Top 10 things to do on Valentines Day in Dublin
Written by Anne Marie on February 13, 2015. Posted in Bars Club Culture Festival Food Services Shop Updates We put together a list of 10 things to do this Valentines Day in Dublin.
1. Special Valentine’s Day Walking Tour
Pat Liddy Walking Tours – Depart 11am & 2.15pm from Molly Malone Statue (2.15hours) Tickets €12
Enjoy a stroll through the streets of historic Dublin and let your guide delight you with stories of romance that blossomed among famous denizens of the city’s past including writers and legendary princes and princesses. Visit Whitefriar Street Church, the final resting place of St. Valentine and end with a drinks’ special at the Church Café Bar, where Arthur Guinness was married in 1761.
2. Fifty Dates In Dublin
Visit the website 50DatesinDublin for some more ideas
Be inspired by the 50 Dates in Dublin website where we’ve put together 50 Date ideas in Dublin Town and ranked them on a cheese scale (not so cheesy) to (very cheesy). So if you are Romeo and Juliet or everyday Joe and Jane, we have the perfect Valentine’s Date for you.
3. Together Disco 2 Day Party: Love Sensation + Love Hangover
Pygmalion, Powerscourt Townhouse, South William Street, Dublin 2 - Tickets €15
Pygmalion and Powescourt have teamed up with Together Disco on Valentine’s weekend for a two day romance. Prepare yourself for Love Sensation in Pygmalion/ Powerscourt on Saturday followed by Love Hangover in the vault rooms in Pygmalion on Sunday. Love Sensation will be a night of love, laughter and dancing and Love Hangover will be a night of pillow-talk, White Russians and sleazy disco. Click here to get your tickets.
4. Valentine’s Day – Alternative Love Trail
Various venues around DublinTown - Self-Guided Tour - Free
Why not have a date with Dublin this Valentine’s Day? Follow the self-guided alternative love trail around the town and be surprised by what you’ll find out about Dublin and drop in to some of the special Valentine’s Day events along the way. The City will WOW you with poetry, music and fun. Map to be uploaded on the website soon.
5. Portraits of Love
O’Connell Street Bridge, Ha’penny Bridge and Millennium Bridge - 1pm to 5pm - Free
Capture the love in your life by stepping into Dublin City Council’s impromptu, open air photo studio. The Council are looking for portraits of couples, friends, families and individuals and each one can be customised using giant props. Watch out for our roving portrait team and be part of Dublin’s ‘gallery of love’ this Valentine’s Day
6. Guerrilla Love Poetry
O’Connell Street Bridge, Ha’penny Bridge and Millennium Bridge - 1pm to 5pm - Free
Enjoy a ‘day down river’ when Lingo, Dublin’s Spoken Word Festival links with performers and wordsmiths to woo the public on Dublin’s bridges. Storyteller and poet, Paul Timoney will perform his own inimitable love poetry and will invite the public to create mini-love poems which will be tweeted for the city using #dublinbemyvalentine
7. Watch – Fifty Shades of Grey
Various Theatres – Various Times – Tickets from €9.20
Take your date to watch the risqué publishing sensation’s kinky relationship on the big screen. A virginal student interviews a wealthy, handsome, charismatic entrepreneur and the attraction between them is immediate and electric. As they embark on an intense and passionate affair, he introduces her to his dark and very particular tastes. Now she finds herself exploring her own desires for the first time; and may spark some desires of your own.
8. Strange Love: All Fur No Knickers
Secret City Centre Location - Fri 13 Feb - 11pm – 4.30am -Tickets €15
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unt & Gather have planned a surreal evening of guilty pleasures this Valentine’s Eve, Strange Love: Fur Coat No Knickers. Blanket forts, truth or dare, disco/power ballads/cheesy tunes and secrets, go and tell Strange Love what you love! A make-up corner will be providing for alter ego realness amongst some of Dublin’s most talented Burlesque performers and there’ll be a cocktail bar serving up delights.
9. Ha’Penny Vintage Market
The Ballroom, The Grand Social, Lower Liffey St, Dublin 1 12pm - 6pm -Free
Take your loved one to the Vintage Market and browse through the variety of stalls raging from vintage clothes and accessories, vinyl records, retro furniture to bric a brac and chic jewellery. You will also find local designers and collectors one-off pieces. A DJ spins old vinyl to get you into the shopping mood and you can also have a pint from the bar while browsing the stalls. Too good!
10. Dublin Love Stories Competition.
Have you ever fallen in Love with Dublin? Share your story as part of the Dublin be my Valentine Campaign and win a four course dinner for two in the Church Bar and Restaurant where Arthur Guinness got married. To enter simply mail your funny story in 150 words or less to Events@dublincity.ie using COMPETITION in the subject line. Deadline for entries is 13th of February at 3.00pm. The winner will be announced on Valentine’s Day, Via Twitter @Events_DCC
#DublinbemyValentine
Hopefully your Valentine has something more romantic planned than some of the Fella’s that we met in Dublin this week!
