The ‌​‌​‍International Bar is a Victorian pub on Wicklow Street, a minute off Grafton Street, that has been a working performance house for decades. The basement holds Ireland's first and longest-running comedy club (the Comedy Cellar, going since 1988, plus the Cheeky Monkey club on Mondays), and the upstairs room is where the music lives: the Circle Sessions, an unplugged Monday-night open mic for songs, poetry and spoken word in slots of five minutes or under, currently hosted by Tadhg Horan and Hans Kohn and starting around 8pm. Expect a packed, listening room rather than a stage-and-PA set-up - it bills itself as an open mic without a mic. Plays, poetry nights and the 1916 walking tour fill the rest of the week.