Hey all,
Well, autumn is properly here.
After getting spoiled with a nice weekend, the temperature has dropped and Dublin has very quickly remembered what time of year it is.
Luckily, there's plenty happening indoors this weekend.
The big one is the Dublin Festival of History, which is in full swing across the city. It's one of the biggest free history festivals around, with talks, tours, exhibitions and events taking place across Dublin.
There is a ridiculous amount happening. Some events are free, some are paid and quite a few are already fully booked, so have a browse through the full programme if history is your thing.
I've picked out a couple below, alongside ceramics, short films and a book launch.
What's On This Week
Autumn Ceramics Market
Who Were These Men? 1916 Leaders & Arbour Hill Cemetery
Medieval Dublin Symposium 2026
Crew Shorts Screening
Requiem for Gaza Book Launch
Autumn Ceramics Market
Location: Throwing Shapes, Mill Street, Dublin 8
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October | 11am–4pm
If your cupboards could do with some nicer mugs, this could be dangerous.
Throwing Shapes is bringing together 34 potters from across Ireland for its Autumn Ceramics Market.
Alongside all the handmade ceramics, there'll be buns from Fable Bakery, matcha, coffee, flowers and music from Shamrock Showband.
A nice Saturday wander and a good chance to support local makers.
Who Were These Men? 1916 Leaders & Arbour Hill Cemetery
Location: Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin 7
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October | 2pm–3:30pm
One from the Dublin Festival of History.
This interactive tour looks beyond the names of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising and explores the lives they lived before ending up at Arbour Hill.
Rather than just running through dates and events, the tour asks what brought each of these men to Easter Monday and what they left behind.
Children are welcome too.
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Medieval Dublin Symposium 2026
Location: JM Synge Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October | 9:30am–5pm
If you really like your Dublin history, here's seven and a half hours of it.
The 27th Medieval Dublin Symposium brings together historians, archaeologists, students and researchers to share new work on medieval Dublin.
This year's programme includes Viking settlement in Ballyfermot, medieval farming, historical records and even attempts to reconstruct the population of medieval Dublin.
You don't have to stay for the full day either, so pick the talks that interest you.
Crew Shorts Screening
Location: Light House Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin 7
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October | 10:30am–12:30pm
Six Irish short films and a Saturday morning in the Light House.
Sounds fairly good to me.
The Crew Shorts Screening showcases work from crew members who have made the jump into their own creative projects.
The programme includes Romance is Dad, Oíche Chultúir, The Wilde Sisters, Knockser, We Were There and Little Caesar, followed by tea, coffee and a chance to chat afterwards.
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Requiem for Gaza Book Launch
Location: The Whistleblower, South Anne St
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October | 6.30pm
A more serious one to finish this week.
Requiem for Gaza is a new work of graphic journalism from writer Chris Hedges and cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco.
In spring 2025, the pair travelled to Cairo and interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had left Gaza. The resulting book combines Hedges' reporting with Sacco's illustrations to document their experiences of displacement, loss and life during the war.
Sacco's previous work includes Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, so anyone familiar with his work will know the style of journalism to expect.
That's your lot for this week.
If none of those take your fancy, I'd definitely recommend having a proper look through the Dublin Festival of History programme.
There are events happening right across the city, and one of the nice things about the festival is just how niche some of them get.
You might go looking for something about 1916 and somehow end up learning about medieval farming in Newcastle.
Which, to be fair, is exactly the sort of rabbit hole I enjoy.
Catch you next week 👋
