Free evening at MoLI on 4 December brings art, literature and music

Archive photograph of MoLI’s Riverrun of Language exhibition, 2019. Museum of Literature Ireland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

Dublin’s Museum of Literature Ireland will offer free admission from 6pm to 9pm on Friday 4 December 2026 for its December First Fridays evening.

The programme pairs time in the museum with a 6.30pm conversation with painter Mollie Douthit and an 8pm musical performance by Rory Tangney. Douthit will discuss memory, painting and literature; Tangney’s set combines songs with found sounds and vocal loops.

Visitors can also see Joanne Hynes’s Oh Mother I Called for You. The exhibition brings together memoir, textiles and collected objects to explore grief after stillbirth. Its themes may be upsetting for some visitors. The public exhibition runs from 20 November 2026 to 4 April 2027; the free evening falls within that run, rather than being its opening night.

Events have limited capacity and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for a particular performance, but do not assume that arriving guarantees entry. Check the linked programme before travelling for any changes.

MoLI is at 86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, on the south side of the Green, close to the St Stephen’s Green Luas stop. The free admission hours apply to this special evening, not to the museum’s usual daytime ticketing.