O’Hooley and Tidow, Whelan’s Live, Dublin, Friday 8pm
Belinda O'Hooley and her partner Heidi Tidow made Mojo's folk album of the year 2014 with The Hum. The English duo's take on folk is all their own and the intimate setting of Whelan's gives them the opportunity to unleash the full potential of their latest song set.
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Burns night with the Ulster Orchestra, Belfast Waterfront, Saturday, 7.45pm
The Ulster Orchestra, conducted by John Logan, will lead all the performers in this annual Burns Night celebration which features a programme of music that mixes traditional favourites with more up to date work such as Dougie MacLean's The Gael, taken from the soundtrack of the film Last of the Mohicans and Logan's own composition, Tiree.
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Mark Clare: I Believe in You, Sligo, Saturday
A major solo exhibition from artist Mark Clare opens on Saturday at the Model gallery in Sligo. I Believe in You focuses on combative social issues such as globalisation, individualism and public space. The work looks at society’s disaffection with political engagement and its complex relationship with public institutions.
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Dublin Flea Market, Newmarket Square, Dublin 8, Sunday
Clothes, crockery, furniture and jewellery are to be found in abundance at Newmarket square. A crisp Sunday morning should make for pleasant browsing, coffee in hand, as Dublin’s trendiest market returns for 2015. The steady offering of vinyl records, 1960s furniture and typewriters burnish the flea market’s hip credentials. Get there early before the bargains are gone.
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Listen at Lilliput, Lilliput Press, Dublin 7, Sunday, doors 7.30, €10/8
Listen at Lilliput celebrates its third birthday with a night of music and literary readings from Ergodos Musicians, Laura Hyland, Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde and the Kimberlite Pipes. The event takes place in press’s book-lined offices near Stoneybatter and is bring your own booze (or make your own tea, as the organisers suggest).
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Human Capital, Galway, Town Hall Theatre, Sunday 8pm
The winter/spring season of the Galway Film Society is underway and on Sunday the Town Hall Theatre screens Human Capital. The Italian film approaches a stranger's tragic death from three different perspectives. The lives of two families, at first only loosely linked by their teenagers' relationship, overlap in multitudinous ways to devastating effect.
