Celebrate food, community, and sustainability at Ballyfermot’s family-friendly festival from 12 noon to 4pm on Saturday, 14th February in Ballyfermot Community Civic Centre. Join us to grow, cook, create, and discover together — bringing families, urban growers, and chefs straight from the streets to the table. What’s happening: Cooking demos: Batch Cooking, FakeAways, and Empty Your Fridge Workshops: Grow it Yourself, Natural Remedies, Fun Tie-Dye and more! Information stalls Family fun: Free face painting and children’s entertainment Some workshops have limited ca

Join us on Saturday 21 February for Dance Day, a day-long festival for people of all ages who are curious about trying out dance. Curated by Artists in Residence Philippa Donnellan and Mia DiChiaro, Dance Day will offer free taster workshops of different styles of dance, dance film screenings and more. No previous dance experience is necessary and everyone is welcome. Activities take place at various different times and must be booked in advance, except the Lunchtime Dance Film Screening which is drop-in. Dance Day: Sean-nós and Contemporary Dance (adults and ages 12+) Saturday 21

For this year's Dublin UNESCO City of Literature lecture, Prof. Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, will look at Sean O'Casey, one of Dublin’s most admired playwrights at the height of his fame, and some of the ways in which both the city, and the National Theatre, nurtured his remarkable talent. One hundred years ago, on February 8, 1926, Sean O’Casey’s play about the 1916 Rising, The Plough and the Stars, sparked one of the most controversial and memorable nights in the history of the Abbey Theatre, when there were protests in the theatr