Yvonne Farrell
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Dublin by Design: Meticulously illustrated look at city architecture
- Art & Design
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
Imagining a better Dublin in the future by looking at its history In Dublin by Design, a new book exploring the origins and future of Ireland’s (...)

Architecture must be built in as more than an outhouse of culture
- Culture
- March 7, 2020, 07:00
By any reasonable measure, this week’s awarding of the 2020 Pritzker prize to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects is a major ach(...)

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara: from smalltown Ireland to architecture stars
- Art & Design
- March 7, 2020, 06:00
Whatever else you could say about Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects, one thing is certainly true: they’ve never lost the run o(...)

State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
- Art & Design
- January 25, 2020, 05:00
Ciarán O’Connor is a man with a mission. Hugely ambitious, he rose up through the Office of Public Works to become its principal architect nearly eigh(...)

Climate change: Ireland’s youth take charge of the Dáil - for a day
- Politics
- November 15, 2019, 12:03
Chances are at least one or two future TDs are among the delegates at the first Youth Assembly on Climate Action taking place in the Dáil on Friday. (...)

Why are Irish world class architects not building in Ireland?
- Art & Design
- October 9, 2019, 05:00
The popularity of Open House, the worldwide free architecture festival, shows the huge level of interest in how, and where, we live and work or, at th(...)

Irish architects win RIBA gold medal, UK’s top award
- Art & Design
- October 2, 2019, 18:15
Dublin-based Grafton Architects have been named as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects(...)

‘Developing appreciation can slow down the incredible race to consume’
- Visual Art
- August 1, 2019, 05:00
On a patch of land near Kinsale in rural Co Cork, the ruins of a castle stand, almost impossibly tall. There is really only one wall left, and it’s a (...)

Fintan O’Toole: Let’s abolish culture and call it sport
- Opinion
- July 30, 2019, 06:00
Could we not just abolish culture and call it sport? A bit extreme, I know. But I honestly have no idea what else we can do to banish the godawful ph(...)

The Cranberries, Game of Thrones, 10 Good Friday traditions
- Student Hub
- April 19, 2019, 13:28
Thirty years ago in Limerick city, brothers Noel and Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawlor, auditioned a young singer from Ballybricken called Dolores(...)