Celebrating the 8th Animation Film Festival in Dún Laoghaire and Blackrock, County Dublin this year! The full programme will be available to download in September 2018! One of this year's highlights will be a screening of Cartoon Saloon's Academy Award© nominated feature The Breadwinner with a Q&A with a special guest from Cartoon Saloon after the screening. Another special guest is expected over from the UK – so keep checking this website for updates or you can follow on twitter @dublinanimation or Facebook. This year's festival is now calling for entries. The fes

This Halloween immerse yourself in Scarefield, featuring the fictional spooky love story of The Princess and Uncle T at Airfield Estate. Discover the tale of the Overends sisters, their beloved Uncle Tommy and his princess fiancé in a transformed Victorian/colonial Scarefield House where there will be story-telling, crafts and lots of spooky fun along the way! Pre-booking is required for Scarefield: The Princess and Uncle T. Tickets for this event are free with your membership or normal daily admission ticket. Places are limited so book now before they are gone!

Delig Inis theatre group present their annual performance. Hear about the supernatural and ghostly happenings around medieval Dublin. Meet the Medieval Dublin chancer, Bran the grave digger, who has the gruesome job of hauling poor souls to the local graveyard. Listen as Bran, and his wife Ita who specialises in ‘alternative’ methods of healing, tell you all about the dirty streets of Dublin, from unruly pigs to unruly people! Also, find out all about the strange tale of Drunken Thomas’s encounter in St. Michael’s graveyard, and just how much he manged to upset the dead at Halloween