In his assessment of Fitzgerald Kavanagh and Partners’ award-winning Student Centre at UCD Seán ó Laoire charts the evolution of Ireland’s largest campus since its foundation
The architect J J McCarthy’s romantic Gothic vision for a Catholic university, at Clonliffe, Drumcondra was aborted by its champion Cardinal Cullen in circa 1862. Had it proceeded, James Joyce, who lived nearby, might have been spared the daily walk to its successor, the Royal University, (later University College) in St Stephen’s Green, some forty years later.
Brendan Behan’s birth and early formation, was in the tenements of nearby Russell Street, from which his family decamped, in 1937, to ‘Siberia’, Behan’s nomenclature for ‘rural’ Crumlin. It seems reasonable to link his definition of a city as ‘a place where ye wouldn’t be bitten by a wild sheep’ to this clearly traumatic event.
Carissa Farrell reports on sculptor and multi-media artist Andrew Kearney’s new installation ‘Tell Me Something’ for Limerick City of Culture, which continues Kearney’s focus on the policing of the private individual
Without decisive action, our glass heritage will once again be lost, argues Eleanor Flegg, as Róisín de Buitléar’s exhibition’Caution! Fragile’ receives an enthusiastic reception Stateside
This summer the Casino in Marino hosts an exhibition that captures the original splendour of the lost demesne, writes Rose Anne White