Dr Samuel Mutter in conversation with Tommy Gavin (CATU), Danielle Hynes, Lois Kapila (Dublin Inquirer).

Join Fictions, Frictions & Evictions researcher Dr Samuel Mutter in conversation with activist & researcher Tommy Gavin (CATU), social researcher Danielle Hynes and journalist Lois Kapila (Dublin Inquirer) for a discussion on the pitfalls of housing data and the role of activism in the current housing emergency.

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Joan Somers Donnelly – A lecture performance on knowledge, power and planning in Ireland.

What do we talk about when we talk about evidence?

And when it comes to interpreting and making decisions based on that evidence, whose knowledge and experience is classed as expertise and whose as anecdote?

Part lecture, part performance, this live event will delve into some of the insights from two Data Stories case studies artist Joan Somers Donnelly worked on that looked at data practices relating to housing and planning policy, involving stakeholders from local and central government as well as from the private and civil society sectors.

Featuring material from case study interviews and workshops, extracts from an arts-based ethnography of seven planners working in local authorities in different parts of the country, and a Reeling in the Years-style segment on Irish local government, Nervous System reflects on how knowledge is understood within planning and policy making in Ireland, and on the bizarre experience of being an artist-interloper in both the civil service and academia.

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Exhibiting writers and researchers discuss how housing data becomes lived experience, story and public debate.

Join Fictions, Frictions and Evictions writer, researchers and exhibitors Ella Harris & Hannah Mumby, Sean Borodale, Mel Galley and Clara McSweeney for a conversation around their creative process as they discuss how housing data becomes lived experience, story and public debate.

Fictions, Frictions & Evictions exhibiting artists and activists discuss their creative practice and the housing emergency

Join Data Stories artists and activists as they discuss how exploring data through creative practice can challenge injustice, shape public debate and connect communities — but also the fact that it can often feel like you are banging your head against a brick wall.

With Augustine O’Donoghue, Joan Somers Donnelly, Conor Burke, Abaigeal Meek and Jack Caffrey, in conversation with Fictions, Frictions & Evictions curator Brendan Fox.

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In Conversation with Anne Devlin Community Centre

Join award-winning author and activist Naoise Dolan for a conversation with Eoghan Lynch and Seán Doyle, housing activists from the Revolutionary Housing League (RHL), who occupied the long-vacant Ardee House pub in The Liberties, Dublin, and turned it into the Anne Devlin Community Centre.

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Join Fictions, Frictions & Evictions curator Brendan Fox for a conversation with artists and activists Abaigeal Meek and Jack Caffrey.

Fictions, Frictions & Evictions curator Brendan Fox is joined by artists and activists Abaigeal Meek and Jack Caffrey to discuss their photographic and film archive project, @the_liberties_sos.

@the_liberties_sos is an online artist-led photographic and film archive examining corporate-led gentrification, displacement and community resistance in Dublin’s Liberties.

Through long-term documentary practice, Meek and Caffrey explore how photography and film can act as both cultural record and civic intervention, examining the relationship between place, memory, housing and spatial justice while building a public archive of a community undergoing profound change.

Their work has led to collaborations, public talks and screenings with organisations including the Community Action Tenants Union and The School of Thought, founded by artist Augustine O’Donoghue and historian and educator Dr Conor McCabe. Their films were presented as part of Culture Night 2023, curated by Contemporary Quarters.

Writing in The Irish Times, Una Mullally described @the_liberties_sos as “one of 2025’s top activists to watch”. Meek also contributed to Mullally’s podcast Saving the City, which explored gentrification in Dublin.

Their practice continues to contribute to public conversations on housing, heritage and spatial justice in Ireland.