Irish Arts Review: The Quarterly Review of Irish Art

I learned to trust my instincts and it gave me permission to get things wrong, Sinead McKeever tells Brian McAvera

In a world where the analogue is routinely discarded, Aoife Shanahan’s explorations invite us to look more closely and more intensely at the image, writes Stephanie McBride

Irish artists, both professional and amateur, have made a lasting contribution to the world of botanical illustration, writes Patricia Butler

Newman House is undoubtedly the right locus for this major initiative, where there is an affinity between form and content, writes Niall McCullough about Dublin’s new museum of literature

Following a hunting fall, the hound saved the earl’s life by running back to the castle to raise the alarm, recounts Terence Reeves-Smyth

Clare Gallagher’s Second Shift

Clare Gallagher’s elegantly designed photobook The Second Shift is a visual exploration of the daily grind of domestic labour. Read More

The Kerlin Gallery presents ‘dalkey’, an exhibition of new paintings by Richard Gorman. These large-scale paintings on canvas give a nod to the gestural, expressionist works with which Gorman began his career in the 1980s. This new body of work … Read More

Painting

Speaking crow

New from the Spring 2020 edition. Margo Banks is so instinctively attuned to her subject that her energetic approach and her subject matter are inseparable, writes Isabella Evangelisti Read More

Sculpture

Tidal force

New from the Spring 2020 edition. The sea’s characteristics, particularly its unpredictability and perpetual rhythm, continuously inspire, Alva Gallagher tells Carissa Farrell Read More

Architecture & Design

Dublin’s MoLI

New from the Spring 2020 edition. Newman House is undoubtedly the right locus for this major initiative, where there is an affinity between form and content, writes Niall McCullough about Dublin’s new museum of literature Read More

Photography

Shadow lands

New from the Spring 2020 edition. In a world where the analogue is routinely discarded, Aoife Shanahan’s explorations invite us to look more closely and more intensely at the image, writes Stephanie McBride Read More

Heritage

Radiant legacy

New from the Spring 2020 edition. The legacy of stained-glass artist Helen Moloney is in the vibrancy of her colours and her use of coloured glass and lead lines in an abstract manner, writes Bart Felle Read More

From the archive

Shades of Gray

From the Autumn 2013 edition. Jennifer Goff examines the legacy of arch Modernist Eileen Gray ahead of this autumn’s retrospective at IMMA Read More

Books

The Irish Tower House Society, economy and environment c.1300–1650

New from the Spring 2020 edition. The Irish Tower House Society, economy and environment c.1300–1650 reviewed by Tadhg O’Keeffe Read More

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Arts Council

COVID-19 Updates
Arts Council expresses deep regret on the death of former Director Colm Ó Briain
Arts Council’s Next Generation Award sees 23 Artists receive €20,000
Arts Council welcomes additional supports for arts and culture sector

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