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Lessons in isolation and confinement from the diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank and her family faced many challenges in isolation and her diary offers some useful ways of thinking about confinement Most of us are experiencing prolonged confinement for the… | Read on »
How the Irish Helped to Work Out the Correct Way of Dating Easter
Iona Abbey, the island monastery founded off the western coast of Scotland in 563 AD by St Colum Cille The work of early Irish scholars and astronomical experts on developing… | Read on »
Remembering Mary McPartlan
In 1984, I was an MA student in Nua-Ghaeilge programme in UCG and had been seriously bitten by the song bug. I had the idea from my mentor Breandán Ó… | Read on »
Virtual Galway 2020 – From Place to Virtual Space
A Galway 2020 artwork that was firmly embedded in place has now been released online instead, as a response to the Covid-19 crisis. ‘Savage Beauty’, which involved the lighting of… | Read on »
Writer, cartographer and artist Tim Robinson on the elsewheres of his life and work: from the RTÉ Radio Archive
Tim Robinson Remembered – listen to a classic RTE interview
The Tim Robinson Archive – Iarsma Film (2016)
Iarsma: Fragments from the Archive is the Artists in the Archive project initiated by Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, in 2016. Three artists were commissioned to work collaboratively on… | Read on »
Texas Tough? COVID-19 and the Precarity of the Lone Star State
Texas is known for being big and tough but the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reveal it as under-serviced, impoverished and facing a systemic collapse that will devastate the most vulnerable…. | Read on »
We are all waiting now: the new global sense of precarity
Towards the end of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Vladimir declares that “we are no longer alone, waiting for the night”. He muses that we are all in fact metaphorically… | Read on »
Death without Ritual will be Hard on Communities
Reprinted from the Sunday Independent (Ireland), p. 18. Some years ago, Thomas Lynch, an American undertaker and poet, with a long connection to County Clare, was asked what made a… | Read on »
Effects of Covid-19 on our society foretold by Defoe long ago
Daniel Defoe’s 1722 work of fiction about the Great Plague in London still has much to teach us as we struggle today, writes Daniel Carey Pandemics of the past have… | Read on »