The Longines Champions Weekend

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• Dublin Theatre Festival

  The 60th anniversary Dublin Theatre
  Festival will run from 28 Sept – 15 Oct
  2017. The very irst festival in May 1957,
  was part of An Tóstal – a celebration
  inspired by the wave of festivals that had
  been founded across Europe during the
  preceding decade as the continent rebuilt
  itself after the devastation of war.
  Established initially to promote tourism
  during the off-season, the festival has
  grown to become an artistically led
  lagship cultural event that animates
  Dublin each autumn, welcoming
  audiences from all over Ireland and
  beyond. Now in this 60th anniversary year
  the festival both celebrates what has gone
  before while looking irmly to the future
  and the ahead.

• Peploe’s Makeover

  Trading now for over 14
  years on St Stephen’s
  Green in the heart of
  Dublin city, Peploe’s has
  relaunched with a new
  look and feel that cost in
  the region of €400,000
  and spectacularly was
  completed in just two and
  a half weeks over late July,
  early August.

• Decorative arts & history celebrates its 20th birthday

  On 18 September 1997, the National
  Museum of Ireland opened a new Dublin
  site at Collins Barracks. The vast majority
  of the collections on display at this new
  museum came from the Art & Industrial
  Division of the National Museum of
  Ireland, whose role since its foundation in
  1877, is to safeguard Ireland’s heritage in
  the decorative arts as well as its political,
  military and social history.

• The Gaiety Theatre

  Initiated by Grafton Street music
  shop owners, brothers John and
  Michael Gunn, and designed, with its
  lovely Venetian façade and operahouse
  interior, by Charles J. Phipps, an
  architect renowned for up to twelve
  notable London theatres, the Gaiety
  Theatre first opened on King Street
  South in 1871. Round-the-clock shifts
  ensured it was built in the
  unbelievable short period of 25 weeks.

  par Pat Liddy
• Gallery Zozimus

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• Longines Irish Champions Weekend

  Get ready for a great weekend of racing as the Longines
  Irish Champions Weekend returns to Leopardstown and
  The Curragh, Ireland’s two premier racecourses, on
  Saturday, 9 and Sunday, 10 September respectively.

• Dublin Ghostbus Tour

  Discover the darker side of Dublin on
  the DoDublin Ghostbus Tour. This twohour
  bus tour takes visitors around the
  city’s most haunted spots. As you cruise
  around the streets, you will hear about
  ghostly legends, body snatching and
  spine-chilling mysteries from your
  entertaining guide. Get acquainted with
  the sites of ghostly apparitions and the
  frightening stories associated with
  them. Take a stroll around the eerie St.
  James Graveyard and descend into the
  depths of the medieval crypt at Christ
  Church Cathedral.

• Discover the wonders of Cobh
• Cobh Guinness Bluesn’n’roots Festival

  Every year in September, the beautiful tourist town of Cobh
  in County Cork hosts a gathering of International, National
  and Local Blues musicians for the annual Guinness Cobh
  Blues ‘n’ Roots Festival to bring Blues alive in Cobh for the
  weekend. With concerts and performances both outdoor
  and indoor, including many of the town’s venues, pubs and
  hotels, Cobh Guinness Blues Festival was founded by publican
  Paul O'Halloran in September 2007. Now in its 11th
  year, Cobh Blues Festival has this year broadened the
  musical genre to include the all-encompassing “Roots” and
  takes place on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September. Each
  year it has grown from strength to strength and this year
  will be no different.

• Dingle Crystal

  From humble beginnings, Dingle Crystal have established
  themselves on the world stage thanks to their
  commitment to producing mouth-blown, hand-cut
  crystal. In an era when many other brands have gone down the
  wholesale route, this family-run company still proudly produce
  unique, hand crafted pieces that can be found in the collections
  of the President of Ireland and Bono to name but two.