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In The Picture: LCD Soundsystem at Malahide Castle

With support from Idols, Young Fathers and Sh!t Robot, LCD Soundsystem played their first live gig to Irish audiences in six years.

Photography • 03 Jul

Girls' Night - Eimear Lynch's photos of Ireland's teen discos

Girls' Night, the first photo book from acclaimed Irish photographer Eimear Lynch, explores girlhood rooted in the Irish teen rituals and intimate spaces of bedrooms, …

Photography • 18 Jun

Local women standing near their burnt-out homes, Bombay Street, West Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1969 (© Estate of Akihiko Okamura / © 佐藤純子)

Sean O'Hagan on Akihiko Okamura's photos of The Troubles

From the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, acclaimed Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) lived in Ireland when he created a remarkable and largely unseen …

Photography • 16 Apr

Brian Newman, Untitled, from Association (2023)

In The Picture: Brian Newman's photos of Ireland's Orange Lodges

Photographer Brian Newman's new book Association presents a long-term study of Orange Order Lodges across Ireland's border counties.

visual arts • 24 Jan

Shooting Bowie: Photographer Denis O'Regan's Portrait In Flesh

A Portrait in Flesh: My Life with Bowie is the title of a new exhibition opening in Dublin next week - it marks the build …

RTÉ Arena • 10 Jan

The Irish photographer documenting US hip-hop culture

First Thought: Photographer Brian Cross (AKA B+) in conversation

In Conversation • 10 Nov 23

Inside Marty's Big Picture Show: Irish photographers uncovered

In this new six-part RTÉ One series Marty's Big Picture Show, Marty Morrissey and historian Liz Gillis uncover the work of Ireland's photographers

RTÉ One • 04 Sep 23

Jamin Keogh Christopher and Mark in Glennagross from the series Moyross Study

No Place Like Home - capturing the domestic in Irish photography

As a people with a long history of migration and dispossession, the notion of home is a deeply emotional one in Ireland.

Photography • 30 Jul 23

I Could Read the Sky, revisited - the story of a picture

Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke's I Could Read the Sky, a novel made of p,ictures and words, has been acclaimed as a classic since it …

Books • 01 Aug 23

Behind the scenes with John Wayne on the set of Hatari! (1962)

In The Picture: Wind Up! Susan Wood who's who of cultural icons

Wind Up! is a lifetime retrospective at Dublin's City Assembly House of acclaimed photographer Susan Wood's seven decades of work.

visual arts • 06 Jul 23

Carolyn DeMeritt, Tecumseh Deerfoot Cook, Pamunkey Chief, Pamunkey Reservation, 1997, © Carolyn DeMeritt

In The Picture: Influence and Identity at IMMA

Currently on show at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) is Influence and Identity, a major exhibition of twentieth century portrait photography from the Bank …

visual arts • 29 May 23

In The Picture: Shot From All Sides by Cormac Figgis

Artist and musician Cormac Figgis has been shooting at gigs, clubs and festivals in Ireland, the UK, and Canada for over fifteen years.

Photography • 10 May 23

A cross-slab on the mound called the Bailey Mór on Inishkea North, Co. Mayo

In The Picture: The beauty of Ireland's ancient past

A stunning new collection of photographs of Ireland's finest archaeological monuments will be exhibited in The Printworks in Dublin Castle this February.

Photography • 09 Feb 23

A detail from Deirdre Brennan's portrait of Liam Wray, whose 22-year-old brother James was killed on Bloody Sunday.

My Bloody Sunday - families tell their stories in a new podcast

My Bloody Sunday is a new podcast by photographer Deirdre Brennan and sound engineer Barry Connolly, recounting the events of that fateful day in Derry …

Podcasts • 08 Feb 23