Clocha' Rince is a small rural village in North Kildare, mainly consisting of a National School and a Church. It is a hidden, leafy, quiet and secluded hamlet with a very small but established community - a consideration when a new community was arriving. Sixteen houses were built in a small esta...

Hotel Ballymun was conceived by artist Seamus Nolan. From 23 March to 27 April 2007, the 15th floor of Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, was transformed into a short stay hotel.  Nolan ...

‘I love Letterkenny, Letterkenny loves me’ (2009) is a two-foot-high neon sign which is installed across the western façade of the Multi Purpose Centre building, at Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

The artwork flicks between the statements ‘I love Letterkenny’, and ‘Let...

The teenagers were introduced to creative writing in two ways: firstly, through exploring the concept of creative texting using mobile phones; secondly, facilitating workshops in which the teenagers researched and wrote their own short stories, written in the first person. These short stories wer...

A public art commission, curated by Vincent O'Shea for Kerry County Council, which saw the creation of a new fictional custom or ‘folk rite’ for the village of Gneeveguilla in County Kerry.

Over the summer of 2011, artist Gareth Kennedy worked with the local people of Gneeveguilla to ...

Illuminate  was an exhibition which was presented at Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway from 20–28 September 2013. The exhibition was the result of the artists’ year-long public art project and residency with The Brothers of Charity ‘That’s life’ arts programme.    ...

Andrew Kearney was curated by Breaking Ground in 2002,, to make a non-permanent installation to mark the beginning of the series of art commissions attendant to the Ballymun regeneration programme. After consulting with residents, Andrew made a public artwork which illuminated...

Due to the distinctive rural context of North Tipperary, the Arts Office expressed a particular interest in artists developing work and exploring arts in rural contexts, arts in the context of regeneration, arts and ecology/arts and the environment and land art. The artists comments:

"In re...

In an attempt to find the right words... was created by artist James L Hayes and commissioned by Mayo County Council for Áras Inis Gluaire. The work consists of over 2000 bronze cast pencils which appear to have been launched (dart-like) onto the wall. The tip of the pencil touches the wh...

A novel, In the wake of the Bagger, and a CD of short stories and songs, Lament for The Birds. In the Wake of the Bagger,was Jack Harte’s first novel commissioned as part of the local authorities’ public art series, Unravelling Developments. 

The story has two ...