Maud Cotter

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‘Very provocative’: interior of House 4, Firhouse, by Taka Architects. Photograph: Alice Clancy
The secrets to what makes a building great

The chief appeal of the New Irish Architecture 28: AAI Awards book, published by Gandon Editions, is the insight it gives into the conversations that (...)

Town, Country, People (1985-86) by Locky Morris
Art that’s at home in the material world

Two Birds/One Stone – Various artists Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin ★★★★ Two Birds/One Stone concludes with Albanian artist Adrian Paci’s memorable vi(...)

Anita Groener in her studio at home in Glasthule, Dublin. “Women artists have a battle to win to be valued equally in exhibitions, collections, and in auctions.” Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Pieces of me: artist Anita Groener

Dutch-born artist Anita Groener came to Ireland in 1982, just for a year, or so she thought. More than three decades on, she lives here with her husba(...)

Nora Hickey M’Sichili: “Paris is a very international city. I’m Irish, my husband is Zambian, so for me it was very healthy.” Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall
Irish culture in Paris: ‘I’m not a diplomat. My take is personal’

Parisian taxi drivers smile when you say that you’re from Ireland and want to go to Rue des Irlandais, a quiet street just behind the Panthéon in the (...)

Outdoor art at Killenure Castle

One of the lovely things about summer is getting to see art in the outdoors, without freezing your faculties off in the process. Just outside C(...)

From left, a digital montage of how architects Donaghy and Dimond envisaged the West Cork Arts Centre; and the centre as it appears now
How compromise hit plans for Skibbereen’s arts centre

The new West Cork Arts Centre, called Uillinn, certainly makes its mark on the landscape. A great hulk of weathered Corten steel rises up in the mi(...)