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Irish Arts Review Ireland's leading quarterly Irish Art and Design magazine - SUMMER 2026 on Sale Now!

Founded in 1984, the Irish Arts Review is dedicated to promoting the work of Irish artists and to celebrate Ireland’s unique visual heritage to our 40,000 readers worldwide. Published quarterly, each edition includes beautifully illustrated articles written by experts on Irish painting, sculpture, craft, photography, architecture and design, alongside exclusive interviews with artists, exhibition

previews, curators’ choices, opinion pieces and a quarterly diary of events, auctions and exhibitions around the country.

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsDerry: Photography and Illustration‘The Decoration of Absence | Traces of a Silent North’ at ...
13/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Derry: Photography and Illustration

‘The Decoration of Absence | Traces of a Silent North’ at the Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart features photographs by James Hughes of Northern Irish interiors and objects. Hughes uses these to seek an understanding of the recent past, reflecting on loss, cherished lives and the faith and hope that have nurtured human experience. In ‘The Sea We Share’, book illustrators Czacarri Muli, EM Emerson and Corinna Askin create a magical world across the gallery space, filled with mythical selkies and mermaids.

James Hughes: 20 May – 27 June; The Sea We Share: 4 July – 29 August

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Image: James Hughes at Flowerfield Arts Centre

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsDublin: Life OffshoreA series of paintings by Pamela de Brí at Rathfarnham Castle documents l...
12/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Dublin: Life Offshore

A series of paintings by Pamela de Brí at Rathfarnham Castle documents life on Ireland’s offshore islands. ‘Ar an Imeall’ is part of a larger project that examines and records the islands, and their importance to those who lived there and those who remain.

Pamela de Brí: until 28 June

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Image: Pamela de Brí Artwork at Rathfarnham Castle

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsDublin: Archetypes‘Totems’, the summer exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery, features work by...
11/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Dublin: Archetypes

‘Totems’, the summer exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery, features work by Cristina Bunello, Cian McLoughlin, Tim Shaw, Roxana Manouchehri, Zsolt Basti, Mollie Douthit, Vanessa Jones, Patrick Redmond and Gabhann Dunne, amongst others. The work explores the human figure as a totem of identity and archetypes that serve as a bridge between the personal and the universal.

Totems: 11 June – 17 July

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Image: Roxana Manouchehri at The Molesworth Gallery

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsRoscommon: Moments in TimeAndy Parsons’ exhibition ‘Watching a Sunset, 8:50pm’ at the Roscomm...
10/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Roscommon: Moments in Time

Andy Parsons’ exhibition ‘Watching a Sunset, 8:50pm’ at the Roscommon Arts Centre forms a temporal marker within the artist’s ongoing exploration of watching a sunset as a shared and attentive experience. At the centre of the gallery, a large-scale painting sits on a freestanding wall. Surrounding sculptural works extend the horizon of the painting into three dimensions. Parson’s immersive environment invites audiences to encounter light, atmosphere and presence as physical and collective conditions.

Andy Parsons: until 20 June

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Image: Andy Parsons at Roscommon Arts Centre

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsTipperary: Common GroundCahir Arts presents the work of twenty contemporary artists who studi...
10/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Tipperary: Common Ground

Cahir Arts presents the work of twenty contemporary artists who studied in Limerick over the last six decades. ‘Common Ground’ features, among others: John Shinnors, Robert Ryan, Charles Harper, Gavin Hogg, Des McMahon, Pat Normoyle, Suzannah O’Reilly, Tom Fitzgerald, Aideen Barry, Mary Nagle, John McCarthy and PJ O’Connell.

Common Ground: 10 June – 18 July

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Image: Charles Harper at Cahir Arts

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsSligo: AwardwinnerMarita O’Hanlon, winner of the 2025 Cairde Visual Hamilton Gallery Award, p...
09/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Sligo: Awardwinner

Marita O’Hanlon, winner of the 2025 Cairde Visual Hamilton Gallery Award, presents ‘Root Fall’ at the gallery. In a series of paintings of woodland scenes, the artist explores emotional and psychological land- scapes, interpreted and transformed through the play of light and shadow.

Marita O’Hanlon: until 26 June

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Image: Marita O'Hanlon at Hamilton Gallery

In the current edition of the Irish Arts Review, Summer 2026HERITAGE | Barryscourt CastlePeter Pearson visits Barryscou...
07/06/2026

In the current edition of the Irish Arts Review, Summer 2026

HERITAGE | Barryscourt Castle

Peter Pearson visits Barryscourt Castle in Cork, seat of the Barry family until the 17th century

'There are thousands of tower houses still standing in Ireland and they are among the most impressive stone-built monuments in our landscape. These castles have survived over the centuries, usually in ruins, in the middle of fields or by coastal inlets and serve as poignant reminders of our troubled past. A tower house is a tall, fortified structure, where the upper floors serve as a dwelling and the lower spaces, including the entrance, are strongly built and well protected. Barryscourt Castle, a fine example of a tower house, was originally situated at the head of a silted-up tributary to the estuary of Cork Harbour. It stood near the Slatty Lake and River and may once have had its own water mill and an extended village community. Named after its builder, the Barry family, the castle was strategically placed on the main route between Cork and Youghal', writes Peter Pearson.

For more from the Summer 2026 edition visit: https://www.irishartsreview.com/issues/summer-2026/

Image 1: Barryscourt Castle, the impressive restored 16th-century tower house
Image 2: Barryscourt Castle, Co Cork, ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland
Image 3: Barryscourt Castle 1830 Collection Henry Hill, Cork Public Museum
Image 4: Transformation at Barryscourt Castle - from ruin to restored Great Hall with its oak roof
Image 5: The bedchamber in the north tower is dominated by a large chimneypiece bearing the date 1596

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What’s On - ART ExhibitionsDublin: Graduate WorkThe work of fourteen artists, spanning painting, moving image, print, an...
06/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Dublin: Graduate Work

The work of fourteen artists, spanning painting, moving image, print, and glass, is on show at Rua Red in Tallaght. The artists, participants in the Master of Fine Art programme at the National College of Art and Design, are: Amelia Caulfield, Barbara Healy, Elizabeth Shaw, Emma Wills, Evan McKenna, Evan Wilson, Helena Murray, Hugh Cooney, Jennifer Rylands, Katie McCloskey, Luke Donnelly, Moynagh Sullivan, Rebecca Gleeson and Ríoghnach Hardiman.

MFA Graduate Exhibition: 6 – 20 June

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Image: Elizabeth Shaw at Rua Red

What’s On - ART ExhibitionsTipperary: Waiting Game‘Mind the Gap’ at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles is a collaborativein...
04/06/2026

What’s On - ART Exhibitions

Tipperary: Waiting Game

‘Mind the Gap’ at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles is a collaborative
installation project by a newly formed collective of local artists. It explores places that are defined by leaving, such as waiting areas and departure platforms, as well as strangers lost in transit between their ambitions and reality. Artists include Jennifer Ryan Kelly, Cian Laffey, Maeibh Sheehan, Fíne Holohan, Róisín Mogridge, Darragh Heston and Brendan Cahill.

Mind the Gap: until 27 June

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Image: Brendan Cahill at The Source Arts Centre

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