Soft Values of Seaports: Commemorating Heritage Week (13th – 16th August 2025)
11 August 2025
Soft Values of Seaports marks ten years since the restoration of the Diving Bell Museum – Dublin Port’s first major Soft Values project and the beginning of a decade of sustained public engagement. The exhibition brings together highlights from a decade’s worth of artistic, historic, built heritage and cultural projects supported by Dublin Port Company as part of its ongoing Port City Integration programme.
This week’s lunchtime screenings focus on Theatre and the screenings include five exceptional performances which are listed below with details.
- Charlie’s a Clepto by Clare Monnelly is a hilarious Dublin odyssey about motherhood, messing up, and doing your best to make it up.
- Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan is a muddy, complicated, poetic, bloody, and heroic tale of a politically motivated industrial action, in which three characters deal with a pivotal moment during the Irish War of Independence.
- Leper + Chips by Lee Coffey is a story of a boy who meets a girl in the middle of a battering, boy wrecks a bus full of pensioners, and the girl gets chased by a machete-wielding maniac. Love without madness isn’t love at all.
- Canaries by ANU Productions is a tender observation of the sacrifice and efforts of the Irish female munitions workers during World War 1, a story much less told.
- Slice, The Thief by Lee Coffey gives voice to the lives and struggles of working-class Dubliners through rich character studies and raw, rhythmically driven storytelling.
