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This blog contains articles on culture as well as a database of Realist and Social Realist art from around the world by Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin. These paintings can be viewed country by country by clicking on the list of countries and themes down the right-hand side of the blog. The artwork of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, consisting of cityscapes of Dublin, images based on Irish history and other work with social/political themes, can be seen at www.gaelart.net.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Plato and total war on art

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Plato (wikipedia.org) But you will know that the only poetry that should be allowed in a state is hymns to the gods and paeans in praise of ...

Refiguring lost narratives

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It has been shown that cultural artefacts found in southeastern Europe date from 6500 to 3500 B.C.E. and in western Europe from 4500 to 2500...

Sheela na Gigs

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Photograph by Michael Sider - Sheela-na-gig on town wall in Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland (wikipedia.org) It is possible that there is a ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Art and Identity

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Talk given at Dublin City University's Centre for Consumption Studies Workshops - 'Finding an Irish Voice: Reflections upon Celtic C...
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

‘Dublin: A City of Contrasts’ (2007)New Series of Oil Paintings

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The Dublin of today is a far cry from the Dublin of the 1980s when it was said to resemble London directly after the Second World War, so nu...
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