex nihilo nil ni fit), rather, anything and everything valid or meaningful must have a point of origin, an intellectual or practical source. However, a thing must also have somewhere to go, a thing destined toward no purpose has no future. Nor for Nought, as a premise for an exhibition – perhaps an essential intangibility one – grows out of, and expands a two-person ‘conversation’ presented at LISTE 10, in Basel summer 2010. Featuring the practices of two young Irish artists; Brendan Earley and Kevin Cosgrove, the conversation (without speaking) both then and now, moves between related ‘works’ intended for floor and wall, from 2D to 3D, from matter to illusion and back. September 14 – October 29 NCAD Gallery

Thomas Street, D8 ■ Selected Work from the NCAD Collection

Including works by Maurice MacGonigal, Harry Clarke, Noel Sheridan, Campbell Bruce, Robert Armstrong, Helen McAllister, Rob Smith, T. P. Flanagan, William Scott, William Orpen, Ollie Whelan, Darragh Hogan, Carey Clarke, Domhnall O Murchadha, E. C. Hayes. July 8 – September 10 Oliver Sears Gallery Molesworth Street, D2 ■ Black and White The gallery will showcase ‘Black and White’, featuring gallery artists and guest artists from around the world. Works date from the 1950’s to present day and include works on paper, collage, photography, sculpture and painting. September 1 – October 28 Pallas Projects Lower Dominick Street, D1 ■ Here’s the Tender Coming (WHOOPEE) We’re all Going to Die Group exhibition featuring Brian Dillon, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Martin Healy, Kate Murphy, Kiron Robinson, Lee Welch September 2 – October 1 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 ■ Notes on the Missing Oh A portrait of a country, a man, a landscape and of the story of an orphaned Hollywood movie. Revisiting sites, areas and characters from a 20 year old screenplay, and one of the biggest financial and cultural flops in the history of cinema, this three screen installation is a portrait with a subject as complex as it is mysterious. Adria Julia’s beautifully filmed sequences are meditative, composed more through the grammar of phtography than film to create a startling document of time. September 2 – October 30 RHA 15 Ely Place, D2 ■ Futures 11 FUTURES 11 is the third in the present series of FUTURES, a sequence of exhibitions that endeavours to document and contextualise the work of a selection of artist, around who exists a growing critical and curatorial consensus. Featuring Alan Butler, Barbara Knezevic, Vera Klute, Sheila Rennick and James Merrigan September 7 – October 31 ■ Lisa Yuskavage In association with Dublin Contemporary 2011. Lisa Yuskavage’s paintings have riveted global audiences since she began exhibiting in New York in the early 1990s. Since then, her fecund, no-holds barred representations of the female figure have pushed contemporary painting past pat aesthetic prohibitions and censorious instances of political correctness. September 7 – October 31 ■ James Coleman

In association with Dublin Contemporary 2011 September 7 – October 31 ■ Charles Tyrrell Charles Tyrrell is widely respected as one of Ireland’s most consistent, rigorous and proficient painters. In the Spring of this year Tyrrell exhibited a new series of large scale works in the Soltice Arts Centre, Navan and in the Crawford Gallery, Cork, the two venues collaborating to afford him the possibility of showing in his native county and in his adopted county, Cork, where he has lived, on the Beara Peninsula since 1984. September 7 – October 31 ■ James English RHA English’s work is quiet and attentive. A skilful talent imbued with a philosophy and an insistence on the harmonious relationship between man and nature. September 7 – October 31 RUA RED Tallaght ■ Kevin Gaffney & Sally-Anne Kelly The Unnameable is a collaboration between artists Kevin Gaffney and Sally-Anne Kelly, who have been working as a filmmaking duo since 2009. The work is a hybridisation of the artists’ individual practices of performance, photography, video, writing and sculpture. August 13 – September 17 Taylor Galleries 16 Kildare St, D2 ■ Gallery Artists A showcase of work by selected gallery artists including Janet Mullarney, Charles Tyrrell, David Quinn, Colin Harrison, Camille Souter, Michael Cullen, Patrick Scott, Pat Harris, Donal Moloney. September 7 – October 1 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios 5-9 Temple Bar, D2 ■ The Inhabitant, Martin Healy The Inhabitant, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Martin Healy, opens to the public at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios on Saturday, 3 September 2011. The exhibition comprises two of Healy’s most recent film works Fugue (2011) and Last Man (2011). Healy’s work encompasses film, video, and photography and the subject matter references popular culture, science fiction and film. September 3 – October 8

Comedy September The International Wicklow St., D2 ■ Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10 ■ Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5 ■ Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10 ■ Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/€10

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9.30pm, €7/€5 The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1 ■ Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5 Anseo Camden St., D2 ■ Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian 8.30pm, €5/€7 The Bankers Trinity St., D2 ■ Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack

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Paper Dolls Inside the Smithfield Complex, a crowd gathered in a darkened room encircling some unusual equipment. Using only a rope strung from the ceiling, a metal hoop and a rope swing suspended in the air, the Dublin Aerialists performance group the PaperDolls and their talented guests delivered a jaw-dropping, gravity defying performance that lasted well into the evening. However, this was just a preview of what the PaperDolls are planning for their Absolut Fringe Festival performance. Described as an “explosive, mesmeric evolution of colour, surround sound and contemporary circus,” the PaperDolls (Elaine McCague, Emily Aoibheann, Karen Anderson and Niamh Creely), have joined forces with over 20 other artists to deliver an unforgettable event. Even though the Dolls came from different backgrounds and experiences, their passion for aerial brought them together to create the Dublin Aerialists in January 2011. Encouraged by their first show the previous year at the Body & Soul Festival, the second generation aerialists began expanding their goals to incorporate other artists. The only venue that can accommodate this ambitious group is the Complex, and although it may seem like an abandoned building, the high ceilings, large windows and spacious area is perfect for them, and will be completely transformed for the Fringe Festival. The Dolls will be working with musician Laura Sheeran to develop an original score, ambisonics technician Michael Kearns to create the surround sound experience, and visual artist Susan Walsh and a team of installation artists to create their own maze within the venue. To prepare, the Dolls have been training at least five days a week since January. While practicing in the Complex one evening, passerby stopped and stared as the Dolls ran through difficult maneuvers with ease. Aoibheann decided to demonstrate a toe-climb, literally using her toes to scale the large rope hanging from the ceiling. With each twist, turn and movement, she was able to use the rope to help suspend her in mid-air. At one point, she wrapped the rope around her ankles and then completely let go. Dropping a few feet closer to the ground, the rope “caught her” and left her hanging only by her feet. Although she made it seem effortless, Anderson pointed out that it was a painful move. After a while, however, the Dolls said that their bodies got used to the pain and pinches, and were becoming less bruised as they practiced. The PaperDolls’ hard work is paying off – they recently reached their goal of raising more than €3,000 through fundit.ie to cover the production costs, costume and set design materials. Their Fringe Festival takeover is just another way that the Dolls are encouraging other aerialists and artists to express themselves without limits.

Absolut Fringe Festival ■ ALL THINGS CONSIDERED IT’S A NICE PLACE

TO START Louise White & Kate Nic Chonaonaigh Project Arts Centre – Cube Last month 300 strangers throughout the 32 counties received thank-you cards from us. Now, we’re making a play about it and we want to share it with you. Preview Tue 20 @ 1pm | €10 Runs Wed 21 – Sat 24 @ 1pm | €13/11 Matinees Sat 24 @ 3.30pm | €13/11 ■ AMY, I WANT TO MAKE YOU HARD Rampant The Back Loft We asked our mams, our sisters, our friends. We asked Amy. Mná na hÉireann: what have we come from and where are we going? Some say we have the world at our chipped nailvarnished fingers. Pity we don’t want it. Preview Mon 19 @ 6.30pm | €10 Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 @ 6.30pm | €13/11 ■ AUTOBIOGRAPHER Melanie Wilson. Presented by Melanie Wilson and Fuel Smock Alley Theatre Melanie Wilson wraps her audience in a tender, poetic and thrilling new work, featuring a bold and electrifying score of voice and sound. Preview Fri 9 @ 8.30pm | €12 Runs Sun 11 @ 8.30pm | €15/13 Matinees Sat 10 & Sun 11 @ 3pm | €13/11 ■ BÁS TONGUE Machán Magan Project Arts Centre – Cube In this bilingual exploration of the fragile soul of Gaeilge, a Béarlóir and a subtitle operator

slug it out with tongue tying, grammar wrestling, dictionary massacres and a mutant version of the Pepsi challenge. It’s a celebration of language as weapon. Previews Mon 19 & Tue 20 @ 8.30pm | €10 Runs Wed 21 – Sat 24 @ 8.30pm | €14/12 ■ BETTER LOVED FROM AFAR Noelia Ruiz & Angel Luis Gonzalez The New Theatre We are two Argentinean cousins who came to Dublin a decade ago in search of our long lost motherland, reversing the journey of our great great grandfather who emigrated from Dublin to La Pampa 200 years ago. But what does it really mean to be part of the Irish Diaspora? Preview Tue 20 @ 8pm | €10 Runs Wed 21 – Sat 24 @ 8pm | €14/12 ■ BODYELECTRIC The Collective Theatre Company Block T – Smithfield Rarely does a performance incorporate elements of theatre, dance, art installation, sport and physical endurance. This show promises to inspire awe, revealing the magic of the human body. Preview Tue 13 @ 7pm & 9pm | €10 Runs Wed 14 – Tue 22 @ 7pm & 9pm | €13/11 ■ CHESSLAUGH MEWASH Polish Theatre Company The Lir In falsehood, fact and friendship we roll and move and shake to the words of a troubled Polish poet and try to figure out who gives a tweet about us in 140 characters or less. Preview Tue 20 @ 7pm | €9

Runs Wed 21 – Sat 24 @ 7pm | €12/10 ■ DO YOU READ ME?

Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne Boys School @ Smock Alley Theatre We’ve walked away from the church, we still don’t trust the Dáil and we’re hiding our money under our mattresses. We don’t know what to do, so this summer we’re meeting mediums. This is what happened before, during and after those meetings. Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 8.45pm | €10 Runs Sat 10 – Fri 16 @ 8.45pm | €14/12 ■ DOES ANYBODY EVER The Children Players Theatre Fresh from the avant-garde boot-camp of the always amazing Dublin Youth Theatre, emerge The Children. This is a beautifully lyrical theatre piece. Ones to watch. Preview Mon 12 @ 8.30pm | €8 Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17 @ 8.30pm | €11/9 ■ DO YOU READ ME? Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne Boys School @ Smock Alley Theatre We’ve walked away from the church, we still don’t trust the Dáil and we’re hiding our money under our mattresses. We don’t know what to do, so this summer we’re meeting mediums. This is what happened before, during and after those meetings. Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 8.45pm | €10 Runs Sat 10 – Fri 16 @ 8.45pm | €14/12 ■ DREAMS OF LOVE Side-Show Productions Studio Theatre @ Smock Alley Theatre

Two guys and one girl are locked in a revolving love triangle, forced to exhaust the spectacle of love and see what survives. Two of the actors clearly can’t act. They are making up and breaking up for your entertainment. Follow them. Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 @ 8.30pm | €12/10 Matinee Sat 24 @ 1.30pm | €12/10 ■ ETERNAL RISING OF THE SUN HotForTheatre Project Arts Centre – Cube To err is human, to dance divine. Meet Gina, she’s hopeless, everyone knows. Nothing is impossible… well maybe barrel jumps, but Gina gotta’ dance. Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 9pm | €10 Runs Sat 10 – Fri 16 @ 9pm & Sat 17 @ 3pm | €14/12 ■ FOLLOW Wilfredd Theatre The Lir Shane’s parents are deaf. Follow him to a place where languages collide. Close your ears, cover your eyes. Come to the Deaf Disco. We’ll see you there. Preview Mon 12 @ 7pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17 @ 7pm | €14/12 ■ HEIDI AND THE BEAR | Dragonfly Theatre Collective The Pearse Centre Love me, one last time, as much as you can. A dark psychosexual tale of forbidden love and our capacity to destroy what we love the most. Preview Tue 13 @ 6.30pm | €10 Runs Wed 14 – Wed 21 @ 6.30pm | €14/12

Matinees Sat 17 @ 2pm | €14/12 ■ INTIMACY | Ranters Theatre

Project Arts Centre – Cube Our friends reflect who we want to be, our acquaintances who we might become, our families who we were. But only a stranger can reveal who we really are. Runs Mon 12 – Fri 16 @ 6.15pm | €15/13 Matinee Wed 14 @ 3pm | €15/13 ■ IT’S YOUR TURN TO CHANGE DADDY {Show in a Bag} Anthony Morris and Róisín Morris Bewley’s Café Theatre Anthony Morris is an actor. Róisín Morris is a photographer. He’s her brother. She’s his sister. But they’re only two of thirteen, part of a community without ever leaving the front door. A community impacted by depression and Alzheimer’s. Runs Mon 12, Thu 15, Tue 20 & Thu 22 @ 6pm | €10 ■ JUMPING OFF THE EARTH The Rough Magic SEEDS Programme Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Space is big. Too damn big. We’ve been trying to measure it though. We’ve got telescopes, spaceships and mathematics. We’ve got lots of answers. All we need now is the question. Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 8pm | €10 Runs Sat 10 – Sat 17 @ 8pm | €14/12 ■ LAST YEAR {Show in a Bag} Maeve McGrath | Bewley’s Café Theatre When you grow old who will look after you? Who will mind your parents when you can no longer cope? This is a life story. This is a

nursing home story. Runs Wed 14 @ 1pm, Sat 17 @ 8pm, Thu 22 @ 1pm & Fri 23 @ 1pm | €10 ■ LOVE SONG FOR LOSERS Gutsy Productions Downstairs in the Stag’s Head Witness a handful of strangers spill their guts, sing their songs and try to start again. Hit the bar then settle in for a night of shameless voyeurism, melancholy mischief and big ballbusting ballads. After all, karaoke is cheaper than therapy. Preview Mon 12 @ 7.30pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Thu 15, Mon 19 – Thu 22 @ 7.30pm | €13/11 ■ LUCA & THE SUNSHINE donjuandemonaghan Studio Theatre @ Smock Alley Theatre An offbeat fable about a young man named Luca who has lost all hope. If only it would stop raining. Maybe then Luca’s strange, dark world would make a little more sense. Preview Tue 13 @ 6pm | €10 Runs Wed 14 – Sun 18 @ 6pm | €14/12 Matinees Sat 17 & Sun 18 @ 3.30pm | €14/12 ■ MADAM Eléonore Nicolas. Presented by Entre Les Mots Hello Operator, Rutland Place Playing is easy for children. But somewhere along the way, we lose touch with this ability. MaDam is the story of three women who decide to relearn the joys of playing. Preview Mon 12 @ 8pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Sun 18 @ 8pm | €13/11 Matinees Sat 17 & Sun 18 @ 4pm | €13/11

■ MAN OF VALOUR

The Corn Exchange Samuel Beckett Theatre Backed by an award-winning creative team, Man of Valour is a breathtaking performance by Paul Reid (RTE’s RAW) in the unique transformational style of The Corn Exchange. Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 8.30pm | €15 Runs Sat 10 – Tue 13, Thu 15 – Sat 24 @ 8.30pm | €20/18 Matinees Sat 10 & Sat 24 @ 3pm | €20/18 ■ MAN-I-PULATE | Man-I-Pulate Sweeney’s Pub, Dame Street A wonderfully chaotic amalgamation of music, dance, juggling and the spoken word from Offaly, MAN-I-PULATE will take you by the hand to the truth of the moment. Preview Mon 12 @ 7.30pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17 @ 7.30pm | €13/11 ■ MY WORD IS MY BOND | Arroo Abú Theatre Company Boys School @ Smock Alley Theatre This new play provides an entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of the boundaries between reality and fiction, creativity and vanity. A funny and increasingly surreal production, this is a fresh, captivating show by an exciting new writer. Preview Fri 9 & Sat 10 @ 6.15pm | €10 Runs Sun 11 – Fri 16 @ 6.15pm | €13/11 OUR FATHER | With An ‘F’ Productions The New Theatre Because life’s not a poem, a kid’s nursery rhyme. In real life the hero doesn’t quite make it on time. A play about family, loss and moving on. Through rap and rhyme. Preview Mon 12 @ 6pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17 @ 6pm | €13/11 POCKET MUSIC {Show in a Bag} Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross Bewley’s Café Theatre This 55-minute pocket musical will redefine the way you walk down the street, listen to music and maybe (just maybe) you will want to live the rest of your life through song. Runs Tue 13 @ 6pm, Thu 15 @ 8pm, Wed 21 @ 6pm & Fri 23 @ 6pm | €10 ■ SEEING AND DREAMING Dog and String Theatre and Vanessa Earl The Back Loft Two magically delicious portraits of life over eighty, told with rhythm, shadows, movement, text and puppetry. A soul-touching, life-changing hour. Come and be reminded of a special truth. Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 @ 8.30pm | €13/11 ■ THAT’S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT {Show in a Bag} Niamh Shaw Bewley’s Café Theatre In this intimate encounter, told through multimedia, movement, memories and the number 9, Niamh Shaw, actor and scientist, questions our place in the world and reminds us that all humans are curious. And empty space. Runs Tue 13, Thu 15, Tue 20 & Wed 21 @ 1pm ■ THE ADVENTURES OF ALVIN SPUTNIK: DEEP SEA EXPLORER

Tim Watts. Presented by Perth Theatre Company Project Arts Centre – Cube A tiny tale set in the deepest dark blue sea of a solitary explorer with a heart as big as a whale. Seas have risen, billions have died and Alvin Sputnik is our only hope. Runs Mon 19 – Sat 24 @ 6.15pm | €14/12 ■ THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON Beyond the Bark Players Theatre As a child, Lucy admired the evil Queen far more than the fairy princess. Now, Lucy must face the darkness to see the bright side of the moon. Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17 @ 6.30pm | €13/11 Matinees Sat 17 @ 1.30pm | €13/11 ■ THE FLAMBOYANT BIRD Damian Kearney Studio Theatre @ Smock Alley Theatre Fair City and The Wind That Shakes The Barley stars draw you into this Cidona-tinted spiral of self-deception and bent reality, dragging you across a strip of floor through suburban cork in the late ‘70’s and early ‘90’s.. Preview Wed 14 @ 8.15pm | €10 Runs Thu 15 – Sun 18 @ 8.15pm | €13/11 Matinees Sat 17 & Sun 18 @ 1.30pm | €13/11 ■ THE WHEELCHAIR ON MY FACE: A LOOK BACK AT MY MYOPIC CHILDHOOD {Show in a Bag} Sonya Kelly Bewley’s Café Theatre This delightful myopic memoir of a four-eyed seven year old is brought to you by actor and comedian, Sonya Kelly (The Savage Eye). Runs Wed 14 @ 8pm, Sat 17 @ 6pm & Sat 24 @ 1pm & 6pm | €10 ■ THE YEAR OF MAGICAL WANKING Thisispopbaby Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs One of Ireland’s most exciting artists, Neil is a force of nature, a maverick, a 33-year old homosexual with a Jesus complex. Written in hypnotic verse, it is both a profound personal journey and a furious state of the nation address. Preview Fri 9 @ 10pm | €12 Runs Sat 10 – Sat 17 @ 10pm | €15/13 ■ THE YELLOW WALLPAPER Then This Theatre Boys School @ Smock Alley Theatre The dark corners of the theatre reflect the dark corners of the mind in this adaptation of the American Gothic novella which charts a young woman’s descent into madness during the Victorian era of medical extremes.. Preview Sun 18 @ 8.15pm | €10 Runs Mon 19 – Sat 24 @ 8.15pm | €14/12 Matinees Wed 21 & Sat 24 @ 1pm | €14/12 ■ TWENTY TEN THEATREclub Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Join Niamh McCann as she unearths the compulsion and joy found both in her own personal journey as a ritual swimmer and the voices of the many other women who bathe at the Forty Foot. Runs Sat 10 – Thu 16 @ 6pm | €14/12 | Each performance covers 2 months of 2010

Special Run Sat 17 @ 11am | €25 | 7 hours incl. interval, all 12 months presented as one show ■ WELCOME TO THE FORTY FOOT Niamh McCann The New Theatre Backed by an award-winning creative team, Man of Valour is a breathtaking performance by Paul Reid (RTE’s RAW) in the unique transformational style of The Corn Exchange. Preview Mon 19 @ 6pm | €10 Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 @ 6pm | €13/11 ■ WHEN IRISH HEARTS ARE PRAYING MIRARI Productions with Alive-O Boys School @ Smock Alley Theatre A play about lives in a country on the brink of change, faith and where we find the ground when the ground keeps moving. Preview Mon 19 @ 6pm | €10 Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 @ 6pm | €13/11 ■ WHENEVER I GET BLOWN UP I THINK OF YOU Molly Naylor The New Theatre On 7/7/2005, Molly finds herself on a tube blown up by terrorists and her life is forced to take a different direction. Funny, frank and poetic, this is the true story of what happened next and how we put things back together after they’ve been blown apart. Runs Mon 12 – Sat 17 @ 8.15pm | €13/11 ■ WHERE DO I START? Nyree Yergainharsian Project Arts Centre – Cube Nyree is supposed to be Armenian, but she is Irish.She’s inventing an identity for herself and examining what it means to be part of something she thinks she’s part of (but isn’t totally sure). Preview Thu 8 & Fri 9 @ 1pm | €10 Runs Sat 10 – Sat 17 @ 1pm | €13/11 DANCE: ■ I LIKE THIS

Chuncky Move Samuel Beckett Theatre Australia’s Chunky Move balances detailed sophistication and delightful mischief. Its often comic absurdity reveals our limited capacity to be able to genuinely communicate with each other, to control or fully understand our surroundings. Runs Thu 15 – Sat 17 @ 6.15pm | €15/13 Matinees Fri 16 – Sat 17 @ 3pm | €15/13 ■ A LOST OPERA Genesis Collective Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs A rare opportunity to see a new choreographic work by the world-renowned trailblazer Deborah Hay, performed by the always innovative Genesis Collective. Preview Mon 20 @ 7.30pm | €10 Runs Wed 21 – Sat 24 @ 7.30pm | €14/12 ■ MAKE I MEAN Irish Modern Dance Theatre Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs With the delightful possibility that they have nothing in common at all, these performers attempt perhaps one of the hardest dances anyone could try to do. Preview Mon 20 @ 9.30pm | €10

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50% Male Experimental Theatre The Back Loft A multi-layered tale told through movement, gesture, dance and wrapped in music and rich visuals, this is a universal story that questions our search for happiness. Preview Mon 12 @ 9pm | €10 Runs Tue 23, Thu 15 – Sat 17 @ 9pm | €13/11 ■ BIRD WITH BOY junk ensemble Kilmainham Gaol A piece about things that end before they should, this unmissable new lo-fi work by award-winning festival favourites junk ensemble with Jo Timmins is performed in the basement of Kilmainham Gaol. Preview Mon 12 @ 7.30pm | €10 Runs Tue 13 – Sat 17, Mon 19 – Tue 20 @ 7.30pm | €14/12 ■ BARROCO Association Woo. Presented by Dance Ireland DanceHouse Elegant nonchalance and highly disciplined movements work in harmony to create a jubilant, light and carefree choreographic work. Runs Sat 17 @ 5pm | €12 ■ CRIMINAL QUEERS Maurice Joseph Kelliher Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Featuring charismatic performers and immersed in a live soundtrack by David Turpin and The Johns that touches on sweet torch songs and bitter 60’s pop, Criminal Queers is an inventive cut-up and re-edit of curious poses and queer close-ups which puts representations of sexuality, gender, innocence, and guilt in the frame. Preview Wed 21 @ 6pm | €8 Runs Thu 22 – Sat 24 @ 6pm | €11/9 ■ PAPERDOLLS Paperdolls The Complex Stumble upon a dark pathway, twisting and turning to a hidden world where beautiful and unsettling creatures stir. Manipulating and embellishing their realities, watch as each of them creates their own universe. Preview Wed 14 @ 8pm | €10 Runs Thu 15 – Mon 19 @ 8pm | €14/12 MUSIC ■ COROKINESIS: the 2nd Experimental

Evensong Tom Lane Christ Church Cathedral Picture an ancient ritual combined with cutting-edge vocal performance and powerful choreography within the epic surroundings of one of Dublin’s most evocative and beautiful spaces. In this free event, dance and music unite with dramatic spirituality to create a completely new form of expression for one special performance only. Sat 24 @ 5pm | Free ■ DJ KORMAC AV SET ABSOLUT Fringe Club Turntablist extraordinaire, scratch master

and visual manipulator DJ Kormac plays the last gig of the festival, meaning it’s your last chance to experience Dublin’s ultimate pop-up venue. Get yourself to our Brave New World headquarters to dance all night and pre-empt the nostalgia you’ll feel when the festival has to end. Sat 24 @ 10.30pm – Doors 10pm | €10 ■ FLOOR IT Saramai Lee / Rachel Ní Chuinn The Pearse Centre Take the snoring out of lying down and join us in this interactive musical experience. Come early or stay late to have a go on installations running before and after the performances. Runs Sat 24 @ 5pm & 8pm – Sun 25 @ 3pm & 5pm | €14/12 ■ FM BELFAST ABSOLUT Fringe Club The glacially cool electro-pop explosion that is FM Belfast are back from Reykjavik after ripping up our festival club last year to a sold-out crowd. Sat 10 @ 10.30pm – Doors 9pm | €16 ■ GIS A SHOT OF YOUR BONGOS MISTER Brian Fleming CityArts An aural biographical journey, from Dublin’s inner city flats to the mud walled shantytowns of West Africa. Experience the world through a drummer’s ear. Preview Mon 19 @ 6.30pm | €10 Runs Tue 20 – Sat 24 | €13/11 ■ POP CÉILI & ROCKEROKE ABSOLUT Fringe Club Featuring lovely cailíns, astonishing gúnas, and a raucous set to get you out on the dance floor. Come prepared to hAon Dó Trí, but this céilí doesn’t stop with the national anthem… Sat 17 @ 10pm – Doors 9pm | €10 ■ POP CENTRE PLUS Frisky and Mannish ABSOLUT Fringe Club If you’re precious about your pop you’d better steer clear, Frisky and Mannish are going to take your favourite tunes and turn them on their heads. These mad scientists of pop have been receiving accolades around the globe for their hilarious reinterpretations of well-known pop songs and exhilarating live performances. Runs Wed 14 – Fri 16, Sun 18 – Sat 24 @ 8.30PM | €16 (Sun – Thu), €18 (Fri/Sat) ■ Switched On: ÜLTRAKUGEL Twinkranes | Bruno Spoerri | Anworth Kirk & Demdike Stare | Support: Somadrone, B – Music DJ’s (Andy Votel) The Workman’s Club Get ready for a night of experimental electronic music and homegrown psychedelic rock. Irish debut for Bruno Spoerri. . As part of ‘Switched On’, a series of music events specially curated by Darren McCreesh. Fri 23 @ 7.30pm | €14 |

and filtered with a melodic pop sensibility. Music for the head, heart and feet, be sure to bring your dancing shoes. As part of ‘Switched On’, a series of music events specially curated by Darren McCreesh. Fri 16 @ 7.30pm | €14 |

Switched On: WILD COMBINATION | Spilly Walker | TR-One | Angkorwat | David Kitt & Broken Audio Movement (DJ Set) The Workman’s Club Distilling 30 years of electronic dance music, Spilly Walker’s songs are rich in sonic texture

Theatre September Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You Molly makes the big move to London to embark on a quest to reinvent her life in the style of a picture perfect movie, However her plans are scuppered when she gets caught up in the 7/7 terrorists attacks. Funny, frank and poetic; this is the true story of how we put things back together after they’ve been blown apart. The New Theatre, September 12th–17th, 8:15pm, €11-€13. Welcome To the Forty Foot A once predominantly male bathing area in the Irish sea was reclaimed in the 1970’s by a group of nudist women partial to the plunge. This play explores the effects the daily dip has

on our life on dry shores. The New Theatre, September 19th–24th , 6pm, €11-€13. Better Loved From Afar It seems that these days we are all Irish, from Barack O’Bama to Che Guevara Lynch. But what does it really mean to be part of the Irish Diaspora? This is an epic archival voyage which attempts to reconstruct the Irish identity of two Argentineans who have been brought up with a romanticized idea of the Emerald Isle. The New Theatre, September 20th-24th, 8pm, €12-€14. Our Father

This play deals with the topics of family, loss and moving on, all through rap and rhyme. The New Theatre, September 12th-17th, 6pm, €11-€13. Airswimming by Charlotte Jones. This true story tells the tale of two very different women, thrown together when they were institutionalised in the 1920’s. This witty, dark, poetic and heart-warming comedy drama explores how circumstances can shape our lives and we can make the best of a “rum deal”. The New Theatre September 26th-October 1st, 8pm, €12-€15.

Thriller Live Don your white studded glove and get practicing your moon walk for this production of Thriller which pays homage to the prolific king of pop himself. The two hour show includes some of Jackson’s best known songs, from his days as a member of the Jackson Five through to his phenomenally successful solo career. Grand Canal Theatre, Septe,ber 19th–24th, 7:30pm, from €20. Faithhealer By: Brian Friel Travelling with his two companions, Grace and Teddy, Frank roams Scotland and Wales healing the sick. Haunting, tender and passionate, Faith Healer takes us into the heart of

what it means to believe and explores the true price the saved must pay. The Civic Theatre, September 13th–17th, 8pm, €16-€20. Waiting for IKEA By: Georgina McKevitt & Jacinta Sheerin Chrissie and Jade have been best friends since early childhood, growing up in a block of flats in Dublin’s City Centre. When Australian boy Ben asks Jade to return to Oz with him the girls are faced with having to find their own two feet and live their own lives. The Civic Theatre, September 20th–24th, 8pm, €16-€20.

Stones in his Pockets A quite Irish community is sent into a tailspin when the shooting of a Hollywood movie comes to town. Universally loved by all who see it, Stones in his Pockets is brought to life by two talented actors who play all 15 characters between them. Draíocht Studio, September 16th-17th, 8.15pm, €13-€15.

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23rd September 2011 5pm Free For one night only the city’s museums, galleries, churches, historic houses, artists studios, cultural centres and more, will open their doors late for a free night of entertainment, discovery and adventure. Hundreds of talks, tours, performances and events will be taking place. The complete Culture Night programme is available online from launch day on August 17th at www.culturenight.ie

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Your burning desire is to perform. You’ll do anything it takes. You could be a singer songwriter, a spoons duo, a jazz trio or a rockabilly quartet. Maybe you do opera, R&B or goth metal. You could be a lone trumpeter wailing across the rooftops, a skiffle group complete with washboard or a crooner looking for your nightclub premier. You might just be a plain old rock band... Whatever way you make music we would like to hear from you. If you would like to give yourself more exposure to your potential adoring public (around Dublin’s exquisite Music Village), then we have the venues, the opportunities and the attitude to get you performing. Send us a demo (film or sound) to famous@ musicvillage.ie and start performing!

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TWO GHOST STORIES BY M R JAMES October 5th 7.30pm e15/e12 Members Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry Winner of the Dracula Society Hamilton Deane Award 2007 Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad - a tale of nocturnal horror on the Suffolk coast - is considered by many to be the author’s masterpiece. It is beautifully complemented here by The Ash Tree, a story of witchcraft and vengeance down the generations. ■ 4 Week Wine Appreciation Course 6th September 2011 – 27th September Ely Winebar €160 per head Each week participants will taste 6 wines with a retail value of €15-€50, provide full course notes and serve a supper dish to match the wines. For more information, see www.elywinebar. com ■ Veer Books / Wurm Im Apfel thur 8 sep | 8pm | free 12 Rutland Place, Dublin 1 Veer Books is a publisher closely associated with the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birbeck. They publish stuff by some of Wurm’s favourite contemporary poets. Poetry performances by Stephen Mooney, Aodán McCardle and Maurice Scully Irish launch of Aodán’s ISing and Maurice’s A Tour of the Lattice ■ Dublin Fashion Festival September 8th -11th The Dublin Festival of Fashion will be orgnaising special high street shopping with city wide in-store events, discounts, treats and goodies as well as catwalk shows in the Fashion HQ. The event unites fashion and beauty retailers in the Grafton and Henry Street area, offering a heady mix of special offers, live fashion events and a plethora of in-store activities. For more information, check out http://www. dff.ie ■ Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 1st September 2011 – 11th September Canadian giant, Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker Prize for The English Patient, kicks the festival off with a reading from his new

novel, The Cat’s Table, on the evening of Thursday 1st. Other highlights in a stellar line-up will include veteran US novelist, Robert Coover delivering Aspiring writers can look forward to a new series of Creative Writing Workshops with top tutors, and the expanded children’s programme will include appearances by major authors such as Darren Shan, Cathy Cassidy, Derek Landy and Oliver Jeffers. Tickets will go on sale from July 15th. For more information: www.mountainstosea.ie ■ ABSOLUT Fringe 10th September 2011 – 25th September For 16 days the festival transforms Dublin into a ‘dream factory’, an exposé of great creative talent from around the globe. It is a platform for the best new, emerging Irish arts companies and a showcase for the best contemporary theatre and dance shows touring internationally. For artists, the Fringe facilitates an opportunity to innovate, to cross disciplines and boundaries and to find new ways and places to create work. Book tickets online at www.fringefest.com or 1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643) ■ Culture Night 23rd September 2011 5pm Free For one night only the city’s museums, galleries, churches, historic houses, artists studios, cultural centres and more, will open their doors late for a free night of entertainment, discovery and adventure. Hundreds of talks, tours, performances and events will be taking place. The complete Culture Night programme is available online from launch day on August 17th at www.culturenight.ie ■ Oktoberfest 2011 22nd September 2011 – 9th October 2011 Dublin Docklands Free A marquee - representative of that in the Oktoberfest in Munich - and German markets, as well as 24 authentic Oktoberfest barmaids will descend on Georges Dock for some German fun, food and entertainment and authentic Bavarian beer. The traditional German market will feature over thirty German speciality food producers and German traders, who are all travelling to Dublin for the Oktoberfest.

For more information: www.dublindocklands.ie ■ Dublin Contemporary 2011

6th September – 31st October 2011 Dublin Contemporary is a new large scale visual arts exhibition, featuring more than 90 Irish and international artists from five continents. It is Ireland’s first major international contemporary art event. In response to the theme Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, the carefully selected presentation of work aims to investigate and reflect on emerging developments in contemporary art. Presenting politically and socially motivated works from local, national and international figures, new and recent works will be exhibited from artists including Willie Doherty, Dexter Dalwood, Jim Lambie, Thomas Hirschhorn and Teresa Margolles. For more information, see http://www. dublincontemporary.com/ ■ Phizzfest September 8th - 11th www.phizzfest.ie Phizzfest, now in its second year, is an arts and culture festival showcasing the rich artistic community Phibsborough has to offer. Tina Robinson, the Phizzfest chair, was nominated for, and recently won, an award for contribution to the arts. The focus is broad, with a total of 60 events spanning theatre, literature, comedy, and music.

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Free admission to the greatest Kildare Street collections of Irish heritage, Collins Barracks culture & history.

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For Information: Telephone: (01) 6777 444 Country Life: (094) 9031755 or visit www.museum.ie info@museum.ie Kildare Street Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm. Sunday 2pm to 5pm. Collins Barracks 69 Closed Mondays including Bank Holidays. TOTALLY DUBLIN