Aseries of photographs and short films posted on Instagram earlier this year showing the Irish silversmith Cara Murphy ankle-deep in the Atlantic, hammering metal onto a craggy rock on a Donegal beach, attracted thousands of views and comments. One photo shows sheets of aluminium foil placed on the face of a large rock as ‘preliminary drawings’, Murphy explains. In another photo, a rich seam of molten silver seems to pour forth from a rock in a subterranean cavernous space.
Peter Somerville-Large recounts the history of the National Museum of Ireland’s significant ethnographic collection, last displayed over thirty years ago
Eileen Black recounts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter, Georgina Moutray Kyle
