Visit the local award-winning ‘Ashford Garden’… of special interest to fruit, vegetable and berry growers.

Ashford Place

Tie Dye your own t shirts and clothes.

Bismarck

 Details to follow.

Park Gate Street

Collect your map and get your paws ready to admire some of Stoneybatter’s feline fancies! The Stoneybatter Cat Crawl aims to highlight the gorgeous cats that live around the area. These stunning cats have been instructed to lounge in the window to be admired during the event. Each window will display a photo of the resident cat as well as its likes/dislikes and unique quirks. Grab a coffee and take a stroll around Stoneybatter with your cat map, and make sure to use the hashtag #stoneybattercatcrawl so we can see your gorge pics!

This event also aims to highlight the important work cat charities do around Dublin city looking after feral and sick cats. There are lots of feral cats around Stoneybatter that are being fed and looked after by wonderful locals. We aim to raise awareness of these local cats as well as these local heroes! We are asking for a donation of €3 for the map, donation will go to CDPA (Link to be provided).

Collect maps at Little Cactus, Lillith Wine, Top to Toe & Festival Office in An Siol

Informal guided walk through the Church interior. (duration approx. 30 minutes)

Church of the Holy Family, Aughrim Street

Hear about the king-killers of Pill lane, The Sham Squire, Lord Edward – the hanging of John Clinch – the murder of Oliver Bond.

A Walking Tour from Chancery Park to St|Michans Church revealing the rich social and political history in the hinterland of Stoneybatter.

TBC

Learn about the weird, wonderful, and exciting science and research done by Stoneybatter locals!

O’Connor Sutton Cronin, 9 Prussia St

A walking introduction to Stoneybatter during the Rising, War of Independence and Civil War periods. A glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens, insurrectionists and British agents during the tumultuous period.

Stoneybatter was a place where rebels, agents, soldiers and assassins brushed shoulders. Together they used the same shops and drank in the same pubs, while also playing a deadly and game of a cat-and-mouse where the stakes were high and failure meant death.

Arbour Hill Cemetery

Places limited booking essential. Booking form to follow.

Pull up a chair and loosen that belt—Grub’s Up, Stoneybatter! is a lively, lip-smacking 75-minute food variety show served fresh from the heart of Dublin 7. This one-of-a-kind culinary cabaret blends live cooking demos, tastings, chef chat from local culinary heavyweights and surprise ingredients with a generous helping of collaboration.

The theme is Sustainability: but make it delicious. From root-to-stem tricks to waste-free wonders, we’ll show you how the tastiest bites can be planet-friendly too. Expect local flavours, fermentation flair, and maybe even a compost joke or two.
Come for the craic, stay for the scraps—because nothing goes to waste in Stoneybatter: See website for times.

SPADE Centre Shared Kitchen

FREE EVENT

Come together for a day that celebrates community, sustainability, and the power
of sharing. Hosted in the Spade Shared Kitchen and Garden, this event brings food lovers, growers, cooks, and curious minds together for an interactive day of learning,
tasting, and connecting.

Explore how sharing skills, space, knowledge, and food can build a stronger, more
resilient community—and have a lot of fun in the process!
What to Expect:
· Skill swaps: share and pick up tips on growing, preserving, and prepping food
· Ferment & recipe swaps – bring your own to trade!
· Gardening and composting know-how for small spaces and urban growers
· Meet the makers: local food producers from the SPADE community share
insights into sustainable small-scale production

Special Guests & Demonstrators:
Community Roots • Sourdough Rotation • An Taisce Climate Ambassadors • Seáneen Sullivan • Marcus O’Laoire • SPADE Producers • Katie Quinn …and more to be announced!

Why Sharing Matters:
From shared kitchens to shared gardens, the act of sharing is not just
sustainable—it’s transformative. This event invites you to take part in building a more
connected local food system and to discover the joy of doing it together.
Bring a jar, bring a recipe, bring a friend—let’s share the future of our food!

SPADE Centre Garden

Screening of the film ‘Red Nose’ – made in Stoneybatter, starring Stoneybatter locals.

Location details to follow

Update your wardrobe, refresh your shelves, and up your games game for FREE all while helping the environment at the Festival’s Super Swap! The Super Swap will have a clothes swap, a books swap, AND a games & jigsaws swap. We ask that you bring a maximum of five items of clothing and/or books and/or games & jigsaws, clean and in good condition, to swap. Or just come along and have a browse and a chat! All welcome.

This will be an event for all ages, with kids’ clothes, books, games & jigsaws among the featured items. If you wish, you can drop clothes, books, games and jigsaws for the swap into An Síol Community Project, 19 Manor Street, 10am-2pm the week before the festival, Monday 9th-Friday 12th June. With thanks to Cosybatter, our local Sustainable Energy Community; Dublin’s community-powered textile hub Change Clothes, and An Síol.

The Scout Hall, 45a Ben Edair Road

Come and chat with energy expert Gerard Doherty about ways & grants to make your home more energy-efficient. Gerard has been the mentor to Cosybatter, our local Sustainable Energy Community, since it was founded five years ago, working to save energy, to reduce bills, to make our buildings more comfortable and healthy to live and work in, and to play a part in reducing our climate emissions. Gerard is an expert in ways to reduce energy use and bills, and the wide range of grants available.

With thanks to Cosybatter and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

The Scout Hall, 45a Ben Edair Road

Join your guides, Dick Pender and Ronnie Daly for a tour of Stoneybatter’s most historic sites. .

Meet in Arbour Hill Cemetery car park (free bike parking)

Join us for a rich and informative historical tour of the National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks exploring LGBTQIA+ history in the Museum’s collections.

This tour views the Museum’s exhibitions through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way.

This is a free tour; however places are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks

Get your brakes serviced, tyres pumped, chain oiled and we’ll do what we can (equipment and expertise dependent!) for all other repairs, tweaks and adjustments!

Scout Hall, 45a Ben Edair Street

A one hour intro dance class exploring the history of Tango, it’s etiquette and the passion that makes it one of the most popular social dances in the world.

Holy Family Community Centre

Stillgarden Cocktail Forage with Conor, Gardener-in-Residence. We’re chuffed to once again welcome our green-thumbed neighbour Conor from Stillgarden Distillery in Dublin 8, who’ll be leading a guided urban forage through the streets of Stoneybatter. Along the way, you’ll discover how to spot the botanicals that end up in your favourite tipples, some hidden in plain sight, and how sustainable sipping starts from the ground up. The tour includes stops for a few well-earned cocktail samples, courtesy of the Drink Store and L. Mulligan. Grocer. Rooted in flavour, grounded in community—come taste what Stoneybatter has to offer, one foraged leaf at a time.

Meet at the Entrance to the SPADE Centre

Booking essential via www.lmulligangrocer.com. Tickets include samples at Drink Store & L. Mulligan. Grocer. 18+ only book via online

Spade Centre, Drink Store, L. Mulligan Grocer

This tour focuses on the story of Royal Barracks (now Collins Barracks) and the lives of soldiers who lived there between 1706 until 1993. Learn about their daily activities, living conditions, drilling and marching practices and experiences going to war.

This tour will also explore the story of Collins Barracks becoming a Museum, and will introduce visitors to some of the most fascinating artefacts in the Museum’s collection. As part of this tour, visitors will also be brought to the new Harry Clarke’s-Stained Glass exhibition to see some of Harry Clarke’s earliest work.

This is a free tour; however places are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks

Presented by the Shakesbatter Theatre Company

Three actors present all 37 plays by William Shakespeare in a hilarious afternoon of theatre. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre.

Join these madcap actors in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.

“37 times the fun” The Sunday Express

Aughrim Street Sports Centre

A five a side game lost to time, makes a Stoneybatter Festival comeback. Players throw wooden sticks (skittles!)to knock down pins from a set distance. It is fast-paced, competitive and full of laughs, perfect for anyone to try their hand and enjoy a bit of Irish sporting heritage. Registration needed.

Location TBC

Our chefs are creating a special small plate menu, a two day showcase of all their favourite dishes. Welcome bubbles and 80s tunes as always!

Kerala Kitchen, 73 Manor St

Stoneybatter Film Showcase celebrates all things film in the community. Screenings to Q&A event is free.

Location TBC

A Play written and performed by the Dublin 7 Women’s Shed.

Booking form to follow

TU Dublin Campus – exact location TBC

Local author and Top To Toe favourite Vicki Notaro will be selling and signing copies of her second novel LONG STORY in her most loved beauty salon. Swing by for some complimentary drinks and mingle with staff, clients and locals.

Top To Toe Salon

Get some practice in with a Cúpla Focal with a popup gaelteacht and some surprises on the night.

The Glimmer Man Lounge

Huddle around the campfire for a singsong. BYOS (Bring your own S-mores)

Billy Edwards Park

History panel with speakers discussing the people and places of Stoneybatter. From the Vikings to the present day, Stoneybatter and Dublin 7 has a rich and varied history. The speakers will address this rich history, from house histories, to what archaeology tells up about the oldest histories, to the dead of Stoneybatter interred in Glasnevin to the newly repored Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park. Listen to expert historians and writers relate these wonderful stories.

Holy Family Community Centre

Who will be crowned 2025 boule champions of Stoneybatter?

Teams of two, sign up upon arrival.

Billy Edward’s Park