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Artist Notes

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, October 31, 2023

The Afterlife: A Trick or a Treat? Halloween Celebrations Past and Present

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   Snap-Apple Night, painted by Daniel Maclise in 1833, shows people feasting and playing divination games on Halloween in Ireland. It wa...

Captain Rock: The Symbol of a Risen People. Paintings and the History of Irish Resistance

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  “My unlucky countrymen have always had a taste for justice, a taste as inconvenient to them, situated as they always have been, as a fan...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Warriors and Domestics: Plotting a New Course in Cinema

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  Che (2008 film) directed by Steven Soderbergh.   " Just a short time ago it would have seemed like a Quixotic adventure in the c...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Life Lessons on the ‘Res’: War Pony (2022) A movie review

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War pony is an extraordinary new film based around two young Lakota boys living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The film shows the ...
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