Reviews

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