The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald is now open! We’d like to thank everyone who joined us for our special Varnishing Day Preview yesterday – 1,421 people attended this celebratory afternoon at the RHA. Visit rhagallery.ie to view and purchase art from the show.

What an evening with Ali Smith at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social 📚 - a worthy winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2026. Wonderful to have been in the audience and one of many to receive a signed copy of her winning book Gliff 👏

Congratulations to Ali Smith for winning the €100,000 @dublinlitaward.bsky.social award. She's taking part in @ilfdublin.bsky.social tomorrow at 6pm - the event is free, just register: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes... www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The flapper ain't having it in the early Laurel and Hardy comedy PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP

Almost there! Ireland’s largest and longest-running showcase of visual art opens to the public next Monday. 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald 25 May – 9 August Learn more at rhagallery.ie #RHAGallery #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported

One to enjoy with a ☕️ today - Frank McNally celebrating 20 years and 3,500 Irishman's Diary columns in the Irish Times 👏 Consistently for me the best read in the paper...and one of the main reasons I subscribe. No pressure @frankie49.bsky.social! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

If you’re in Dublin in June you might take a peek … “Visions of America 1978-79” at Powerscourt Townhouse Centre #SOFineArtEditions #HiToneBooks #WendyErskine www.hotpress.com/culture/hors...

'So' was released on this day 40 years ago.

The catalogues for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, have arrived 😀 Ireland’s largest and longest-running showcase of visual art, opens next Monday. #RHAGallery #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland

Just one more week until the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald opens here next Monday! 🖥️ rhagallery.ie #RHAGallery #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland #AlwaysFreeAdmission

Weekend staycation in wonderful South Wexford I'm in Cullenstown at this seaside cottage you might 'shell out' for Next stop Bannow bay where the Normans landed #Wexford

Our take is go to an indie bookstore, get a recommendation from a bookseller, & spend the rest of the afternoon reading outside, perhaps after acquiring a tasty beverage & treat from a local cafe.

This Day in Buster... May 15, 1925 The Jennings Daily News reports on Buster Keaton sight seeing in New York, "While in New York, sight-saw the city from top of a bus, and in doing so was quite a sight himself. Buster has just passed under the arch at Washington Square and now is in Greenwich."

“People are always talking about what's wrong with the country - nothing is wrong with the country, I go there every summer.” Happy 100th birthday to Eric Morecambe.

Don’t miss our winner ceremony next week!🏆 Watch the announcement of the Dublin Literary Award winner on Thursday 21 May, as we reveal the recipient of one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes live from International Literature Festival Dublin. ⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tJnaQ1TPz8

The four basic personality types

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Martyn Turner in fine form in this morning's @irishtimes.com

“And so you just threw everything together? Matthews, a posse is something you have to organize.”

I went to check in on Gulliver’s foot and ankle this afternoon – one of the most interesting listed ruins in Edinburgh. c20society.org.uk/news/remnant...

A blue plaque for the Leeds Art Club founded in 1903 which met in rooms on the first floor of the Leeds Permanent Building Society which moved to 8 Blenheim Terrace, Woodhouse, Leeds in 1908. It was founded by school teacher Alfred Orage & lace merchant & freelance journalist Holbrook Jackson. /1

Lovely bit of teacup action

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #DavidAttenborough and his 100th birthday @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

We can't wait to welcome 🫵 to the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Opens Monday 25th May. #RHAGallery #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther

#OnThisDay (7 May 1915), Sir #HughLane died aboard the #Lusitania. We’re sharing letters and papers that shed light on his vision for Dublin’s Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (Hugh Lane Gallery)—the first of its kind. https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/hugh-lane-municipal-gallery-provenance

‘Suddenly you are plunged into fear and strangeness, yet Sweeney seems not to have changed his pace or raised his voice. The result is poetry of originality, where language ticks over beautifully but unselfconsciously.’ Poet Matthew Sweeney is one of our #NewLives. www.dib.ie/biography/sw...

Ada Sussman's fascinating exhibition on 'Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century' is now available online: edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-... Please repost @irishtimes.com @thespectator1828.bsky.social @theguardian.com @news.rte.ie @independent.ie

A cornerstone of Ireland’s cultural calendar, the RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, brings together Academy Members, invited artists, and those selected through the highly competitive open submission process. May 25 – 9 August rhagallery.ie

🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory

A fabulous Emperor Moth in Galway yesterday. Freshly emerged from its chrysalis and chilling out in the grass. My first time seeing this furry creature. 😊 #Moth #teammoth

McCann FitzGerald continue their title sponsorship of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition. The 196th Annual opens to the public on Monday 25th May, running until Sunday 9th August. Learn more at rhagallery.ie/events/exhib... #RHAAnnualExhibition #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther

Netherley, East Liverpool, 1985, by photojournalist Peter Marlow.

Ochre limewash in sunshine, a glorious thing. (Little Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk).

Remembering and celebrating the enduring legacy of Nigel Kneale, born OTD 1922. A body of work that remains absolutely timeless - just like these early and cherished Penguin paperbacks of the first three Quatermass serials 🙂

This Thursday, 30 April, 11:00 am-1:00 pm and 2:00 pm-4:00pm in @edwardworthlib.bsky.social come explore the world of eighteenth-century news production with our newest exhibition 'Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Eighteenth Century'. Please repost @irishtimes.com @news.rte.ie

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (@dib.ie) is Ireland's national biographical dictionary and one of the flagship research programmes based at the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie). One of the latest entries is on Barbara Warren RHA (1925–2017). Read it at www.dib.ie/biography/wa...

Forty Foot this morning

The Nature Table Artist: Harry Wingfield (Going to School, 1959)

The National Theatre on London's Southbank [OC] r/brutalism

Perfect day for a 🍦on Bray Promenade, Co. Wicklow...

🛠 The hard work of installing the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald is under way! It opens to the public, with free admission, from Monday 25 May. Learn more at rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...

We're not the only ones enchanted by bluebells. Bluebells bloom early, giving pollinators a vital nectar boost when few other plants are ready. 📸: Sarah Womersley

The Fingal County Council Arts Office, in partnership with the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), have announced the return of the RHA School Studio Award. 📌 Applications will close on the 1st of May at 4 pm. For full details on how to apply, please click here 👇 rhagallery.ie/residencies-...

Do not do not do not miss the William Blake exhibit at the National Gallery of Ireland @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social not least because YOU TOO CAN GET A 'GHOST OF A FLEA' DRINKS COASTER at the gallery shop & your afternoon cup of tea will be so much the better for it. Exhibit runs through July

Pride of Dundee! The Lemmings Statue stands testament to the great computer games industry of Dundee, Lemmings was conceived and developed in Nethergate 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Lemmings", 2013, Alyson Conway Thanks @kanaratron.bsky.social for sharing 😁

First instalment of Slow Listening is tonight! Starting with one of my all-time favourite pieces. It's nerve-wracking putting such a vulnerable piece of writing out there, so thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed. I'm looking forward to listening with you all.

This reminds me of the visitor book @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social signed by John Huston and Arthur Miller! 'Moby Dick' novel signed by film cast donated to Cork town's museum www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Yulia Gasio Masterclass – Sat/Sun, 20/21 June This two-day masterclass invites painters to work directly with the moving figure through quick, time-based studies, bypassing preliminary sketching and entering immediately into paint. Apply here: rhagallery.ie/events/maste... Closing date: 11 May

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