Things To Do: Meet under the clock at Clerys, visit Baggotonia, get the Book of Revelations on vinyl

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Baggotonia: Press-People-Place

This evening, barrister, lecturer and writer Rachel Fehily will be delivering a talk on Baggotonia, Dublin’s Latin Quarter, over in the United Arts Club.

Baggotonia: Press, People, Place will see Fehily delve into the Latin Quarter, famous for its literary legacy, as she celebrates the women who shaped its social, political, artistic and environmental transformations.

Fehily looks at such figures as Mary Lavin, Anne Yeats, Margaret Gaj and the various other women who helped to foster the innovative cultural spaces around Pembroke Road, Baggot Street, Merrion Row and St. Stephen’s Green, while also being largely excluded from traditional historic narratives.

Baggotonia is a fundraiser for Women’s Aid Ireland ahead of the International Women’s Day weekend.

The talk starts at 7pm today (Thursday, 5 March). Tickets can be purchased here.

Project Groundswell

Also this evening, Photo Museum Ireland will be officially launching its latest exhibition, Project Groundswell, an examination of how different individuals and communities respond to the climate crisis.

Developed through an EU-wide open call, which received over 500 submissions, Project Groundswell interrogates the role photography plays in illuminating the reality of climate action.

The exhibition will present new short videos featuring the work of 12 artists selected from that open call, and also includes curated displays by four of these winning artists: Yvette Monahan, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Maria Oliveira and Gonçalo Fonseca.

At 6:30pm today, Thursday, 5 March, Photo Museum Ireland will be showing the work of the participating artists in a large-scale outdoor public screening event in Meeting House Square.

Prior to the outdoor screening, from 5:30 until 6:15pm, Photo Museum Ireland is also hosting a public discussion on photography and climate action in the gallery, with speakers including environmental scientist and author Shirley Clerkin, and curators Veronica Nicolardi, Nadine Weixler, and Rui Prata.

There is currently a waiting list. But admission is free, so you have nothing to lose if you put your name on it here.

Project Groundswell will run in Photo Museum Ireland until 12 April. For more information, and to keep track of the workshops and publications that are set to accompany this landmark exhibition, visit the exhibition’s page here.

First Fridays at MoLI

The first Friday of the month is almost here once again, and that means the Museum of Literature Ireland is opening late.

This month, as part of the First Fridays series, artist and curator Michelle Browne will be in the museum from 6:30pm to discuss her performance-based and collaborative work. Then, at 8pm, filmmaker and author Dave Tynan is scheduled to read from his debut short story collection, We Used to Dance Here.

While those talks are going on, you will also be able to browse MoLI’s current exhibition, Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction, which explores the forgotten history of Irish romance fiction. That will be on show until 20 March, but honestly, visiting an exhibition before 6pm, during regular, respectable hours doesn’t offer the same thrill.

In saying that, if an activity during normal hours is your thing – and you aren’t a mild-adrenaline junkie – from 7 March, MoLI will also be screening its film De Profundis, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s love letter of the same name. The film installation, which was created in partnership with Ebow Digital, presents key passages from the text as read by LGBTQ+ writers, artists and activists, including Paul D’Alton, Naoise Dolan, Bulelani Mfaco, Una Mullally and Tonie Walsh.

De Profundis will be on show in MoLI until 31 August.

These Beautiful Men

On Friday, 6 March, artist Brian Maguire will be opening his new exhibition, These Beautiful Men, at Rua Red, the contemporary arts centre in Tallaght.

Since October 2025, Maguire has been drawing men temporarily residing at an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centre where he and Rua Red established a temporary art studio, in which artist Michael Mangan runs regular workshops.

While Maguire drew portraits of the men, participants in Mangan’s workshop were invited to paint their understanding of home and their hopes for the future. Maguire, through these new works, considers what it means to be seen, acknowledged and brought into representation in a context where individuals are often reduced to statistics.

These Beautiful Men will be officially launched at 6pm on Friday, with Maguire’s portraits displayed in Rua Red’s Gallery One, while Gallery Two features audio recordings of the men’s experiences and journeys to Ireland.

The exhibition will run until 9 May.

For more information, visit Rua Red’s website here.

SIX by E The Artist

Last week, artist Daranijoh Sanni, otherwise known as E the Artist, released his debut album SIX on Nyahh Records.

Inspired by the opening of the seven seals in the Book of Revelations, and Sanni’s personal reflections on self, mortality and religion, SIX is a startlingly rich collection of distant drones, looping acoustic guitars, hissing tapes, spoken word passages that feel like lost artefacts, and disintegrating soundscapes.

SIX features contributions from artists Mel Keane, Ruby Eastwood, KRAF and Julia Louise Knifefist, with the latter’s rabid, guttural screams on "BLACKOUT" being one of the album’s hair-raising high-points.

Thirty-seven minutes long, but near-biblical in its weight, SIX steadily builds up to "DROGO", a 20-minute meditation on life and death, which forms the core inspiration for the album as a whole.

SIX is streaming over on Bandcamp, and, if you’re prepared to invite it into your home, you can also purchase it there on vinyl too.

Later this month, on 28 March, Sanni will be launching the album officially in Tengu. Tickets are available here.

Directed By Her

On Sunday, the GALPAL Collective returns to the Irish Film Institute for its fourth edition of Directed by Her, a celebration of short films from female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans- and agender directors.

This year’s programme brings together 14 shorts and music videos, including works by Joy Nesbitt, Paula María Roldán Sá, Olivia McLaughlin, Nell Mercier and Eilís Doherty. As part of the event, there will also be a panel discussion on screenwriting, followed by an Audience Awards, and award for Best Screenplay, before the night closes out with a post-screening gathering in the terrace.

Directed by Her starts at 3pm on Sunday, 8 March. Tickets are available here.

Iontas Am-Lóin

It is officially Seachtain na Gaeilge 2026, and as part of the celebrations, poet, songwriter and interdisciplinary artist Amano de Londra Miura will be organising Iontas Am-Lóin, a series of Irish-language creative workshops in Flux Studios over lunchtime next week.

On Tuesday, 10 March, artist, researcher and performer Rónán Ó Raghallaigh will be in Chatham Row to “embark on a journey of imagination, drawing, and experimentation with meditation practices of old”.

Then on Wednesday, 11 March, de Londra Miura will be joined by musician, poet and storyteller Daithí Ó Nuanáin to discuss Irish music, the relationship between the body, the heart and music, and whether we can sing a song property without necessarily understanding its text or context.

On Thursday, 12 March, singer and shamanic practitioner Conchobhar Ruadh will be in the studios to look at how we learn Irish, be it as a child or someone rediscovering the language later in life, and to discuss the “reconnection” between language, family, heritage and music.

And finally, on Friday, 13 March, Bridie Flaherty from the Irish Traditional Music Archive will be dropping in to teach participants sean-nós dance.

Each workshop will begin at 1pm, and they are all free to attend, although booking is advised.

Under the Clock: In the Shadow of Clerys

Finally, next Thursday, the Ballymun Library Writers’ Group is launching its new book Under the Clock: In the Shadow of Clerys in Ballymun Library.

Under the Clock: In the Shadow of Clerys is a collection of short stories and poems penned in celebration of the department store and pre-mobile phone meeting point Clerys as well as its surrounding environs.

Kicking off at 6pm, 12 March, the book will be officially launched by writer, playwright and Aosdána member Peter Sheridan.

Attendance is free, and registration is not required. So the only thing you need to do is remember that this is definitely happening.

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Free posters for Women's March

To mark International Women’s Day, 20+ illustrators came together to design protest posters which are free to download for this year’s Women’s March, on Sunday 8 March at 1pm.

If one speaks to you, download it, print it, march with it, share it in your space, display it in your shop window, or take it to work. Let’s amplify the message and stand in solidarity.

You can view and download the posters here.

Instagram: @iwd_poster_collective

Mammy Mia!

For Mother’s Day, on Sunday, 15 March, Sing Along Social will be bringing their new show Mammy Mia! to The Sugar Club.

Promising an extravaganza of ABBA hits as well as a few classics from the likes of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Sinéad O’Connor, Mammy Mia! will start at 2:30pm.

Tickets are €18 and you can book them here.

Pavilion Theatre presents Glasshouse perform Björk

On Sunday, 22 March, acclaimed Dublin ensemble Glasshouse will return to the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire to perform the music of Björk.

In their new live show, following their reimaginings of artists including Sigur Rós and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Glasshouse will delve into the Icelandic artist’s boundary-pushing discography, from Debut and Post to Vulnicura.

Arranged by composer Robert Reid Allan, the ensemble will deliver two performances on 22 March first at 3pm and then at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost €27 plus booking fee, and can be purchased here.

Open Call: TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award 2026

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is inviting applications from artists for the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award 2026 offering professional development, an artist bursary and a one-year studio.

This opportunity supports the professional development of a recent graduate artist and offers a large free studio for one year, €7,000 artist bursary, and a variety of institutional supports, to an artist who has graduated from an undergraduate degree in the past three years.

The deadline for applications is Friday, 10 April at 5pm. For more information and to apply, visit the TBG+S website here.

Sculpture In Context

Sculpture in Context, the largest dedicated sculpture exhibition in Ireland, has announced that it will be pausing in 2026.

The exhibition will not be going ahead this year, both due to challenges in securing funding, and because the National Botanic Gardens will be required for international events during Ireland’s EU Presidency in the Autumn.

An Advisory Committee is currently working to secure funding and support, with the aim of ensuring the exhibition returns in 2027.

For more information and updates, visit their website or follow them on Instagram here.