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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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2020 has seen a severe change in how we work and more importantly, where we work. People have had to learn how to use new technologies as working from home and remote working has become essential to keep people safe against the coronavirus. Eibhin Kavanagh talks to workers about the pros and cons of working…
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Digital technology has become such an inseparable part of people’s lives that most of the time it’s hard to notice the improvements that always-changing technology brings. People from different groups of society find different ways of employing technology for their own needs. Laura Matjusaityte discusses how digital technology and especially use of social media have…
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Photographs that emerged online of a gathering that took place in RTE last week have sparked outrage as they show a number of broadcasters standing close together with no social distancing or masks. Megan O’Brien explored the reactions on Twitter. Miriam O’Callaghan, David McCullagh, Bryan Dobson and Eileen Dunne were among the staff that appeared…
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Innocent Drinks Ireland became inundated with requests for stickers and magnets recently following a viral Tik Tok. Amber Baxter looked at this bizarre phenomenon. “One morning I woke up, I think it was a Friday. I went on Facebook first and there was a couple of notifications saying hi my name is [xxx], I love…
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Dublin’s white-water rafting facility was met with a lot of backlash when it was first announced. Eibhin Kavanagh looks at what the White-Water Rafting facility could be in a post-Covid world. Dublin’s white-water rafting facility could be in deep waters in a post-Covid environment. The controversial facility, costing €22 million, would be used for training…
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James Kirwan, a graduate in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, was selected as one of the artists by the Art Council for the Covid19 Response Award. He proposed planting a number of his paintings along the streets of Inner-City Dublin as gifts to those who find them.
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