This summer the Casino in Marino hosts an exhibition that captures the original splendour of the lost demesne, writes Rose Anne White
Do be a good Boy and busy yourself.’ So Edward Murphy wrote to the young Viscount of Charlemont on his return to Ireland from an extended Grand Tour in the summer of 1755. The twenty-seven-year-old James Caulfeild had settled into melancholy, as he sought to find a place for himself again on his native shores. He had grown close to Murphy, once his tutor and later his travelling companion, and was attentive when Murphy advised him to ‘Shake off that abominable Listlessness’. Later, Charlemont would write that it was ‘…with this in View I began those improvements at Marino.’
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
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