Spearheaded by philanthropists and patrons of the arts, Paul and Aileen Finucane, Cnoc Buí is a new community arts centre for visual and performance art located on the edge of Union Hall village. While architect plans are currently being drawn up and renovations are underway, part of the property is […]
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Thady Trá’s photography exhibition ‘By Eye’ opens on Saturday April 8 at 5.30pm in Gallery Asna, Clonakilty. Thady has been honing his photographic skills for many years and keen observational and compositional abilities are evident in his work. The up-and-coming photographer has a huge grá for analogue photography and takes all his photographss on […]
By Marianne Adams Lecturer of Arts in Health and Education at MTU Have any of us truly integrated the last two years, are we ready for the coming year, do we feel empowered in our own lives, and in our ability to impact the wider world? These are crucial questions, […]
Of all the young realist painters to have entered the world stage in the last decade, the Chilean, Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro, is certainly the most spectacular. His magic realist fantasies, delivered in oil on a cinematic scale, combine the opulent Baroque world of Peter Paul Rubens with a tropical […]
a child / face down in the shallows / line in the sand we move in lines / a panic of ants /a satellite sees you hear the wind / in the eaves / I hear the whistle of bombs I’m the stranger / stared […]
Luminous green lichen sheathes the alder, like an exoskeleton of armoured plates and horns. Diamonds of water drip from the straggle of branches, wavering towards me as I look through the window pane. These past two months have been, for me, a time of poetry, of both writing it and […]