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Common Ground is an arts development organisation in Dublin 8. RCN: 20043247 http://commonground.ie/

Common Ground was founded in 1998 as an arts development agency in the Canal Communities area, to explored the potential role of arts and culture in urban community regeneration. Common Ground's vision is of a community with creativity at its heart, where art matters, and where people are enriched and artists work. Common Ground is directed by a voluntary board of people with experience in the areas of the arts, community development, business, education and youth work. Current board of directors:
Brian Crowley
Nigel Rolfe
Catherine Marshall
Cormac Buggy
Rita Fagan
Jannetje van Leeuwen

Staff:
Siobhan Geoghegan - Director
Ger Nolan - General Manager

09/10/2026

We're delighted to host the Women Flower Sellers of Grafton Street in the F2 on Monday 19th October at 7.30pm - 9pm for a local community screening - please contact us on [email protected] to register

Both Patricia Mc Cann and Vinny Murphy will be there on the night.

Directed and Edited by Vinny Murphy

Written & Co – Directed by Patricia Mc Cann

The Flower Sellers: Tina Dempsey, Sabrina Behan, Catherine Claffey, Olivia Cleary, Annie Humphrey, Barbara Kelly, Gerty Humphrey, Helen Byrne, Margaret Behan, Stuart Behan, Victoria Dempsey.
Production support & studio workspace

Cast: Joan Pierce, Geraldine Callaghan, Sam Davies

Sound: Alex Thien

Special thanks to:

Anthony Penrose & Amy Bouhassane

and Jimmy McCarthy for A Bright Blue Rose sung by Mary Black courtesy of 3ú Records, Dublin & Universal Music

Katie Buckley, Anne Hodge, Vanessa Moss, Colin Foy & Sinead Rice

Funded by Artist in the Community Award managed by
Addtional support

1st image of Tina Dempsey by

2nd image a still of Catherine Claffey from the film 3rd image Sabrina Behan - Patricia Mc Cann

17/09/2026

All set for Everyone Should Have A Home opening this evening Centre Culturel Irlandais with Augustine O' Donoghue & Conor McCabe The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Arts Office St. Andrew's Community Centre

05/08/2026

ARCH/IVE 25 is making great progress. One room painted & one to go. We're looking forward to opening up to local groups, artists & the public in the next 6 weeks or so. Thanks to so many for their support, advice & contributions to this stage our board members Rita Fagan & Catherine Marshall Ruth Martin Design Thomas Core YS Irish Film Institute archives. Most especially
míle buíochas to & Vee Dyas for “I know you from the Archive, but you don’t know me

What I see: A Reflection on the task of artistically responding to Common Ground’s Twenty-Six (almost 27) Year Archive ”

01/05/2026

Meet Clodagh Assatta Boyce , resident artist here with us at The Lodge 🌟

Influenced by the radical traditions of Black feminist thought, their work is rooted in diasporic memory, the politics of care, and practices of refusal. Clodagh’s curatorial and artistic projects challenge extractive logics, turning instead toward slowness, opacity, and interdependence as strategies of resistance.

As part of Common Ground’s award, Collective Futures, Clodagh has explored Dublin 8’s 18th century ties to the transatlantic slave trade through sugar refineries and Georgian architecture. Exploring spatial relations through sound and study, Clodagh sets out to interrogate early racial capitalism as a frame for our lived experience of Dublin.

📷: Evanna Devine

17/04/2026

**To learn more and register, go to the link in our bio.**

An afternoon of participatory workshops, open to everyone! Join for the whole afternoon, or drop in at any time for a session. Food and snacks will be provided throughout.

The four workshops of this event, hosted at Studio 468, St. Andrew’s Community Centre, are an open space for activists, researchers and local residents to discuss how different forms of research and investigation can shape organising around work and housing.

Drawing on experiences across Ireland and Italy, and from London to Berlin, each workshop will introduce a set of ideas and resources, with space for a shared discussion on different methods and examples of organising.

The final session will be a discussion with Neil Gray about his forthcoming book, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (Common Notions), the first systematic study of radical urban politics and transformation across Italy’s rebellious 1970s.

The full afternoon schedule is available on the event registration page (linked in our bio).

Address

The Lodge, 47 St Vincent Street West
Inchicore
D8

Telephone

+35317078766

Website

http://www.commonground.ie/

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