Things To Do: Celebrate 11 red cards, cheer on the masters of honey, discover the enduring language of spirals

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Sent Off

When Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa released their film Saipan last year, one of the greatest surprises to emerge from their highly-fictitious football biopic is the fact that this wasn’t the first time a version of Roy Keane appeared as a character on the silver screen.

Actually, it was the second. Author and filmmaker Dave Tynan, in 2014, shot a short film titled Rockmount, which travelled back to Cork in the early '80s as a young boy named Roy attempted to get on the starting line-up of a local club.

And so it was that, on the eve of 2026, the Roy Keane Cinematic Universe was born.

Now, nine months later, it is exciting to discover that the endearingly truculent midfielder is about to become a muse once more.

This evening, up in Hen’s Teeth, artist Seánie Harte will be opening his first solo exhibition, titled Sent Off.

It’s a wonderfully simple premise. Harte has created a series of oil pastel artworks inspired by every single red card Keane has earned on the field. That’s 11 in total.

If you want to catch, in vibrant colours, the time he stomped on Gareth Southgate or the time he broke Alf-Inge Haaland’s leg, Harte’s exhibition launches tonight at 6pm (Thursday, 3 September).

Sent Off will run until 26 September.

Do It Together

Pallas Projects turns 30 this year, and to mark the anniversary, they will be launching the first of a two-part celebration over the autumn this evening.

Do It Together features works both new and restaged by artists that represent significant moments in Pallas’ history, which began on Foley Street before later moving up to the Coombe.

Among those set to contribute are the artists Katie Holten, Brendan Earley, Jesse Jones, Brian Duggan, Sarah Brown, Gareth Kennedy, John Smith, Ruth Clinton, Niamh Moriarty and Venus Patel.

Like any great birthday party, this event will take place in two phases, with the first opening at 6pm today.

Phase One, which runs from 3 to 26 September, will see Pallas collaborating with other artist-run organisations, both national and international. Among these are PUBLICS, a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, and exhibition space in Vallila, Helsinki, and the Carlow-based project Muine Bheag Arts.

You can then pencil Phase Two into your calendar for next month. That will take place between 1 and 24 October, and is set to feature works from artist Jennie Moran and the Belgian experimental arts centre Kunsthal Gent.

Across both phases, there will also be a brand new commission by collaborative art practice Forerunner (Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Tom Watt and Tanad Aaron) which will feature “an architectural intervention” that vows to transform the Pallas gallery space in unspecified ways.

There will also be a number of talks, events and screenings during October. For more information, visit the exhibition event page here.

Guru Guru Meguru

Because we have you in the area, we’re going to direct you over to the Throwing Shapes pottery and ceramics studio on Mill Street.

This evening, the studio’s artist-in-residence Teruri Yamawaki is launching her new exhibition of ceramic sculpture, titled Guru Guru Meguru, which explores cycles, transformation and “the enduring language of the spiral”.

Inspired by the sacred spirals that are found in ancient monuments in Ireland and in Japan, Yamawaki brings together these two distant landscapes into a conversation through clay. 

Guru Guru Megure opens today (Thursday, 3 September) at 6pm. The exhibition will be free to visit on Friday between 10am and 6pm, before it concludes on Saturday at 1pm.

For more information and to see Yamawaki’s work, visit her Instagram page here.

Inis Records and Friends Market

Back in July, Fontaines D.C. drummer Tom Coll announced that he was launching Inis Records, a new independent label, with Michael Roe of Adebisi Shank and Richter Collective and Ken Allen of Faction Records.

On Friday, 4 September, they will be hosting a pop-up record market in Hen’s Teeth. The market will feature stalls from labels including Bohemia, Faction Music, Out On A Limb, Pizza Pizza Records, Strange Brew and Ten Spot Records.

Also, on the day, there will be a live set from Cathal Mac Gabhann of the Altered Hours and a DJ set by Donal Dineen.

The market kicks off at 5pm, and will run until late. For more information, visit the Inis Records website here or follow them on Instagram here.

The Phoenix Park Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show

It’s impressive. Even when we direct you towards an event on the north side, somehow it remains within the Dublin 8 area.

On Saturday, the Phoenix Park Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show will be returning for its tenth anniversary.

The family-friendly festival comprises tours, talks and workshops, as well as exhibitions and demonstrations that focus on Irish honey, beeswax, mead and bee-related crafts.

From midday, there are talks scheduled at the Visitor Centre in Ashtown Demesne. Jim Ryan of the Federation of Irish Beekeepers' Associations will be discussing the benefits of bees and wasps. Taylor Maslanka of the Irish Midlands Ringing Group will talk about bird ringing. Claire Kelly of Teagasc will explain microbial food safety.

Other highlights to catch are the Honey Show competition and a tour of the restored Victorian Walled Garden.

The festival starts at 11am and will run until 4pm. For more information, and to see a full breakdown of the line-up, visit the Phoenix Park website here.

A Thought Without Collision

On Tuesday, 8 September, we will finally give you permission to leave Dublin 8.

That evening, writer and artist Adrian Duncan will be launching his new novel A Thought Without Collision in Books Upstairs.

Split into two parts, A Thought Without Collision begins in the summer of 1923 when its central character, six-year old Catherine Carolan has grown restless on her parents’ farm, and is intellectually outgrowing the two-room schoolhouse across the fields. Later, in the summer of 1951, it trails Carolan after she has become a professor in Oxford, and is summoned by one Dr Josef Alois to ease him through his final days.

The book has been lauded by the Times Literary Supplement as a “beautifully sad novel of unpursued love and wasted lives”, and to celebrate its release, Duncan will be in conversation with Breakdown author Cathy Sweeney at 6:30pm. 

Attendance is free but booking is essential. You can reserve a spot here. 

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It is National Cinema Weekend this coming weekend, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September. Tickets to all normal screenings are priced from just €4 in cinemas nationwide.

In Dublin, Cineworld, IFI, Movies@, Lighthouse, Odeon, Omniplex, Savoy and Vue cinemas are all set to participate.

More information here.

The Hechyeomoyeo

Non-profit art project The Hechyeomoyeo is coming to Dublin later this month.

Ahead of their exhibition in FLUX Studios, which opens on 24 September, they have issued a call-out to all artists and creatives to join their movement.

Artists working in all mediums are welcome to submit their works here with all who register getting the opportunity to feature in their magazine, receive a lifetime membership, and contribute to the ten day festival.

For more information follow the Hechyeomoyeo on their Instagram here.

There is No Planet B: an IFSC Walking Tour in a Time of Climate Breakdown

This Culture Night (Friday, 18 September), Financial Justice Ireland will be leading a walking tour of Dublin’s Docklands to explore how the financial district drives ecological breakdown.

The tour begins at 5pm at the James Connolly Memorial Statue opposite to Liberty Hall, and will continue until 7pm.

Tickets are free and available here.

Do you have a connection to Benburb Street?

Researchers, with support from approved housing body Tuath Housing, are looking for people with memories of, or connections to Benburb Street.

Anyone with stories or photographs from Benburb Street, a connection to the Dublin Corporation Artisan Dwellings (now Ellis Court) and community life in the area is encouraged to get in touch with Eimar Rosato at e.rosato@tuathhousing.ie.

Contributions could feature in an exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks.