Come Here To Me!

Ci is off to Yeats Country on Friday, but for me it’s Derry. Our northside and southside clubs are both out of town. Any visit to Sandino’s, the Bogside and Derry city is worth taking so I’m excited about that. The Irish Taliban have seen to it you can’t enjoy a drink tomorrow, so if you’re one of us red and white Dublin 8 types hop in a car and come north.

The highlight of this weekend in Dublin has to be the Tivoli Jam. Graffiti, DJ’s, fun in the sun and some of the best Irish and international artists in the field. It runs Saturday in the Tivoli carpark from 12-6, I’ll be there post-work from about 3. Say hello.

The good people at Crackbird are running their new Saturday night special again. 2 quid beers and 5 quid for chicken AND beer? Crackbird, never leave us.

For those lucky enough to still have jobs and money to waste on nice things, Urban Outfitters are doing a Good Friday Party, with 20% off all clothes and free beers in the shop. Can’t go wrong with that really.

If you can over the weekend, get down to The Art Park, “Dublin’s largest outdoor visual arts screen”, which is showing ‘Maser is Home Made’ – a six-minute graffiti projection by Maser. It’s down by the back of the Convention Centre.

With the weekend that is in it, there are events around the city to mark the anniversary of the 1916 rising. My picks of these would be the new ‘Blood Upon The Rose’ exhibition at Kilmainham Gaol, the walking tour of Dublin with Bill O’Brien on Good Friday organised by éirígí and the unveiling of a plaque on Monday to Patrick Heeney, with a midday meet up at Liberty Hall. That plaque is being unveiled by the North Inner City Folklore Project, a group I have a great deal of time and respect for. Researching my own family, I’d love someone on this side of the Liffey to match their passion!