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What can nature teach us about how we live, heal and belong? At a time when questions of sustainability, resilience and how we belong within the natural world feel more urgent than ever, staff, students and the wider public are invited to a day of stimulating, thought-provoking and inspiring events at TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus. […]

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Join author and historian Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, for a walking tour of the neighbourhood around the Festival Hub, taking in many key landmarks associated with a wide range of our famous historic writers and the early development of writing in Ireland. Starting outside the gates of the National Gallery on […]

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The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), an initiative of NCAD in partnership with the Arts Council, collects materials that document the development of art practice in Ireland from 1900 to now. NIVAL holds the largest collection of unique and handmade artist books in Ireland with 1,600 catalogued online. Explore a selection of these stunning […]

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For this year’s special opening night, join us with The Women’s Podcast Book Club, from The Irish Times, to celebrate the extraordinary rise, diversity and influence of Irish women’s writing over the past two decades. From experimental fiction and magical realism to powerful stories of place, identity, history and contemporary Ireland, Irish women writers have transformed […]

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Agus borradh faoi chúrsaí scannán Gaeilge, pléifear ábhar an leabhair nua Scannánaíocht na Gaeilge (LeabhairCOMHAR) ag painéal speisialta. Beidh co-eagarthóir an leabhair Róisín Ní Ghairbhí agus an scannánóir Aodh Ó Coileáin i láthair.  Gheofar réamhamharc chomh maith ar an gclár faisnéise nua  Anam na Mara le Venom Films. In light of significant developments in Irish-language film production in […]

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From pen to sound, how do words become music? Join two exciting emerging Irish artists, Pippa Molony and Ahmed, With Love, for a lively conversation about songwriting, creativity and finding your voice in a changing Ireland. They’ll share what happens behind the scenes, from the first line on the page to the finished track, and […]

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Join author and historian Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, for a walking tour of the neighbourhood around the Festival Hub, taking in many key landmarks associated with a wide range of our famous historic writers and the early development of writing in Ireland. Starting outside the gates of the National Gallery on […]

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Join us on DCU’s St Patrick’s Campus for a day-long series of events examining the fate of the written word and storytelling in the content flood of the modern digital world. As technology allows storytellers to tell their tales in previously inconceivable new ways, will there still be space for the human voice, speaking its […]

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Feel frustrated with your story? It’s not because you don’t know what you want: it’s because your characters don’t. This workshop, with author and poet Tim MacGabhann, features exercises for getting to know your characters’ desires, and setting them in motion, therefore animating your short story or novel-in-progress. The way that this macro level of […]

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In both Susan Connolly and Máighréad Medbh’s new collections with Macha Press, the forming of words and names is a living, breathing process. Connolly’s Midwinter explores how names proliferate and change while still representing the same physical things. Medbh’s Dwelling explores how names and words gain and lose meaning, and how they are impacted by […]

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With its beginnings in 1864, Earley Studios grew to become the largest stained glass studio in Ireland. Aiming to exclusively serve the requirements of Catholic patrons, the studio contributed greatly to the dominant stained-glass aesthetic of Irish stained glass in the early decades of the 20th Century. Stroll through Dublin’s colourful streets with Michael Earley, […]

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The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), an initiative of NCAD in partnership with the Arts Council, collects materials that document the development of art practice in Ireland from 1900 to now. NIVAL holds the largest collection of unique and handmade artist books in Ireland with 1,600 catalogued online. Explore a selection of these stunning […]

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