After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
In Kathryn Milligan’s “Painting Dublin”, the artists are from different backgrounds, religions, and social classes. “What connects them is that they are painting the same city.”
“The Language I Cannot Speak” is a performance of stories and poems that draws on Zimbabwean folklore and family tales to explore identity and culture.
Director Daniel F. Holmes follows Irish footballers at the Homeless World Cup, showing how sport can give a sense of purpose to those who’ve suffered hardship and misfortune.
“In Waiting” is “a classic Irish guitar music debut, a proud affirmation of queerness, the power and the peril of organised religion, and a love letter to Dublin”.
“What We Don’t Talk About is an essential read. It tackles nuanced racial moments that give context to the wider topics we’re all trying to take head on.”
The theme of the exhibition is that no matter what is going on, if you have enough agency, or personal conviction, you still have control over your situation, she says.
“For me, the double act managed to win me over, I believed in the cousins and rooted for them because they believed in one another,” writes Luke Maxwell.
This anthology of poetry by working-class people from contemporary Ireland has many good points, but is unfortunately short of the voices of migrants, our reviewer writes.
