Five Lamps Arts

Anne Marie Cronin

annemariecroninphotography.ie

Anne Marie Cronin Photography. I am a freelance, professional photographer living in Castletownbere, Beara. West Cork. My photographs are inspired by the wild and rugged beauty of the sea and landscape on the Beara Peninsula, on the Wild Atlantic Way. As well as landscape photography,

746books.com

746books is a personal blog about reading books, with a focus on Irish literature and reading challenges. It features posts on books by Irish authors, including lists such as 100 Irish Novels and 100 Books by Irish Women Writers. The blog also participates in reading events like Novellas in November and 20 Books of Summer.

Festival of Gardens and Nature

festivalofgardensandnature.com

The Festival of Gardens and Nature is a two-day event held at Ballintubbert Gardens & House in Stradbally, County Laois. It features talks, workshops, demos, garden tours, organic cooking, and foraging classes. The festival brings together international speakers from garden design, horticulture, fungi, food growing, and nature conservation.

South Sligo Summer School

southsligosummerschool.com

The South Sligo Summer School is an annual event in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, offering workshops in traditional Irish music, dance, and song. It includes classes for instruments such as fiddle, flute, button accordion, concertina, uilleann pipes, harp, whistle, banjo, guitar, and bodhrán, as well as set dancing, sean-nós dance, singing, and lilting. The programme also features céilithe, concerts, and lectures.

TradChords

tradchords.org

TradChords is a practice companion for Irish traditional music, offering a catalogue of chords, tabs, sheet music, and backing tracks. It features follow-along playback with real-time highlighting, customizable backing tracks, adjustable tempo, and transposition. Users can save tunes to a session tune book and access tablature for banjo, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, and ukulele.

The Dead by James Joyce

thedead.ie

The Dead is an immersive theatre experience based on James Joyce's short story, presented by ANU, Landmark Productions, and MoLI. It is adapted and directed by Louise Lowe and runs at the Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin. The production has received five-star reviews from critics and is scheduled to return for a third season from 20 November 2026 to 31 January 2027.