Visual Arts Audiences can experience the works of acclaimed Belgian artist Eugeen Van Mieghem for the first time in Ireland next year, through an exhibition depicting the vibrant life of the Port of Antwerp at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Eugeen … Michael Dempsey : Port life
Theatre “He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is lain” A call to arms. War Poet Francis Ledwidge (Ethan Dillon) is torn between his love for Shivvie (Katie O’Kelly), and Ellie (Amy O’Dwyer), his friend … Amy O’Dwyer : Ledwidge
Theatre ‘Pearse, Connolly, McDermott and the rest of their merry men; they died for a Republic. But we don’t live in a Republic. We live in an economy’ A wry and funny look at Irish life one hundred years after the … Jim Nolan : Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Visual Arts In an automated world, is it nearly time to put humans out to pasture? Does the future resemble a leisure-time utopia or a robot-tended human-zoo? Will the notion of work become a thing of the past if machines really can … Aleksandra Amaladass and Ryan Coyne : Humans need not apply
GOMA presents ‘The Old and the Weary’ a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly. The world stepped into when we explore Ben’s work is made up of things, materials, objects, stuff. Is it a door handle? A leather boot? A bag … Ben Reilly : The Old and the Weary
Visual Arts WIT LúAC In The Library is the second exhibition of 2017 for the LúAC art collective. LúAC were invited by Kieran Cronin, Developmental Librarian at Waterford Institute of Technology to exhibit in the Library after he opened LúAC’s previous exhibition … Kevin O’Keeffe : LUAC exhibition at Luke Wadding Library
Visual Arts Sculpture cast from red hot lava, fin whale bones engraved with the whale’s final journey before beaching, a video installation layering endangered fish with a chorus of birds and prints of dinosaur skeletons; these are some of the intriguing artworks … Danny Osborne and Frieda Meaney : Landmarks and Lifeforms
Visual Arts Lorraine Neeson works primarily with lens based media, light, sound, video installation and architectural intervention, to create multi-sensory environments that disrupt and disorient a conventional sense of spatial and temporal logic. The combined series of works presented in Current in … Lorraine Neeson : Current
Visual Arts Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the … Miranda Driscoll : Activities at Sirius Arts Centre
Visual Arts The Model, Sligo Till 02 April Reconstructing Memory is a multifaceted experiential and textured exploration of the societal disparities in approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures. Film, photography, sculpture, painting and installation are all sensitively utilised in this … Clea Van Der Grijn : Reconstructing Memory
Visual Arts Monday 27th February to Saturday 25th March 2017 Wexford Arts Centre Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre are pleased to present I Wanted to Write a Poem, a new exhibition of work by Jonathan Mayhew, winner of the Emerging … Jonathan Mayhew : I Wanted to Write a Poem
Festivals Literature 13th March 2017 Visual, Carlow The Carlow College Literary Awards brings together the entire college community to recognise and celebrate the very best of Carlow College literary talent. The awards gather together the college literary community in a spirit of … Derek Coyle, Thomas McGrath and Nicole Burke : Carlow College Literary Awards & Creative Writing Showcase
Theatre The Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise The Big Tree Players present Sive by John B Keane Since forming in 2005, The Big Tree Players have presented annual comedies locally including Cassidy’s Chair, Troubled Bachelor, That Family Feeling, Off the Hook and … Michael Lakes : Sive
Visual Arts IMMA has announced its programme for 2017. The full details of it can be seen on imma.ie. The announcement was followed a talk given by Brazilian artist Jac Leirner, of her exhibition “Institutional Ghost” which runs from 14th February to … Sarah Glennie : IMMA programme 2017
Theatre Greise Youth Theatre Riverbanks Arts Centre, Newbridge 10th and 11th March 2017 By Alistair McDowall performed by Greise Youth Theatre. The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened…Spending a day watching their … Stephanie Hood, Ethan Allison, Donnacha Adams and Shannon O’Doherty : Zero for the Young Dudes
Theatre Wexford man Noel has advanced MS and decides to end it all. While waiting for his overdose to take effect he records an increasingly rambling message for his best friend. Noel has apologies to make and messages to send. He … Ben Barnes : My Real Life
Festivals The 28th Cork French Film Festival, coming up 5th to 12th March 2017, brings you the latest and best from France, with a strong emphasis on contemporary French cinema. The main programme is at the Gate cinema, packed with new … Nora Callanan : Cork French Film Festival
Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Beatland is an exhibition of paintings by Dublin based artist Chanelle Walshe. The paintings depict human organs, the heart and lungs, in various energetic states. The forms are isolated, unearthed from a nourishing ground, and offered up to the viewer … Chanelle Walshe : Beatland
Visual Arts 11 February – 25 March 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present Deepdrippings, an exhibition of new paintings by Phillip Allen. The exhibition will open with a reception in the company of the artist on the evening … Rosa Abbott : Deepdrippings
Visual Arts 11th February until 22nd April 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition of 2017 entitled An Afterwards which will feature the work of leading contemporary Irish artist Mark Garry. The exhibition will … Mark Garry : An Afterwards
Visual Arts 11 February – 21 May 2017 Ground Floor Galleries, Visual Carlow For spring the ground floor galleries at VISUAL will be transformed into an indoor playground exploring play and a recent history of playgrounds. This exhibition has been realised in … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : The Playground Project
Theatre 20 February – 25 February 2017 The Source Arts Centre, County Tipperary Thurles Drama Group presents the wonderful human drama by Seán O’Casey to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the group. The play is set in a tenement house in … Margaret McCormack : Juno and the Paycock
Visual Arts Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Ray of Light, an exhibition of cityscapes by Gary Kearney. Kearney’s work examines aspects of the city and urban dwelling- its architecture and how the city space is shaped as vast amounts … Gary Kearney : Ray of Light
Visual Arts An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ivan Daly In his first solo exhibition Ivan Daly presents a series of paintings and drawings made in response to the powerful coastal landscape of Co. Clare. Doonmacfelim is the particular stretch of … Ivan Daly : DOONMACFELIM
Visual Arts Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional … The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct
Visual Arts February 3rd at 7pm until 18th of February. Rogue Gallery and Studios, Waterford. The Rogue Gallery and Studios is proud to introduce this years first exhibition for 2017 “Gaza, From the Outside Looking In”. A show by local artist/activist Brenda … Brenda Carroll : Gaza, from the outside looking in
Visual Arts GOMA Waterford, 19th January, 6.30pm (exhibition runs until 23rd February) GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford formerly known as SOMA Contemporary Gallery is proud to introduce their first exhibition of 2017 The Graduates. A show of works by recent graduates … Mick Fortune : The Graduates at GOMA
Visual Arts Mother River is a breathtaking photographic odyssey by the British-Chinese photographer, Yan Wang Preston. It takes the viewer on a journey along the entire length of the Yangtze, China’s ‘Mother River’. From the remote high Tibetan Plateau, through the Three … Yan Wang Preston : Mother River
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery has an outstanding resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. The gallery has an ongoing commitment to make sure this collection is exhibited and … Anna O’Sullivan and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Personae: Butler Gallery Collection featuring loans from the IMMA Collection
