Alan Counihan
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Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods
- Visual Art
- August 5, 2020, 05:00
Amelia Stein’s The Bloods, at the new Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, shows the men and women of the Defence Forces in all their guises Unless you’r(...)

Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames
- Heritage
- November 17, 2018, 06:00
A koan is a paradoxical riddle without a solution. It’s also an apt definition of many of Ireland’s placenames. These encoded glimpses into our cultur(...)

What are the strange artworks popping up all over Mayo?
- Art & Design
- January 6, 2018, 05:00
I’m out on the headland at Kilcummin, in north Co Mayo, looking for art. It’s a bright, cold winter’s day, and signage has guided me through the tiny (...)

Death to elitism: Askeaton's artistic challenge
- Art & Design
- July 21, 2016, 06:00
The antidote to all that is elitist and contrived about contemporary art is to be found in the sleepy, bypassed town of Askeaton over the next 10 day(...)

A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-up
- Art & Design
- June 9, 2015, 04:00
Echt – Bedwyr Williams **** AIB Éigse Open Submission 2015 **** Post-Electric: Gimme More; Exchange; and Database ***** Visual, Carl(...)