Alan Parkinson

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Harland and Wolff shipyard workers in the TV series Titanic - Blood and Steel. It is estimated that in July 1920, 7,000 workers – Catholics and socialists – were expelled from the shipyards
Belfast on the brink in 1920

The traditional narrative of the War of Independence identifies the dates of the conflict as encompassing the period from January 21st, 1919, until th(...)

Clockwise from far left, a work from ‘Circle in the Square’ by Marilyn Lerner; Cloud Tyvek by Max Streicher at St Mary’s; O by Karen Donnellan; and Róisín de Buitléar’s blown-glass musical instruments
Clouds in a church and other sound moves at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Eugene Downes’s first year as director took the Kilkenny Arts Festival back to its musical roots. The scale and ambition of the programme would hav(...)