Maurice Harron’s Saints and Scholars herald Offaly’s monastic past, emerging from the chronicles of its landscape, writes Sinead O’Reilly
Like Antony Gormley’s monumental Angel of the North in Gateshead in the north-east of England, Maurice Harron’s Saints and Scholars outside Tullamore now marks the gateway to Offaly. One figure holds a book aloft, another a chalice and a third grasps a staff. From the outstretched hands of the final figure, a flock of birds rises to the heavens (Fig 1). In less than five years, they have captured the imagination of many. They have in a short space of time, become an iconic gateway image forTullamore and Offaly.
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