After leaving college, Ó Briain began working at RTÉ as a children's TV presenter. At this time he also began performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. He admitted, "I did the trip from Donegal to Dublin to play to six people; then I turned round and drove home again. I did about three or four years playing to a lot of bad rooms, but learning as I went. It's not bad when someone gives you 40 quid for standing up and telling jokes. I remember thinking: 'This is the life.'"

 

Also, Daithi O'Dronai.

 

The star-studded music spectacular will be presented by international TV presenter Ireland’s Amanda Byram. Performing on the night to celebrate the ten year anniversary will be the best in music, both home grown and international including Westlife, Snow Patrol, The Script, Florence and the Machine, Paulo Nutini, The Coronas, Pixie Lott and many more to be announced.

 

 

 

ADFs distinctive sound is a combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar- inspired guitars and 'traditional' sounds gleaned from their parents' record collections, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.

 

It’s a funny old world when seen through the eyes of Brendan Grace. The sanctimonious priest who knows more than he’s telling: ‘’Blessed is he who gets married in the nick of time’’. The father of the bride makes a speech at his daughters wedding: ‘’She could have married someone with money; she could have married someone who was working. She could have married someone who wasn’t working but was willing to work.’’ Then there’s the schoolboy with the unspeakable personal habits and a fine line in sympathy pleas. Brendan Grace is all of these and more. Each cock- eyed portrait he paints has a ring of truth that brings audiences to the point of apoplexy. Brendan’s material owes more to the best of the traditional stand-up-comics than it does to modern alternative humour and his show is very much a show for all the family. There is a sincerity about his act that endears you to him, and his off-stage persona is very much a ‘man of the people’ as he makes himself available after each show for a photo and a ‘meet and greet’. We anticipate Brendan’s first visit to the Mill Theatre will be a sell-out so early booking advisable.

 

avid O’Doherty, the 1990 East Leinster under 14s triple jump bronze medallist, the current number one ranked person called David O’Doherty on Google, the 2008 if.com (formerly Perrier) Award winner returns with a tiny keyboard and a brand new show. Uplifting! Hilarious! Surprising! Profound! Really, really stupid! At the very least, it will be some of these things.

 

Has opened for many of Ireland's top stand up comedians including Tommy Tiernan, Jason Byrne, PJ Gallagher, Colin Murphy, Neil Delamere, Andrew Maxwell, Barry Murphy, Karl Spain and Australia's Adam Hills.

 

Robbie Bonham: Its official! - Robbie was voted the funniest man by Dublins 98 listeners Craig Hill: Scottish comedian with so much energy he could power up a small village in the west of Glasgow! Eleanor Tiernan: With top class comedy in her veins Eleanor is one to watch out for Kevin Gildea: Packing nearly 20 years of comedy experience into his skinny jeans!

 

Artist’s Proof is an exhibition by 24 Irish and international fine art printmaking artists. Visitors will be able to see the creative methodology of the printmaker showing the development of the idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print, requiring great technical skill. The prints will be displayed alongside two working proofs to provide a glimpse of how it was made.

 

 

Tropicalsoundclash.

 

An exhibition of works by Beth Moyses (Brazil), curated by Lourdes Viso and Róisín Russell for Woman's Aid.

 

Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

 

 

To celebrate a quarter of a century of the teaching of film-making in Dun Laoghaire, JDIFF is delighted to present a selection of its live action graduate films. Beginning in the academic year 1984/85 at the then Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design, the National Film School at IADT has become the leading centre of excellence in the country at third level for professional education in film, television, animation and new media, and is the only full member in Ireland of CILECT, the international Association of Film and Television Schools. The NFS has built its reputation on the consistently high percentage of its graduates entering the entertainment and media industry, whose achievements have also been recognised through successes in competitions and festivals, both at home and abroad. Last month NFS graduates received 17 nominations for the 2010 IFTA Awards.

 

Conor Linehan performs Schubert's great late sonata along with a premiere of 3 new pieces of his own and Liszt's great showpiece

 

Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but scientists can give us a good idea of what they looked like and how they moved. We often imagine dinosaurs as colossal flesh-eating beasts that lived on our planet for an incredible 160 million years. Some were indeed gigantic, but many were only as heavy as a Labrador dog and many were vegetarian! Did you know that the Ornithomimus could run faster than an Olympic sprinter? See how the sociable Triceratops lived in herds, caring for and protecting their young. Meet Dilophosaurus, a relative of the first dinosaur found in Scotland. Come face to face with the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the fiercest land predators ever known. This massive animatronic model, 4 metres tall and 7 metres long, is so lifelike you’ll think it’s the real thing! Walk past the head of a hungry Tyrannosaurus and watch as his terrifying jaws go SNAP!

 

Disco, house, funk & soul.

 

Eclectic mix of tunes played.

 

Chart, dance, r&b.

 

 

DJs and dancing until 3am, cocktail promotions.

 

Soulful disco.

 

 

 

Over a seven week period well known artist and sculptor Cris Neumann will facilitate the creation of 3D works by Coolmine and Hartstown Community School students in a project that will be a fun reflection of Vodafone Ireland’s Green Agenda Policy. This educational and environmentally innovative visual arts project will explore the concepts of communication, mobility and technology and how these concepts can work in the reduction and recycling of waste. For more information and photos of the works in progress check out the website: www.makeartnotrubbish.com

 

 

Both floors of 4 Dame Lane in action with two very different styles on offer. The bar holds court to Rory Montane - a backstage favorite at Oxegen and Slane - with his big bag of guitars and electronic goodies. The club has two favourite lady DJs - Aoife NicCanna and Brazillian Marina. Playing a mix of house and latin breaks and beats.

 

Described by Martha Argerich as 'one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation', the brilliant Sergio Tiempo makes his RTÉ NSO début in the flamboyant and mercurial Paganini Variations. In Tchaikovsky, Manfred seeks self-oblivion, haunted by memories of forbidden love…the mix of brooding, fire and fantasy is quintessential Tchaikovsky and entirely at one with Byron’s Gothic poem.

 

Members free. Successors of the Louisiana Five. Skiffle outfit.

 

Includes light lunch. At her husband's lavish birthday party, Olya is tired - tired of the guests, tired and angry with her husband, who is flirting with the young girls. And tired for that other reason... Because Olya has a secret. A secret that she hides from them all with catastrophic effects.

 

Australian artists Pat Foster and Jen Berean have opened a new exhibition to coincide with their international studio residency.

 

This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition. A list of these potential works will not be disclosed in advance.

 

Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today is an exhibition of new works by Leslie Cullinan and Helena O’Connor. Both artists work collaboratively to examine notions of time through video installation, sculpture and drawings in pencil and ink.

 

 

 

 

 

‘When I have children I’m going to let them grow wild as weeds. No one bothers with weeds and still they grow and grow.’ In a provincial Irish town in the 1950s the children have some questions: What’s happening to them and what’s happening in the world around them? And why? The young heroes of Thomas Kilroy’s urgent new play strive to carve out an understanding of the world beneath the unbearable weight of unanswered questions, confusion and their own desires. And the clergy gather like crows on the horizon. Based on Frank Wedekind’s masterpiece of German symbolism Spring Awakening, Christ Deliver Us! is a play about how hard and how wonderful it can be to grow up during a period of Irish History that we can never again look back on with nostalgia. An Abbey Theatre commision

 

Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay’s got an itch that Gem can’t scratch (but maybe Kermit can). Paul is just using Amber until he can get to Australia. The Hairy Man fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occasion, and Gem doesn’t like the neighbours coming in to ‘mind’ him. And if all that wasn’t bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and…well…life is never the same again.

 

Undoubtedly Caspa's remix of TC - "Where's My Money" was the wonky dubstep anthem of 2008. Caspa followed with his woofer rinsing album "Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening" with appearances from MC heavy weights like Dynamite MC & Rod Aslan. Tonight he makes his Dublin club debut with Rod Aslan in tow and support from the Mr Jones posse.