Judith Hill examines how the disparate spheres of academia and performance are united in Limerick’s dynamic Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Two models that relate the individual to the community. In a monastery the individual is subsumed within the community; the village is a community of individuals. The architecture of the medieval monastery and village express this; in the monastery where the buildings are joined around a cloister the whole takes precedence over the parts, whereas in the village separate buildings are grouped into streets or around greens and the whole derives from the collection of readily identifiable parts.
David Davidson pays tribute to Bill Doyle, Dublin-born master photographer, who in these fond studies has left an indelible record of his country