A big thank you 👏 to everyone who turned out in very inclement weather yesterday for the opening of our new season of exhibitions at the RHA. Why not make a date with us this Valentine’s Day 💞 weekend – we’re open from 11am - 5pm Saturday, 12 - 5pm Sunday. rhagallery.ie Now showing 👇

President of Ireland Catherine Connolly presided at a ceremony at the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social yesterday to mark the election of Dorothy Cross RHA as Saoi of Aosdána. Read more: artscouncil.ie/news/preside... Irish Times video of yesterday’s ceremony: www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...

Free Director's Tour of the National Library of Ireland 📅 Mon, 23 Feb at 6pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/directors-tour-national-library-ireland-9 Explore the National Library of Ireland with Director Dr Audrey Whitty. 🏛️ Meet in the Front Hall of NLI, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Twice Shy | Exploring Seamus Heaney’s Love Poetry In celebration of St. Valentine’s Day ❤️ 📅 Sat, 14 Feb at 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/twice-shy-exploring-seamus-heaneys-love-poetry Join us for an #ValentinesDay talk exploring some of Heaney’s most beautiful and romantic #poems.

WHAT a cover 👏

Friday stack! It's been too long

Due to weather conditions affecting travel, tonight's First Fridays conversation between Liam Cagney and Donal Fallon has been postponed. However, we are delighted that writer Brendan Mac Evilly will be reading from his novel, Deep Burn, at 6.30pm. https://moli.ie/events/first-fridays-february-2026

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#IronAgeWednesday: #Brochs - Stone structures found particularly in NW #Scotland, built throughout the Iron Age. #Archaeologists have long debates about their purpose & use. Were they purely defensive or similar to stately homes, or perhaps a mix of defence & living quarters with symbolic functions?

Key Learnings from Cross-Market Synergetic Alignment presents nine artists whose practice incorporates commodity culture, taking in branding, mass-market imagery, retail style, the domestic, advertising and packaging RHA Gallagher Gallery 13 Feb – 19 Apr Learn more at rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...

This weekend at the RHA ⤵️ Your last chance to view: RDS Visual Art Awards 2025 Colin Davidson – Stranger Sarah McEneaney – Here and There Continuing: Eimearjean McCormack – Survey Series, to 8 February Alex de Roeck – Debt Wish, to 1 February Open today until 5pm, Sunday 12–5pm.

Don’t miss the 2025 RDS Visual Art Awards at the RHA – it ends THIS Sunday! The most important platform for visual art graduates in Ireland, the awards provide a curated exhibition opportunity and a significant prize fund of over €40,000. 🧵

Marking his first Dublin exhibition in seven years, Belfast-born artist Colin Davidson brings us Stranger, an innovative collection of three-dimensional works that redefine the possibilities of paint as a sculptural medium. Colin Davidson - Stranger O’hUiginn Gallery Ends THIS Sunday, 25 January.

Working from drawings, memory, observation, imagination, and photographs, Sarah McEneaney creates detailed and highly coloured works that weave together personal experience and universal themes. Sarah McEneaney – Here and There Ends THIS Sunday, 25 January 🖥️ rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...

Just wonderful...

Today is the Eve of St Agnes 💙 How better to celebrate than revisiting one of Harry Clarke’s strikingly blue watercolour studies that he made in preparation for his The Eve of St. Agnes Window (1924), inspired by John Keats’ poem. #CrawfordArtGallery #HarryClarke #EveofStAgnes

Alyn Shipton remembers guitariat Ralph Towner, who has died aged 85. I've been a big fan since an early teens bargin bin cassette purchase of an ECM Records cassette [Blue Sun] back in the late 1980s. www.jazzwise.com/news/article...

Remembering the towering giant that was Ralph Towner on this specially curated ECM playlist - music for the ages! open.spotify.com/playlist/7yl...

One of North America's greatest writers of poetry and short stories was born on this day in 1809. This daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe was made months before his death at age 40. Few daguerreotypes of notable poets, novelists, or painters have survived from the 1840s.

Continuing our snowy vibes for Jan, today we’re sharing this vibrant work by #irishartist Ronald Ossory Dunlop. In contrast to some of the more monochromatic snowscapes we’ve shared, this work reminds us of all the beautiful colours that can be found in winter. #CrawfordArtGallery #wintervibes

We had a terrific crowd in the RHA School on Saturday for our in-conversation between Colin Davidson and Gemma Tipton. Thanks to everyone who braved the weather and made the event such a success. Colin’s exhibition ‘Stranger’ ends its run at the RHA this Sunday. 📸: Ciara Harrison & Fifi Hegarty

This weekend at the RHA ⤵️ RDS Visual Art Awards 2025 Colin Davidson – Stranger Sarah McEneaney – Here and There Eimearjean McCormack – Survey Series Alex de Roeck – Debt Wish Open: Saturday 11am–5pm, Sunday 12–5pm. 🖥️ rhagallery.ie

An old favourite from the south-east of #Iceland in March 2022.

RTÉ marks 100 years of Irish radio with GPO broadcasts https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0115/1553163-rte-gpo-broadcasts/

Eimearjean McCormack’s new exhibition at the RHA captures fleeting beauty and memory, inviting reflection on the delicate world around us. Eimearjean McCormack - Survey Series Ashford Gallery Until 8 February Learn more, view and purchase work from the exhibition: rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...

Join artist Colin Davidson in-conversation with writer Gemma Tipton this Saturday lunchtime at the RHA. ‘Stranger’ marks Davidson’s first Dublin exhibition in seven years; an innovative collection of three-dimensional works that redefine the possibilities of paint as a sculptural medium. 🧵

Happy Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas 🎄

The #Beatles in Austria filming 'Help', 1965.

Ending this Sunday at the RHA – a series of charcoal drawings by Lelia Henry explores the intelligence, memory, and emotional presence of trees, inspired by the groundbreaking research of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. View & purchase work rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room...

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

Simply incredible...🎄

Have a listen. 🎧 This will totally cheer you up! 🎄

'My year end reading statistics' (originally for @theguardian.com books). p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Danish poster for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939)

A R C H I P E L A G O, a major exhibition of Irish photography at the RHA, ends THIS Sunday. It's a collaboration between the RHA’s exhibition department and the artist-led @islandphotogroup.bsky.social Read more at rhagallery.ie/events/exhib... #RHAGallery #ArchipelagoShow #IrishPhotography

"Abner Brown in a performance of seething, spittle-flecked enormousness" - I'm really not sure whether I should be flattered or preparing the scrounger for action. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Just a reminder that the calendar has been printed and will be given away with the Irish Times on St Stephens Day - so find out if your local shop will be open!

Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.

@colindavidsonart.bsky.social - Stranger O’hUiginn Gallery Until 25 January 2026 💻 rhagallery.ie/events/exhib... Gallery opening hours: Tues – Sat: 11 – 17 Sun: 12 – 17 Wed Late Opening: 11 – 19 Video: Barry Lynch. #RHA #RHAGallery #ColinDavidsonStranger #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland

❄️ Winter Opening Hours ❄️ Our Stoneybatter bookshop will be open for all your gift buying needs every weekday AND weekend from now until Christmas 🎄 We have books, tote bags and postcards aplenty, so pop in Mon-Fri 9-5, or Sat-Sun 9.30-5, to find that perfect gift for the bookworm in your life 🎁

How about this for public service broadcasting — a marvellous annual day long broadcast of Christmas around Europe. Well done BBC Radio 3 👏 Tune in at share.google/ptnUW8rVxCdY...

Birthday boy Dick Van Dyke making his best Stan Laurel face for the real Stan Laurel

A new substack, dedicated to the story of the Irish public house. All follows welcome! Today, in memory of Con Houlihan (born 6 December 1925) the story of one of Dublin's most beloved snugs and a drink that never happened. publichousehistory.substack.com/p/the-day-wb...

I got quite excited when I heard that Bram was due. I imagined sitting up late by the fire, exchanging vampire tales. It seems I got it wrong, and the dolt has shut off the power. That's another half-crown's worth of candles gone over the weir.

Me too! One of my December highlights, perhaps THE highlight...

Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt

Oileán Thoraí • Tory Island • Donegal The 7th of December is traditionally believed to be the birthday of Colmcille, one of Ireland's three patron saints, alongside Patrick & Brigid. One of the places associated with the saint is Tory Island, set in the Atlantic some 14km off the Donegal coast.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 ‘Frost’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Listen back to @colindavidsonart.bsky.social’s recent interview with @rickoshea.bsky.social on the @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena arts programme. Colin was discussing his work, Stranger, now showing at the RHA – find their chat here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22565221