IRELAND PORTRAYED , June 21 - July 12, 2020
In a four-part series for RTÉ Lyric, art critic Cristín Leach brings us through a story of conquest, propaganda and inspiration as she explores how ideas of Ireland and Irish national identity have been visually represented.
Joined by leading art historians, curators and artists on urban streets, in rural heartlands and galleries, Cristín excavates identity in some of Ireland’s iconic historical and political artworks.
Image: Rita Duffy, Segregation 1989
Collection Crawford Art Gallery © the Artist
We were once a culture that paid close attention to the natural world, the landscapes we lived in and the wild life we lived alongside. And we fixed that attention and knowledge into the words we spoke. But what happened when we stopped paying attention?
Written and presented by Mary Brophy, this radio hour explores how our diminishing language for the natural world coincides with a dramatic vanishing of nature itself.
Heat Island is a documentary series that explores exactly what’s happening in our cities and open countryside as climate change starts to take hold and how we're coping as things start to heat up.
Captivating audiences and critics alike, this television documentary directed by Neal Boyle and presented by Seán Mac an tSithigh, tells the incredible story of how Irishman Timothy Dowd led the largest manhunt New York city had ever seen to capture one of America’s most notorious serial killers ‘Son of Sam’.
The Herald, INM
Son of Kerry, Son of Sam
Politics, Pleasure & Empire
Radio Review, The Irish Times
In the Wind
Son of Kerry, Son of Sam
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