The Cult Of Sharing: D.A.D.D.Y. welcome you to Culture Night 2026

Guest editors D.A.D.D.Y. (AKA celebrated filmmaking duo Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman) welcome you to RTÉ Culture's Culture Night celebrations...

Living in Dublin twenty-ish years ago, when the first Culture Nights arrived, there was a lovely luminous energy in the newness of it. One of the first years, we made a beeline for the Grand Lodge of Ireland, a Kubrick-coded Freemasons' Hall on Molesworth Street. It’s a venue now, but back then it had been shrouded in mystery. People hadn’t really been in there before. The building is almost absurdly rich in symbolism, and on that first visit, the esoteric, cinematic beauty of it didn’t disappoint.

So for us, that first Culture Night experience started by being nosy, sharing the moment of being behind the curtain with a bunch of friends and fellow weirdos into this strange new place. Part private members’ club, part church, part B-movie.