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

“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