ART
Earagail Arts Festival Exhibitions
The Swing of the Sixties, Glebe Gallery, Church Hill (Until Sep 27); Dúchas/Homeland: Omar Tashruti (Until Sep 26) and In Colour: Photojournalist Gilles Caron (Until July 25), Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny; An tEaragail: An Gailearaí, Gaoth Dobhair (Until Aug 28). Plus other events, see eaf.ie
Among the highlights are the Glebe Gallery's Highlights from Trinity's College Gallery, an international collection initiated and championed by the late Prof George Dawson. Renowned photojournalist Gilles Caron covered The Battle of Bogside in Derry, in August 1969: these are the photographs he took. Palestinian-Irish photographer Omar Yashruti juxtaposes images of Northern Ireland and Palestine.

SINGER-SONGWRITER
Damien Rice
Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 7pm €45 ticketmaster.ie Also Mon, Cork; Thurs, Galway
First he was nowhere to be seen or heard, a hugely successful Irish singer-songwriter that had run to ground. Now? Damien Rice (left) is all over the place, hot on the heels of last year's My Favourite Faded Fantasy. If you like enduring and compelling songs delivered with equal parts tension and release, then these shows are for you.