Festive breaks around Ireland for Christmas and the New Year
Celebrate, count yourself lucky, plan ahead and then settle down for some nice resolutions
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Time and space: How awards can help unblock creativity
Four award-winning artists talk about the many obstacles to creating their work
Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods
Defence Forces personnel appear in all their guises in the photographer’s powerful portraits
Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes
The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like
Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues
Festival director calls for dedicated visual arts space for Galway
Paul Fahy says it is ‘shocking’ that city is still without a proper cultural hub and gallery
Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see events
The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise
Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows
A collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlights
A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks
Artist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)
‘If you want to be an artist with a career, don’t have children’
A network, The Mothership Project, aims to develop supports for artists with children
Anna Burns among new members elected to Aosdána
Affiliation of creative artists in Ireland elects six new people to vacant positions
What are the strange artworks popping up all over Mayo?
An American architect from the Catholic University of America is building art around the county
Seven things to see at the Imagine Arts Festival in Waterford
Waterford’s big weekend is jam-packed with music, books and exhibitions – and blaas
The Ticket High Art: this week’s choices
The best of photography, painting, and installations from around the galleries
Fun show offers hope for the art world
Weekly art review: Chain reactions in Kilkenny and some tantalising ‘alternative facts’ in Cork
The best art shows to spend time with this week
Chain reactions and knitting the Border, what's on in the arts this week
Kilkenny Arts Festival: a compelling chain of events and emotions
From Antarctica to Ukraine and Schubert to Brexit, a one-day exploration of the festival
Click for your art in 2017 but be discerning
Culture review 2016: It was a year of madness, brilliant takes on 1916 and continuing State starvation
The visual arts focused attention on marginalised voices
Culture review 2016: The 1916 Commemorations featured a welcome alternative historical narrative
Destiny and the Republic: Six artists on what Ireland is now
As the centenary draws to an end, now is a good time to visit the Pearse Museum
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2015 – Silent Moves, by Aideen Barry, Emma O’Kane, Ridgepool Training Centre and Scannán Technologies
The people’s choice for our final artwork was a collaborative project about the challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities in a society that still restricts their behaviour
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