When wiring a ceiling lamp, always check that there is no electrical current present in the installation. Cut the power from the electrical panel to avoid any incidents if someone switches the light on by mistake.Then strip the wires back about half a centimetre, and splice the wires using a terminal block or terminal strip. Connect the live wire on the lamp to the corresponding live cable on the mains, the neutral wire to the neutral cable and the earth cable with a metal part of the ceiling lamp. Normally, the wires to be connected are the have corresponding colours.