Our Harvest Fair for 2025 celebrates autumn, abundance, and nature.
Come together to meet artists, makers, producers and small businesses as we celebrate the season. The theme for this fair is 'Eat, Grow and Make'.
Our fairs are family-friendly, with entertainment and creative activities for all ages. There will be workshops, stalls, entertainment, and food and drink. Our guided walking tours will also take place on both days.
Bring your family, friends, and curiosity for a day of exploration and discovery. Admission to the Fair is free. Our building is accessible, with safe parking for bikes and for buggies. Dogs are welcome.
We open at 11 am each day and you can find directions here.
This page will be updated frequently as we get closer to the Fair. For details on our full programme, please sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram.
Try something new in our crafting, making and upcycling workshops. If you enjoy them, come and take part in our year round Culture Connects programme.
Most of our workshops are suitable for all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult.
To take part in these workshops you must book a place on the day. You can do this at the reception desk 30 minutes before the workshop takes place. Places may be limited.
Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche for a free, interactive workshop for families. Explore the history and folklore of harvest traditions, and make your own traditional harvest knot.
Join Artist in Residence Paula Garcia Ibanez to try out printing with fruit and vegetables. Discover the patterns and shapes that you can create using fruit and vegetables to print your own harvest-themed cards.
Make an apple - from wool! Join Artist in Residence Niki Collier to learn felt-making techniques by creating your own unique autumn apple.
Join Rachel from Change Clothes to make a cute little pumpkin using scrap textiles. Using a simple template you can hand-stitch or glue the fabric pieces together, stuffing them with fabric offcuts for an entirely waste-free project.
Explore the history of harvest traditions and how we can remember them today through music, poetry and visual art. Join children's history facilitator Lorraine McEvoy and create your own harvest art and poetry.
Join Rainie from Change Clothes for a harvest-themed embroidery workshop. Learn to embroider a pumpkin or a leaf.
This workshop is suitable for adults and children aged 12+ and children must be accompanied by an adult.
Make an apple - from wool! Join Artist in Residence Niki Collier to learn felt-making techniques by creating your own unique autumn apple.
Join Artist in Residence Paula Garcia Ibanez to create a mosaic using dried beans, lentils and grains. Make your own unique pattern or picture on air-drying clay to bring home.
This workshop is suitable for adults and children aged 4+ and children must be accompanied by an adult.
There will be lots of activities and workshops taking place in the garden over the two days of the Fair. Most of them are suitable for all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult.
If the weather allows, don't forget to bring your picnic blanket!
Join Inchicore Library for a Teddy Bears Picnic at the Fair! There will be stories and songs and lots of fun. Don't forget your teddy!
This is a drop-in event, no booking is required.
Join Dance Artist in Residence Mia DiChiaro for a Harvest Hop Dance Workshop. Explore movement, learn new dance steps, and enjoy the rhythm of the season. Let your dance moves blossom!
This workshop is best suited for children aged 5 to 10 and their grown-ups. Please wear comfortable clothing.
Starts at 12.30 pm, no booking required.
Join Eco-Gardener in Residence Polly Rowley-Sams for a tour of the Richmond Barracks garden on a microscopic level. Using magnifying lenses you will be exploring nature in the garden up close - prepare to discover some unexpected wonders.
To take part in this workshop you must book a place on the day. You can do this at the reception desk 30 minutes before the workshop takes place. Places may be limited.
Join dance artist and choreographer Yves Lorrhan for a workshop blending Brazilian and Latin American rhythms with body percussion, voice and movement. Create joyful rhythms together and connect through music and dance - no instruments or experience needed.
Starts at 2.15 pm, no booking required.
Saint James’s Brass and Reed Band will join us with some familiar songs and showstopping tunes.
Starts at 3.30 pm, no booking required.
Join Artist in Residence Shannon Jade Wilson to help create a big mosaic on the ground in the garden. Everyone can decorate their own pebble to add to the mosaic and help to make it grow!
This is a drop-in event, no booking required.
Join dance artist and choreographer Yves Lorrhan for a workshop blending Brazilian and Latin American rhythms with body percussion, voice and movement. Create joyful rhythms together and connect through music and dance - no instruments or experience needed!
Starts at 12.15 pm, no booking required.
Join Mad Dog for this interactive family-friendly musical storytelling session. Mad Dog will perform from his collection of original songs 'Furs and Feathers', a selection of songs about food and friendship colliding. The songs are based on local urban myths and lore and lots of animal characters. Expect songs, stories, and movement!
Starts at 2 pm, no booking required.
Saint James’s Brass and Reed Band will join us with some familiar songs and showstopping tunes.
Starts at 3.30 pm, no booking required.
You can choose from a delicious range of food and drink vendors including:
Visit the newly expanded Inchicore Library at Richmond Barracks. This vibrant and modern space offers a welcoming environment for readers of all ages.
Explore a variety of stalls with a range of producers, makers and creators. Pick up delicious treats, sustainable goods and
one-of-a-kind handcrafted gifts, supporting small businesses, artists and enterprises.
These are the vendors who we will welcome at the Harvest Fair:
Our historical walking tours will run across both days of the Harvest Fair.
Choose from exploring the area’s historical connections to 1916, or Goldenbridge, Ireland’s first garden cemetery.
These are the tours that will take place over the weekend of the Fair:
Saturday 13 September 11 am
Richmond Barracks to Kilmainham Gaol Walking Tour
Saturday 13 September 1 pm
Sunday 14 September 11 am
Richmond Barracks to Kilmainham Gaol Walking Tour
Sunday 14 September 1 pm
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We look forward to welcoming you soon!