Council official apologises after local residents left out of loop on RCSI’s plans for York Street
Councillor calls for traffic improvements for whole area – not just for RCSI staff and students at the east end of York Street.
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On Merrion Square, a College Looks to Revive Salon Culture
The hope is to recreate the 19th-century salons hosted by Lady Jane Wilde, also known as Speranza. A recent Saturday was the first event.
Black-Mould Brie, Anyone? An Art Project Comes to the City
Artist Avril Corroon’s exhibition of toxic cheese wheels, made from mould in Dublin and London’s apartments and workplaces, opens soon at the LAB Gallery.
In The Coombe, an Exhibition Recalls Plans for Totalitarian Christian Capital City
Daithi Hanly, later a Dublin City Council architect, in 1942 outlined his vision for a new city at the Hill of Tara in Meath in a magazine published by a far-right group.
Phibsboro Gets a New Gathering Space for Community Groups and Artists
“At least, there’s a bright spark here,” said artist Robert Ballagh at the launch last week, in a former retail unit in the Phibsboro Shopping Centre.
Why Brazilian Graffiti Is Appearing on the City’s Vacant Buildings
“Pixo”, which finds its origins in protests against urban inequality in Brazilian cities, has found a familiar canvas on derelict and vacant buildings around the Liberties and the Coombe.
A Liberties Art Project Aims to Channel Responses to the Changing Neighbourhood
The idea came from discussions with others in the community, said Austin Campbell, director of the Robert Emmet CDP. “How do we define ourselves when this is happening?”
Adeline Berry Puts a Call Out for Paintings and Prose by Dublin Sex Workers
The resulting exhibition or underground publication, she hopes, will be unveiled on 17 December, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
A handmade zine riffs, for years, on themes of belonging
“People always ask us what’s the theme and I always say the same as last time – the internal struggle to fit in,” says Saul Philbin Bowman.
A Dublin Group Sketches the City’s Nooks and Crannies
They meet every Sunday in a different spot, where they quietly contemplate and capture the details that others usually overlook.
An Exhibition Maps the Mind of an Unconventional Architect
Architect Marion Mahony Griffin “thought very deeply about things” – from the human relationship with nature, to community planning.
As Some Graffiti Walls are Lost, Council Considers More “Legal Walls”
Dublin City Council has connected some groups in the city seeking brighter walls with graffiti artists. It’s working on sorting more spots.
A city tour reveals the infrastructure of the Internet all around us
“We can challenge and subvert network systems simply by highlighting where they are,” said Paul O’Neill, an activist-academic, to a group on a recent Saturday.