I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

Louis MacNeice

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A Century of Art

A Century of Art

Christina Kennedy

Irish Art 1920 – 2020: Perspectives on Change, Catherine Marshall & Yvonne Scott (eds), Royal Irish Academy, 448 pp, €38, ISBN: 978-1911479826 Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on Change is an excellent collection of twelve intersecting perspectives that examine Irish art and design as it has evolved over the long twentieth century into the present. The […]

Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open

Katrina Goldstone

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, by Janet Malcolm, Granta, 155 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-1783788361 Born Jana Wienerova in Prague in 1934, the elder of two girls, Janet Malcolm was just five when her family escaped from Nazism in July 1939. They had the additional good fortune to find sanctuary in the United States. As […]

Many Rooms

Many Rooms

Jeremy Kearney

A fascinating and at times unflinching autobiography from Paul Brady

But Is It Art?

But Is It Art?

Catherine Marshall

A source book of commentary over 300 years on Irish art

Let the Music Speak

Let the Music Speak

John Mulqueen

Traditional fiddler Martin Hayes’s journey to musical self-expression

The Night Walker

The Night Walker

Patricia Craig

As the lamps come on, thoughts of a connoisseur of the crepuscular

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