Writing
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Tonn Chlíodhna: When Process Becomes Art
June 12, 2025
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Tonn Chlíodhna: When Process Becomes Art
Tonn Chlíodhna: When Process Becomes Art
My latest installation for Kinsale Arts Weekend 2025 explores the mythology of creative breakthrough through Ireland’s ancient wave legends
Sometimes the perfect theme finds you at exactly the right moment. When Kinsale Arts Weekend announced “The Ninth Wave”…
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A Name Retrieved: Lusitania’s Lost Bride
June 11, 2025
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A Name Retrieved: Lusitania’s Lost Bride
Reflections on the Lusitania tragedy and the significance of remembrance
Some years ago, I stood in St Multose’s churchyard in Kinsale, a historic coastal town where Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way meets the Celtic Sea. A small group had gathered around a grave with the…
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Timekeepers of the Red Sea: A Coral’s Five-Century Story
April 28, 2025
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Somewhere around the turn of the 16th century, as the first European ships crossed the Atlantic, a single coral polyp settled on a reef slope in what we now know as the St John’s area of the Egyptian Red Sea. Over centuries, it built a stronghold — one tiny layer…
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Beyond the Visible: Infrared Photography
March 6, 2025
Beyond the Visible Spectrum: The Enchanting World of Infrared Photography
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Introduction: Seeing the Unseen
Photography, at its core, is the art of capturing light. But what happens when we venture beyond the visible spectrum and into wavelengths our eyes cannot perceive? This is where infrared (IR) photography opens up an…
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In Search of Robert French: A Personal Encounter with the Lawrence Collection
November 9, 2024
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Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me,
Sad mem’ry brings the light
Of other days around me.
— Thomas Moore.
Walking down the cobblestone streets of Temple Bar on a grey Dublin morning, I smiled thinking how much the area had transformed since my student days…