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An Artist’s Perspective on Dublin’s Changing Landscape in Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin
A new exhibition by artist Gerard Byrne highlights the impact of modernization on Dublin’s architectural character and cultural identity. By Peace Okolo An exhibition portraying Dublin’s evolving cityscape has opened at the Gerard Byrne Gallery on Trinity Street, with artist Gerard Byrne presenting a series of paintings that reflect the city’s architectural and cultural change. Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin focuses on Georgian and Victorian buildings…
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University College Cork’s recent study of emigration trends in Ireland last week revealed that nearly two thirds of emigrants had a third-level qualification. It also showed that half of those emigrating were doing so as a matter of choice, leaving a full-time job they had here in Ireland. This provided some food for thought for…
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Sinead O’Connor and Miley Cyrus have continued in their cyber tit-for-tat argument. The feud began with a seemingly good-willed letter, drafted by O’Connor, and posted on her personal website addressed to Miley Cyrus, in relation to the young American popstar’s recent sexaully-provacative antics. However the fourth, most recent letter, has moved onto the topic of mental health…
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Hozier is a name that’s starting conversations all over the place lately following the release of the Dublin singer-songwriters debut EP “Take Me To Church” in July. What’s making waves though is his recently released video for the track of the same name. ‘Take Me To Church’ is the most complete song from Hozier’s nascent career, a…
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Historical buildings opened up all over the capital from October 4-6 as Open House Dublin celebrated its 8th annual celebration of unique Irish architecture. With special ‘access-all-areas’ dispensations being given to visitors of some of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks over the course of the weekend, patrons were given the opportunity to glimpse into…
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TheCity.ie was produced by 4th year journalism students from DIT during the first semester of 2012, and, as dissertations and projects beckon in semester two, theCity.ie will be going into mothballs for a few months. But don’t forget us! We’ll be back with a new batch of 4th years in September 2013. We’ve all really enjoyed…
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Christmas is a magical time for everyone around the world and especially in Dublin since we now have such a diverse multi-cultural city. Our ‘rainbow’ city is now home to almost over 188 different nationalities according to reports. The report of the non-Irish population, released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), found that the largest…
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