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Ireland offers a variety of events and festivals all around the year enticing flocks of residents and tourists from all over the world to embark here and cherish some of the best moments of a lifetime. Being the capital city of Ireland, Dublin is the real happening place where each day is like a festival and every night is a gala. Ireland offers a number of different kinds of festivals, ranging from religious ones to seasonal and cultural. Whatever the time of year, there's always likely to be some kind of celebration going around near you; be it Christmas, New Year, St. Patrick's Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival or the Festival of Art Cultures; you will find something of everything to live up at any time, season and moment of the year you choose to celebrate and enjoy your life.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR 2008

Smithfield Chinese Carnival - Chinese New Year Festival 2008
Smithfield Square 12 noon – 7 pm daily
The Year of the Rat: Celebrating New Beginnings.

Bedecked with Chinese arches, lanterns and lights, Smithfield becomes the venue for Dublin Chinese New Year Carnival, and a new era in the Chinese calendar commences. This is an inclusive event that celebrates Chinese culture and takes place from Saturday, February 9th to Monday 11th bringing life and visual drama to Smithfield Square.

Chinese performers will take to the stage throughout the three days. Dragon and lion dances, traditional and modern Chinese music and dance, martial arts, Chinese cookery demonstrations and Chinese fashion will be showcased throughout the three days introducing and reacquainting audiences with Chinese culture.