UPCOMING Event
Rushes | Luachair Exhibition
DATE
January 30th, 2026
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.
This free event is funded by Maynooth University and the Heritage Council under the Heritage Organisations Support Fund.