The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Brian Maguire
The address book of war: La Grande Illusion shows why Brian Maguire is one of Ireland’s most powerful painters
The Irish artist has made witnessing his work – and the subject of the astonishing art in his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition – since the 1970s
Autumn culture preview 2024: The biggest films, TV shows, books, music, theatre and exhibitions to catch
From Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh Lane
The Clock Winds Down: Brian Maguire’s powerful portrayal of a world under attack
Brian Maguire has turned his gaze and his anger on the social and ecological fallout from the destruction of the Amazonian rainforest
Insider art: finding release through creativity in Irish prisons
Inmates at Midlands prison explain what making art means to them
‘The Irish have made a big impact in Belgium’
Wild Geese: Brian Maguire of EBX Media left Belfast for Brussels in 2011
Art from atrocity: Brian Maguire records a humanitarian crisis
The Irish artist travelled to South Sudan to bear witness to the resilience of its refugees
Patience Jumbo-Gula breaks European U18 100m championship record
Sprinter wins semi-final in 11.59 seconds; Sophie O’Sullivan wins 800m heat
Irish youth team travels with real medal hopes
Sarah Healy a hot favourite for 1,500 metres at European Youth Championships
Sophie O’Sullivan to make Irish debut next month
Sonia O’Sullivan’s daughter will run at European Youth Championships
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From Dublin’s huge parade to small, quirky events around Ireland
Event of the Week: Brian Maguire – ‘War Changes its Address’
The Aleppo Paintings: dismay at scale and intensity of the destruction, of place and people
Donal O’Sullivan, the Irish artist who killed himself in 1991
Video: A timely revival of the work of artist Donal O’Sullivan is on show in Ranelagh
The tricky ethics of painting human suffering
Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders
Susan McKay: ‘Crime of passion’ myth fails women victims
Notion of women as a commodity feeds into societal attitudes to violence against women
Waiting for Godot review: A peculiarly bombastic take
Smock Alley’s production treats the play as a performance vehicle and loses the nuance
The naive and the knowing of Haitian art
A show at Paris’s Grand Palais vividly captures how Haitians have portrayed their culture while subverting dictators
Martin Gale and the hidden beauty of Turlough Hill
An atmosphere of strangeness permeates artist Martin Gale’s work – which makes him the perfect choice to paint the ESB’s storage station in the Wicklow Mountains
President of Royal British Legion in Republic suspended
‘Quiet diplomacy’ of David O’Morchoe seen as key to bolstering legion’s image in South
On tour with the Royal British Legion as they bus to see the queen
Still showing stamina, former soldiers head North to meet their patron
Artists remember beloved colleague Patrick Scott
Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’
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