Books 13th March 2017 Visual, Carlow The Carlow College Literary Awards brings together the entire college community to recognise and celebrate the very best of Carlow College literary talent. The awards gather together the college literary community in a spirit of … Derek Coyle, Thomas McGrath and Nicole Burke : Carlow College Literary Awards & Creative Writing Showcase
Visual Arts 11 February – 25 March 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present Deepdrippings, an exhibition of new paintings by Phillip Allen. The exhibition will open with a reception in the company of the artist on the evening … Rosa Abbott : Deepdrippings
Visual Arts 11th February until 22nd April 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition of 2017 entitled An Afterwards which will feature the work of leading contemporary Irish artist Mark Garry. The exhibition will … Mark Garry : An Afterwards
Visual Arts 11 February – 21 May 2017 Ground Floor Galleries, Visual Carlow For spring the ground floor galleries at VISUAL will be transformed into an indoor playground exploring play and a recent history of playgrounds. This exhibition has been realised in … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : The Playground Project
Theatre 20 February – 25 February 2017 The Source Arts Centre, County Tipperary Thurles Drama Group presents the wonderful human drama by Seán O’Casey to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the group. The play is set in a tenement house in … Margaret McCormack : Juno and the Paycock
Visual Arts Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Ray of Light, an exhibition of cityscapes by Gary Kearney. Kearney’s work examines aspects of the city and urban dwelling- its architecture and how the city space is shaped as vast amounts … Gary Kearney : Ray of Light
20 February – 25 February 2017 The Source Arts Centre, County Tipperary Thurles Drama Group presents the wonderful human drama by Seán O’Casey to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the group. The play is set in a tenement house in … Margaret McCormack : Juno and the Paycock
Visual Arts An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ivan Daly In his first solo exhibition Ivan Daly presents a series of paintings and drawings made in response to the powerful coastal landscape of Co. Clare. Doonmacfelim is the particular stretch of … Ivan Daly : DOONMACFELIM
Visual Arts As Asylum seekers are increasingly under threat we show this from Art in Ireland TV. Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Asylum Archive, an exhibition of photography, artefacts and found objects created by visual artist and researcher Vukasin … Vukasin Nedeljković : Asylum Archive
Visual Arts Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional … The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct
Visual Arts February 3rd at 7pm until 18th of February. Rogue Gallery and Studios, Waterford. The Rogue Gallery and Studios is proud to introduce this years first exhibition for 2017 “Gaza, From the Outside Looking In”. A show by local artist/activist Brenda … Brenda Carroll : Gaza, from the outside looking in
Visual Arts GOMA Waterford, 19th January, 6.30pm (exhibition runs until 23rd February) GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford formerly known as SOMA Contemporary Gallery is proud to introduce their first exhibition of 2017 The Graduates. A show of works by recent graduates … Mick Fortune : The Graduates at GOMA
Visual Arts Mother River is a breathtaking photographic odyssey by the British-Chinese photographer, Yan Wang Preston. It takes the viewer on a journey along the entire length of the Yangtze, China’s ‘Mother River’. From the remote high Tibetan Plateau, through the Three … Yan Wang Preston : Mother River
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery has an outstanding resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. The gallery has an ongoing commitment to make sure this collection is exhibited and … Anna O’Sullivan and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Personae: Butler Gallery Collection featuring loans from the IMMA Collection
Visual Arts Exhibition statement: Working primarily with discarded limestone Cullen distils a series of large-scale organic structures that emerge directly from his involvement with the properties of the material. These material transactions take account of the fragmentary patterns and shapes that the … Des Cullen : Mountains Move While Oceans Do Not
The dlr LexIcon, the new Central Library and Cultural Centre in Dún Laoghaire is now open to the public. With 80,000 items in the adult and junior libraries, 60+ computers, 100 study spaces and a floor dedicated to Local Studies, … Andrée Dargan : DLR Lexicon
Visual Arts January 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Drawing on over a decade of image-making and research on themes of protest and urban space, Irish artist Joy Gerrard archives and painstakingly remakes media-borne crowd images from around … Joy Gerrard : shot crowd
Visual Arts TOMOKO SAWADA (b. 1977 Kobe, Japan) uses photography to explore the relationship between one’s inner life and outer image. Sawada’s works borrow compositional devices from familiar photographic formats such as the school portrait, weddings, and fashion photography, restaging them in … Matthew Nevin : School Days
Visual Arts Explore the unique relationship Red Kettle Theatre Company forged with Waterford through an exhibition of archival artefacts and film in Garter Lane Arts Centre, with support from Waterford Institute of Technology. Red Kettle Theatre Company was founded in Waterford in … Elizabeth Howard : Paint the Town Red
Music Dr Fionnuala Moynihan performing the complete cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas in its entirety for the first time in Cork. Fionnuala is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading pianists. She has a particular affinity with the works of both … Fionnuala Moynihan : MOZART: THE COMPLETE SONATAS
Visual Arts Full of inspirational insights and information on the technique and art of painting in watercolour. ‘The Pleasure of Painting in Watercolour’ is a perfect gift for experienced and aspiring artists. Jack is well known as an architect, artist and teacher. … Jack O’Hare : The Pleasure of Painting in Watercolour
Visual Arts We have created a Reading Room between the season’s exhibitions, as a space to sit and read, think or respond to some of the different ways that we portray and remember war. As well as books, games and material to … Emma Lucy O’Brien : The Reading Room
