Common Ground

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).

26/03/2026

We met students from Copenhagen today who were visiting & interviewing in on political art & activism. They met & members of on Monday too. We're looking forward to seeing their film work in response to their visit. community

26/03/2026

Today hosted students from Copenhagen who are in Dublin producing a short doc film on artists & activistswho make political art

25/02/2026

Here’s a clip from a wet Grafton Street with Tina Dempsey & Catherine Claffey from The Women Flower Sellers of Grafton Street . It premiere’s this Sunday March 1st as part of Dublin on Screen with & in .
Written & Co – Produced 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.

Directed and Edited by Vinny Murphy
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 &

27/01/2026

For the last number of years we’ve been delighted to support the collaboration between Patricia Mc Cann and The Women Flower Sellers of Grafton Street. This short documentary film is officially selected for screening Dublin International Film Festival on Sunday March 1st at 3.15pm sharp as part of Dublin on Screen with & in .

Written & Co – Produced 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.

Directed and Edited by Vinny Murphy
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

National Gallery of Ireland Katie Buckley, Anne Hodge, Vanessa Moss, Colin Foy & Sinead Rice
Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Artist in the Community Award managed by Create-Ireland & Health Services Staffs Credit Union Limited

1st image of Tina Dempsey by 2nd image a still of Catherine Claffey from the film

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

21/01/2026

The art collective School of Thought (artist Augustine O’Donoghue & author Dr Conor McCabe) will realise the final stage of their collaboration Taking to the Streets as part of Common Ground’s Collective Futures Awards 2024–2026 in studio 468 in St Andrew’s Community Centre, Rialto.
Taking to the Streets (February – December 2026) builds on the group’s earlier research, including Artwork in Anticipation of Door-Knocking Politicians & a series of Counter Culture events such as film screenings, walks & talks held across Dublin 8 in 2024.
From February - December 2026, the collective will open up studio 468 & work collaboratively with local residents, activists & community networks to co-create a new critical public artwork, Taking to the Streets.
The work will be developed through a series of collaborative workshops, research, talks & walks that include & combine the lived experiences of all participants, & the context of a rich radical history of working-class activism that has existed in the area for centuries. The project will critically examine the flows of capital through land and property in Dublin 8 & their impact on local communities.
Taking to the Streets will take place in 2026, unfolding as a series of collective creative performances across the streets of Dublin 8, alongside an accompanying series of publications.
Please register your interest in attending research / events to e: [email protected]
Taking to the Streets is funded by an Project award 2026 and supported by Common Ground.
Photographs, 1 by Zoe Nolan
2 & 3 by

17/12/2025

Thank you to all our supporters and partners this year for your hard work, commitment and laughter.
Have a peaceful Christmas and we look forward to working with you in 2026.
Our Winter Newsletter is out and you can read it here:
https://mailchi.mp/043847c7781a/winter-newsletter2025-17474412
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09/12/2025

Tree lighting at St Michael's Church Inchicore cancelled this evening due to weather warnings. Rescheduled for Monday 15th December.

28/11/2025