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Events

MoLI hosts a programme of events across the museum, including performances, readings, talks and workshops. Join our newsletter below to hear about upcoming events, or become a member to benefit from advance booking.

Upcoming events at MoLI

April First Fridays

5 April 2024 | 18.00 | MoLI

Join us on Friday, 5 April, from 6pm for First Fridays! The museum will be open late, until 9pm, with free admission and a talk at 6.30pm featuring Sinéad Walsh, Climate Director at Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and a reading at 8pm by Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling series of novels. It is also a great opportunity to check out our new exhibition, Is this a poem?. The Commons Café is also open late!

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Pride and the Pen

6 April 2024 | 15.00 | MoLI

Join MoLI on a tour through Ireland’s storied queer heritage, from censorship to celebration. Explore Ireland’s queer literary heritage, from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the novels of Emma Donoghue to the plays of Frank McGuinness, and many more.

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The Great MoLI Book Swap

13 April 2024 - 14 April 2024 | 10.30 | MoLI

Join us for the Great MoLI Book Swap! Taking place across two days, 13 and 14 April, the Book Swap is your opportunity to rehome your well-loved books, and pick up some new reads in the process. Entry is included with general admission (half price with code bookswap). Spend a day exploring our exhibitions and exchanging books with fellow bookworms!

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Director’s Book Club

16 April 2024 | 17.00 | Online

Calling all MoLI members! For our next Director's Book Club – on Tuesday, 16 April at 5pm on Zoom– we will be reading Sophie White's book, Where I End, with the author joining us to discuss the book. Check the latest MoLI Members' Bulletin for details, or become a member today to join the book club.

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‘An Afternoon with Oscar Wilde’

4 August 2024 - 25 August 2024 | 12.00 | MoLI

Join us for a special, limited run of ‘An Afternoon with Oscar Wilde’, an adaptation of Neil Titley’s 'Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes'. Wonderfully witty and sincere in equal measure, this performance by actor Will Govan will teleport audience goers to 1898 Paris, one year after Wilde’s release from prison. 

UK born actor Will Govan attended the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, before pursuing a career in publishing & journalism as the co-founder of The Moth magazine. Having performed Shakespeare in his youth, Will has recently returned to his first artistic love and revived the award-winning Moth Productions theatre to take on the role of Oscar Wilde in 'Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes'. 

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Previous events at MoLI

Director’s Book Club

16 April 2024 | 17.00 | Online

Calling all MoLI members! For our next Director's Book Club – on Tuesday, 16 April at 5pm on Zoom– we will be reading Sophie White's book, Where I End, with the author joining us to discuss the book. Check the latest MoLI Members' Bulletin for details, or become a member today to join the book club.

Pride and the Pen

6 April 2024 | 15.00 | MoLI

Join MoLI on a tour through Ireland’s storied queer heritage, from censorship to celebration. Explore Ireland’s queer literary heritage, from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the novels of Emma Donoghue to the plays of Frank McGuinness, and many more.

April First Fridays

5 April 2024 | 18.00 | MoLI

Join us on Friday, 5 April, from 6pm for First Fridays! The museum will be open late, until 9pm, with free admission and a talk at 6.30pm featuring Sinéad Walsh, Climate Director at Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and a reading at 8pm by Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling series of novels. It is also a great opportunity to check out our new exhibition, Is this a poem?. The Commons Café is also open late!

UCD Writers in Conversation: Jan Carson

5 March 2024 | 18.00 | MoLI

Join MoLI and UCD on Tuesday, 5 March, at 6pm for the third in a series called 'UCD Writers in Conversation'. For this edition, Sarah Moss, who directs the MA and MFA at UCD, will be in conversation with Jan Carson, acclaimed writer of novels and short stories and community arts facilitator in East Belfast. Jan's awards include the EU Prize for Literature in Ireland in 2019 for The Fire Starters, and she has been shortlisted for prizes including the BBC National Short Story Prize and the Sean O Faolain Short Story Prize. 

Pride and the Pen

2 March 2024 | 15.00 | MoLI

Join MoLI on a tour through Ireland’s storied queer heritage, from censorship to celebration. Explore Ireland’s queer literary heritage, from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the novels of Emma Donoghue to the plays of Frank McGuinness, and many more.

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