The Uncertain Life of a Docker
“‘Oh Jaysus, a fella’s after falling in the river’. And a voice came from the other side, now normally they’d say throw him a buoy, but some fella shouted, ‘Is it a button man?’, and someone shouts back, ‘Throw him a bar!’” That was a quip from one of the Dublin Dockers who is part […]
“Here were garda resources being deployed against a handful of women while heroin dealers were selling openly on the streets only a stone’s throw away, and yet that was the reality”.
On 2nd April, two documentaries will be screened back to back as part of the 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival, Sé Merry Doyle’s first documentary, Looking On (1982) and Alive Alive O: A Requiem for Dublin (2001). Both deal with what Sé describes as “Dublin’s inner city under […]
On 6th April, Talking To My Father (2005), Sé Merry Doyle’s documentary about Architect Robin Walker will be screened as part of the 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival.
Sé Merry Doyle makes documentaries about culturally defining moments in Ireland from the perspective of the human story or experience. Talking To My Father is as much about the father and son relationship as it is about Robin Walker, the influential modernist architect. Robin Walker (1924-1991) was a key figure in Irish modernist architecture. He studied […]
Róisín Lonergan is the Creative Director and force behind the Five Lamps Arts Festival, she is also a coordinator and lecturer at Marino College.
In 2007, while a teacher at Marino College of Further Education, Róisín approached Dublin City Council’s Arts Officers about the need for an arts festival in the Five Lamps area. The reaction was positive and Róisín was told that the Council would support it if she would initiate it. That she did and the festival […]
Local is diverse; history is evolving; the Five Lamps Arts Festival is the meeting point for the arts, culture and diversity.
The 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival is fast approaching. The programme is live; the buzz has commenced. Help us swarm the minds and diaries of the good people of our fair city. Yes, the Five Lamps Arts Festival is indeed another arts festival competing to stimulate and distract the Dublin public. Or maybe it’s ‘an […]
St Laurence O’Toole Girl’s School trip on the Royal Canal as part of the art project with Martina Galvin – 04/10/2016
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Behind the Scenes: Women in the Arts
Behind the Scenes: Women in the Arts by Laurie Ingram In the lead up to International Women’s day on Tuesday the 8th of March, the Five Lamps Arts Festival has been celebrating the creative contributions of women in many areas including music, dance and performance art. This is a fantastic opportunity to shine a spotlight […]
Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN
Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN by Laurie Ingram NIGHTTOWN is a play based on a chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses that records the feverish experience of Dublin’s sordid nightlife in the early 1900s. Adapted by director Joe O’Byrne and presented by Co-Motion Media and Carnation Theatre Company, this performance brings into action the […]
Irish TV Covers Launch of Five Lamps Arts Festival Programme
On 25th January 2016, an exclusive event was held at the Mansion House in Dublin, which launched the 2016 Five Lamps Arts Festival programme. Irish TV was there and covered the event. Click on the image below to check out the full episode (Festival coverage starts at 0:12:00):
The Five Lamps Arts Festival 2016: Art, History and Culture Illuminated
In under one week, the Five Lamps Arts Festival will ignite again for its 9th successive year. We can expect that yet again this will be an exuberant celebration of arts and the people who make it possible! Dublin is a city full of artistic potential, overflowing with vats of creative wealth. Such a thing should […]
A Special Thanks to our 2016 Festival Volunteers!
Thanks from the festival to the following people who have made it happen; people from the locality, volunteers, Dublin City Council people, colleagues from Marino College of FE; Gisela Medeiros de Campos, Carol Fortunato, and Cormac O’Connell who have been volunteering with the festival for over a year, Andrew Choi, Alexandra Escobar, Joshua Horsono, Maia Kunkel, […]
Do You Know the Five Lamps? Mural Project
‘Do You Know the Five Lamps?’ mural was a project initiated by Eoghan Cleary and the young people of Swan Youth Services in the North East Inner City. Driven by their interest in cycling and graffiti murals, the group cycled around the city each week looking at different images they could draw upon for inspiration. They also organised […]
Be part of our next Festival
Since 2007 the Five Lamps Arts Festival has worked with the local community and with local, national and international artists to promote arts and music in Dublin north inner city. All this would not have been possible without the help of our wonderful volunteers. The Five Lamps Festival is looking for new talents. We need […]
“Madame de Markievicz on Trial” by Ann Matthews
Come check out “Madame de Markievicz on Trial”, a new play by Ann Matthews, from 21st April to 2nd May. Ann has been involved with the Five Lamps Arts Festival in the past so we are very happy to be supporting her new play!