Lisa Mullaly

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. …

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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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Following the success of his debut show ‘Colours in the Landscape’, Ennis native Christopher Quinn is back with his second solo exhibition, Ethereal, now on display at Clare Museum. Hosted in conjunction with Clare Arts Office, the exhibition opened on June 23 and will run until July 19. This marks a ten-year journey into landscape photography for …

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