Session at a Glance 

Next date: Thursday, 24 September

Start time: 17:00 

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 

'A Fair Exchange' offers a series of free, drop-in writing workshops at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. On the last Thursday of each month from September 2026 – March 2027, 'A Fair Exchange' takes place in a series of locations in Collins Barracks, inviting new and exciting engagements with different exhibition spaces, themes, and collections. Facilitated by poet Hazel Hogan, you are invited to engage with the workshop in the following ways: 

Read  

Choose a glass vessel containing a previously written piece of paper and take a moment of reflection as you read a participant's story.  

Write  

Choose a glass jar containing a blank piece of paper. Either reflect on a previous written story, the space around you, or a particular historic object, find your glimmer, that small spark of inspiration, and write, draw or respond. Work can be signed, initialled or left anonymous.  

Exchange  

Place your response back into the glass vessel and contribute to a growing art installation. The vessel will build and evolve into a collection that reflects the inner lives of participants.  

All materials provided and everyone is welcome to join. No booking is required. This is a free, drop-in workshop. Front of House can direct you upon arrival at Reception. Collins Barracks' galleries are wheelchair accessible.   

'A Fair Exchange' grew out of Gather, a collaboration between local artist Angela Monks McDonagh, Aoife Cronin and the Staff at Lilliput Stores. As part of future 'A Fair Exchange' workshops and art installations, artist Róisín de Buitléar is creating vessels from recycled glass to house visitors' stories and responses. 

Meet your facilitator 

Hazel Hogan is a poet, writer, and facilitator from Dublin. Hazel has extensive experience performing poetry. Her poem ‘Grangegorman’ was on the recommended list to be studied as part of the Junior Cert syllabus. She was also one of the artist facilitators for the Museum's 'Changing Ireland, Changing Stories' project in a creative writing partnership project with Fighting Words. Hazel set up the Ukrainian Creative Hub hosted by the Museum of Literature Ireland. 

Dublin by Dusk at Collins Barracks 

Throughout the evening, enjoy a 10% discount at Synge & Byrne Café and Museum Shop.  

Related Experiences  

Dublin by Dusk at the National Museum of Ireland  

'A Fair Exchange' writing workshops are part of the Dublin by Dusk programme, a series of city-wide events at cultural and heritage organisations supported by the Night-Time Economy Unit of An Roinn Cultúir, Cumarsáide agus Spóirt, the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.