Tallaght (Chiarascuro) for String Quartet was composed by Stephen Gardner and performed by the Hibernia String Trio and Michael d'Arcy, and was recorded onto CD during 2000.

It was commissioned by South Dublin County Council during 2000, under the auspices of the <i...

English award winning photojournalist, Richard Wayman, first came to Donegal through an invitation to participate in the Earagail Arts Festival of 2001. However his visit to the county and specifically to west Donegal inspired him to leave London and embark on a most remarkable photographi...

The composer's idea was to write music that would be contemplative and atmospheric in mood, allowing the listener to step outside their familiar surroundings for a brief moment and imagine beyond their immediate urban environment. Setting seventeen haiku, a Japanese poetic form, to music for voic...

The work, made of cast bronze and stainless steel, depicts a sea urchin positioned on its side and suspended in motion leaving a trail of metal silver droplets.

It is as if the sea urchin has been thrown up onto the shore by a wave. Positioned at a slight angle, we can follow the moving...

The Map is a limited edition book comprising of 14 day and night time images from the Tallaght area. The photographs were taken between January and May 2000. In taking these photographs, photographer Paul Seawright was concerned with building a visual profile of the boundari...

We spent a lot of time meeting and talking to people all over Dublin about their personal experiences of moving through the city, and once again the context is very wide. We chose not to limit Moving Dublin to particular social strata, but included people from very varied social and econom...

Gary Coyle has been swimming for seven years, photographing and documenting the sea on virtually a daily basis. This was his first venture into the moving image and his film accompanies a score by composer Stephen Gardner. For years...

Artists and cultural workers from both cities developed projects that encourage youth participants to explore historic moments, social grievances, ethnic and racial disparities in order to invent a place of creative resolve.

The two week joint workshop programme for 5 Tallaght and 5 New Orleans ...

Ronan McCrea spent time observing the pattern of the school day, noting how carefully it was scheduled and full of creative activities. He became particularly interested in play time, in the huge release of collective energies, and very noisy and vibrantsettings, stating:

"It is a time when...

Theresa Nanigian's Two Souls in One Breast was a series of works based on her enquiry into the town of Enniskerry, County Wicklow over the course of 2007-8.  It was funded under Wicklow County Council's P...