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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Anne Madden, Deep Stream (oil on canvas), 1990. The death of artist and Aosdana member Anne Madden at age 93 was announced today. Chosen to represent Ireland at the 1965 Venice Biennale, Madden's work is in public collections both her and abroad, including at Muséee du Louvre #speirgorm

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Nuala Early, Bro [Newgrange Basin Stone], (sandstone), from the 2023 Sculpture in Context exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens. And there was last-minute sunshine in the chamber at Newgrange, Co. Meath for the winter solstice this morning! #newgrangesolstice #speirgorm

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Francis Bacon, Crucifixion (oil and acrylic on canvas), 1965, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Bacon was born #OTD in Dublin on 1909 at 63 Lower Baggot St. The house is now offices and a plaque marks the artist's birthplace #speirgorm

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The Irish Blood Transfusion folks have a critical shortage of blood this week. Please consider donating if you can: check if you're eligible to be a literal lifesaver at www.giveblood.ie/can-i-give-b... Pic: Vivienne Roche, The Watchful Heart (bronze), RHA Annual 2023 #speirgorm

Bronze sculpture depicting an abstract human heart.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Sad news tonight that the Wexford-born sculptor has passed away. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Michael Warren, Beneath the 'bow (Irish oak and corten steel), 1991, IMMA #speirgorm

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea" will be shown on Tues 3 June at 6.15 pm at @lighthousecinemadublin followed by an in-person Q&A with director Beatrice Minger Picture: Eileen Gray, E1027 table (chrome and steel), 1926-1929, NMI Collins Barracks, from their Eileen Gray exhibition

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Crafty families, this one’s for you! Join us this Bank Holiday Monday, 3 June, at the National Museum of Ireland for Felt with Jorgensen Flair Explore colour, texture & creativity together! Free, but booking is essential. 📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Felt with Jorgensen Flair: Children's Felt Making Workshop | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland

Design a felted panel inspired by IB Jorgensen ‘s fashion pieces from the museum‘s collection.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happy 80th birthday, Mr Moore! Colin Davidson, Portrait of Christy Moore (oil on linen), 2020. Shown at the exhibition Colin Davidson: Selected Paintings and Drawings, at the Irish Arts Center in New York City, 2023 #speirgorm

Portrait of a man (head and shoulders) displayed on a gallery wall

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Leah Beggs, Crystal Waters, Solomon Fine Art. Diana Copperwhite, Quiet Girl, Stoney Road Press. From the Art Evolve fair at the RDS, open 10 to 6 tomorrow (Sunday). Thanks to @solomonfineart.bsky.social for the invite! #speirgorm

Image shows an abstract painting of a seascape

Image shows a semi abstract painting of a woman wearing headphones

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Cabra Library tmrw, 22 March at 2.30 pm. Dr. Mary Muldowney will talk about artist and activist Sarah Cecilia Harrison's life and campaigning work. Book at dublincity.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd... Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Portrait of the Painter (oil on panel), 1890, Hugh Lane Gallery.

Image shows a painting of a woman in a striped blouse of the Victorian era, with hair pulled back. The painting is hung on a gallery wall.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The exhibition of stained-glass panels by Harry Clarke (born 17 March 1889)at the @nationalmuseumofireland Collins Barracks will run for the next two years. Harry Clarke, The Consecration of St. Mel, Bishop of Longford, by St. Patrick, (stained glass), 1910, Crawford Art Gallery

Image shows a stained glass panel. A man in a bishop's mitre stands next to a man in a mink's habit with head bowed. Two men in hoods are flanking them

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

May Guinness, Still Life (oil on canvas), 1925-30, Hugh Lane Gallery. Born #OTH in 1863 in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, Mary Catherine Guinness worked with the cubist painter André Lhote in Paris, 1922-25. "Still Life" is considered to be one of her most successful works of this period #speirgorn

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

On 21 March at 1 pm IST (9 am EST), the National Library of Ireland is hosting an online talk on WB Yeats’ world of symbols, secret societies and spiritual philosophies. The lecture will be recorded: free but registration required #speirgorm www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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Yeats and the Occult

Mystery and Magic In the Life of Ireland's First Nobel Laureate

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Mairead O'hEocha, Altar for Slippery Rocks (oil on board), 2024, Coach House Gallery. The group exhibition All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun’ exhibition is running in the Coach House Gallery; Dublin Castle, until 11 May. Open daily, 10-5 #speirgorm

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you love 🔎 📚 and are in the Dublin area: this month's read for the Rathmines Library Crime Book Club: The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley and/or Who Killed Una Lynskey by Mick Clifford (copies available at the desk). Next meeting Wed Feb 26 at 6.30, 1st floor in the Library's lecture room #speirgorm

Image shows a poster with two book covers and text in boxes that says: Rathmines Library Crime Book Club is reading The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley and/or Who Killed Una Lynskey by Mick Clifford . Join them on 26th February at 6.30 pm. New members always welcome.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

At the Smock Alley Theatre from today, 13 Feb, to 1 March, the Scene + Heard festival will showcase an art exhibition (upstairs) and 111 new works: drama, music, dance, stand-up, improv, drag, rehearsed readings and more. Check out all the fabulous performances at smockalley.com/sceneandheard/

Image shows paintings on a gallery wall with people gathered in front

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Full-time museum job! 🎊 A Curatorial Assistant at Malahide Castle & Gardens and Newbridge House; FT permanent with flexible hours to suit the needs of the two sites. Starting at €30,000; deadline for applications is Friday 14 February #speirgorm #JobFairy www.malahidecastleandgardens.ie/careers/

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Careers - Malahide Castle and Gardens

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Deirdre Frost, Red Earth (oil, acrylic and mixed media on panel), 2024, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. Tumbling Earth, the Cork artist's solo show, runs at Kev Kav until 8 February

Image shows a painting on a gallery wall. Pieces of wood are scattered in front of a patch of red earth, with plants visible in the foreground

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There will be some great tours at NMI Collins Barracks this weekend! Free, no advance booking required, but spaces are limited, so get there a little early to sign up. Steps from the Museum stop on the Luas Red :) bsky.app/profile/nmir...

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It's Penguin Awareness Day! 🐧 🥳 From last year's camera roll: Mark Dion, Emperor Penguin (polyester, sink bucket, wooden crate, tar, various trinkets, costume jewelry), 2016, Hugh Lane Gallery. Stuck in tar and trash, the penguin is emblematic of climate change and the human impact on wildlife.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A Year in Review: Moving, Growing, Fighting, an exhibition of new work by Bog Cottage (aka Roberta Murray and Orla Meagher)opens Sat 1 February at 6 pm and runs until 15 March 15th at Galway Arts Centre: galwayartscentre.ie/.../a-year-in-…

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Home | Galway Arts Centre

Cultural hub with gallery for Irish and international contemporary art plus classes and workshops.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

From the NGI/AIB Portrait Prize show: The exhibition of the shortlisted works runs (along with the Young Artist Portrait Prize) at the National Gallery of Ireland until 9 March. Harriet Casey (Co. Meath), Are You Sitting Comfortably? A Portrait of the Artist as a Little Girl (oil on canvas), 2024.

Portrait of a girl reading a book, sitting in a chair shared with toys. The bookcase behind her is full of books and toys

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Dublin Winter Lights at the National Museum of Ireland Collins Barracks, an artist-created immersive experience in a perfect venue, continues until 15 December 🌟 Tix at dublinwinterlights.ie

Image shows a landscape with trees being projrct3d by lights onto the walls of a stone building

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Magic and Loss,a group exhibition at Kevin Kavanagh, runs until 21 December. Kathy Tynan, Grapes and honeydew melon (oil on canvas), 2024.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Smithfield Square is looking very festive on this grey day 😀 The Christmas Spectacular runs till Jan 2nd 🎄

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Iseult McCormack, Floating (mixed media on canvas). From the exhibition In Between, a selection of works by artnet dlr members, running at Walters Pub in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin until January 2025

The image shows a painting hung on the corner wall of a restaurant. It is an abstract consisting of stylized pink flowers, green and yellow spheres and purple boxes

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Tom Phelan, Arriving Radiant Violet (oil on linen), So Fine Art Editions. Tom's solo show, Arriving, runs at So Fine until 30 November

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dlr Lexicon Library is now showing two solo exhibitions -- Mary Burke: Moments of Domesticity, and Róisín White: Safe Harbour. Open during library hours until 19 January. Róisín White, Safe Harbour (wood, fabric, metal, foam), 2024; Mary Burke, Emmet's Home (oil pastel on canvas), 2024.

The image shows an art installation in a gallery. There is a word sculpture in a semi-circular shape with blue carpeting inside the circle. The gallery walls also show framed photographs on either side and a blue and white tapestry on the back wall.

The image shows a painting on a gallery wall. A domestic interior with green couch with red cushions in the foreground and lamps with white shades on either side.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Dublin mystery/crime fiction fans, I'll be leading the inaugural meeting of the Rathmines Library Crime Bookclub on Wed 27 November. We are reading Christina Koning's Murder in Dublin: copies available to borrow at Rathmines Library

Image shows the book cover for Murder in Dublin, by Christina Koning. Black and white silhouettes of two people are shown against a window.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Cara Murphy, Green Fields (silver, enamel), 2020. From the exhibition What Colour is Metal at Dublin Castle, showcasing contemporary master-metalsmiths, #OTD in 2022. What gorgeous greens!

Image shows a group of silver bowls in a museum display case. The interior of the bowls have been enamelled in various shades of green.

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bookshop assistant (anyone remember the Alchemist's Head, back in the day?) Museum intern Gallery VSO Tour guide at Newgrange Receptionist "Christmas help" at Bloomingdales Editor at a library reference publisher in the Bronx Home improvement blog writer E-book subscription manager

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Clare Doyle @irishartbeat.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Testing . . . Testing. . . An Evie Hone on display in Gorry's Gallery last week, titled, unsurprisingly, "Composition." (I ❤️ Evie but she was a bit monotonous in the picture-naming department 😀

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