5 Lamps Arts and Crafts Market on Dublin City FM

‘5Lamps Arts & Craft Day’ took place on Saturday 1st April We partnered with D-Light Studios to host a Quirk and an African Market. Also, we had the beautiful folk songs of “The Song and the Hand” by Mayumi Kabayashi, Caitriona, Fiona, Andrew and Irene who performed that evening.
Michael Harnett in Centre Stage with Jack Gilligan

Centre Stage is a radio show on Dublin City FM where Jack Gilligan explores every aspect of Theatre in Dublin and keeps you up to date with what’s on near you. In this show, he talks with Michael Harnett about his new play The Cloudspotter, which runs from the 28th of April to the 21st […]
‘The Cloudspotter’ Podcast

Director Michael J. Harnett joins Donie Tarrant to discuss his new play The Cloudspotter a work which features a young teenage boy and his grandmother who because of unfortunate circumstances live together. https://nearfm.ie/podcast/michael-j-harnetts-new-play-the-cloudspotter/ You can get tickets for this play taking place in Sean O’Casey Theatre HERE
Dancing in Dublin 1 – Film + Dance Workshop

Resident artist with Five Lamps Arts Festival Emily Kilkenny Roddy will lead children from Scoil Chaomhin, Marlborough St, St Laurence O’Toole’s JBS, Marino College Secondary School, Ballybough Youth Service, and ASESP in Sheriff Street in a series of dance workshops across June. The process will be recorded and edited into a film of their experience and the joy of dance, […]
Five Lamps Arts Festival 2018 launch party
Five Lamps Arts Festival 2018 launch party yesterday in Belvedere House was a great success. Thank you to all the artists, volunteers, sponsors, partners, board and friends. The Festival cannot exist without all of you. We are sharing few pictures from last night by PKStudio3 Weddings.
“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 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, […]