Brian Maguire
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Insider art: finding release through creativity in Irish prisons
- Visual Art
- September 12, 2019, 05:00
What is it like to visit a prison? Visitors to the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise check in to a bright building, where a children’s play area occupies (...)

‘The Irish have made a big impact in Belgium’
- Work
- April 11, 2019, 17:00
“It gave a sense of clarity to the big adventure we were going on,” says Brian Maguire. “This wasn’t something new, people had done this before – it’s(...)

Art from atrocity: Brian Maguire records a humanitarian crisis
- Visual Art
- September 8, 2018
“I have had a policy of going to places where there’s no queue,” says Brian Maguire. “Prisons, Damascus and so on . . .” The artist has pulled into t(...)

Patience Jumbo-Gula breaks European U18 100m championship record
- Other Sports
- July 5, 2018, 20:09
Patience Jumbo-Gula highlighted an excellent evening session for Irish athletes at the European Under-18 Athletics Championships with a championship r(...)

Irish youth team travels with real medal hopes
- Other Sports
- July 4, 2018, 16:08
It’s been a while since any Irish athletics team boasted so many medal prospects, especially with the O’Sullivan name among them. Even if it’s only th(...)

Sophie O’Sullivan to make Irish debut next month
- Other Sports
- June 21, 2018, 17:55
Sophie O’Sullivan, daughter of Olympic silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan, will make her international debut in an Irish vest over 800 metres at the Eu(...)

Planning your St Patrick’s weekend events? Better read this
- Culture
- March 10, 2018, 05:00
Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade It sounds like Game of Thrones battles it out with Star Wars for Dublin’s parade this year. Grand marshal this year (...)

Event of the Week: Brian Maguire – ‘War Changes its Address’
- Visual Art
- January 27, 2018, 05:00
War Changes its Address: The Aleppo Paintings Brian Maguire. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin; Until May 6th; imma.ie B(...)

An Irishman’s Diary: Connecticut’s Great Hunger Museum and the bagel maker who made it possible
- Opinion
- January 18, 2018, 00:01
It is to a Jewish bagel tycoon, born in 1930s Connecticut, that we owe the world’s largest collection of art relating to the Irish Famine. His name wa(...)

Although art has the reputation of being timeless, it has fashions like everything else. While the best artists follow the driving impulses of their o(...)