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A wee spot of bother

Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.

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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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  • Woodens clubs from New Ireland & Duke of York Ireland
  • Saint Bridget of Ireland. Colour lithograph.
  • Caricature of a dissection, Samuel Ireland, 1780-90
  • John Ireland. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1807.
  • Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
  • Royal Charter School, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland: perspective view. Etching.
  • The New Military Infirmary, Dublin, Ireland. Wood engraving, 1790.
  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Line engraving after T. Jacobsen.
  • Saint Patrick banishing reptiles from Ireland. Coloured woodcut (?).
  • Play safe play sexy / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
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Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland

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