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Escape to Ennis

Highlights of the Ennis Book Club Festival (March 1-3) include award-winning novelist and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak, and author events including Emilie Pine, Dave Rudden and Anne Griffin. ennisbookclubfestival.com

Celebrate Clea

Jump (below), an exhibition of highlights from a newly commissioned body of innovative and diverse work by Irish artist Clea van der Grijn, who for the past decade has been fascinated by death and loss, at Solomon Fine Art Gallery, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, March 9-30. solomonfineart.ie

Labhairt na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge festival, celebrating the Irish language and our native culture, runs March 1-17, with ceilis, conversation groups, poetry nights, pottery workshops and art exhibitions, taking place around the country. snag.ie

Take on taboo words

Letterbomb, type and design exhibition exploring the ‘‘taboo’’ words we cannot say, runs at The Copper House Gallery, Synge Street, Dublin 8, from February 28 to March 5. Works by sign-painters, typographers, and graphic designers. thecopperhousegallery.com

Join Jennifer

Double Header, the opening concert of New Music Dublin 2019, at the National Concert Hall on Thursday, February 28, at 8pm, features Jennifer Walshe, below, (The Site of an Investigation, world premiere) and David Fennessy (Conquest of the Useless, world premiere). nch.ie