Climate Action Week 2025
NIVAL is delighted to host two talks for Climate Action Week 2025! We look forward to welcoming you.
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Artist Talk with Rรณnรกn ร Raghallaigh
๐ Wednesday 15 October 2025
โ 13:00 – 13:30
๐ NIVAL Reading Room
Bulldozed ringforts, dirty well-water, quarried holy hills, access denied, recurring vandalism, suppressed mythologies, forgotten Irish names. How might pre-Christian sacred sites survive the environmental crisis, and the industrial attitudes that have caused it?
In this talk during ๐๐น๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ, NIVAL Library Assistant Rรณnรกn ร Raghallaigh will discuss his performance and paintings working with sacred sites. He will also highlight material by other artists held in NIVAL relating to postcolonial intersections of Irish language, land and folklore.
Rรณnรกn ร Raghallaigh is an artist and researcher considering Irish folklore as a means for postcolonial action and healing. He works with myth, ritual and language rooted in the environment. His recent exhibition ‘Turais Taibhsรญ’ explored the effects of industry on pre-Christian sacred sites in the Irish landscape.
๐๐ ๐๐๐: Film still, ‘๐ผ๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ช๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐พ๐๐ก๐ค๐๐,’ filmed performance, 2024, image credit George Hooker.
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Artist Talk with Beatrice OโConnell
๐ Friday 17 October 2025
โ 13:00 – 13:30
๐ NIVAL Reading Room
How might art reimagine our relationship with the living world? In this talk during ๐๐น๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ, NIVAL Library Assistant Beatrice OโConnell reflects on her own artistic practice and its engagement with ecological and embodied approaches, situating these within a broader field of feminist and environmental art.
Drawing on research from the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), she highlights works that resonate with her ecofeminist and material-based methods, revealing how such practices contribute to ongoing conversations around ecology, care, and interconnectedness. Her projects, including ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ข (with Rayleen Clancy), an ecofeminist film showing at Damer House Gallery, Rua Redโs ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ง๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ฌ, the Loop Festival in Barcelona, and an upcoming solo exhibition at Taylor Galleries, share a commitment to reciprocity and ecological awareness.
๐๐ ๐๐๐: Installation shot of โ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ขโ at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co Clare, 2024/25. Image credit Rayleen Clancy.
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