The Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition has been a launchpad for Ireland’s brightest young minds for half a century. It’s where one year’s frontier research becomes next year’s student project. It’s where you discover an island-wide community that shares your passion and curiosity. Join us for four fantastic days of celebrating our finalists and exploring science, technology, engineering, and maths for the whole family. More than 500 finalist projects will fill the Main Hall. Students will present their work to judges and visitors, alongside live demonstrations,

First Fortnight is an annual Irish mental health arts and culture festival that takes place every January to challenge mental health stigma through the arts. It features a wide range of events like music, theatre, spoken word, and film, and is organized by a charity that also provides free creative therapies to marginalized groups like the homeless.

Pendulum Summit, The World’s No. 1 Business & Leadership Summit will be back at the Convention Centre Dublin on January 23rd 2026. Our annual inspiring and actionable programme brings together the best orators & authorities on the planet to share their insights and empower our delegates to maximise their impact and potential in all aspects of their lives. Pendulum delivers solutions in vocational training for individuals, companies, and business clients, in leadership, high performance, self-empowerment, and a myriad of other professional growth areas. The networking extravaganza

Make your Gallery visits more fun and engaging with curious questions and creative storytelling! In this tour we use easy exercises and improv games that explore how we look at, speak about and interact with art in a variety of ways. Join Marise de Grip from Active Social Connections to learn how to have conversations about art, to think outside the box and appreciate different perspectives. Anyone interested in art, creative thinking or public speaking is welcome to attend. No experience is required. Meet your tour guide in our Millennium Wing Information Desk, near our Millennium Wing

Brigid’s Spark: Fire in the Body This lively workshop draws inspiration from Brigid, the Celtic figure of hearth, poetry, and renewal. Through simple movement, shared storytelling, and playful theatre exercises, participants will explore how myth can come alive and be present in the room. Working gently with ideas of warmth, imagination, and craft, attendees will discover how a spark in the body can grow into shared expression, creativity, and connection. No previous experience is required. The focus is on enjoyment, curiosity, and collective making. This one-hour session is suitable f

Experience Dublin through the stories of the extraordinary women who shaped it. Beginning in St Stephen’s Green—once a gathering point for Irish and Scottish suffragettes—you’ll stand on the very ground where women bravely challenged British forces and fought for Ireland’s future. As we weave through Dublin’s cobblestone streets, we’ll uncover the often-untold histories of Irish women whose influence on our culture, politics, and economy has long been overlooked or written out of the record. For centuries, restrictive laws governed women’s work, marriage, and even motherhood

Step back in time on this guided walking tour through Dublin’s hidden streets and untold histories. Beginning on Henrietta Street, Dublin’s first Georgian street, we explore grand mansions turned overcrowded tenements, revealing the daily lives, hardships and resilience of women in the city. From swift justice at Green Street Courthouse to the former New Gate Gaol, from market labour to Molly Malone’s streets, this tour uncovers the overlooked stories of women who shaped Dublin’s past.

“Well behaved women seldom make history!” Join us at the GPO Museum for a guided tour as we honour Brigit, the Celtic Goddess, by celebrating the Irish women who changed Irish history in 1916 and beyond. On this specially created tour you will meet the women who gave their all to create a new Ireland, where all its children would be cherished equally. Rediscover the lives and voices of the women who fought for their own and Ireland’s independence. This tour will shine a light on the women who have shaped Irish culture, society, and politics over the past 100 years. Learn about t

Celebrating St Brigid’s Day, this poetry workshop will be led by poet Grace Wilentz. It is inspired by the Ribín Bríghud or Brat Bhride, laid outside before sunset on the eve of Brigid’s Feast Day and brought back in before sunrise, endowed by the dew with healing properties. In this workshop we will invoke goddesses from multiple traditions, explore the transformative power of words, and write original poems weighted with the intention of carrying support, guidance and sustenance into the world. For inspiration, we will look at relevant artworks from The Hugh Lane Gallery’s collection