German photographer David Jazay’s collection Dublin Before The Tiger collects, with incredibly beautiful detail, images of Dublin’s inner city from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.

Schaubühne Theatre’s artistic director Thomas Ostermeier is aiming to draw radical conclusions from Hamlet.

Culture Night never fails to deliver on a smörgåsbord of exciting once off events, performances, tours and workshops.

Each month in Home From Home we ask someone to compare Dublin with another city in which they have lived. Sometimes they are Irish, sometimes they are expatriates in Dublin. This month we spoke with Mónika.

Elaine Lavery and Hannah O’Reilly are the friends behind, Improper Butter, taking Elaine’s germ of an idea home from the French Alps and into a real going concern – via the Dragons’ Den.

Karl Whitney, author of Hidden City, explores the fascinating Abbeville, the physical incarnation of Charles Haughey’s North Dublin power base.

Belabouring the point of one’s own straightforwardness tends to be a self-defeating exercise, and it’s hard not to feel that way in MVP. Better not to say you do a great pint, and just do one.

The opening of The Three Tun Tavern marks the entry of British mega pub chain JD Wetherspoon’s into the fold on our humble island home.

The Rest is Action is a thoughtful work that tries to get inside the idea of following the rules of a system, even while deploring that same system.

In amongst the diddly-eye pubs on Temple Bar’s main drag is The Library Project, a vital resource to those both within and outside the city’s creative community.

Obvious Child is a film in which nothing bad happens, nobody does anyone else any harm, and no-one dies.

Since the art cuts attacked, cultural spaces have had to be pretty crafty to keep their doors open. Pallas Projects is amongst the most entrepreneurial, with its annual fundraising party Running in the Hall, but on Thursday 9th October, Pallas will be teaming up Whyte’s Auctioneers to introduce a new kind of event to the Irish art calendar: the benefit auction.

Despite existing since their days together in secondary school, Dublin three-piece Cloud Castle Lake are only now releasing their first record of their own music through Max Rocha’s new label Happy Valley.

The turban emanates a variety of cultural resonances – from her own Afro-Latin American heritage, to Islamic and Indian cultures, to diva singers – as well as being practical and pretty damn cool.

On the 25th September, Dublin Pop-Up and award-winning chef Barry Fitzgerald, will be taking your hands and guiding you to a Dine In The Dark banquet in a top-secret, underground venue. They’ll be serving up a menu created especially for the night, and you’ll be relying on your tastebuds alone to eat it.

Every carefully worn table and mismatched chair has an occupant and there’s a healthy queue at the bar. This maybe wouldn’t be so noteworthy if it weren’t for the fact that Blackbird is huge, combined with the exterior beer garden it can hold a pretty astounding amount of Punk IPA guzzlers.

The Woollen Mills instantly feels like a part of Dublin and has a purpose: to be an authentic, quintessentially Irish, a house of food (“Eating House”).