February 9, 2012

You are never alone in the Four Courts Hostel.

On Tuesday night Feb. 14th, Valentine’s night, We will all will celebrate love; our love of holiday romance, friendship, lust for life, our love of travel and the joy of meeting new like-minded people, buddies for the night & fun friends forever. Single, adventurous, or a firm believer of ‘what happens on Holidays, stays on holidays?

Our Hostels Pub Crawl has brought many people from around the world together and we have witnessed a lot of hook-ups, make-outs, romances, bromances, new soul-mates, new friends, new travel-buddies (and some xxx rated stuff that can be viewed on our premium website for a large fee) and it’s this kind of coming together that makes the Pub Crawl great…as well as the drinking, dancing and partying of course.

All guests staying with us this Valentine’s Day can join our very special ‘Cupid’s Pub Crawl’ for FREE on the night of Tuesday Feb. 14^th.

Our expert match-maker, Casanova Lovejoy, will be matching up pub crawlers for fun, but you won’t know who you’re matched with. Your mission during the Pub Crawl will be to figure out who you’re match is, a kind of ‘Pub Crawl Speed Dating’, and if you can predict your match you win a prize!

So to Join in the fun, frolics and flirting for free simply become friends with our expert match-maker, Casanova Lovejoy http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003467323234 now,  send him a private message telling him if you’re interested in Boys, Girls or both, if you’re looking for love, friendship, or just a laugh and what you like / look for in a friend or lover . Casanova will then analyze your profile and when he has found a match for you he will e-mail you. Then you can ‘un-friend’ him if you wish. Easy!

On the Pub Crawl you will also get a free welcome Guinness, free Love shots in every bar we go to, exclusive drink specials and discounts, no cover charge to any venues, you can play Beer Pong, flip cup and even sing karaoke and dance to the best of live Irish music. Whether you find your soul-mate or not you’re guaranteed to make new friends and have a great fun night!
Get out there and get yourself a story.

Please note we have a strict no notches on the bedpost rule.

February 17, 2011

Hello hello Mad Nomads.

All you tech-savvy-travelers take note of the latest website and app for your gizmos, The Dublin Culture Trail. This is a free interactive website and iPhone app which allows users to visit many of Dublin city’s museums, galleries, historic buildings and cultural centres through video, photographs, interviews and ‘behind the scenes’ footage.

The 16 venues and attractions on the trail, the majority of which are on our doorstep (see ‘Location’ under the ‘Hostel’ tab above), include The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Ireland – Collins’ Barracks, Christ Church Cathedral, Chester Beatty Library, City Hall, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Trinity College & The Irish Traditional Music Archive among other exciting and interesting attractions.

So now you can really engage with Dublin in an innovative way that enhances your visiting experience as you can; plan your time in Dublin most efficiently, easily checking out all aspects of attractions before you arrive, use the app while travelling around the city to locate cultural venues all around you and, having visited your chosen sites, be ‘introduced’ to the people and artists who make it all happen and gain a unique insight to the venues, attractions & histories.

The app can be downloaded for free from the iPhone app store. For further information see www.dublinculturetrail.ie

Marvelous!

February 13, 2011

• For those of you staying on Saturday FEB 19^th there is a new cultural experience available in the ‘Gaelic Experience – Irish Sport, Culture and life tour’. This is a new tour which introduces you to the unique world of our national sports, bringing you to two of the greatest games you’ve never seen, both a Gaelic Football match and a Hurling (the fastest field game on earth) match in Croke Park which is the third largest stadium in Europe with a capacity of 82,500 and is an iconic symbol of Irish identity, steeped in history having hosted our games for well over a century.

You get food and a complimentary drink of choice in a local Irish pub where your passionate and knowledgeable guides will give you a detailed presentation on the history and the rules of the GAA, Hurling and Gaelic football before taking you to Croke Park Stadium for the hurling match between Dublin and All Ireland Champions Tipperary which is followed by the Football game between Dublin and Cork.

All food, complimentary drink, tour guides, and double header match tickets as mentioned above are included in the fantastic price of just €50. If you would like to sign up for this tour, or have more info, just e-mail us at info@fourcourtshostel.com and we’ll sort it for you. 

January 24, 2011

Hello again Mad Nomads,

If you are visiting Dublin sometime in the next five months and have had your fill of our black nectar, diddley-aye traditional music, all things green and celtic kitsch then you may want to take a journey through time and into the wonders of ancient Egypt to discover the tomb of the ‘Boy King’ Tutankhamun at the RDS. An authentic recreation of the tomb, along with state of the art multimedia technology, allows visitors to experience the discovery in much the same way as Howard Carter did when he first found the treasure-laden burial chamber of the famous Pharaoh in 1922.

It’s sure to be an exciting, sensational and interactive exhibit so if you’re very eager to go see well thats Pharaoh-nuf….sorry guys, it had to be said.

Details here:

www.kingtutdublin.ie &   Tickets here: www.ticketmaster.ie

January 19, 2011

Hello again Ladies and Germs,

So it’s that time of year again when all the Aussie’s throng the streets in celebration of all things Australian.  Shrimps are gonna be hitting barbies, the Australian flag is going to be worn with pride and dingo’s are going to have a field day in the local maternity hospital. That’s right. IT’S AUSTRALIA DAY MATE!!

We know love to party but we also love a good stereotype! That’s why every Australian who checks into our beloved hostel on this glorious day will be welcomed with a free beer. That’s right, a free beer!! Also, any aussie who checks in and upon receiving his/her free beer says “that’s not a beer, This is a beer” and pulls out and even larger can, is entitled to 10% off there stay.

And all awesome Aussie ladies get a discount just for being hot!

So pack your bags and come on down to the Four Courts to celebrate in style.

Over and out.

January 13, 2011

Happy new year mad nomads, as another decade of the noughties begins we are looking forward to a whole new year of exciting events and great gigs in Dublin, and we don’t need to look very far ahead for an opportunity to enjoy an eclectic mix of high quality musical performance and fun……

The award-winning Temple Bar Trad Fest takes place from the 26th to the 30th of January 2011, celebrating it’s sixth exciting year….and it’s on our doorstep!   There will be truly remarkable musicians ascending on Temple Bar, the cultural quarter, to perform at a number of intimate live shows at various venues to display truely remarkable musicianship and create a very special festival atmosphere. Of course there are a huge amount of FREE EVENTS. The cobblestoned streets of Temple Bar will come alive with the sound and presence of Pipers, Céilís (taditional Irish set dancing), Craft Fair, Irish Cultural Workshops, Photo Exhibition, film Screenings and movies on the square, outdoor performances, a market, and every Pub from one end of Temple-Bar to the other will host top class musicians playing up-tempo sessions keeping the atmosphere electric and the craic mighty.

The Four Courts Hostel, as always, is in the best location for enjoying this much loved and unique festival, adjacent to Temple Bar and overlooking the river Liffey, we are mere dancing distance to this celebration of traditional Irish Culture.  And this year, for the first time, Christchurch Cathedral will host the exceptional Clannad for 3 nights of beautiful tarditional music, we’ll probably be able to hear it from the hostel…it’s that close!

If you are staying with us during the festival you can avail of free tin-whistle lessons from our very own qualified musician and teacher…so why not embarce Tradfest, get a comfy bed with us at an unbeatable price in the heart of Dublin City, get yourself a Tin-whistle (one of the most convenient musical instruments for a backpacker) and learn to play it for free right here!

September 29, 2010

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival is Europe’s oldest specialist theatre festival and has been on the world’s Festival calendar since 1957!

Running from September 30th to October 17th, the Festival stages major international theatre of scale, and has hosted productions by the world’s most highly regarded artists, while also premiering work by the giants of Irish theatre. The Irish programme in the past has been made up of shows by some of Ireland’s most respected artists including Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, Sebastian Barry, Enda Walsh and Tom Murphy. International artists who have appeared in the festival include, Ciarán Hinds, Vanessa Redgrave, James Cromwell, Neve Campbell and Geoffrey Rush. Within the theatre festival, there are many different programme strands which incorporate everything from music to dance, from cutting edge theatre to the biggest shows on Broadway! Our mandate is simple. If its the best in the world, its coming to the Festival!

Asides from hundreds of main-stage productions, there are also present a multitude of special events which includes masterclasses from the world’s top practitioners, artist development programmes, film screenings, symposiums, schools workshops and panel discussions.

For more information check out www.dublintheatrefestival.com

We’re a cultured bunch here at the Four Courts. So come stay with us and we can have many a scintillating conversation about, like….theatre…and stuff.

September 21, 2010

Dublin Culture night 2010, another chance to go on a journey of endless possibilities and surprises, and it’s all free of charge and open late!!

A helpful team of Culture Night Guides will be on hand throughout the city to give you information, directions and to answer all of your questions about Culture Night and the participating venues. From music to street theatre, there will be plenty of outdoor events to keep you entertained at each of these points so be sure and pay them a visit throughout the night!

With over 130 different venues opening their doors for free, there is certainly something for everybody.

These venues shall host literary readings, story-telling, writer’s trails and exhibitions on Culture Night, 24^th September, in celebration of Dublin being designated a UNESCO City of Literature. This new programme of Culture Night events is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport and will bring the City’s vast literary heritage to life to an audience of over 150,000 people throughout the city.

Do it.

September 17, 2010

Hello mad nomads,

As we tend to profess with some regularity here at The Four Courts Hostel, Dublin is a fan-feckin’-tastic City for fun and good vibrations any time of the year and this week is certainly no exception, indeed it may even be a little bit better than usual. As well as the regular live gigs, great music and energetic nightlife we all take for granted,  Arthur’s Day, as has been posted here previously, offers an extraordinay choice of live acts from a catalogue of high-profile and high-calibre musical artists - that’s Thursday the 23rd (don’t forget our free Bar-B-Q and discounted beer on Thursdays, a nice way to begin Arthur’s Day celebrations)

CULTURE NIGHT - Friday 24th, lets us explore the City’s cultural oferings in a unique way as all of Dublin’s attractions keep their doors open untill 11pm including the Croke Park GAA museum, Christchurch Cathedral, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, all National Museums & Galleries, The GUINNESS storehouse / factory tour (including free pint),  Jameson Whiskey Distillery (incl. Free whiskey)…and a whole host of other cultural outlets, far too numerous to mention in the confines of our humble blog, make up a veritable culture feast for the mind and it’s all for FREE….and with free buses running for the evening there’s no excuse not to soak it all up.

And then it’s Saturday….whoohoo….(former Four Courts Hostel family members Rob and Shane will be donning blue war-paint and lioncloth and taking to the stage of THE Academy as half of legendary Gaelic Doom Metal four-piece Mael Mórdha….definitely worth a look…you’ve never seen anything like it!)

And as usual The Four Courts Hostel is in the perfect location for all of this, what a week to come to Dublin and sleep with the best.

over and out.

September 13, 2010

Dublin’s very own Fringe festival is back and runs from the 11th of September until the 26th of September. BAM!

There are over 65 productions and more than 300 performances, squeezed into twenty days and nights of fun and excitement.

Sixteen days and nights of cutting edge theatre, dance, music and art in venues throughout Dublin.

A barge, a bush, a French diva chocolate cake, gorillas, snakes, a show in a supermarket, contortionists, the sassiest hoola hooper in the world, robots, lions and Manchán Magan in a dress brandishing a chainsaw are among the elite cocktail mixers holding Dublin to ransom at FRINGE, the 16th edition of Dublin Fringe Festival.

16-days & nights of explosive boundary pushing performing arts & music

Audiences never know what to expect at FRINGE and this year the whole city comes alive with the most exhilarating festival in town and an edgy back-to-basics DIY theme to get the whole city moving again.

For 16 days and nights this city-wide multi-disciplinary festival will present works which confront, embrace and defy this period of remarkable change and challenges.

So what are you waiting for??? Get out there!

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