Karen Reihill considers the significance of the Pierrot figure in the last phase of Gerard Dillon’s career
Gerard Dillon (1916–1971) is well known for his romantic depictions of life in Connemara where he lived and periodically visited. His most intriguing work however, the Pierrot series, only emerged in the final five years of his life. From 1965 onwards, the figure of a clown, and later a pierrot became regular motifs. Following the deaths in quick succession of his three brothers, Dillon seems to have embarked on a personal journey in search of answers to these traumatic events through his dreams.
John McLaughlin assesses heneghan peng’s dramatically sited but elegantly unobtrusive visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway in Antrim
Peter Pearson makes a plea for re-roofing Kilmacurragh, the Queen Anne house set in an arcadian parkland in County Wicklow
Peter Murray finds similarities between the fictional character Kim and 19th-century photographer John Burke, whose path in Afghanistan, has been retraced by Simon Norfolk