Minister Martin announces the addition of a body of artworks to the National Collection Image: Alice Maher Mnemosyne Alice Maher, installation image of Mnemosyne as part of Becoming IMMA, Earlsfort Terrace 2012. Photo credit: Colin Hogan
Today, Minister Catherine Martin announces that 422 artworks by 70 artists will be added to the National Collection thanks to the €1m fund provided to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and the Crawford Art Gallery in October 2020.
The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has been working with the National Cultural Institutions through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to develop meaningful ways to support artists across the country at this challenging time. In October 2020, Minister Martin committed €1m from her department to IMMA and the Crawford Art Gallery to fund the purchase of artworks by artists living and/or working in Ireland. The investment enabled the two institutions charged with collectin
The legacy of English journalist and “self‐taught economist”
[1]Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) naturally lends itself to scholarly debate: a principled defender of labor and an opponent of capitalism,
[2] he was at the same time a radical champion of free‐market competition and the rights of the individual, consistently opposing state power and intervention in all areas of social and economic life.
In Alberto Mingardi’s latest book,
Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, the political historian undertakes to shed new light on this “largely unknown figure.” It may come as something of a surprise to libertarians that Hodgskin is so unsung in the halls of higher learning. Mingardi’s book is a welcome entry, perhaps the most thorough yet, in a catalog of works that have set out to position Hodgskin more firmly in a current of classical liberalism and free‐market economic thought running from Ada
Newgrange s recently uncovered neighbour is being preserved for future generations
Digging at the site has been delayed due to the pandemic. By Nicky Ryan Monday 21 Dec 2020, 6:45 AM Dec 21st 2020, 6:45 AM 36,631 Views 3 Comments Newgrange in all its glory. Source: Niall Carson/PA Images
IT’S HARD TO imagine how a passage tomb can be simply forgotten about.
These structures took unfathomable levels of manpower to construct in Neolithic Ireland and were sites of great importance.
But during the centuries between then and now, nature took its toll. The cairns covering some of these the tombs become overgrown with weeds, and then earth, until the previous grand burial site turns into nothing more than an unusual mound.