Halloween

Spooks on Stage!

Spooks on Stage!

Whether you like a cosy ghost story or heart-stopping thrills, you’ll find something to scare and delight you this month, wherever you are in Ireland! Steel your nerves, sort your costume, and delve in to the Halloween delights on offer…just don’t forget to check for monsters under the bed when you get home!

 

Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2026: Your Guide to Every Event

Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2026: Your Guide to Every Event

Every event at Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2026 (23–26 October): the twelve on sale at TakeYourSeats.ie, the free events, the shows at partner venues — and what’s already sold out.

Tim Burton's Universe by Mystery Ensemble at the O'Reilly Theatre

Tim Burton's Universe by Mystery Ensemble at the O'Reilly Theatre

Mystery Ensemble play the music of Tim Burton's films — Danny Elfman and more — at the O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin on Halloween, 31 October 2026, 5pm & 7pm. Tickets from €20.

Your Guide to Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2025 - Events Available via takeyourseats.ie

Your Guide to Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2025 - Events Available via takeyourseats.ie

This year, the festival runs from 31 October to 3 November with a thrilling mix of literature, history, performance, and the supernatural.

Songs of the Spirits: East Meets West – A Haunting Musical Experience in Dublin This Hallowe’en

Songs of the Spirits: East Meets West – A Haunting Musical Experience in Dublin This Hallowe’en

This Hallowe’en, cross the spectral veil at Schola Hyberniae’s “Songs of the Spirits: East Meets West.” Inspired by the ancient rituals of Oíche Shamhna and Japan’s Festival of Obon, this performance explores and celebrates the universal human desire to honour and remember the dead.

Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2023 is now ON SALE

Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival 2023 is now ON SALE

A spectacular parade, theatrical terrors, reimagined movies, fiendishly fun tours and citywide adventures await as Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival returns this October Bank Holiday Weekend.

Stage Frights

Stage Frights

Whether or not you believe in ghosts, it’s pretty easy to see how ghost stories easily spring up around theatres. Generations of performers treading each others’ footsteps across the boards, speaking the same scripts, telling the same stories, high emotions onstage and off, the outside world suspended as a crowd of people gathers in a dark room to experience some magic…