Red Umbrella Film Festival will screen the short documentary film "Les Prostituees de Lyon Parlent" in Pearse Street Library. The film documents the occupation of the church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon by over 200 sex workers in 1975 to protest against police harassment. This will be followed by a panel discussion covering the history of...
The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, is pleased to present Get to the Point by Irish artist Brian Duggan. During the 1970s oil crisis, Ireland planned its first nuclear power station in an attempt to become ‘energy independent’. This project film is an examination of archival material and new footage from...
Jim Lockhart and Barry Devlin in conversation with Doireann Ní Bhriain 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Horslips seminal album ‘The Táin’. Based on the Irish saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), part of the Ulster Cycle of heroic tales, it tells of the war caused by Queen Maeve’s plotting to steal...
On Monday, 2nd of October 2023 Embassy of Latvia in cooperation with Irish Emigration Museum (EPIC) within the Dublin Festival of History invites you to the screening of the documentary The Balance Sheet of Siberia. The film reveals human stories and personal tragedies of Soviet deportations, that were carried out after Latvia was occupied by Soviet...
The Little Museum of Dublin presents a staged reading of The Minister for Make Believe. The subject of this play, Brendan Bracken, was born in Tipperary but grew up in Dublin. A notorious fantasist, Bracken talked himself into history on the bootstraps of his hero, Winston Churchill, before trying to extract himself from that history...
**Booked out** 2023 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of a towering figure of Irish music, Edward Bunting (1773–1843). Bunting is best known for notating and transcribing the music of the harpers at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792 and publishing three seminal collections of Irish music (1797, 1809 and 1840) based on that...
A four-part filmed presentation of ANU Productions re-staging of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates (1921–1922) based on adaptation of original transcripts by Theo Dorgan. The site-specific performance by some of Ireland’s leading actors was directed by Louise Lowe in 2022 and filmed by Tiny Ark. We present the world premiere of this momentous 10-hour film project...
‘Four Wedding Dresses and a Funeral Coat’ will combine dramatic scenes with dance and music in Richmond Barracks to explore how the lives of Kitty Kiernan and her sisters became interwoven with some of Ireland’s most iconic leaders and the terrible losses they endured, not only of their menfolk but of their family home, which...
Rescheduled event In most cultures music is widely acknowledged as a means of communication which transcends all other media. Through music we gain insight into the thoughts and feelings of others; we articulate the past and present; we touch the spiritual and the temporal. Musical style can be powerfully evocative of any point in time...