Welcome back. After several quiet months, we’re back for the festival season. So, here are a few of the key dates ahead. Enjoy! Dublin Horse Show – 5th to 9th August Irish Craft Beer & Cider Festival – 27th to 29th August in the RDS Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival – 7th to 20th September Culture…
Driveway Choices
Picking the right type of driveway for your home in Dublin has never been easier when you call a qualified driveway company to have a look at it. They can provide you with options on the type of driveway you would like installed. It can range from paving to tarmac, to gravel and to concrete….
Review: ‘Men Like Us’ in Smock Alley Theatre
Mouth on Fire is a theatre company set up to perform the plays of Samuel Beckett. They’re in Smock Alley Theatre today at 3 pm and 8 pm with their production Men Like Us, featuring three Beckett plays: Matalang, Rough for Theatre II and The End. This approach of combining several Beckett shorts works well…
Tradfest 2015
Not long now – Tradfest 2015 runs from 28th January to 1st February in Temple Bar. Although most of the music is Trad, you don’t have to be a Trad fan to enjoy this. The venues and atmosphere are a major plus, and this really is the right time of year for a Trad festival….
Prom night all over again
The folks at Hunt & Gather are putting on an 80s Prom Night, which sounds like fun. 17th October in The Pint on Eden Quay. Details below. H&G 1st Birthday: PROM NIGHT class of ’87 Its hard to believe it was only a year ago little auld Hunt & Gather threw one of the…
Review: The Mariner
The Mariner is a play by Hugo Hamilton currently running in the Gate Theatre as part of the 2014 Dublin Theatre Festival. The Mariner is about a Royal Navy sailor who returns home in 1916 after being injured at the Battle of Jutland. This might be one of those plays you’ll either love or hate….
Dublin Theatre Festival 2014
Tomorrow – 25th September 2014 – is the first day of this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. The DTF is the highlight of Dublin’s “festival season”, so I’d like to provide a few suggestions about what you might go see. The Seagull And Other Birds – Pan Pan Theatre – I saw a rehearsal for this…
Culture Night is Friday!
Friday 19th September has happened yet and I already know it will be one of the best nights in Dublin city this year. Why? Because it’s Culture Night. We are big fans of the night and over the years, it has seen us try to do as many things as possible (11 is my record!)…
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Dublin Castle
Mouth on Fire have a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream running from 23rd July to 3rd August 2014 in Dublin Castle. The venue is the garden of the Castle, with full seating and a backup indoor venue in case of bad weather. Oh, and this production is 1970’s style glam-rock themed. Tickets are…
Campo Viejo Tapas Trail
The Campo Viejo Tapas Trail concept is simple and fun: go from restaurant to restaurant, eating tapas and drinking wine. We started in the newish Drury Buildings. The highlight here was a lamb meatball, which we were later given the recipe for. Dave liked Drury Buildings enough to return within a few days of the…