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With August having jumped into 2023, Scotland submerges us in artistry. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s marketing campaign is titled Fill Yer Boots, meaning the gathering of all things cherished and important. The phrase signals the rhythmic fall of shoes on …
Since its founding in 1995, the Dublin Fringe Festival has sought to highlight the immense creativity of Dublin’s independent artists through a month-long festival demonstrating their capabilities. From interactive art exhibitions highlighting the best of Dublin’s independent artists through their …
Before seeing Vancouver-based artist Liz Magor’s exhibition The Rise and The Fall in the Douglas Hyde, I had only encountered her work photographed on Pinterest. Flattened into digital images, her All the Names sculpture series (2016) reminds me of paper …
In recent times, our fashion-conscious society has embraced “quiet luxury,” an enigmatic blend of casual elegance and opulence without overt displays of wealth. This trend has captured the hearts of fashion enthusiasts, reshaping our perception of dressing with grace and …
Irish traditional music and Yoga seem like an unlikely pairing, but for Cáit Ní Riain they are lifelong companions. On an early Wednesday morning, I sat down with Cáit Ní Riain, a traditional Irish singer and musician from County Tipperary. …
After spending most of your summer pushing yourself to work busy night shifts, a holiday is necessary before starting a new college year. Let me invite you onto the picturesque streets of Gdańsk, Poland. Yet in your enjoyment of the …
Blazing a trail would be no easy feat, revealed curator Dr Aoife Brady, giving a lecture earlier this year at Trinity College Dublin. She discussed the numerous steps of curating her upcoming Fontana exhibition, from choosing what to include in …
In 1987, the National Gallery of Ireland received through a donation one of the most famous works in its collection – pending the painting’s safe return to its owner. The previous year, it had been stolen from its owner’s stately …
Boasting a Whatsapp group with over sixty members and being a fortnightly topic of discussion among students in between lectures since it launched last term, Viv Sweet and Joe Prendergast’s Queer Book Club has joined an ensemble of exciting student-run …
LemonSoap productions’ newest play Piglet ran at the New Theatre from April 18 to 22. Full of Jennifer Coolidge impressions and food sabotage, Piglet tells the story of Mercy Munroe, a girl who has dropped out of college to work …