Nigel Everett explores the gardens of Lisselan and investigates the evidence for its appellation as a ‘Robinsonian’ creation
Sometimes in Irish gardens, one is curiously reminded of the Irish wildwood, that more or less mythical and heroic territory in which the Gaels famously held out against the English. Explaining the defeat of Crown forces at Glenmalure, Co Wicklow in 1580, the English antiquarian John Hooker recalled that there was but ‘one pass through’, its sides ‘full of great and mighty trees’, of ‘bushments and underwoods’.
Ahead of Dragana Jurisic’s solo show at the RHA in September we republish Stephanie McBride’s examination of the photographer’s 2011 show at the Droichead Arts Centre, studies of urban survival taken during the Celtic Tiger years, revealing Ireland’s struggling society.
Paul Larmour visits the new theatre, which he describes as a boon for the dramatic arts and the most exciting building in Belfast