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The Savage Loves His Native Shore

In 2012 Galway University Hospital’s Arts Trust introduced an arts programme aimed at enhancing the patient experience of haemodialysis treatment at Merlin Park Hospital. In doing so, it sought to red...

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Donnacha Cahill | Gramophone

Donnacha Cahill’s giant pop–up audio visual sculpture The Gramophone will appear at various locations throughout Galway City & County including the Absolut Big Top and stunning sites in Connemara....

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Art Is Trash

Francisco de Pájaro is a contemporary street and urban artist from Barcelona. de Pájaro rejoices in the here–today–gone– tomorrow nature of his work, turning bin bags, boxes, broken furniture and rubb...

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Thicker Than Water

In this year of The Gathering, this discussion will focus on creativity and the Diaspora. The power of the Diaspora is irrefutable. With creativity lauded as being at the core of the Irish psyche, ca...

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The One Right Answer

This discussion focuses on the role and place of creativity in education. Is creativity in education as important as literacy, and should it be treated with the same status? Are we educating with too ...

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Jules Evans

Jules Evans is Policy Director at the Centre for History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. In his new book Philosophy for Life, and Other Dangerous Situations, from which he will speak,...

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Steven Galloway

Exquisite and profoundly moving, The cellist of Sarajevo shows how life under siege creates impossible moral choices. Its is a story about survival, the temptation to hate and the refusal to do so, an...

Michael Billington

Michael Billington has lived though an era of radical change in politics, society and the theatre. And the stage, he says, is the art form that best reflects the mood of the nation. To celebrate the p...

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Bill Viola

Bill Viola is long considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a ...

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Simon Schama

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York. Since 1990 he has been writer and presenter of many books and television programmes on art and history for BBC2....