Art & Design
Sara Keating on Culture: A history of art as a tool for nation building
Exhibition at IMMA highlights the open and plural beginnings of Ireland’s original national project
As 2024 begins, we say goodbye to the Decade of Centenaries, that ten-year rolling commemoration of the events that led to the foundation of the state.
From the formation of the Irish Volunteers to the 1916 Rising, the Civil War to the first sitting of the Dáil, the key markers of Irish sovereignty have been a linchpin and important inspiration for Irish cultural activity over the last decade, as Irish artists celebrated and interrogated the ...