The Five Lamps Arts Festival, located in the heart of the community in Dublin’s North East Inner City, was founded in 2007 by Roisin Lonergan, a former teacher from Marino College. Since its first edition, the Festival has grown to become a center for the creation and presentation of locally relevant, artistically ambitious works and is a highly regarded and much-loved part of the community. The 5 Lamps team are hard at work crafting an exciting, inclusive, and accessible programme for this year’s Five Lamps Arts Festival. While l all the details can't be revealed just yet, they’re

Toots: “We were happy then. Why can’t we be happy now? Desmond: “Because you’re growing up my dear, you’re growing up.” A group of young Dubliners work and play hard, flirt wildly, fall in love, and trade devastatingly witty insults. These characters at the heart of in Mary Manning’s coming-of-age satire Youth’s The Season -? feel startlingly contemporary. First performed in 1931, this play explores life for privileged young Irish people between the two world wars. Mary Manning’s plays were extremely popular with audiences of their time and 2025 will offer the opportu

In a modern twist on a beloved Irish pastime, raconteur and international story expert Mary Kate O Flanagan makes a case for the profound impact storytelling has on our lives, while sharing some of the true-life stories that made her a GrandSlam Champion Storyteller on two continents and a TikTok sensation! In this captivating show, Mary Kate takes the audience on a journey through true, personal stories from her life that are as entertaining as they are insightful. The show will pull you in with its raw authenticity, leaving you hooked from beginning to end. But it's not just about the sto