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

For reasons currently unknown, rising sea levels have inexplicably affected Ireland and Ireland only, reducing the island to one small indistinct piece of land owned by one remaining Irish civilian. The Last Man in Ireland is a comedic three-hander that explores the cyclical themes of family dysfunction and grief as it uses the lens of millennial angst to delve into the past and present the story of an imagined future. Age suitability:16+ Warnings: Strong Language/Violent Imagery

After a sell-out show in Liberty Hall in 2024 where it received rapturous standing ovations, “Dockers” comes to The Ambassador Theatre Dublin. Dockers is a historical musical narrative of Dublin docks, its people, and its places. It is a way of life consigned to history, but full of culture and traditions brought back to life on stage. In a show starring acclaimed singer and musician George Murphy (Rising Sons) and singer and multi-instrumentalist Tara Howley. George plays Jacko Dunne, a Dublin docker, recounting the life of a docker and the Dublin docklands through songs and stories. T