Another summer week in Dublin  and the usual glut of events and festivals! There’s the Zurich Dalkey Book Festival with PJ O’Rourke and Amanda Palmer among others! For the culinary arts, there’s the Taste of Dublin from the 11th to the 14th in the Iveagh Gardens.

Gigs that are worth a mention this week include Waxahatchee, Amanda Palmer, The Gaslight Anthem etc. There’s also a couple of smaller festivals in the form of KBC Great Music in Irish Houses and Youbloom.

Theatre

The Abbey – Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts –  4 June 2015 – 27 June 2015

The Gate – The Gigli Concert  – May 21st to June 27th

Smock Alley –  The Simpsons Best Moments Trivia – June 10th-12th at 6pm

Big Starving Thing Album Launch – Riona Sally Hartman – Sunday June 14th at 8pm

Theatre Upstairs – A Boy Called Nedd – 02 JUNE – 13 JUNE 2015

Viking Theatre – Village Wooing – June 9 – 20

New Theatre –  Saints and Sinners by W.B. Yeats – Jun 8th – Jun 20th

Gaiety Theatre –  sleeps

Project Arts Centre – Riddle of the Burial Grounds – Exhibitions – 11 Jun 2015-01 Aug 2015

Civic Theatre  – Al Porter Is Yours – Thursday, 11th June 2015 // 8pm

That’s Entertainment – Saturday, 13th June 2015 // 7:00pm

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – No Smoke Without Fire – June 02 – 13, 2015

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Carousel – 10 June -13 June

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema – Bill Murray Season – All through June

RUSHMORE – 10:30pm Friday June 12 2015

KINGPIN – 10:30pm Saturday June 13 2015

Sugar Club – Friday (Ice Cube & Chris Tucker) + The Dr. Dre Appreciation Society – Fri Jun12

New Releases this Week

Black Coal, Thin Ice
Jurassic World
Let Us Prey
Queen and Country
The Look Of Silence
West

Gigs

Events that are worth a mention this week include Waxahatchee, Amanda Palmer, The Gaslight Anthem etc. There’s also a couple of smaller festivals in the form of KBC Great Music in Irish Houses and Youbloom.

Mon 08 Jun
The Gaslight Anthem – The Olympia Theatre

Tue 09 Jun
Colin Currie Group – Samuel Beckett Theatre
Sylvan Esso – Whelan’s
Aoife Doyle – Mill Theatre
Le Trio Joubran – National Concert Hall

Wed 10 Jun
Baiba and Lauma Skride – Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Hibernian Orchestra Summer Gala Concert – NCH
Tír na nÓg (Album Launch) – Whelan’s

Thu 11 Jun
Escher Quartet – National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
Soak – Pepper Canister Church
Andy Irvine – Whelan’s
KnockanStockan Launch – The Button Factory
John Edwards / Paul G Smyth Duo – NCH
Paddy Casey – Leopardstown
Megacone, Able Archer & Radio Room – The Workman’s Club
Otherkin – The Thomas House
Valentino Is Dead – Whelan’s

Fri 12 Jun
The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus – Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle
Television – The Academy
BIMM Live
Hugh Tinney, Michael d’Arcy and Christopher Marwood – Killruddery House, Bray
The Live Last Waltz – The Olympia Theatre
RTE NSO Summer Evening Series – NCH
Youbloom 2015
Stanley Odd – The Grand Social
Gary O’Neill (EP Launch) – The Unitarian Church
Sub Motion – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Interskalactic – Whelan’s
Finbar Furey – Vicar Street
tINI – The Twisted Pepper

Sat 13 Jun
Waxahatchee – The Button Factory
Amanda Palmer – The Academy
Youbloom 2015
Armida Quartet – Belvedere Hous
Paddy Hanna – Bello Bar
Eoin Fleming, Piano – NCH
Owen Vahey (EP Launch) – Whelan’s
Columbia Mills – Whelan’s
This Side Up – The Grand Social

Sun 14 Jun
Corrosion Of Conformity – The Academy
Dave McHugh-Band – Vicar Street
Red Hurley – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Martin Carthy – Whelan’s

Talks and Lectures

Dalkey Book Festival – June 11th to 14th

National Library of Ireland – Yeats 150 – History Ireland Hedge School – National Library of Ireland – Friday 12 June, 7pm

National Library of Ireland – Players and Painted Stage: The Drama of Yeats’s Life’ -The Joseph Hassett Yeats Lecture (11/6/2015) – Join Professor Roy Foster as he explores the life and work of William Butler Yeats.

National Gallery of Ireland – June 9 2015 10:30 – Tuesday Talk: ‘Refurbishing and Rehanging the NGI’, with Sean Rainbird, Director, NGI. Free public lecture.

IMMA – Summer Rising – The IMMA Festival – 4-14 June 2015

Art

IMMA – Gerda Frömel, A Retrospective  – 09 April – 05 July

Karla Black – 01 May 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

Stan Douglas: Mise en Scène 05 Jun 2015 – 20 Sep 2015

Etel Adnan  – 05 Jun 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

IMMA Collection: Fragments – 01 May 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

Diogo Pimentão : Disequilibrium Displacement – until 05 Jul 2015

National Gallery of Ireland – Sean Scully – 9 May – 20 September 2015

RHA Gallery – May 25, 2015 – August 08, 2015 185th Annual Exhibition

Douglas Hyde – May 22 – July 22, 2015
Gallery 1 – SAM KEOGH – Four Fold
Gallery 2 – WOODEN SHIPS – An exhibition of small found objects

Hugh Lane Gallery – Declan Clarke: Wreckage in May – 30 April 2015 – 13 September 2015

Chester Beatty – Seven Treasures: Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London – until June 14th

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Samuel Laurence Cunnane – 22nd May – 20th June 2015

Oliver Sears – Jeff Schneider & Nest Design – 21 May 2015 — 25 Jun 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – Sonia Shiel – Here, while the bees are sleeping – 30th April – 30th May 2015

Taylor Gallery – Off The Rack – 13 May – 13 June 2015

Olivier Cornett Gallery – 5 Cavendish Row – Opening June 7th