Bord Bia Bloom takes place over five days on the June Bank Holiday weekend (May 29th – June 2nd), running from 9am to 6pm daily. Bloom, which celebrates its 19th birthday in 2025, has been deemed one of the nations’ favourite summer events and takes place across 70 acres in the Phoenix Park. This spectacular gardening event is a great coming together for garden designers, flower growers, landscapers, plantaholics, garden-furniture makers, food fanatics and anyone who loves to garden. Bord Bia Bloom is a world-class, uplifting and innovative horticulture, food, and drink experience with

A brand new National Famine Way™ Roadshow goes on tour during May and June 2025 calling to Blanchardstown Library and Charleville Mall Library amongst seven locations along the route of the long distance trail. Featuring talks and presentations by leading local and international famine historians, this fascinating event will bring a poignant part of our history to life. Appropriately the month of May marks both the anniversary of the mass departure of 1,490 emigrants from Strokestown, Co. Roscommon and the annual National Famine Commemoration. The event takes place on Tuesday 3rd June fro

The UCD Festival is an inspirational and fun-filled showcase of the education, innovation, creativity and research that takes place within UCD through performances, engaging talks, hands-on science, interactive exhibits and play. The UCD Festival is a day when we open our doors to friends like you providing an opportunity to see behind the scenes and discover something new while meeting our students and world-class academics. UCD is constantly evolving with the changing world and festival goers will get to see first-hand some of our breakthrough discoveries and how UCD is addressing soci