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Houses of the Barracks Talk with Angela Monks McDonagh and Orla Fitzpatrick | Dublin by Dusk

Thu, 24 Sep 5:30 PM

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Join librarian, curator, and writer Orla Fitzpatrick and artist Angela Monks McDonagh as they re-visit their research into the houses on Arbour Hill and the impact of the First World War on local families. The talk will be of interest to anyone researching their own home and local history. About Orla…

Join librarian, curator, and writer Orla Fitzpatrick and artist Angela Monks McDonagh as they re-visit their research into the houses on Arbour Hill and the impact of the First World War on local families. The talk will be of interest to anyone researching their own home and local history.

About Orla Fitzpatrick and Angela Monks McDonagh

Orla Fitzpatrick is a librarian, curator and writer from Stoneybatter. She is currently the librarian at Poetry Ireland where she is cataloguing the personal library of Seamus Heaney.

Angela Monks McDonagh is an interdisciplinary artist based in Dublin.Angela’s work explores the phenomenological experience of space and place, with focus on the solid spaces within buildings set against the ephemeral nature of our human existence.This work has developed through sculpture, installation and live performance, recording micro histories and temporal traces of human activity.

Dublin by Dusk at Collins Barracks

Join artist Clodagh Emoe in Clarke Square at 18:15 for 100 Breaths, a site-specific temporary artwork developed around Clarke Square. By coming together at dusk for 100 Breaths can we reclaim this space of authority and invite a time of connection to unfold. Between 17:00 and 18:40, drop-in to the Country Life galleries for ‘A Fair Exchange’, a series of free, drop-in writing workshops at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.