Dublin Winter Lights returns throughout December 2025 across 25 city-centre locations. New locations include Meeting House Square Dublin Castle and Temple Bar Square.
Merrion Square Park ticketed event costs €2 for one adult and two children from 1 to 21 December with bookings from 13 November. The GPO features projections by eight finalists with winner announced in December.
Children’s art competition winners projected on Barnardo Square and used on Lord Mayor Christmas cards.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam shared “From its launch just a few short years ago, ‘Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights’ is quickly establishing itself as one of our city’s great Christmas traditions. Each year is better than the one before and I can’t wait to see what this year’s version has in store.”
Tony Smithers, from Dublin City Council’s Events section, shared “This year’s festival is bigger and better than ever before. With fantastic new locations, the return of festival favourites and great interactive experiences, it’s a great time to visit the city centre.”
Locatoins
- GPO
- Dynamic digital projections of stunning artworks by 8 leading national and international digital artists will feature on this iconic building.
- O’Connell Street – Trees
- Colour changing LED lighting will transform the trees along O’Connell Street.
- O’Connell Statue on O’Connell Street
- On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, a new lighting installation will illuminate this iconic statue at the top of O’Connell Street.
- The Spire
- The Spire will become a beacon of light visible for miles around with beams of light projecting into the sky.
- Wolfe Tone Square
- An interactive motion sensing wall of LED pixels will capture the movement of the daily commute.
- Hugh Lane Gallery
- Creative artworks by students from NCAD Moving Media Video Mapping Exhibition will be projected onto Hugh Lane Gallery.
- Custom House
- Colourful projections by Irish artist James Earley will be projected onto this famous 18th century building.
- Talbot Street Bridge
- This LED lighting installation is a hanging light sculpture under the Talbot Street rail bridge.
- River Liffey Boat
- Featuring 180 beams of light, a floating lighting installation will travel through the heart of the city from Heuston Station to Dublin Port.
- James Joyce Bridge
- The large-scale colour-changing light installation will transform the single-span structural steel bridge with its distinctive angled arches.
- Millennium Bridge
- The colourful and popular rainbow arches are back again for ‘Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights’ 2025.
- Ha’penny Bridge
- The iconic Ha’Penny Bridge will feature a colour changing lighting installation.
- Samuel Beckett Bridge
- The Samuel Beckett bridge will come to life as a series of visuals move across this landmark bridge.
- Georges Dock
- 100 powerful beams of light will illuminate the sky as ‘Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights’ presents the lighting installation ‘Céad’, in association with Lighting Designer Sonya Fossett and electronic music artist and producer Caolan Ryan.
- The Docks
- ‘Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights’ in collaboration with professional dancer Jessie Thompson presents a specially curated performance piece where light and water meets dance on a 40 metre wide water screen.
- Temple Bar Square
- ‘Xs & Os’ is a game that dates back almost 1,000 years. People can play one of the world’s oldest games in a new way with this large scale light structure in the heart of the city.
- Meeting House Square
- This immersive 3-dimensional lighting installation will feature over 3,000 balls of light. ‘Meeting House Cubed’ is a collaboration with designer Anthony Murphy.
- Newcomen Bank
- In collaboration with Belfast’s Visual Spectrum Studios, ‘Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights’ will present a video mapping on the former Newcomen Bank.
- City Hall
- The colourful video mapping from Lightscape Studios projected onto City Hall will have an advent calendar theme.
- Palace Street Building
- The artworks from the annual Children’s Winter Art competition will be projected onto the side of Palace Street.
- Palace Street Gate
- The archway to Dublin Castle will be transformed with dynamic light projections, a cololurful entrance that leads to two light displays in Dublin Castle.
- Dublin Castle – Courtyard
- ‘Flux’ from French artists collective ‘SCALE’ redesigns its surroundings and offers an unique, playful and frenetic show in which the choreography intimately dialogues with the music.
- Dublin Castle – Lower Yard
- A video mapping artwork from artist Jack Phelan will projected on to a neo-classical building in the lower yard of Dublin Castle.
- Digital Depot
- The former smock windmill, Patrick’s Tower will once again be illuminated with digital projections.
- Merrion Square Park – ticketed event
- This year, Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights at Merrion Square Park brings playfulness, lighting and interactivity with walk through lighting installations including an immersive Kaleidoscope.
