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Curator and Art Historian | Work @CrawfordArtGall | Board @SampleStudios | Own views and musings | He/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 #TransLivesMatter 🏳️‍⚧️

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6 years

So this happened. It was a very great pleasure to tour @CrawfordArtGall ’s beautiful collection with HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall this evening. Nice discussion of works by James Barry, Daniel Maclise, Edith Somerville, Seán Keating, and Victoria Russell.

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Their Royal Highnesses tour @CrawfordArtGall and are shown both historical and contemporary artworks in the collection. Parts of the building itself date back to the early 18th century. #RoyalVisitIreland

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Éibhear Walshe (1962-2024) Unbearably sad to hear of the death of such a wonderful man. Over the span of 22 years, he was my lecturer, supervisor, mentor, and friend. A brilliant writer and teacher, he was matter of fact, supportive, and gleefully funny. I will miss him dearly.

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If you’re curious about the source for Spicebag / Mála Spíosraí’s image, it’s The Eviction (attributed to Daniel Macdonald) @CrawfordArtGall , which is currently on display in Behind the Scenes until 10 April.

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No words needed (credit Mála Spíosraí)

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1 year

Too too exciting!! Fingers crossed for this fabulous project’s success 💫 Harry Clarke stained glass museum proposed for Dublin’s Parnell Square

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Harry Clarke stained glass museum proposed for Dublin’s Parnell Square

Collections to be brought together in building that also houses restaurant Chapter One

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5 years

Still sore from laughing after @trixiemattel ’s riotous Skinny Legend show @CorkOperaHouse last night! More of this sort of thing, please and thanks.

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3 years

The grand stretch. Leaving work in daylight is a beautiful thing 🙌

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2 years

You are now entering the medieval spine of an 837-year-old city 👻🏚

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4 years

Probably should have bought some plants before the lockdown, because I’ve begun putting manners on this garden and I will not stop until it’s a paradise befitting *that* view! Bare bones just yet but already brimming with possibilities. Bliss.

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1 year

Why precisely would a private members organisation even get a look in at taking a portion of a public park in a city that has precious few green/soft spaces?

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Significantly, the development area for the planned access to the Freemansons' lodge is greater than the footprint of the stairs and lift alone. It includes a zig-zagging ramped area within the park to access the new entrance, shown as visualisations in the planning application.

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So sad to watch the continued decline of the Bonded Warehouses. This site should be a proper civic quarter, a fully conserved riverside amenity with built in heritage value. Instead it languishes, wilfully neglected in full view of City Hall, complete with inane high-rise plan.

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1 year

Been served notice on my near 5-year tenancy just weeks after the eviction ban lapsed so really heartened to learn that the Government will look into doing something… rather than actually doing something. Absolutely shambolic.

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The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has indicated that the Government will look at financing the building of apartments where tenants would be offered affordable rents.

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10 months

Always a delight to see art making the front pages. We’re thrilled to welcome The Window (1924) by Seán Keating to @CrawfordArtGall in time for its 100th birthday. On display from Monday! Huge thanks to @MichealMartinTD @cathmartingreen @DeptCultureIRL @MARYMCCARTHY001

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4 years

My favourite range of Cork buildings. Now this quay tells a story.

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The bells of Shandon accompanied by sweet birdsong. #PureCork

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3 years

6 Bridge Street unwrapped and looking fiiiiine 😍✨ Conserving what was already there. Love to see it!

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4 years

Gorgeous to be stopped in my tracks today by an otter feasting on an eel (or maybe a sea lamprey?) on the Lee. Our river is a haven, it defines and distinguishes the city. Let’s love it 🥰

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I wonder what it’d take to open this (500m?) stretch of river frontage to pedestrians? @ESBNetworks @corkcitycouncil

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1 year

Our libraries are places of thought, knowledge, learning, and sharing. This fixation by some on specific holdings is nothing short of pathological. If it’s not for you then don’t read it, but do not impose your choice on someone else or abuse staff.

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Staff at Cork library abused over LGBT+ reading material

Cork City Council confirmed it has reported to gardaí a number of recent incidents at Grand Parade library involving people opposed to the display of the material

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5 years

‘A terrible beauty is born.’ Mise Éire is open @CrawfordArtGall from tomorrow morning. Yeats, Joyce, Jellett, Swanzy, Lavery, Duffy, Markievicz, McWilliam.... Go! Thanks to Kathryn, Cathal, Abbey, and all the team. Much love!

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4 years

Lights out. I’ve never known a time when @CrawfordArtGall was closed for more than a few days. Let’s hope that national measures are effective and that our beloved civic spaces can reopen in a few weeks. Until then, we will continue plans and work to brighten things online! ✨

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3 years

Looking upriver along Merchant’s Quay, Cork in 1905. A fascinating photo found amongst family (Queen’s Hotel) papers showing an active and open quayside focused on people, goods, and commerce.

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The French barque Belem berthed in Cork is truly a sight for sore eyes. A potent reminder of the untapped potential of the Bonded Warehouses as a living maritime heritage destination. They deserve and demand an ambitious civic vision to secure their future and honour their past.

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1 year

Loving watching Shane O’Driscoll and Peter Martin’s @ArduStreetArt collab taking shape on Falvey’s Corner (Bridge Street and Coburg Street). A fitting nod to Tomás MacCurtain 🎻

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7 years

The clutter of street furniture and Luas Cross City paraphernalia around monuments in #Dublin is nothing short of astonishing. Even O’Connell is besieged by a plethora of obscuring accessories. Are we stuck with all of it?

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Closing an urban park for more than a year only to turn it into a pedestrian plaza in a city of few green/soft spaces? ‘They paved paradise…’

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9 months

👷Bishop Lucey Park will close to the public from Wednesday 6 December, to facilitate enabling works ahead of the redevelopment of the Park, starting in early 2024. ➡️Read more about the renewal works here:

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A bit of a modernist miracle from the Free State years, Church of Christ the King in Turner’s Cross was designed by Barry Byrne and completed in 1931. John Storrs’ sculpture of Christ (carved by John Maguire, who also made my great-grandparents’ headstone) is almost 6 metres tall

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4 years

Maybe the ‘hyper-sensitive “woke” opponents of imperialism and colonialism’ McDowell describes are simply critical thinkers? Slaves or no, the Shelbourne statues are Orientalist objects in a city with precious few depictions of named or even real women.

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Michael McDowell: Free the Shelbourne Four from ‘woke’ activism

Let’s get one thing straight – the banished statues do not depict slavery in any way

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I am really, truly appalled at the removal of historic urban fabric and its erasure/ replacement with bland design. True, the public realm here was beyond neglected but it should be a priority for @corkcitycouncil and @The_VQ_Cork to retain and reinstate wherever possible.

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1 year

And there it was - gone Looks like the old benchmark has lost out to the public realm works on MacCurtain St/Patrick's Hill, #Cork

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Absolutely not. This is horrific. Cork's historic Queen's Old Castle set for major redevelopment

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Cork's historic Queen's Old Castle set for major redevelopment

Retail and office buildings up to seven-storeys proposed for key city centre site

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4 years

Pure Cork, she always delivers. *Extra points for spatially-distant sporting activities?

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4 years

For all you #HarryClarke fans, I’m very happy to bring you this winter warmer from @CrawfordArtGall . Harry Clarke Marginalia is an online offering (in place of the annual Watercolours exhibition) that provides bitesized insights into the artist’s work.

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3 years

*This* is my ‘pint of Guinness’ – and how I’ve missed sitting at this perch!

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4 years

Today’s #5kmfromhome was brought to you by the colour blue.

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3 years

Excited that the @CrawfordArtGall team is putting the final touches to #RembrandtInPrint ! *This is a large reproduction of a tiny etching from 1936. See Rembrandt’s original (and 49 other extraordinary works in print) from tomorrow morning!

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4 years

#PureCork magic.

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2 years

Moon with Jupiter and Venus 🌙✨👌

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4 years

Passing @CrawfordArtGall on my daily #2kmfromhome and bowled over by the glorious Cherry blossoms. Swoon!

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3 years

Very pleased that #TheFigReveal (or rather its outcome) has gone back on display @CrawfordArtGall . The gift that keeps on giving! Renewed thanks to Eoghan Daltun and @wmarybeard for this memorable moment in conservation and art history. #RecastingCanova

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Very glad to report that The Port of Cork Collection is now open daily @CrawfordArtGall ❤️🤍 #PureCork @PortofCork

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4 years

Still quite stunned at this mockery.

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4 months

Precious trees of Blackpool 🌳🌳🌳 I’ve quickly come to love this sweep of green and how it transforms an urban street into something calm, sheltered, inviting. I really wonder why this city struggles so hard with trees, their placement and retention. These are treasures.

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4 years

That light though. #RecastingCanova @CrawfordArtGall

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3 years

Today’s the day! Rembrandt in Print is now open @CrawfordArtGall . #RembrandtInPrint #CultureNight

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1 year

Sad to hear of the great Michael Gambon’s passing. He’ll be best remembered for the series that must not be named, but I adored him in two #ElizabethBowen adaptations by Harold Pinter (The Heat of the Day) and John Banville (The Last September). Farewell to a gem of an actor.

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3 years

Three trees: evergreen, deciduous, electronic.

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6 years

Dragon of Shandon parade chilled the medieval spine of the city tonight! 💀🐉🎃👻 #Halloween @corkartlink

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5 years

Every time one of these falls to neglect, the distinctiveness of our city is diluted. Shame on those who would allow them to be lost to dereliction and demolition.

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5 years

Yesterday’s morning light filtered by James Scanlon’s Lonradh window @CrawfordArtGall . Fiona Shaw, by Victoria Russell, radiant as ever.

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Excited to release Bad Romance, this year's #HarryClarke exhibition @CrawfordArtGall , into the wild tomorrow (a few days earlier than planned). These 26 national treasures have been in the Collection since 1924 and still hold their magical power.

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2 years

The countdown is on ⏳ Only a few days until we get to share the evolution of Seán Keating’s Men of the South in the centenary exhibition, As They Must Have Been. Opens this Saturday @CrawfordArtGall ! More here:

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4 years

The emerald pile 💚 Shandon goes green

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3 months

Quite lovely to see the old Circuit Court/Camden Palace gaining its new lease on life but, now the scaffolding is down, it’s regrettable that the view of St Patrick’s Hill from Emmet Place is obstructed by an incoherently-clad block. No elegance, no gentility, just hotel rooms.

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4 years

The elegance of those open quays! We’ve really lost how the city and its people address the river

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4 years

Parliament Bridge #Cork c1930 - taken from highest floor of the Capuchin Friary located on Father Mathew Quay #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkTraffic Photo: Capuchin Archives

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2 years

As redevelopment (not renovation) of Queen’s Old Castle is approved, it’s interesting to look at a historic 1848 view of its (still largely intact) interior by Robert Lowe Stopford. Multi-million renovation of Cork’s historic Queen's Old Castle approved

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7 months

Anglo-Irish writer #ElizabethBowen died #onthisday in 1973, some 50 years after she had first been published. Few consider her within the context of the visual arts, her relationships with artists, and her opinions on art. I’ll be giving two papers this year on Bowen portraits!

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1 year

Irregardless of the business motivation here, this is an incredibly cynical move by the bar group behind Chambers. Never a great, or even a good venue, its existence ensured that no alternative could thrive (i.e. Loafers) in Cork as a safe space for LGBTQ+ people. Do better.

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Regardless of the reason these spaces disappear or are covered up (even if it’s just for business reasons) the underlying issue is that we lose a sense of safety and belonging. Chambers is the only queer venue in Cork, enough of the profit before people ❌

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6 years

This used to be tree-lined suburbia. Pretty shocked at felling of all mature trees along Skehard Road (not in the plans issued to residents) and huge tracts of concrete footpaths. This is what heavy-handed engineering and poor communication with stakeholders looks like. #corkcc

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5 years

Unlike its late neighbour (the Green-Coat Hospital School), the 18th-century treasure Skiddy’s Almshouse endures principally thanks to a small group of people who recognised our responsibility to conserve it in the late 60s. Completed in 1719, this year marks its tricentenary.

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4 years

This great lady is back from 10am today! Congratulations to the whole @CrawfordArtGall crew. No better people to create a welcoming and safe experience for visitors old and new. Beir bua!

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4 years

REOPENING MONDAY!! We can’t wait to welcome visitors back from 10am Monday 29 June. The whole team has been busy making sure that your visit will be safe and comfortable. Here’s some new info before your visit: #IrishMuseumsOnline #PureCork

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Lovely Lee reflections of an evening.

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2 years

Some lovely finds at today’s Cork City Book Fair @NanoNaglePlace , including #ElizabethBowen delights and a timely piece in The Bell from Kate O’Brien, born in Limerick #onthisday in 1897.

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2 years

💔 Farewell to the incomparable Angela Lansbury, a true star of stage and screen who, with such characteristic heart and exuberance, turned everything to gold. Too many exceptional, memorable performances to celebrate in one go, but here are some of my personal favourites. ✨

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3 years

It was a delight to see people milling about the spaces of @CrawfordArtGall again today. I made a beeline for some old friends that make my heart swell.

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4 years

So disappointing to see this sorry excuse for a plan getting the go ahead. We can do better for this city and we have seen the visions and ambitions, through international design competition, of what could be. Cork quite frankly deserves better.

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CBA Cork

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CBA welcomes decision by An Bord Pleanála to approve the Morrison’s Island Public Realm and Flood Defence Project. @WeAreEventi @UpDateEoin @yaycork @CorkChamber @corkcitycouncil @Nash19Cork @pattheenglishm1 @Eoinmpos @pure_cork @irishexaminer @echolivecork

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Today, 22 February, is the 50th anniversary of #ElizabethBowen who died #onthisday in 1973. The celebrated writer’s last words (to her literary executor Spencer Curtis Brown) were “I want it published.” 🖼️ @CrawfordArtGall ’s portrait by Patrick Hennessy is on loan @doneraileOPW .

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This is such a major loss to Cork’s food and dining (not to mention art) culture. We’re really at a tipping point for the sector and the Government needs to step in without delay. Cork restaurant Nash 19 to close: 'I can't believe it has come to this'

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'Cost of doing business out of control': Cork restaurant Nash 19 to close

Nash 19 has ceased trading with immediate effect, with the loss of 20 jobs

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4 years

Breathe. It’s hard not to absorb other people’s stresses right now, and keep your own anxiety at bay. Also a bit weird checking in with how your body is feeling multiple times a day. May you live in interesting times, indeed... Be safe and well all, we’ll muddle through.

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3 years

Flat calm and pitch black.

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7 months

Deeply, deeply sad to lose any part of this church, which has functioned as such since 1717. Among the oldest building’s in Cork that still operates as intended, it has associations with Daniel Maclise, Thomas Dix Hincks and William Hincks, Richard Dowden, and even Fr Mathew.

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'Significant damage' following fire at Cork's Unitarian Church

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@KellyQuilt This cat’s visitations (and demands) have brought a smile all through this year. I nicknamed her Meowra Rose (aka Not My Cat) and suspected she was pregnant. One day she appeared wearing a collar with contact details on it. His name is Basil and he’s a well-fed tomcat.

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All #Cork life takes place ‘under the goldie fish,’ as @ConalCreedon might say. A very happy tercentenary @StAnnesShandon , elegantly watching over the city on the Lee for 300 years (and counting!). Here’s a lovely print view of its steeple by Laurence Hutson.

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5 years

Absolutely blown away by the huge turnout for today’s Crawford Uncovered tour @CrawfordArtGall as part of #CorkHeritage Open Day. Thanks to all 68 of you who joined me! I’ll be doing another free tour at 2pm Sunday if you’re in need of cultural distractions! 📷 @corkheritage

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1 year

Preventing access to library services is despicable. Those effectively creating a barricade with a banner move beyond peaceful protest. It is attempted censorship, patriarchal and wrong.

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Cork City Libraries

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1 year

The City Library was forced to close today due to public safety concerns. As part of a protest on Grand Parade a banner was mounted across the entrance without permission. Please find below a statement from Cork City Libraries:

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Wandering details. #2kmfromhome

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Éibhear’s contribution to Irish Studies, to our understanding of Bowen, O’Brien, Tóibín, and Wilde, is matched by his work in memoir, historical novels, and new books just completed. My condolences and love to Saul, Éibhear’s mum and family, and circle of friends and colleagues.

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4 years

Only a week to go until this wild beast opens up, and just a couple of days after @CrawfordArtGall reopens on Monday 29 June!

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Michael Waldron

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A truly spectacular addition to the Collection. So excited to share The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1923) by #HarryClarke with @CrawfordArtGall visitors from tomorrow afternoon 🥹 Crawford Art Gallery in Cork acquires major Harry Clarke piece

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Crawford Art Gallery in Cork acquires major Harry Clarke piece

The Colloquy of Monos and Una by Harry Clarke was purchased at auction, and will be added to the Cork facility's collection

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Michael Waldron

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Cute grey wagtail (I think) flitting about her business at South Gate Bridge. She appears to have a young’un to feed. Beautifully diverting sight in the heart of the city. We need to think of the river as habitat not hindrance.

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Michael Waldron

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Delighted that ⁦ @IrishRainforest ⁩ is conserving Dreamline by Séamus Murphy, a Portland-stone beauty made in 1934 following the sculptor’s #GibsonBequest scholarship to Paris.

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Famous Seamus Murphy sculpture removed from Cork park for restoration

Seamus Murphy, who was born in Mallow in 1907 and who died in 1975, is widely regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest sculptors and stone carvers

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Michael Waldron

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A lesson for Cork and the Bonded Warehouses. It is beyond obvious that the plans for a high-rise development at Custom House Quay cannot proceed. The old Port of Cork site ought to be a people-focused civic and cultural space. The city needs to embrace a non-developer-led vision.

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Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού

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📌Αποκατάσταση και απόδοση χρήσεων των Νεωρίων στα Χανιά ➡️Λίνα Μενδώνη «Αποδίδεται στο κοινό, με νέες ευέλικτες χρήσεις, και χώρους που έχουν μείνει ανενεργοί, στο σύνολό τους.» 🔗 #MinCultureGR #Νεώρια #Χανιά

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Michael Waldron

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Ellen update. #StormEllen

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Michael Waldron

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3 years

Very cool to have Rembrandt watching over St Patrick’s Street right now. Full of astonishing detail and arresting images, #RembrandtInPrint is well worth a visit (or five!) to @CrawfordArtGall

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Michael Waldron

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Ceomhar i gCorcaigh ☁️

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Michael Waldron

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3 years

In the swirl of today’s other excitement, two little shows softly opened @CrawfordArtGall . Do pop in to see Patrick Scott: meditations and Edith Somerville: observations between now and 5 December.

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Michael Waldron

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If you go down to @CrawfordArtGall today, there’s a little LGBTQ+ Gallery Trail for you to follow: a self-directed activity linking 9 artworks until 5 September. We’d love to know what you think + where we might continue to develop / improve it. Happy #CorkPride2021 ! @corkpride

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Michael Waldron

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I am so excited to share this new exhibition @CrawfordArtGall . Dreaming in Blue: Harry Clarke Watercolours is nearly ready to welcome everyone in for Christmas! (I only hope it’s half as magical as this video.) #HarryClarke #Cork

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Michael Waldron

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If Cork could solve its car problem (parking and traffic) and invest properly in quarters like Shandon… Wow, what a city it could be. Waterford and Kilkenny are ‘streets ahead’

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What If Cork

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What if Shandon got the same renovation that Waterford’s Viking Triangle got?

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Michael Waldron

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Elizabeth Yeats taught Mainie Jellett and Elizabeth Bowen to paint when they were just kids, perhaps in the same year as painting this lovely object.

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National Gallery of Ireland

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Elizabeth Corbet 'Lolly' Yeats (1868-1940) was a person of many talents - an educator, designer, landscape painter, printer, and a founding member of the Dun Emer Guild. Our Object of the Day is a delicate folding fan that she hand-painted using watercolours in 1905.

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Michael Waldron

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You’d miss the magic of the place.

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Michael Waldron

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Big thanks to @GemmaTipton for featuring me in today’s “How to: be a curator” in @IrishTimesCultr . A pleasure!

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How to: be a curator

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

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Michael Waldron

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4 years

Silent streets... it’s all a bit ‘opening scene of Vanilla Sky’, but the silver lining is clean, uncluttered lines and glimpses of sculpture, from Barry Moloney’s The Echo Boy to Janet Mullarney, John Hogan, and even Michelangelo in @CrawfordArtGall ’s Half Moon Street window.

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Michael Waldron

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Cork, when the sun shines ☀️ Swoon!

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Michael Waldron

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Antonio Canova was born #onthisday in 1757. I pinch myself nearly every day because I get to work so closely with his (unexpected) legacy in Ireland: @CrawfordArtGall ’s collection of #CanovaCasts , including Venus Italica and Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte. #RecastingCanova

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Michael Waldron

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To all of the healthcare workers and other frontline people, go raibh míle míle míle maith agaibh! Also thinking of those who are ill or who have lost a loved one this night. #LonraighdoSholas #ShineYourLight

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Michael Waldron

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A sight for sore eyes on my last day before some annual leave: two beautiful long-term loans – Convalescence (1885) by John Lavery and William Orpen’s The Blue Hat (1912) – have been placed on display @CrawfordArtGall . They’ll have great chats now across the staircase!

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Michael Waldron

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5 years

It’s sad to see the city’s historic spine teetering on the edge. No major public realm investment in two decades, congested, and only courageous traders keeping it alive. This could be our Temple Bar (without excessive Stag/Hen parties) #Cork

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Michael Waldron

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4 years

End of an era for Cork as Uneeda book and record shop reaches final chapter

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End of an era for Cork as Uneeda book and record shop reaches final chapter

As the legendary store announces its closure, we republish an interview from last year with its much-loved proprietor John Coffey, 88

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Michael Waldron

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2 years

@OSullivanJennie New quayside water features

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Michael Waldron

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10 months

A city under moonlight

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Michael Waldron

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What a delight to see these elegant lamps retaking their rightful place on Patrick’s Bridge! Kudos to JCA and @corkcitycouncil for reclaiming and conserving an essential part of our riverine architecture and design heritage. Lots of further potential too. #Cork

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