Nick Maxwell By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Anyone who has spent time in Galway will be familiar with the ‘pictorial map’ of the early modern town, a ‘bird’s-eye’ illustration detailing with remarkable accuracy the street layout and the significant buildings and landmarks of the time. A print of the map is framed on the walls of nearly every … Read more
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks (until May 2020) By Brandi Goddard In this striking exhibition, Alison Lowry, a Northern Irish artist, explores issues of gender, institutional abuse and domestic violence through the medium of glass objects and video. Lowry is clearly inspired and enraged by Ireland’s history of Magdalene laundries, industrial schools and mother-and-baby … Read more
RTÉ1, 22 & 29 August 2019 By John Gibney The title of this handsome two-part hagiography of Daniel O’Connell implies that he has been consigned to the ever-increasing ranks of those assumed to have been written (even ‘airbrushed’) out of Irish history. There is, of course, a kernel of truth in the assertion that such … Read more
By Lar Joye Clancy Barracks in Dublin, formerly known as Islandbridge Barracks, dates from 1798 and is near the Irish National War Memorial Gardens. Taken over by the Irish Army in December 1922, it was renamed in 1942 in honour of Peader Clancy, killed during the War of Independence. It was sold in 2004, and … Read more
A divinely sanctioned form of imperialism or an explanation for the apparently beleaguered condition of God’s chosen people? By Aidan Cottrell-Boyce The one-time governor of Jerusalem Sir Ronald Storrs made a memorable claim about the potential of Palestine to become a ‘Jewish home’: ‘Enough [Jews] could return, if not to form the Jewish State … … Read more