Rushes | Luachair

Kerry Writers’ Museum joins Maynooth University and the Heritage Council for a specially commissioned celebration of Imbolc | Féile Bríde 2026. Rushes | Luachair celebrates women’s moving image art practice and features selected work by Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald (project curator), Bláithín Mac Donnell, Lorraine Neeson, and Mieke Vanmechelen [alphabetical]. These artists explore the idea of Rushes | Luachair and the marshy land associated with them, both of which have long acted as metaphors for peripherality, liminality and edginess. Sarah Arnold and Carolann Madden of Maynooth University will facilitate a participatory workshop that responds to the work and explores the interaction between contemporary arts and intangible heritage in the fields of film, analogue and digital media.