THE
FIVE
LAMPS
ARTS
FESTIVAL
28th February - 16th March 2016
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Five Lamps Arts Festival 2016
The Five Lamps Arts Festival is a creative encounter at the heart of a Dublin
North inner-city community. An annual area-based arts festival built on a unique
partnership between the third-level educational institution of Marino College of Further
Education and members of the Five Lamps community, the Festival is committed
to inclusivity, participation and the creation and presentation of locally relevant,
artistically ambitious work. It aims to animate public spaces and contribute to the
perception of the area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work.
The geographic locus of the Festival is the ‘Five Lamps’ – a decorated lamp post
with five lanterns dating from around 1880. The Five Lamps stands on an island
at the junction of Portland Row, North Strand Road, Seville Place, Amiens Street
and Killarney Street. Through the traditions and ambience of this historic location
the Festival celebrates all that is good about art, artists, performers and local
community. We are proud to include in our programme anyone with a story to tell
and a venue willing to host them.
The Festival was established in 2007 as an initiative of Marino College of Further
Education which is located beside the Five Lamps. Throughout its history the
Festival has been sustained by the College’s support -- funding, accommodation and
personnel -- and the support of a large group of volunteers (for example for the
2015 Festival, four interns from US Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregan for ten
weeks; one French intern for the summer months , the 2016 Festival, interns from
US Northeastern University in Boston for 10 weeks).Thus, the Festival is unique in
bringing together the education sector and the voluntary sector to celebrate the arts.
In 2015 there were 69 performances of 43 shows in 17 venues. The Festival opening
night was a great start with music and fire-dancing at the historic Custom House
-- about 500 people attended. The actor John Connors launched the proceedings
following speeches by Jacintha Stewart, CEO of CDETB and Roisin Lonergan, Artistic
Director of the Festival. In 2016 there will be many highlights, but best of all will
be the return of Paula Meehan Ireland professor of poetry who is from the Five
Lamps area.
The Five Lamps Arts Festival core objectives are:
• To present a coherent programme of arts workshops and events over a ten day period
in the Spring each year, prioritising work of artistic ambition and local relevance
• To develop local ownership of the Festival by encouraging the involvement of individuals,
groups and communities in all aspects of its planning, presentation and evaluation
• To contribute to a more positive perception of the area as a positive place
in which to work and live
• To work in partnership with key organisations at local, regional, national and
international level to develop specific areas of the programme and explore the
potential for collaboration and co-commissioning
The Five Lamps are shining for 2016! Come and celebrate 100 years of Irish culture
old and new with the support of Marino College of FE, Dublin City Council, The Croke
Park Community Fund, Irish Rail and the Inner City Trust.
We sincerely thank all our volunteers and also welcome Jack Gilligan, the former
Dublin City Council arts officer to the chair of the festival.
Roisin Lonergan
Artistic Director
The Five Lamps Arts Festival
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28th February
29th February - 5th March
Aindrias de Staic
Carnation Theatre and Co-Motion
Media present NIGHTTOWN
Nighttown is the chapter in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
when Bloom and Daedalus visit the Monto area of
Dublin, the infamous red light district. It’s a chapter
populated with a huge number of characters - from
children, to ordinary people, to prostitutes, to the
visitors to the street of ill-repute.
Adapted from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ by Joe O’Byrne.
“The Man from Moogaga” is hitting the road, heading
east and returning to Dublin! Yehow!!!!!! You may be
familiar with Aindrias de Staic from his appearance
in this season’s “Hardy Bucks”, and having presented
“An Jig Gig”, “Bualadh Busk” and “Busker Abu” (TG 4).
Performers: Mairead Devlin, Mary O’Driscoll,
Martin Cahill
Director: Joe O’Byrne
Composer: Cian Boylan
Designer: Robert Ballagh
Puppet Designer: Martin Cahill
According to The Irish Times, he and his band “had
steam coming off bald men’s heads” at the Electric
Picnic!! Now you can see him at his finest in his one man
comedy show that’s difficult to define but impossible to
match. “The Man from Moogaga” is a musical/comedy/
storytelling hybrid, which has proved a huge hit as the
opening event for the Westport Arts Festival.
He has won the Galway Water Award for Best
Comedy at the Galway Fringe Festival and his recent
show at Smithfield’s Cobblestone Pub was sold out!
The show itself is bursting with entertainment and
hilarity transporting the audience to another level
of enchantment and emotionality. Book early to avoid
disappointment!
#themanfrommoogaga #irishmusicparty
#grandsocial #aindriasdestaic
Date: Sun 28th February
Time: 9pm
Location: The Grand Social
Cost: €12 at the door
Booking: Eventbrite
LINKS
Website: www.aindrias.com
Twitter: twitter.com/aindestaic
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Date: Mon 29th February to Sat 5th March
Time: 8pm
Location: Applerock Studios, Foley Street (formerly
Montgomery Street).
Cost: €15/12
Booking: Eventbrite or call 0879737401
2nd March
Swan Concert
Holistic Indian Head And Back
Massage
Come enjoy a relaxing and healthy massage!
links
Website: www.marinocollege.ie
The Five Lamps Arts Festival are delighted to present
the SWAN YOUTH SERVICE Music Group in a concert
in Marino College on the 2nd of March. Last year
they gave us a wonderful concert so we are looking
forward to another one this year.
Swan Youth Service aims to promote positive
involvement of young people in the St. Agatha’s,
North Strand and North Wall areas. They hope
to build positive working relationships with young
people and act as a consistent support for them.
Swan encourages the development of social, practical
and creative skills through active participation. Music
has recently become a great means for the young
people to express their opinions and feelings. Having
written and performed their own song for the
first time last December as part of the Big Sparkle
Competition held in the Helix these young artists
will blow you away with their incredible talent.
Date: Wed 2nd March
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Location: Beauty Therapy Rooms, Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Booking: Eventbrite
Date: Wed 2nd March
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Marino College
Cost: DONATION
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4th, 5th, 6th March
5th March
As A Woman I….
Big Drawing Day Out to Wexford
From the writer of “A Grey Area” and in collaboration
with The House Presents.
What? What do you? What are you? What would
you?
As many questions as there are answers. As many
definitions as there are contradictions.
This multimedia original show will bring the
essence of woman on stage through collages
of views, thoughts and feelings gathered by us over
several months as we asked this simple question
to community groups and individual women and
men in the Five Lamps area.
This woman, therefore, will not be defined by
playwrights or poets; she will not be fashioned to suit
her audience; she will not be a full-blooded textual
woman and we will not find out what happens to her
in the end!
Never the same twice, always changing, indefinable,
this woman is written by you and her show interpreted
by us. Come and hear her voice!
Spoken Word & Music Performances
Date: Fri 4th, Sat 5th & Sun 6th March
Doors: 8pm
Location: Annesley House
Cost: €10 at the door
Booking: Eventbrite
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There were many Wexford people involved in the Easter
Rising both in Dublin and in Enniscorthy in Wexford
where 600 rebels took the town. They held firm and
refused to surrender unless they received the order from
Pearse himself so two of the leaders Seamus Doyle and
Seán R. Etchingham, were brought by the British to
Dublin to consult Pearse in Arbor Hill Prison. The order
to surrender was obtained. On Monday, 1 May 1916,
the Enniscorthy patriots surrendered.
We plan to revisit the journey, by train, made by these
men between Wexford and Dublin. Dressing up in
costumes of the time we will take to the old fashioned
medium of sketching and drawing to recreate how it
was for them in our journey back in time…
On the first leg of the journey, down along the coast,
we will draw a series of objects relating to the sea, and/
or any fancy dresses and accessories relating to 1916
(i.e. seaweed, shells, hats). We will then arrive in Wexford,
have some lunch and take a tour of Wexford’s Art
Galleries. On the return leg of the journey, we will have
a 15 minutes live drawing session and a mini exhibition
on board the train.
All levels and ages are welcome, however any
minors under the age of 18 must be accompanied
by a fellow “artist”!
Although this workshop is geared towards making
drawings, there is a strong emphasis on FUN and
dressing up!
Date: Sat 5th March
Time: 9:15am
Location: Meeting point Connolly Station
Cost: €10 (limited places available)
Booking: Eventbrite or call 0879737401 or email to
fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
Punch Lion Kids’ Comedy Club
Béirín Beag Buí
Púca Puppets are delighted to return to the festival
with their finished film Béirín Beag Buí which was
inspired by children’s response to a work in progress
shown at the 2014 Festival.
Béirín Beag Buí is a lullaby film for children of 3-6
years. It is made with rod, string and shadow puppets
as well as live action, and is produced by Púca Puppets.
The film is about difficulties sleeping and about the
magical world of dreams between sleep and waking.
The story invites children to relax and embark on
a journey of imagination and stories which will bring
them safely to morning. Winner of Dingle International
Film Festival’s Fisín Award, it was also supported
by Vast Valley Ltd and Dublin City Council Arts Office.
A family friendly stand-up comedy show for kids and
BIG kids! We bring top comedians from the comedy
circuit with silly jokes to make you giggle, grin and
laugh out loud.
Punch Lion Kids’ Comedy Club presents three
brilliant performers for The Five Lamps Arts Festival
- Andrew Stanley (Comedy Cellar), Kevin Gildea (Father
Ted) and Totally Wired (Laughter Lounge).
Date: Sat 5th March
Time: 10:30am
Location: Charleville Mall Library
Cost: FREE
Booking: 018749619 (Charleville Mall Library)
LINKS
Website: www.pucapuppets.com
Come to the show for knock, knock jokes and silly
songs. Nonsense word play and stories of pongs. Big
loud mime and funny faces. Laughing loud at weird
voices. Making your belly ache with laughter! Lots
and lots of things to talk about after.
Recommended age 6+. Children must
be accompanied by an adult.
Date: Sat 5th March
Time: 5pm
Location: Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Booking: Eventbrite or call 0879737401 or email to
fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
LINKS
Website: www.punchlion.ie
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Mary Mary Viking Storyteller
Tales of the Viking Gods Scéalta
na Lochlannach faoi na Déithe
Produced by Pucca Puppets, supported by Vast Valley
Ltd and Dublin City Council Arts office.
Viking Storyteller, Mary Mary delights children aged
6-10 years and their families with tales of the Viking
Gods, illustrated by live shadow puppetry. Afterwards
she invites them to respond through drawing or
writing their own favourites or in the creation of new
characters and stories.
Written in collaboration with poet Gabriel Rosenstock,
the show will be presented both in Irish and English.
8th March
Hafla with Yasmina
by The House Presents
Yasmina’s Hafla! Yasmina and her Serpents
Mystiques are Ireland first Tribal Fusion Bellydance
group performers. Yasmina is an acclaimed
international dancer and teacher whose style
combines a mixture of Oriental, India, Asian,
Flamenco and Tribal dance. The technic is precise
with drills and fluid movements, the dancers create
their own ornate costumes and all are trained
and accomplished dancers who won International
Competitions. Yasmina’s choreographies are upbeat
and happy and Yasmina’s workshops are always
great fun. You might even get to work on moving
your eyebrows for full face expression!
Date: Tue 8th March
Time: 8:30pm to 11pm
Location: Annesley House
Cost: €5
Date: Sat 5th March
Time: 3:30pm
Location: Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Booking: Call 0879737401 or email to
fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
LINKS
Website: www.pucapuppets.com
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9th - 11th March
Powerscourt Productions
and Co-Motion Media present
THE RISING
9th & 12th March
MAGICIAN BRENDAN LAMBE
by Joe O’Byrne
Relive the tumultuous days of the 1916 Rising
through the eyes of two friendly adversaries, O’Brien,
a Catholic, and McKeague, a Protestant. Over an
exhilarating action packed 90 minutes show, O’Brien
and McKeague will tell the story of this pivotal event
in Irish history in vaudeville style, with humour,
song and dance, as they re-enact the Rising and the
events that led to it, including World War.
“90 minutes of exhilarating and terrifying factual
theatre“ - The Irish Times
Director: Joe O’Byrne
Choreographer: Breandán de Gallaí
Cast: Nick O’Connell and John Ruddy
Producers: Catherine Mullarkey and Joe O’Byrne
Date: Wed 9th, Thu 10th and Fri 11th March
Time: 8pm
Location: Liberty Hall Theatre
Cost: €20/15
Booking: Eventbrite or call 0879737401 or email to
fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
MAGICIAN BRENDAN LAMBE will appear at The Five
Lamps Arts Festival with some amazing magic tricks
and illusions guaranteed to leave everyone mesmerised.
An hour long magic show suitable for both children and
adults – everyone can get involved in the show. There
will be a huge range of tricks and illusions from restoring
a torn up newspaper in the blink of an eye to changing
a bunch of handkerchiefs into a real live rabbit for the
children to pet. Lots of baffling tricks for the adults to
enjoy too including Brendan’s most talked about trick
for adults – making a volunteer’s finger ring vanish and
reappear in the most impossible location ever. It must
be seen to be believed. Fun for all the family.
Date: Wed 9th and Sat 12th March
Time: 12:30pm (Wednesday) and 3pm (Saturday)
Location: Connolly House
Cost: FREE.
Booking: Call 0879737401 or email to
fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
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9th March
Women Who Rock
Paula Meehan Reading
The Five Lamps Arts Festival is delighted to welcome back
Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan following her
hugely successful reading in the LAB in Foley Street in
our 2013 festival. That reading was made all the more
personal for Paula as from the LAB’s window she could
see her grandmother’s flat. So it is a welcome return for
Paula to the streets and memories of her childhood,
a fertile and constant source of inspiration to our own poet.
Date: Wed 9th March
Time: 6pm
Location: Liberty Hall, Connelly Room
Cost: FREE
Paula Meehan Professor of Poetry of Ireland
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she
still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and
at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. She has
received many awards, including the Marten Toonder
Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for
Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the
PPI Award for Radio Drama. She has published five
collections of poetry, the most recent being Painting
Rain (Carcanet, 2009). A selected volume, entitled
Mysteries of the Home, was published in 1996.
Her writing for stage includes the plays Mrs Sweeney
(1997), Cell (1999), and, for children, Kirkle (1995),
The Voyage (1997) and The Wolf of Winter (2003/2004).
Her poetry has been set to music by artists as diverse
as the avant-garde composer John Wolf Brennan and
the folksinger Christy Moore.
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The “Women Who Rock” will take to the stage on
March 9th at the Grand Social at 8pm for a very
unique show.
Each one of these ambitious women has extensive
musical experience and success and will bring their
own unique styles of songwriting and performing to
the stage to showcase all that is great about Ireland’s
female artists. Their music will showcase incredible
new talent across rock, pop, folk and blues genres.
Since the girls got together last May to form ‘Women
Who Rock’, there has been a huge response to the
idea with many female artists getting in touch to get
involved in future events. Such is the response that
the girls have decided to continue running the WWR
events with their first Kilkenny event with a local
singer/songwriter. Watch this space for an exciting
venture in Irish music. Here are some of the “Women
Who Rock” who will be joining us for the night of
great music on the 9th of March: i am niamh, BeRn,
Molly Sterling, Nella and many more..
Date: Wed 9th March
Time: 8pm
Location: The Grand Social
Cost: €10 at the door
LINKS
Music: soundcloud.com/iamniamh
Facebook: www.facebook.com/iamniamh/
Website: www.iamniamh.com/
10th March
REIC
Roisin Ingle reads from her new
book, Public Displays of Emotion
Irish Writers Centre in association with The
Five Lamps Arts Festival
Dánta, rap, amhráin, agus ceol. Tá Reic ar siúl go
rialta i mBaile Átha Cliath ó bunaíodh anuraidh é,
agus bhí sé i láthair ag na féilte Electric Picnic agus
LINGO chomh maith. Le linn na bliana bhí Séamus
Barra Ó Súilleabháin, Marcus Mac Conghail, Rónán
Ó Snodaigh, Temper-Mental MissElayneous, Eva
O’Connor, agus MC Muipéad páirteach, agus go leor
leor eile. Anocht cuirfidh bean an tí Ciara Ní É fáilte
roimh fhilí iontacha ó gach cearn den tír - coimeád
súil ar Twitter agus Facebook leis an liosta iomlán
a fheiceáil.
This bilingual spoken word event in association with
the Irish Writers Centre and Seachtain na Gaeilge will
feature poems, rap, songs, and music, with open mic
too. Come to hear the sorts of Irish poems that you
won’t hear on the Leaving Cert - yet!
Date: Thu 10th March
Doors: 7:30pm
Start: 8pm
Location: Irish Writers Centre
Cost: €7/€5 via www.irishwriterscentre.ie
Excerpt from the Irish Times about her new book:
Journalist Róisín Ingle displayed “a different kind
of courage” when she wrote about her experience
of having an abortion, columnist Fintan O’Toole said
at the launch of her book last September. About
100 people attended the launch of Public Displays
of Emotion in Dublin. The book is a selection of Ingle’s
columns published in The Irish Times over the past
15 years. O’Toole referred to how Ingle had written
on Saturday about having an abortion during her
20s. “It takes a different kind of courage to risk the
affection that people have for you,” he said. “There is
an enormous affection and sense of connection people
feel for Róisín. It does take something for someone
to take that risk and say, ‘I have something to tell
you’.” He said the central theme of her columns was
“imperfection” and her expression of that through the
stories she told was “a gift for Irish society”. Ingle said
she was grateful for the support she has received since
writing about her abortion. “It’s not about us,” she
said. “It’s about all the women of Ireland.”
LINKS
Twitter: @roisiningle
Date: Thu 10th March
Time: 9pm
Location: Cusacks Pub, North Strand Road
Cost: FREE
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Welcome Café presents Stories
of Emigration and Immigration
The Welcome Café is a regular meet-up event
celebrating integration and diversity. For the 5 Lamps
Festival we will host an evening café event with tea,
coffee and tastes of food from around the world.
We will take people on a virtual tour of the area of
North Inner City Dublin shaped by many arrivals and
departures.
11th March
Brendan Devereux
From a song inspired by his grandfather’s
participation in the 1916 Rebellion, to one telling of
a young boy’s exploits on a camel around the streets
of his hometown of Finglas West, Brendan’s songs
make an impression.
Brendan is an award-winning singer/songwriter
who was born and bred in Dublin. His musical
influences range from Irish traditional and folk
music to American folk music. He has appeared live
on national television in Ireland, he has supported
Mary Black, and he has been invited as far away as
Lithuania to sing his songs at the Tai As Folk Festival,
where he also appeared live on Lithuanian television.
Brendan has three albums of original songs to his
name, which are available through Claddagh Records
and cdbaby.
Date: Thu 10th March
Time: 6:30pm to 8.30pm
Location: College Cafe at Marino College of FE,
Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Christy Moore invited Brendan to sing his song
“Liberty Hall” at the centenary concert of the SIPTU
Trade Union in Ireland. Brendan has also won the
Killarney Folk Festival Singer/Songwriter Contest where
he appeared alongside Paul Brady & Jimmy McCarthy.
His appearance at The Five Lamps Arts Festival
is a perfect opportunity for more people to get
to know Brendan and his songs.
Date: Fri 11th March
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Liberty Hall (Connolly Room)
Cost: FREE
Booking: Eventbrite
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Midwife of a Nation
James Connolly Day
at Connolly House
Unveiling of a plaque to mark the contribution of
the people of the North Strand area who were in
the Irish Citizen Army. History projects by secondary
school students. Excerpts from Community Drama
Fractures. Performance of Midwife of the Nation.
Panel discussion about James Connolly.
Check our website for times www.fivelampsarts.ie
12th March
Ménage à trois
Carnation theatre - in association Dublin City Library
- will be marking this event with a celebration of our
own. It is called “Midwife of a Nation” and we are
writing it with Joe O’Byrne. In particular it celebrates
the contribution of women to the events of 1916 the big and the not so big characters of which there
are many. Some will be known to you and others will
be more obscure.
A vibrant melange of performance featuring the
beguiling Caroline Moreau and her repertoire of
French Chansons, thought-provoking spoken word
from Nicole Rourke and refined accompaniment
of acclaimed pianist Claire Crehan.
Taking to the stage for one night only....Ménage
à trois. Come as a couple, leave as a crowd!
WHAT THE PRESS SAY:
“Uniting heartbreak, obsession and fleeting
nonchalance with a deliciously black humour”
**** - IRISH TIMES
“Moreau’s voice is a thing of beauty...beguiling”
**** - IRISH INDEPENDENT
“Vocal and musical dexterity” **** - HOT PRESS
Date: Fri 11th March
Time: 1pm
Location: Marino College - Connolly House Theatre
Cost: €5 at the door
Booking: Eventbrite
Date: Sat 12th March
Doors: 8pm
Start: 8:30pm
Location: Annesley House
Cost: €10
Booking: Eventbrite
LINKS
Website: www.carolinemoreau.com
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Mud Island Open Day
Rainbow Music - discover the
musical rainbow!
Mud Island off the North Strand was an area inhabited
by ‘renegades and vagabonds’ and few would dare to
enter it as it was said there that ‘it was a wise man
never saw a dead man.’
In James Joyce’s Ulysses “At Newcomen bridge Father
Conmee stepped into an outward bound tram for he
disliked to traverse on foot the dingy way past Mud
Island.”
Today it is home to the award winning Mud Island
Community Garden and on March 12th there will
be a talk there at 2pm by a local historian on the
history of the area followed by a pottery workshop
at 3pm with garden member John Hannigan.
Date: Sat 12th March
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: Mud Island Community Garden
Cost: FREE
Help your child to uncover their musical potential
through fun games, dances and songs. Using percussion
instruments, such as the gathering drum and beautiful
bells, we hope to inspire your child to discover their own
musical voice. We also keep things light and fun with
a crazy parachute game and we finish the day with a
stamp or sticker for your child to take home.
At Rainbow Music we present music in a pure and clean
way to kids. We strive to develop listening skills and
vocal skills in your child. Rainbow Music is based on
the Kodaly (a Hungarian Music educator) method which
recognises that the voice should be our first musical
instrument.
At the end of the workshop the kids will have learned
some fun, folksy songs while using percussion
instruments, which has the added bonus of encouraging
them to learn about beat and rhythm.
For additional info on classes please visit
www.rainbowmusicforkids.com
The Workshops cater for ages 18 months to 6 years
and run for 30 minutes. 18 months-3yrs will start at
2.30pm and 3-6 yrs at 3.15pm at Charleville Mall library.
Booking is essential at the library and places are limited.
Date: Sat 12th March
Time: 2:30pm and 3:15pm
Location: Charleville Mall Library
Cost: FREE
LINKS
Website: www.rainbowmusicforkids.com
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Shadow Puppetry Workshop
with Julie Rose McCormick
So You Want to Write for
the Screen? Beginners’
Screenwriting Workshop
The Julie-Rose McCormick Puppet Theatre has been
performing throughout Ireland and abroad for 28
years collaborating with The Abbey Project Theatre
and Ark on productions, designing giant puppets for
Community events, and creating shadow, glove and
marionette shows for her own productions and for
projects such as the SPARK Ballymun and The UCD
Orchestra. She also designs and makes costumes for
children’s theatre productions and the opera. She was
a Puppeteer on the Lassie movie.
Have you ever wanted to write a script but didn’t
know where to start? Join the Irish Writers Centre
and one of our expert facilitators will lead an
engaging workshop on the basics of the craft. Learn
what makes for a compelling scene and pick up
invaluable tips which will help you embark on your
screenwriting journey.
Design, create and get to perform with your own
shadow puppet - be it a dragon, monster, fairy, Star
Wars character or whatever you like to make. See
and experience shadow puppets from around the
world and the cultures which they come from.
Date: Sat 12th March
Time: 10am
Location: Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Age guide: 7-12 years (materials supplied)
Date: Sat 12th March
Time: 10:30am to 1:30pm
Location: Irish Writers Centre in association with
the Five Lamps Festival
Cost: €15/€12 via www.irishwriterscentre.ie
LINKS
Twitter: @IrishWritersCtr
Website: www.irishwriterscentre.ie
LINKS:
Website: www.mccormickpuppets.com
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Statues and Sculptures of Dublin: The Walking Tour,
with Neal Doherty
How often do you walk past the many statues and
sculptures of Dublin city centre and wonder about
them? These works of art tell the story of Dublin,
from the arrival of the Vikings and the oppression
of the Penal Laws, through the rich Georgian era
and the horror of the Famine, to the fight for Irish
freedom and on to the modernity of the twenty
-first century. Who is depicted in these statues? Who
created them, commissioned them and why?
Join author and tour guide Neal Doherty for a
fascinating walking tour which will reveal the stories
behind Dublin’s statues, their subjects, their sculptors
and their symbolism.
Date: Sat 12th March
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Location: Starting point: The Custom House
Cost: FREE
Booking: Eventbrite
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13th March
Mornington Singers
Music for a While
Monument Walk along
O’Connell Street’s Meridian
This concert, entitled Music for a While, will present a
selection of atmospheric choral works drawn mainly
from the repertoire of the 20th century, including
Rautavaara’s Lorca Suite, Vaughan Williams’ Three
Shakespeare Songs and Barber’s Reincarnations.
Date: Sun 13th March
Time: 12pm
Location: Hugh Lane Gallery
Cost: FREE
LINKS:
Website: www.morningtonsingers.com
Join Carly Keegan on a walk through Dublin’s
O’Connell Street and explore the history of the key
monuments on the central meridian. Some of the
featured works on the walk include: ‘Monument
to Daniel O’Connell’, ‘Jim Larkin’ and ‘The Spire’.
Date: Sun 13th March
Time: 10am
Duration: 1 1/2 hours approximately
Location: Meeting point Monument to Daniel
O’Connell
Cost: FREE
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Ireland’s Best Buskers
Five Lamps Arts have searched country wide for
Ireland’s best buskers and will showcase the top
buskers in Ireland on Sunday the 13th of March.
Not be missed, music from the roots, where stars
will be discovered!
Date: Sun 13th March
Time: 7pm
Location: The Grand Social
Cost: €5 at the door
LINKS
Website: www.thegrandsocial.ie
Cliona Cassidy
and Niamh Molloy
Cliona Cassidy and Niamh Molloy grew up in
Malahide, Co.Dublin, where they met and played
together as teenagers. They both went on to become
professional musicians - Niamh is now a member of
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Cliona sings
regularly in the chorus of Scottish Opera and is a
member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. They
are delighted to come together again at home in
Dublin for this concert and will perform Sir John
Tavener’s hauntingly beautiful Akhmatova Songs.
Date: Sun 13th March
Time: 2pm
Location: The Hugh Lane Gallery
Cost: FREE
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The Zurmukhti Ensemble
presents SINGING MEDICINE
14th March
TALES ON WHEELS
Zurmukhti, originally coming from the Republic
of Georgia, is a Dublin based ensemble passionate
about polyphonic singing. They are back at the Five
Lamps Arts Festival to offer you the opportunity to
sit inside a Batonebo circle (healing songs) and get
a good dose of Singing Medicine to soothe the body
and warm the heart.
Sit down and relax while we sing for you.
For more information, visit their facebook page:
www.facebook.com/zurmukhti.georgianensemble
Date: Sun 13th March
Time: 2pm, 3pm 4pm each session is 30 minutes
Location: Connolly House
Cost: FREE
Booking: email to fivelampsartsfestival@gmail.com
or phone 0879737401
Inspired by the Japanese tradition of Kamishibai,
Fiona Dowling cycles through the 5 Lamps area
with her travelling paper theatre to give storytelling
performances wherever she stops. Her itinerary will
include a creche, a school, the College, a day centre
as well as a surprise outdoor destination.
In the art of Kamishibai, the storyteller tells her tale
while showing a series of painted slides illustrating
the strong points of the story. Fiona is looking
forward to wearing both her visual artist and
storyteller caps for the occasion.
Date: Mon 14th March
Time: All day
Location: See website
Cost: FREE
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14th - 15th March
15th March
Fractures by Uncut Diamonds
“I Am Dublin” Flash Fiction
Competition
Uncut Diamonds is a North inner city based drama
group named after the famous Diamond area located
around Gloucester Street and Sean McDermott street.
This was once the hub of the north inner city hosting
the famous seven a side soccer competitions and of
course the infamous Monto area.
The group was set up to explore the untold stories
of the people of the area but placed in some
dramatic emphasis. Their first play ‘From all
directions’ looked at the range of issues in the
area and the stress placed on those who decided to
change society for the better. In the past year they
have collaborated with ‘Heel and Ankle’ a drama
group from Shankill Road in Belfast who have
familiar stories to tell of adverse change, dislocation
and loss.
Their new play is called ‘Fractures’ and looks at
the legacy of the 1916 rebellion and the contrast
between the idealism of the Proclamation and
the reality of the State it created. We encounter
a mysterious homeless man who speaks in riddles
and remembers events he could not have lived
through. We also meet an American tourist searching
for the roots of her great-grandmother who hailed
from the area but whose contribution to the
insurrection has been forgotten.
Through these contemporary incidents we witness
events that occurred in and around the Annesley
Bridge in Fairview, the effects of the Rising on
the wardens and the animals in the zoo and the
increasing disillusionment of the women in the
GPO, particularly Winifred Carney, James Connolly’s
secretary, the typist with the Webley. The play does
not aspire to be a work of historical accuracy but
uses actual events to imaginatively challenge our
understanding of the momentum and drama that
lead to the foundation of two sectarian States on
this island and the class and gender fractures that
have occurred since.
Date: Mon 14th and Tue 15th March
Time: 8pm (Friday) and 8pm (Monday and Tuesday)
Location: Marino College of FE, Connolly House,
171 North Strand Road
Cost: €5 at the door
Irish Writers Centre in association with the Five
Lamps Arts Festival
This flash fiction competition encourages you to
channel your inner Anna Livia Plurabelle and to seek
inspiration in the charm of our fair city – cracks and
all. Pieces should be 400 words long (in English or
Irish) and the deadline for entries is Monday, 15th
February 2016. Winners will be invited to take part
in a showcase event on Tuesday, 15th of March
alongside some well known names on the Dublin
literary scene.
Deadline Monday 15th February.
Date: Tue 15th March
Time: 7pm
Location: Irish Writer’s Centre
Cost: €5
LINKS:
Website: www.irishwriterscentre.ie
16th March
Sheriff Street Paddy’s Parade
event at 10am.
See website for details
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Tallest Smallest Theatre
The Fanzini Brothers Present
Cannonball Circus
Disguised in a beard, he enters with a small suitcase
in tow.
An expectant audience awaits. The magic requires just
a moment of silence… He opens his trunk of tricks…
what could be in there?
Puppets? Pirates? Tricks?
Cork based Tallest Smallest Theatre is serious about
silliness, and dedicated to sharing the spotlight. We
want children and adults to tell stories, act the fool
and learn new tricks, which they should definitely try
at home!
Tallest Smallest concept is to build dynamic
performances for young people, devised to encourage
their participation. Each skillfully led performance draws
the audience to fun, inventive solutions, producing
fantastical journeys and unexpected endings!
Date: Wed 16th March
Time: 12 noon
Location: Corporation Hall Sheriff Street
Cost: FREE
Audience: Children from Sheriff Street and their families
Guido and Ronaldo Fanzini, inspired by the mountains
of Venice and the canals of the Italian Alps, present
their new show, Cannonball Circus.
With no expense spared, with no concern for their
safety, they laugh in the face of danger. They have
torn up the budget and gave their accountant a good
talking in order to bring you an amazing variety of
acts: dancing ladies, a motor bike wall of death, the
flying trapeze, and the world famous Moroccan chicken
throwers.
But what’s this? Ronaldo has spent the entire budget
on a gargantuan cannon! There is no money left for
the acts! The show must go on, but what will they do…
LINKS
Twitter: @Fanzinibrothers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/fanzini.brothers
Date: Wed 16th March
Time: 12 noon
Location: Corporation Hall Sheriff Street
Cost: FREE
Audience: Children from Sheriff Street and their families
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The Flood by Ciarán Taylor with
Karl Quinn and Roger Gregg
Eastrogen Rising:
A Rebel Cabaret
A live multi-sensory audio play in the dark.
An old man mops a leak in his kitchen all night.
Delirious floods of memory and fantasy fill his head.
Struggling to keep mind and body together, can he
weather the storm and keep the flood at bay until
daylight?
Close your eyes as this fascinating play in sound
and music swirls around you, awakening all of your
senses.
Date: Wed 16th March
Time: 7pm
Location: Sean O’Casey Theatre, East Wall, Dublin 3.
Cost: €10, concessions €5
LINKS
Website: www.carpettheatre.com
A multi-media cabaret about women of The 1916
Easter Rising - known and unknown - featuring music,
poetry, theatre, comedy and video from Dublin’s finest
artists.
The following artists were commissioned to write
a new piece for the show.
BeRn, John Cummins, Catherine Anne Cullen, Kevin
Dwan, Davina Brady, Alvy Carragher, Fiona Bolger,
June Caldwell, Sonya Mulligan, Fionnuala Halpin,
Paula Lonergan, Katherine Ryan, Lynn Harding, Nuala
Finnegan, Aidan Murphy and Grainne Hallahan.
LINKS:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EastrogenRising
Date: Wed 16th March
Time: 8pm
Location: Annesley House
Cost: €10 at the door
Booking: Eventbrite
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During the Festival
Five Lamps Enterprise
Photographic Exhibition
Then and When Exhibition,
O’Connell Street
Then & When...O’Connell Street re-evaluated
by Griffith College Interior Architecture Students.
This work follows on from last year’s final year
student examination of Upper O’Connell Street (The
O.C. 2015: ‘from Spire to Rotunda’). This year the
students looked at O’Connell street and the areas
around it as a complete street.
‘Then’ allows the students to frame their research
(both individual and group) about the buildings that
make up the street and the history of the street
itself. This research allows students to evaluate
new proposals for their chosen building from and
informed point of view.
This photographic exhibition takes a look at various
enterprises, both business and voluntary, in the Five
Lamps area of Dublin.
Time: 9am to 5pm
Location: Dublin Docklands Development Authority,
Custom House Quay, Docklands, Dublin 1
Cost: FREE
‘When’ frames the proposals and possible solutions
for a New O’Connell Street. Would a significant
educational footprint change our perception of the
street? Would residential buildings work here? Can
the GPO be reconfigured so that it is updated and
more easily enjoyed? Would the Clerys building make
a good hotel?
O’Connell Street today is in the midst of another new
addition with the Luas line extension. This will no
doubt drive more people through the street. But is
this the best solution? At present the street occupies
a significant emotional place in the minds and hearts
of the Irish people but most will say that it has
become a corridor, a place to go through to get to
someplace else rather than a destination in itself.
These students’ projects look at how this perception
might be turned around.
See website for venue details.
LINKS
Website: www.griffith.ie
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We are all made of stars
Investigating Our Local
Environment
Community graffiti work titled ‘We are all made
of stars’ will engage three differing groups of elder
women in their 80’s and students from Marino
College all based in the Five Lamps area with artist
Kathryn Maguire.
The new graffiti work will be sited on the Royal Canal
under the Croke Park Stadium. The theme this year
is ‘We are all made of stars’. An astronomer is
invited to speak to the group about this and explain
what stars are and our integral relationship to
the Universes. The group shall also visit Dunsink
Observatory and see how an Observatory operates.
This exhibit will be put in place at the beginning
of March. Check for updates on our website.
Date: Early March
Location: Royal Canal under the Croke Park Stadium
Cost: FREE
LINKS
Website: www.kathrynmaguire.net
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“Investigating our local environment” is an art project
looking at the local canal environment including the
local involvement in the Easter Rising 1916. Fields
trips include a guided tour of the local canals, and
a guided tour and workshop experience at IMMA.
The children’s clay sculptures will be inspired by the
Easter Rising 1916, and the drawings and paintings
inspired by the canal field trips. This project
is a collaboration between Artist Martina Galvin
and St. Laurence O Toole’s Girls National School and
St. Laurence O’Toole’s CBS, Seville Place, Dublin 1.
Date: Installation will be in place in early March
Time: 9am to 5pm - every day
Location: Marino College of Further Education
Dublin
Do You Know the Five Lamps?
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 a trip to Belfast to tour the iconic
murals there on both sides of the conflict. When
Roisin Lonergan came to them with a space beside
Marino College they leapt at the opportunity to create
a piece of mural art in such a prominent and central
location within their local community.
The young group collaborated for over 6 months with
local artist Fionnuala Halpin to develop a piece that
would incorporate all the aspects of the North Strand
area and communities, spanning across all of the
seminal moments in history through the centuries
from the arrival of the Vikings to the modern issues
faced by the community today.
In late June 2015 with the support of the Croke
Park Community Fund, and Marino College of
FE and The Five Lamps Arts Festival the plan was
put into action. With an extended group of youth
people from Swan Youth Service along with a host
of local artist volunteers, the group spent an entire
week for often 12 hours a day, transferring the
ideas developed from their workings on paper to the
paint on the wall that you see today. The result of
their successful collaboration spans the wall of the
Memorial Garden beside Marino College on the North
Strand Road.The Mural:From left to right the waves
of foreign lands carries the arrival of the Vikings
from Asgard representing the fact that we are
all original immigrants to this country as well
as representing the more obvious diversity that
exists in the community today particularly in respect
to the generations of new Irish young people.
It quickly changes to the 20th century with the IRB
bringing guns (carried by the Asgard) to the city
in 1916 as they would have walked along the North
Strand Road. These gun runners lead us to the
central image of the image of the GPO in flames that
drives the main idea of the mural that the ideals
put forth in the proclamation of independence in
1916 are still being realised and fought for 100 year
later in our communities today.The first swan flies
out of the flames with the title of the proclamation
of Independence written on it symbolising the new
republic emerging from the flames. The swans
represent the Children of Lir, the young people of
SWAN Youth Service, and the socialist republican
ideals born from the flames of the GPO as they
carry the proclamation forward through time across
the Dublin night sky as the historical development
of the community continues below. The bomb that
was dropped in this very location n WWII killing
28 people; the flooding of 1950; the tram that would
have run along the North Strand Road to Howth; the
Monto and the lion that was shot outside the North
Strand cinema in 1953.
The Five Lamps represent the point at which the
mural moves from the events of the past to the
issues of the future; the right to water; helping
the homeless and the right to a home as well as
the marriage equality rainbow over the canal.The
musicians symbolise the rich cultural history of
the area echoed in the signpost for the Five Lamps
Arts Festival. The starry plough, a salute to Sean
O’ Casey. The cyclists old and new show how the
function of the road has been the same steadfast
pathway for travellers over the ages. Finally James
Joyce, who wrote about travelling along the North
Strand Road in Ulysses, sits on the landmark bridge
over the canal as he did in Dubliners, as the last
swan flies overhead having transformed into an
airplane. In it, the words of the proclamation that
address our exiled children abroad represents the
diaspora of millions that have left our shores when
it was impossible to stay, again echoing the transient
nature of what it is to be Irish.We decided to title
it ‘Do You Know the Five Lamps?’ after the famous
local Dublin saying. As well as the local familiarity
and ownership of the phrase it also asks people who
may not be as familiar with their own community
to ask themselves if they really know about all the
events that has come to pass in the area known
as the Five Lamps.
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Schedule
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Date
Event
Venue
Time
Cost
28th Feb
Aindrias de Staic
The Grand Social
9pm
€12
29th Feb
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
1st March
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
2nd March
Massage
Beauty Therapy
Rooms - Connolly
House
1pm –
5pm
FREE
2nd March
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
10th March
World Cafe
Marino College
6:30pm
FREE
3rd March
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
4th March
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
4th March
As a Woman I
Annesley House
8pm
€10
5th March
Big Drawing Day Out to Wexford *
Connolly Station
-Wexford
(meeting point)
9:15am
€10
5th March
Puca Puppets - Mary Mary Viking Storyteller Tales
Charleville Mall
Library
3:30pm
FREE
5th March
Punch Lion Kids' Comedy Club
Connolly House
5pm
FREE
5th March
As a Woman I
Annesley House
8pm
€10
5th March
Nighttown
Applerock Studios
8pm
€15/€12
5th March
Puca Puppets - Beirin Bear Bui
Charleville Mall
Library
10:30am
FREE
6th March
As a Woman I
Annesley House
8pm
€10
9th March
Magic Show - Magician Brendan Lambe
Connolly House
12:30pm
FREE
9th March
The Rising
Liberty Hall
Theatre
8pm
€20/15
9th March
Magic Show - Magician Brendan Lambe
Connolly House
3pm
FREE
9th March
Paula Meehan
Connolly Room,
Liberty Hall
Theatre
6pm
FREE
9th March
Women Who Rock
The Grand Social
8pm
€10
10th March
REIC
Irish Writers'
Centre
7:30pm
€7/€5
10th March
The Rising *
Liberty Hall
Theatre
8pm
€20/15
10th March
Roisin Ingle
Cusacks Pub
9pm
FREE
11th March
The Rising *
Liberty Hall
Theatre
8pm
€20/15
11th March
Brendan Devereux *
Connolly Room,
Liberty Hall
Theatre
9:30pm
FREE
11th March
The Midwife of the Nation *
Marino College
Connolly House
1pm
€5
11th March
James Connolly Day *
Connolly House
14th March
Fractures by Uncut Diamonds *
Marino College
8pm
€5
Date
Event
Venue
Time
Cost
15th March
Fractures by Uncut Diamonds *
Marino College
8pm
€5
12th March
RAINBOW MUSIC
Charleville Mall
Library
2:30pm
and
3:15pm
FREE
12th March
Mud Island Garden Open Day *
Mud Island Garden
2pm –
5pm
FREE
12th March
Ménage à trois
Annesley House
8pm
€10
12th March
So You Want to Write for the Screen?
Irish Writers'
Centre
10:30am
and
1:30pm
€15/€12
12th March
Shadow Puppetry Show with Julie Rose McCormack
Connolly House
12pm
FREE
12th March
Shadow Puppetry Workshop with Julie Rose McCormack
Connolly House
10am
FREE
12th March
Magic Show - Magician Brendan Lambe
Connolly House
3pm
FREE
12th March
Statues and Sculptures in Dublin: The Walking Tour *
The Custom House
(start)
2pm
FREE
13th March
Singing Medicine
Connolly House
8pm
FREE
13th March
Monument Walk Along the O'Connell Street Meridian *
Daniel O'Connell
Monument (start)
10am
FREE
13th March
Mornington Singers
Hugh Lane Gallery
12pm
FREE
13th March
Ireland's Best Buskers
The Grand Social
7pm
€5
13th March
Cliona Cassidy & Niamh Molloy
Hugh Lane Gallery
2pm
FREE
14th March
Tales on Wheels
Various
all day
FREE
15th March
I Am Dublin Flash Fiction Competition
Irish Writers'
Centre
7pm
€5
16th March
The Fanzini Brothers Present:The Cannonball Circus
Corporation Hall
Sheriff Street
12pm
FREE
16th March
Tallest Smallest Theatre
Corporation Hall
Sheriff Street
12pm
FREE
16th March
The Flood
Sean O' Casey
Theatre
7pm
€10/€5
16th March
Eastrogen Rising: A Rebel Cabaret *
Annesley House
8pm
€10
Five Lamps Enterprise Photography Exhibition
Dublin Docklands
Office
9am –
5pm
FREE
1916 events
Various
Then and When Exhibition - O'Connell Street
O'Connell Street
FREE
We are all made of Stars
Royal Canal Under
the Croke Park
Stadium
FREE
Investigating Our Local Environment *
Connolly House
FREE
The Five Lamps Mural *
Connolly House
FREE
During the Festival
* 1916 Rising event
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Event Map
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1
Annesley House
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Hugh Lane Gallery
2
Applerock Studios
10 Irish Writers Centre
3
Beauty Therapy House - Connolly House
- Marino College
11 Liberty Hall Theatre
4
Charleville Mall Library - Marino College
5
Connolly Station - Wexford
6
Corporation Hall
7
Cusacks Pub
8
Dublin Docklands Development Office
12 Daniel O’Connell Monument (start)
13 Mud Island Garden
14 Royal Canal Under the Croke Park Stadium
15 Sean O’ Casey Theatre
16 The Custom House (start)
17 The Grand Social
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Thanks
Gisela Medeiros de Campos, Carol Fortunato, who have been volunteering with the
festival for over a year, Andrew Choi, Alexandra Escobar, Joshua Horsono, Maia
Kunkel, Matthew Kelly, Jane Slaughter, Ryan Shaw, Stephanie Ji-Shangai, all from
North Eastern University USA, Alain Duthoit,Ricardo Nunes, Nestor Pereira Lunes,
Engin Ferat,Francesca Gubellini, Maureen Hennesey, Francesco Iriti, Tommy O’Reilly,
Brian Ward, Kevin Reynolds, Sean.Mulchinock, Kelli Marjolet,Cynthia Kawanishi, Pia
Polotto, Christiane Santos, Mamitaa Taal, Glen Morris, Graham Berkeley, Yamil Duro,
Cody Grogan, Leanne Nevin, Blake Hodkinson, Charlotte Fouillet, Sing Yi Lim, Jack
Gilligan, Mick Rafferty, Ciara Cunningham, Lauren McDonagh, Maureen Hennessy, Ray
Yeates, Sinead Connolly, Niall Byrnes, Jane Cregan Irish Rail, Joe Costello TD, Maureen
O’Sullivan TD, Marie O’Reilly, Aisling Lonergan, Aine Lonergan, Liam Lonergan, Tom
Lonergan, Sinead lonergan, Jacintha Stewart, Gary Gannon, NWWC, ASESP Sheriff
Street, Anne Skelly, Martina Leonard, Carrie Archer, Martin Meehan, Willie Vance,
Siobhan O’Sullivan, Mary Molloy, Blathin Fitzgerald and Anne Drislane.
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Partners:
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