#CulturalNight – The National Maritime Museum will be open to the public free of charge this Friday 19 September (between 5-6:30 pm) as part of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council's first participation of the nation's annual Cultural Night.

During the same evening starting at 7.00pm there will be another free event (also in the museum) of a lecture on 'The Nature of the Irish Sea Coast' presented by environmental consultant Richard Nairn.

The lecture forms the opening of the symposium The Irish Sea History, Cultural & Environmnet (as previously reported) which continues on the following Saturday, though an admission of €10 is charged at the door for the day-long event.

The Irish Sea Symposium is sponsored by the UCD Earth Institute, UCD Humanities Institute and the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium.

Following the symposium, there will be an optional €30 dinner (also payable at registration) held in the National Yacht Club, which involves a short walk to the venue along the harbour waterfront. In doing walkers will pass DLRCC's new albeit controvesial central library and cultural centre, dlr LexIcon which too will be open to the public for Cultural Night.

Information updates and to register for the symposium email [email protected] or visit Irish Sea Symposium website here.

For other DLRCC organised Cultural Night free activities and events (click HERE) will be held throughout the borough.