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Cllr. Janice Boylan, representing an tArdmhéara, Críona Ní Dhálaigh, and Dublin City Public Libraries are delighted to announce the launch of “Dublin: A Great Place to Start” Parnell Square Cultural Quarter digital storytelling project on Thursday, October 22nd in the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh…

Focus on the Georgian North City. The Dublin Arts Festival began in 1970, instigated by a group of university students. The festival grew over the next ten years to become an annual event, highlighting different areas of the city such as the Liberties (1972), the…

‘We actors are born at the rise of a curtain, and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever. What use is it then to say…

Hengler’s Grand Cirque had a base in Dublin at the Rotunda Gardens, where it performed during the 1880s and 1890s, as well as premises in Glasgow, latterly at Sauchiehall Street. As shown in this 1896 programme from the collections of Dublin City Library and Archive,…