Alice Maher

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)

Cool mid-century design and a Hermès suede cabinet at Adam’s

European 20th-century furniture and contemporary Irish art feature in April sale

Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

Charlie Murphy: On My Culture Radar

The actor on dining in London, Benedict Cumberbatch and why she loves Galway

RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party

With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with

Women artists ‘reclaiming history we were written out of’

Artists have a rich history of activism, using their talents to take their messages out of the gallery and into the street

‘In England they ask: What is it’ In Ireland they ask: What does it mean?’

The work of Iriish artist Eilís O’Connell features in a major exhibition in England alongside artists Damien Hirst, Lynn Chadwick, Antony Gormley and Elisabeth Frink

We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept

The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys

‘I was really interested in hairy ladies. The deviance’

Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair

Why are women artists hard to find in our ‘boy crazy’ museums and galleries?

A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions

Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird

You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home

RDS Visual Arts Awards: encouraging a new generation

Revamped event, with prize fund of €20,000, showcases the work of emerging artists

Culture Shock: Never mind the cult of youth – let’s hear it for the auld ones

Are you washed up creatively at 40? Doomed to average ordinariness in all things?

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