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RHA Gallery | Dublin City FM (2003-23) | Le Cool Dublin (2010-16) | 🇪🇺
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RHA Gallery
2 days ago
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 👇
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RHA Gallery
3 days ago
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/...
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National Library of Ireland
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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.
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Director's Tour of the National Library of Ireland
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/directors-tour-national-library-ireland-9
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National Library of Ireland
4 days ago
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
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Twice Shy | Exploring Seamus Heaney's Love Poetry
In celebration of St. Valentine's Day ❤️
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/twice-shy-exploring-seamus-heaneys-love-poetry
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WHAT a cover 👏
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8 days ago
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Raven Books
9 days ago
Friday stack! It's been too long
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MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland
9 days ago
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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Criterion Channel
9 days ago
Good morning ☕
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Trimontium Trust & Museum
11 days ago
#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?
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RHA Gallery
12 days ago
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...
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Key Learnings from Cross-Market Synergetic Alignment - RHA Gallery
https://rhagallery.ie/events/exhibitions/key-learnings-from-cross-market-synergetic-alignment/
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RHA Gallery
22 days ago
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.
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RHA Gallery
24 days ago
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. 🧵
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RHA Gallery
25 days ago
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.
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RHA Gallery
26 days ago
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...
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Just wonderful...
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25 days ago
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Crawford Art Gallery
26 days ago
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
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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...
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Ralph Towner: 01/03/1940 — 18/01/2026
Alyn Shipton remembers the great guitarist who has died aged 85, and whose career included his highly acclaimed group Oregon and a decades-long association with ECM Records
https://www.jazzwise.com/news/article/ralph-towner-01-03-1940-18-01-2026
27 days ago
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Remembering the towering giant that was Ralph Towner on this specially curated ECM playlist - music for the ages!
open.spotify.com/playlist/7yl...
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Ralph Towner
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ylYo3kictjkAzglJaxPzt?si=MfwckvyGQKW_j76n8JB98A&pi=xQvsrWM_Q7WX4
27 days ago
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Getty
27 days ago
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.
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Crawford Art Gallery
27 days ago
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
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RHA Gallery
27 days ago
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
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RHA Gallery
about 1 month ago
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
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Sophie Carr
about 1 month ago
An old favourite from the south-east of
#Iceland
in March 2022.
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RTÉ
about 1 month ago
RTÉ marks 100 years of Irish radio with GPO broadcasts
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0115/1553163-rte-gpo-broadcasts/
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RTÉ marks 100 years of Irish radio with GPO broadcasts
RTÉ radio will mark 100 years of public service broadcasting in Ireland with a series of broadcasts from the GPO.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0115/1553163-rte-gpo-broadcasts/
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RHA Gallery
about 1 month ago
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...
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RHA Gallery
about 1 month ago
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. 🧵
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Happy Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas 🎄
about 1 month ago
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Beatles Archive
about 2 months ago
The
#Beatles
in Austria filming 'Help', 1965.
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RHA Gallery
about 2 months ago
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...
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Richard Kadrey
2 months ago
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
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about 2 months ago
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Samira Ahmed
about 2 months ago
Have a listen. 🎧 This will totally cheer you up! 🎄
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Tom Gauld
about 2 months ago
'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
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Gaijin Rando
2 months ago
Danish poster for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939)
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RHA Gallery
2 months ago
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
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Abner Brown
2 months ago
"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...
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The fright before Christmas: it’s the 10 most terrifying festive TV spookfests
Shrieking Victorian phantoms, dastardly occultists and Christopher Lee’s vast head … here we reveal the finest Christmas chillers there ever were
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/16/the-fright-before-christmas-its-the-10-most-terrifying-festive-tv-spookfests
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2 months ago
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!
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The Symphonist
2 months ago
Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.
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RHA Gallery
2 months ago
@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
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The Lilliput Press
3 months ago
❄️ 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 🎁
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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...
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Gaijin Rando
2 months ago
Birthday boy Dick Van Dyke making his best Stan Laurel face for the real Stan Laurel
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Three Castles Burning
2 months ago
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...
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The day W.B Yeats went to the pub. Now read on.
Today is the centenary of the birth of Con Houlihan, the Castle Island (two words, he insisted) writer.
https://publichousehistory.substack.com/p/the-day-wb-yeats-went-to-the-pub
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Abner Brown
2 months ago
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.
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Me too! One of my December highlights, perhaps THE highlight...
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Brian Groom
2 months ago
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.
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Tuatha
2 months ago
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.
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Helen Day
2 months ago
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 ‘Frost’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
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RHA Gallery
2 months ago
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
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Stranger - Colin Davidson
Colin Davidson discuss Stranger, his new exhibition at the RHA.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22565221
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Tomás Murray
2 months ago
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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures
The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/04/they-rose-out-of-the-ground-scotland-brutalist-beauties-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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