By Daragh Fitzgerald Turning and turning in the widening gyre, it is tempting to escape to the Otherworld, where the ‘Other Crowd’ reside, while ours is upside down and the top keeps spinning. Yeats believed in the existence of fairies, as does my niece, who recently told me she saw some at the bottom of … Read more
Ulster Museum, Gallery 4 By Donal Fallon The renaming of Temple Bar’s Gallery of Photography as Photo Museum Ireland in 2022 was a statement of intent. The name adopted reflected its role as Ireland’s national centre for contemporary photography, but it was also a decision looking towards the future and the ultimate aspiration of a … Read more
RTÉ1, 3 & 10 September 2025 By Brian Hanley I am, just about, a child of de Valera’s Ireland, but I have a more vivid memory of the death of Sinéad de Valera in January 1975, eight months before her husband, than I do of the passing of Éamon de Valera himself. Sinead was the … Read more