UPCOMING Event
Rushes | Luachair Exhibition
DATE
January 30th, 2026
Rushes | Luchair
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.
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.
Rushes | Luachair opens on Friday, 30 January 2026 at 6pm with an outdoor screening by Lisa Fingleton, performances by Bláithín Mac Donnell and Cormac Mac Gearailt, and a reading by Laura Fitzgerald. The workshop follows on Saturday, 31 January.
All are welcome, admission free.
Rushes | Luchair
Choimisiúnaigh An Seanchaí – Músaem Scríbhneoirí Chiarraí, Lios Tuathail agus Ollscoil Mhá Nuad i bpáirt leis an gComhairle Oidhreachta ceiliúradh speisialta d’Imbolc | Féile Bhríde donbhliain seo chugainn, 2026. Ceiliúrann Rushes | Luachair cleachtadh ealaín íomhánna gluaisteacha na mban agus léirítear ann saothair roghnaithe ó Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald (léiritheoir tionscadail), Bláithín Mac Donnell, Lorraine Neeson, agus Mieke Vanmechelen.
Iniúchann na healaíontóirí seo coincheap na luachra | rushes agus na riasc ar a bhfásann siad, rudaí a bhí riamhina meafair don imeallacht, don tairseachúlacht, don chiumhais. Éascóidh Sarah Arnold agus Carolann Madden ó Ollscoil Mhá Nuad ceardlann rannpháirtíochta, mar a fhreagrófar do na saothair seo agus iniúchfar nascanna idir na healaíona comhaimseartha agus an oidhreacht éalaitheach i réimsí na scannánaíochta agus na meán analógach agus digiteach.
Osclófar Rushes | Luachair ar an Aoine, 30 Eanáir 2026 ag 6.00 p.m., tráth a mbeidh scáileánú faoin aer le Lisa Fingleton, léamh le Laura Fitzgerald agus taibhiúanna le Bláithín Mac Donnell agus Cormac Mac Gearailt. Beidh an cheardlann | meitheal ar an Satharn, 31 Eanáir.
Fáilte roimh chách, cead isteach saor in aisce.
This free event is funded by Maynooth University and the Heritage Council under the Heritage Organisations Support Fund.