Eilis O Connell
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Virtual viewing: A guide to visiting museums online in the age of Covid-19
- Culture
- March 28, 2020, 05:00
To paraphrase a philosophical conundrum: if an artwork exists in a gallery, and nobody sees it, is it still meaningful? As cultural institutions close(...)

Six great European gardens to discover on holidays
- Gardens
- July 13, 2019, 00:00
Heading off abroad on holidays this summer and hoping to include a visit to one of Europe’s great gardens? I asked some of the country’s most seasoned(...)

The skin we’re in
- Music
- June 5, 2018, 05:00
Rashid Johnson Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford. Until October 14th lismorecastlearts.ie ★★★ When Facts Don’t Matter: Alan Butler, Constant Dullaart(...)

‘In England they ask: What is it’ In Ireland they ask: What does it mean?’
- Art & Design
- August 31, 2017, 05:00
A 14-metre long, tapered tube of galvanised steel lies outside Chester Cathedral. There’s a doorway, and a ramp to encourage you inside. Is it a torpe(...)

Miranda Blennerhassett wins RCSI Art Award
- Art & Design
- June 27, 2017, 12:10
Miranda Blennerhassett is the winner of this year’s Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) Art Award. Blennerhassett won for her installation RHA, which is(...)

RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show
- Visual Art
- May 30, 2017, 06:00
RHA 187th Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin Until August 12th. rhagallery.ie Submitting work for the RHA’s Annual Exhibit(...)

Five shortlisted artists for RCSI Art Award announced
- Art & Design
- May 21, 2017, 15:00
The five shortlisted artists for this year’s RCSI Art Award have been announced at a ceremony at the RHA in Dublin. The nominated works are: RHA Site(...)

Ireland’s most magnificently controversial art exhibitions
- Culture
- December 3, 2016, 05:00
The recent publication of The Poetry of Vision: The ROSC Art Exhibitions 1967-1988, written by Peter Shortt and published by Irish Academic Press, rec(...)

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Irish road to modernity has no straight lines
- Art & Design
- October 15, 2016, 06:00
“Modern” is a funny word in Ireland. In other countries, modern implies a straight line of development, from rural to urban, from agricultural to ind(...)

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1988 – The Great Wall of Kinsale, by Eilís O’Connell
- Culture
- April 9, 2016, 01:00
When, in an interview in 1999, Eilís O’Connell said that “the whole field of public art” was more developed in England, and much more progressive the(...)