Christmas is pretty much done, and now it’s on to New Years! In particular, there’s the New Year’s Festival, which runs from the 30th to the 1st, and features a variety of events in Music, Art, Spoken Word and more.

There’s also the First Fortnight festival which kicks off on the 1st, and is another wide ranging festival with Music, Theatre, Film and more. We have a preview of the New Year’s Festival here, and a piece on the Spoken Word Festival here. Our preview of the First Fortnight Festival is here. Yes, it’s all kicking off in Dublin…

There’s also some good Irish Music on in Dublin with Kodaline, James Vincent Mcmorrow, Walking On Cars, Le Galaxie and the Riptide Movement, to name but a few. We’d also recommend the Hootenanny
St. Patrick’s Hospital on Jan 3rd. Whatever you do, don’t miss the Trailbalzers on January 1st in Christ Church.

Theatre

The Abbey – She Stoops to Conquer -until Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Gate – Wuthering Heights – until Jan 24th

Project Arts Centre –  Sleeps

Smock Alley – Pirates in the Kingdom of Enchantasia – Ofegus Theatre Company – 27th Dec – 4th Jan

Viking Theatre – Sleeps

New Theatre – Sleeps

Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps

Gaiety Theatre –   Peter Pan Christmas Panto – 1st December 2014 – 11th January 2014

Civic Theatre – Sleeping Beauty – 22 December 2014 – 4 January 2015

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Sleeps

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Elf the Musical – 16th Dec – 10th Jan

Movies

IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES:

WILD STRAWBERRIES: JOYEUX NOËL – Wednesday 31st December 2014 @11.00

Abandoned Goods – A film by Pia Borg & Edward Lawrenson – Irish Film Institute | Jan 3 @ 2.00pm

Gigs

There’s also some good Irish Music on in Dublin for New Years with Kodaline, James Vincent Mcmorrow, Walking On Cars, Le Galaxie and the Riptide Movement to name but a few.

Mon 29 Dec
Grace Wilde – Whelan’s
Christy Moore – Vicar Street – Cancelled

Tue 30 Dec
Empire Circus – Whelan’s
Poxy Morons – Whelan’s
Pete Cummins – Whelan’s
Christy Moore – Vicar Street – Cancelled
Stand – Whelan’s

Wed 31 Dec
New Year’s Eve Concert – College Green – Kodaline, James Vincent Mcmorrow, Walking On Cars
Le Galaxie – Meeting House Square
The Minutes – The Workman’s Club
The Riptide Movement – Whelan’s
Mother – Button Factory
New Year’s Eve Party – BelloBar
NYE Special – The Grand Social
New Year’s Eve Gala with Vince Mendoza – The National Concert Hall
Phil Hartnoll – Opium Rooms

Thu 01 Dec
Simply Red – 3Arena (The O2)

Sat Jan 3
Hootenanny – St Patrick’s Hospital
The Urges, The Turning(UK), Penrose and The Sex Beasts – Sweeneys

Sun Jan 4
29th Vibe for Philo – Vicar Street
Nyoi New Year Gala – National Concert Hall
The Star Of Bethlehem – Smock Alley Theatre

Art –

IMMA – until 31 Dec 2014 – IMMA Collection: Conversations

until 29 Mar 2015 – Duncan Campbell

until 01 Mar 2015 – Primal Architecture

TROVE – Dorothy Cross selects from the National Collections – 03 December 2014 – 08 March 2015 – Garden Galleries

RHA Gallery – until December 19, 2014 Karl Burke RHA Gallery II
until December 19, 2014 FUTURES 14 RHA Gallery I
until December 19, 2014 Gerard Carson RHA Ashford Gallery

Douglas Hyde –from 12 December – 25 February 2015
Gallery 1 – Niamh O’Malley

Gallery 2 – Mairead O’hEocha

Hugh Lane Gallery – Efforts and Ideals: Prints of the First World War  – until 22 February 2015

General Exhibition at the National Gallery

Chester Beatty – Permanent Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Image above – Janet-Mullarney–Earthly-Creatures- Taylor Gallery Winter Group Show

Kerlin – Eoin Mc Hugh – the skies will be friendlier then – until 23rd December

Oliver Sears – Stephen Lawlor – 4 Dec 2014 — 8 Jan 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – between shows

Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show  – until 31st Jan 2015