Galway artist, Nicole O’Donnell returns to the Kinvara Area Visual Arts Centre (KAVA) with her latest solo exhibition. This new collection brings together nearly 60 pieces, combining older works with new explorations in abstraction and colour. While Nicole’s past solo shows, including Awakening in 2022, followed more clearly defined themes, she describes this latest exhibition …
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*Rita McCarthy. A new book by social historian Rita McCarthy, which recounts the stories of the women and children who were affected by the Clare mother and baby home, will be published and available to the public this Thursday (August 21st).
TJ’s Online School helping students to Breakthrough Maths Five years ago, TJ Hegarty was standing in a draughty community hall in Glanmire, teaching just eight students with nothing but a whiteboard, a few folding tables and a sense that Maths could be taught differently. He wasn’t setting out to build a business. “At the time, …
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A countywide programme of events for the 20th instalment of National Heritage Week has been announced by Clare County Council. National Heritage week is an initiative by The Heritage Council which aims to bring together communities, families, organisations, cultural institutions, academics and enthusiasts, to build awareness about the value of heritage and support its conservation. …
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Crusheen-based artist Patrick Kenneally will unveil a new collection of work in Kinvara this month, exploring Ireland’s deep relationship with the ocean and the coast. His exhibition, Connection, opens at KAVA on Tuesday, August 12, with the gallery open daily from August 13–19. As an oil painter with a love of colour and coastal landscapes, …
Two Ennis performers made their Dublin stage debut last week as part of the ensemble in Sweeney Todd in Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra. Aoife O’Gorman and Lily Christopher, both from Ennis, have been involved in stage school productions from a young age and have continued to pursue their passion through performances with community …
Three Clare-based arts organisations will receive a total of €187,265 through the Arts Council’s 2026 Arts Grant Funding scheme, supporting a wide range of artistic work and community-focused projects across the county. The Clare recipients are Courthouse Studios and Gallery, Cracking Light Productions and Salmon Poetry. Cracking Light Productions, a creative partnership between Maeve Stone …
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When choreographer and director Douglas Reddan returned to his family home in County Clare during the COVID-19 lockdown, he didn’t expect his daily 5km walks to spark a years-long artistic journey. But those quiet rhythms laid the groundwork for Pull Hard a short film that blends movement, memory, and masculinity into a coming-of-age portrait of Irish youth. …
AUGUST; welcome another month of adventure in the garden with lots of colour. We have so much going on in the gardens. There is lots of cleaning with flowering perennial and other flowering shrubs. Deadheading could be a daily job this time of year but feeding and watering as needed keeps the blooms going longer. …
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KAVA Courthouse in Kinvara will host a group exhibition this August featuring the work of five women artists from across Ireland. The artists Josephine Boland, Jennifer Hennessy, Catherine Christie, Ann Fripps, Auveen Byrne first met during a painting workshop in Dunmore East in Waterford in 2021. They’ve stayed in close contact since, forming a collaborative …
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