Earthbound: Clare Langan’s film installation gives us a future beyond the end of the world
Artist’s work shows humanity’s hope and beauty at ‘an emotional, poignant moment’
Hugh Lane Gallery
11 Parnell Square East: Ireland’s new home for poetry and heritage
Home to Poetry Ireland, the public will soon be able to visit the restored Georgian building for events, while the Seamus Heaney library will open in the autumn
Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us
Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’
A celebration of women: More than 120 events in Dublin for St Brigid’s festival
The four-day celebration will also mark the arrival of spring and its renewing qualities
2025 in art: Our 10 favourite Irish exhibitions of the year
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland, Kunstkammer in Waterford and Lisa Fingleton in Tralee are among the highlights
A Syrian artist who took refuge in Dublin: ‘Picasso came to this life to open a door. I hope I can open a door’
Manar Mervat Al Shouha, who fled civil war, prefers to talk through her paintings, but she has much to say about her fears for Syria, Irish people’s indirectness, and how ‘the feeling of time’ is similar in both countries
Jane O’Leary: ‘I never say I’m a composer. I make music and I listen to it. I’m part of a community. That’s what matters to me’
Jane O’Leary, recipient of the National Concert Hall’s lifetime-achievement award, on her half-century of musical innovation
Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery to close in September for renovations
Refurbishment will take place alongside construction of new Dublin city library in Parnell Square
Lunch with a side of art: Seven Irish galleries with great cafes
From the Hugh Lane to LGCA – our pick of where art lovers in Ireland can nourish body and soul
‘Yeats was the mage, but AE was the sage’: Why George William Russell deserves to be a household name again
A luminous centre of the Irish literary renaissance, a figure of world importance
Golden Fleece Award 2025: ‘I was skint last year, and it affected my head so badly. Winning this means a huge amount’
Sasha Sykes and Sarah Browne have won €10,000 each. What do prizes like this one do for artists’ creativity?
The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
The address book of war: La Grande Illusion shows why Brian Maguire is one of Ireland’s most powerful painters
The Irish artist has made witnessing his work – and the subject of the astonishing art in his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition – since the 1970s
The life model: ‘I’ve fainted because I stood in a weird pose for too long. That was a big lesson’
What I Do: Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana is a part-time life model in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin
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