Things To Do: Take a walk, look at some flowers, hear Miriam Margolyes cuss, observe some Luas passengers

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Deep Burn by Brendan Mac Evilly

This evening, Marrowbone Books is launching Brendan Mac Evilly’s novel Deep Burn over in Lucky’s on Meath Street.

Set in a seaside village in south Kerry, Deep Burn takes as its central character Martha Knox as she develops an unlikely career by burning emotionally charged objects and photographing the results. The work attracts her a range of clients who come to her with items that they need her to destroy. But, these new relationships are complicated when a curator arrives in town and considers including her in his Berlin Biennale.

Described as a “frenetic tale of art and the value of obsession”, Deep Burn is the debut novel from Mac Evilly, who is also known for his work as author of the part-travelogue, part-guidebook At Swim: A Book About the Sea, and as editor of the cultural journal Holy Show.

To celebrate Deep Burn’s publication, Marrowbone is inviting people over to the shop at 5pm to have one of Mac Evilly’s Guinness cocktails – a concoction which will presumably feature the stout and something else – before they proceed over to Lucky’s at 6pm for the official launch.

Deep Burn is on sale at Marrowbone Books here.

In Transit

Meanwhile, across the city on Dawson Street, artist Maria Ginnity’s second solo show, In Transit will also be opening tonight in Reds Gallery.

Curated by Tony Strickland, Ginnity’s exhibition brings its audience on board the Luas to study its passengers, their body language, how they carry themselves in the presence of strangers and what they do pass the time.

Artist and senior lecturer at TU Dublin Brian Fay will open the launch, which begins at 6pm.

In Transit will run until Wednesday, 15 October.

To find out more about the exhibition, read Ginnity’s interview in our most recent issue here.

FLOURA

Over the weekend, queer art collective Seachtó will be holding its immersive fine art photography and floral art showcase in the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Gallery.

Curated by the collective’s co-founders, Seán Ó Ceallaigh and Ingrid Doyle, FLOURA is a multidisciplinary exhibition that comprises floral installations, short films and portraits. Featuring contributions by film artist Marion Bergin and director Dan Comerford, the two-day event looks to explore Ireland “as a place in which the veil between myth and modernity often falls, creating an omnipresent and sometimes magical sense of tension”.

FLOURA will also serve as a fundraiser for humanitarian relief efforts for the people of Gaza, with all exhibited works being part of a ticketed raffle, the proceeds of which will be going directly to the NGO Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).

The exhibition will run on Saturday 11 October and Sunday 12 October only.

For more information, visit  Seachtó's Instagram page here.

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes will be in town this weekend.

The BAFTA-winning actress, whose credits include The Age of Innocence, the Harry Potter series, Little Dorrit, Magnolia, Babe, Deadwood, and Blackadder and proclaiming herself to be the first person to utter a “fuck” on British TV – on University Challenge in 1963 – will be dropping into the Irish Film Institute on Saturday afternoon.

Joined by Rory O’Neill, a.k.a. Panti Bliss, Margolyes will be present to discuss her career, prior to an exclusive screening of Lee Knight’s short film, A Friend of Dorothy.

The writing and directorial debut of actor Knight, A Friend of Dorothy stars Margolyes in the titular role, playing an elderly woman who lives alone, and strikes up a friendship with her young neighbour after his football ends up in her garden. As their friendship deepens, the film explores themes of loneliness in old age and queer identity.

Tickets for the event are €25, and can be purchased here.

The Municipal Walker

After bringing us on her most recent trek around the North and South Circular Roads back in September, artist and Dublin’s self-appointed Municipal Walker Lian Bell is hitting the footpaths once again

Next Thursday morning, Bell will be holding her second iteration of the Sarah Purser Municipal Walk. A different version of Bell’s traditional route, this particular walk, commissioned by the Hugh Lane Gallery in 2024, was conceived to honour the life of artist, activist and collector Sarah Purser.

Over the course of the two-hour trek, participants will be brought on a route that takes in sites of significance to Purser, beginning outside the Hugh Lane, before venturing over to her former homes at Harcourt Terrace and Mespil House, and then heading towards An Túr Gloine, the stained-glass studio founded in 1903 by Purser on Upper Pembroke Street.

While the walk will bring you on a tour of Purser’s life, this isn’t a walking tour. “Some fragments of knowledge” will be shared, according to the event’s page, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Bell will be sharing them, so everyone tagging along should gather together a few factoids to disperse.

Meanwhile, Bell as the Municipal Walker, whose role is to serve as a mechanism for conserving civic responsibility, promises to “offer gentle tactics of attending to the charged atmospheres of urban life”.

The Sarah Purser Walk is scheduled for 10am on Thursday, 16 October. Meet outside the Hugh Lane Gallery. Numbers for the walk are limited. To book a spot on the walk, head on over to the Hugh Lane Gallery’s website here.

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Through and Between

The opening of the group exhibition Through and Between is set for 6–8pm tomorrow evening at the Douglas Hyde Gallery.

The show was organised by members of the gallery's 2025 Student Forum. The title "draws on Carol Duncan’s idea of the museum as a ritual passage, a space visitors move through in ways that are choreographed", which resonated with the Student Forum cohort, according to the gallery.

The exhibition participants are Anastassia Varabiova, Anna O’Leary, Bernadette Kenny, Shanaia Kapoor, Eoghan O’Kelly, Isabella Wood, Jack Pierce, Reuben Brown, Róise McGagh, Jessie Aylmer, James Ó Muirithe, Síofra Egan and Caoimhe Wandel-Brannigan.

The exhibition will continue over the weekend and Monday. There's more information on it here.

Online Submissions for Marrowbone Lane Playing Pitch

Dublin City Council is holding an online consultation and a number of in-person information events with members of the local community and sporting representative groups in Marrowbone Lane, Dublin 8, to discuss options for the area, including a new consolidated depot and the possibility of providing a new multi-use sports pitch.

The online consultation is available to view here and will be open until 21 October. 

The in-person events will take place on 9 and 14 October in St Catherine’s Community Sports Centre on Marrowbone Lane from 11am to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm each day. 

New Show James Moran by James Moran

Comedian James Moran is bringing his experimental new show, New Show James Moran by James Moran to the Pearse Centre on Monday, 13 October.

New Show James Moran by James Moran is a sequel to his sold out July show One Off.

Tickets are available here.

In The Making

Create has announced a series of events coming up this month, titled In the Making: October in the North East Inner City

On Friday, 10 October, at 4.30pm, artist Niamh Flanagan will be running a hands-on zine making workshop.

And on Thursday, 30 October, from 11am to 1pm, local historian Terry Fagan will lead a guided walk to highlight local events, layered histories and hidden stories.

There's more information here.

The Nightmare Realm

The Nightmare Realm is bringing its Family Day Indoor Trick-or-Treating Event back to Dublin for a second year.

This special one-off event will take place on Halloween night, Friday 31 October from 12pm to 2pm at the Royal Liver Retail Park in Inchicore.

Tickets are limited and can be booked here. For children under 12, it is €20 and includes a pumpkin, while an adult ticket is €15. Carers and infants under 1 are free, with no pumpkin included.