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Events in Dublin, easy to join alone.

11 upcoming events in Dublin you can go to alone, 1 of them free, from Monday 26 Oct to Saturday 28 Nov. Picked from city open data and official agendas. Check the official page before you go: times and prices can change.

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6 events in the next 14 days.

Mon26Oct
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Lark After Dark: House on Haunted Hill and Carnival of Souls

The Lark Concert Hall

A Monday-night double bill of classic horror at The Lark in Balbriggan, north of Dublin, closing its Cinema Club launch season in Halloween week. The evening opens with Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill, in which guests are challenged to survive a night in a supposedly haunted house, and after the interval comes the dreamlike cult film Carnival of Souls, about a woman drawn towards an abandoned carnival. The venue describes it as two very different cult classics for one ticket, listed at €10. Start time is 19:00; allow roughly three hours including the interval. A relaxed, sociable way to see two old films in a proper cinema setting without needing company. «Lark After Dark: House on Haunted Hill & Carnival of Souls» Starts 19:00, ends about 22:00. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sat31Oct
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Lark After Dark: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Balbriggan

The Lark Concert Hall

The Lark Concert Hall in Balbriggan, north of Dublin, starts its Halloween evening with a screening of the 1920 silent film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. John Barrymore plays the respectable doctor whose experiments to separate the good and evil in his nature release the sinister Mr. Hyde, in what the venue calls one of early cinema's great horror performances. The screening belongs to the Lark After Dark: Home of Halloween programme, an extension of the Lark Cinema Club, the venue's film series for classics, cult favourites and silent masterpieces. It is on Saturday 31 October at 17:00, and tickets are 10 euro including fees, booked through the Lark's website. The page gives no running time, so the end time shown here is only an estimate. «Lark After Dark: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)» Starts 17:00, ends about 18:30. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sat31Oct
Free
CultureDublin

Fingal Festival of Fire: music and fireworks, Swords Castle

Swords Castle and Swords Town Park

On Halloween night, Fingal County Council lights up the park behind medieval Swords Castle, just north of Dublin, with live Halloween music from 18:30 and a fireworks display at 19:30. The same Festival of Fire runs at two other Fingal sites, Bremore Castle in Balbriggan and Millennium Park in Blanchardstown, where the programme is a scary disco followed by fireworks; at Swords the opening is live music. It is a free outdoor evening organised by the council's Events Unit, easy to join alone since everyone is looking up at the same sky. Wrap up warm, as it is late October and the fireworks are outdoors. «Fingal Festival of Fire - Swords Castle» Starts 18:30, ends about 20:00. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sat31Oct
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Lark After Dark: Nosferatu (1922) on the big screen, Balbriggan

The Lark Concert Hall

On Halloween night The Lark, an arts venue in Balbriggan on the coast north of Dublin, screens F. W. Murnau's silent classic Nosferatu (1922) as part of its Lark After Dark: Home of Halloween programme. The film is an unofficial adaptation of Dracula, and its vampire is a figure of disease and hunger rather than a charming aristocrat. The venue lists the screening for 19:00 with tickets at €10 including fees, and the film runs about an hour and a half. Seeing a hundred-year-old horror film with a roomful of strangers in the dark is a very easy thing to do on your own, and the same venue shows other horror classics earlier and later that night. «Lark After Dark: Nosferatu (1922)» Starts 19:00, ends about 20:40. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sat31Oct
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Lark After Dark: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Balbriggan

The Lark Concert Hall

The Lark Concert Hall in Balbriggan closes Halloween night with George A. Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead, shown in the hall's cinema series Lark After Dark: Home of Halloween. The film puts seven strangers inside a remote farmhouse while the dead begin to rise outside, and it is remembered as a landmark of independent cinema made on a tiny budget that helped create the modern zombie film. The venue points to its stark black-and-white photography and its mounting claustrophobia as the reasons it still works almost sixty years on. The screening is on Saturday 31 October at 21:00, and tickets cost 10 euro including fees. The listing gives no running time, so the end time is an estimate. Expect horror content, and note that it is an evening show. «Lark After Dark: Night of the Living Dead (1968)» Starts 21:00, ends about 22:40. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Mon2Nov
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Monday Night Cinema: Dead Man's Wire, Pavilion Theatre

Pavilion Theatre

The Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire shows Gus Van Sant's thriller Dead Man's Wire as part of its Monday Night Cinema series, with screenings at 17:00 and 20:00 on 2 November. The film dramatises a real 1977 incident in Indianapolis in which an aggrieved customer, Tony Kiritsis, took his mortgage broker hostage, leading to a multi-day stand-off that turned into a media circus. The theatre calls it tense, surreal and darkly comic, with a cast that includes Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino. It runs 105 minutes, is in English without subtitles and is rated 15A. Tickets are 10 euro, or 9 concession, plus a booking fee, and pre-booking is recommended. A cinema seat is an easy way to spend an evening among other people when you are on your own. «Monday Night Cinema: Dead Man's Wire» Starts 17:00, ends about 18:45. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sun8Nov
MusicDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Pirosmani Quartet: Schumann and Schubert, National Concert Hall

National Concert Hall — Kevin Barry Recital Room

Cork violinist Mairéad Hickey leads the Pirosmani Quartet, with colleagues from Brazil, Ukraine and the USA, in the Chamber Music Series at the National Concert Hall. The programme opens with Schumann's second quartet, written in a burst of creativity in 1842, then offers the first performance of a new work by Galway composer Jane O'Leary, and ends with Schubert's vast G major quartet, a piece that swings between grief and joy. Sunday afternoon at 3pm in the intimate Kevin Barry Recital Room. Tickets €17.50 according to the listing; book through the NCH. «Chamber Music Series: Pirosmani Quartet: Tenderness and Turmoil» Starts 15:00, ends about 16:30. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Mon9Nov
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Monday Night Cinema: «Romería», Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

Pavilion Theatre

Monday Night Cinema at the Pavilion Theatre screens «Romería», the final film in Carla Simón's semi-autobiographical trilogy that began with «Summer 1993» and «Alcarràs». Marina, eighteen and orphaned young, travels to Spain's Atlantic coast to meet her late father's family and unravels the story of her parents. It was a Palme d'Or nominee at Cannes in 2025. In Spanish, Catalan, French and Galician; the 5pm show has open captions and the 8pm show has English subtitles. Tickets €10 (€9 concessions) plus a booking fee. Rated 15A. «Romería» Starts 17:00, ends about 18:51. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Mon16Nov
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Monday Night Cinema: Pressure, Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

Pavilion Theatre

The Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire shows the wartime drama Pressure in its Monday Night Cinema series on 16 November, with screenings at 17:00 and 20:00. The film revisits the days before the D-Day landings in June 1944, when meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg warns that stormy weather could make the invasion a disaster and has to convince Allied leaders, including General Eisenhower, to listen. The cast includes Andrew Scott, Kerry Condon and Brendan Fraser. It runs 100 minutes and is rated 12A. The 17:00 showing carries open captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, while the 20:00 showing has none. Tickets are 10 euro, or 9 concession, plus a booking fee, and pre-booking is recommended. A seat among other cinema-goers is an easy evening for anyone who is alone. «Monday Night Cinema: Pressure» Starts 17:00, ends about 18:45. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Mon23Nov
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Monday Night Cinema: «Nino», Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

Pavilion Theatre

Pauline Loquès's César-winning first feature follows Nino, who is diagnosed with cancer on the eve of his twenty-ninth birthday and spends the weekend before treatment with friends, family, old acquaintances and strangers. Despite the subject, the film keeps an elegant, light touch and a quietly funny eye on awkward moments, including a birthday party he cannot avoid. In French with English subtitles; the Pavilion Theatre shows it at 5pm and 8pm on Monday. Tickets €10 (€9 concessions) plus booking fee. Rated 15A, with mature themes. «Nino» Starts 17:00, ends about 18:37. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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Sat28Nov
CultureDublinAlcohol-free friendly

Jonathan and the Jest: a walk with Swift, St Patrick's Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral

Part of the Jonathan Swift Festival, this is a guided walk through St Patrick's Cathedral and Marsh's Library combined with a theatrical encounter in which Swift himself steps into the present. Expect sharp humour, wordplay and commentary that reveal the man behind the satire, for adults, young adults and anyone who loves literature. There are two performances on Saturday 28 November, at 1.30pm and 3.30pm; choose your time when booking. Tickets €18. Allow about an hour and a quarter. «Jonathan Swift Festival: Jonathan and the Jest» Starts 13:30, ends about 14:45. Source: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0) and the venue's own listing.

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What is on in Dublin soon?

The next event in Dublin is "Lark After Dark: House on Haunted Hill and Carnival of Souls" on Monday 26 Oct at 19:00. 6 events are listed in the next two weeks, and 11 up to Saturday 28 Nov.

Are events in Dublin free?

1 of the 11 upcoming events listed here are marked free. The rest are low-cost or ticketed; the price is on each official page, so check it before you go.

What kinds of events can I find in Dublin?

Right now: culture (10), music (1). Common venues are The Lark Concert Hall, Pavilion Theatre, Swords Castle and Swords Town Park.

Is it OK to go to an event in Dublin alone?

Yes, that is the point of this list. We pick talks, concerts, walks, language cafés and workshops where many people arrive on their own and there is a natural moment to start talking. Nobody checks whether you came with a friend.

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