Des FitzGerald

We're LIVE now on BBC Radio 3 for BBC Proms: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast 🎶

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Barry Fitzgerald!

One of my first ever cassette tapes 😍

Postman and Postwoman Having a Picnic, photo by Jane Bown, 1966.

Iron Giant Art by Scott Campbell

Iron Giant

Art by Scott Campbell

Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

Baked into a Corner – Frank McNally on the demise of a Dublin landmark Brian O’Nolan frequented the pub in his younger days

Frank McNally on the closure of Baker’s pub in Kill of the Grange - a pub that Flann O'Brien drank in - and the possible presence of the man himself in photo from Dun Laoghaire Cycling Week. Standing in the door of the pub, though, not exchanging molecules with a racer... @frankie49.bsky.social

‘If we keep knocking down places like Smyth’s, soon there’ll be nothing interesting left for tourists to visit’ Customers at the celebrated Dublin 4 pub express concern as it faces threat of demolition

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An image of the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition website homepage showing a selection of works from this year's show.

The 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald may have ended – but we're giving you one more day online to view and purchase artworks from the show.

Visit rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-195th-rha-annual-exhibition today!

#RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald

Last chance folks!

Image: Sioban Piercy, ‘Drawing Breath (Book One)’. Indian ink drawings and inkjet prints on waxed rice and Kozo paper bound in book form, 36 x 36cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Image: Sioban Piercy, ‘Drawing Breath (Book One)’. Indian ink drawings and inkjet prints on waxed rice and Kozo paper bound in book form, 36 x 36cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

The inaugural Shota Kotake Drawing Award has been won by Sioban Piercy for her work ‘Drawing Breath (Book One)’.

Originally from Japan, Shota Kotake was a much loved member of our technical team, a talented artist and a valued friend. 🧵

‘The Fall’, by Ben Mullen, Tom De Paor & Peter Maybury. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

‘The Fall’, by Ben Mullen, Tom De Paor & Peter Maybury. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

‘The Fall’, by Ben Mullen, Tom De Paor & Peter Maybury. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

‘The Fall’, by Ben Mullen, Tom De Paor & Peter Maybury. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

Last November saw the launch of a unique open competition to design and oversee the construction of a pavilion for the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition that celebrates the art of architecture.

The winning entry, ‘The Fall’, by Ben Mullen, Tom De Paor & Peter Maybury, took centre stage this year. 🧵

A photograph showing a visitor to the RHA Annual looking at artworks on the wall of the Pádraig O'hUiginn Gallery of the RHA. Photograph - Ros Kavanagh.

It's the final weekend of the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald.

We're open from 11am – 5pm today and from 12 – 5pm on Sunday.

View the exhibition – rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-195th-rha-annual-exhibition

#RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald

Radiant Dawn sees The Gesualdo Six exploring different aspects of light and shade by composers from the twelfth to twenty-first century. The participation of trumpeter Matilda Lloyd—whether soaring above or blending with the voices—makes this a G6 album like no other …

Only THREE days left to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends on Sunday. A photograph showing a person wandering through Gallery One during the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

Only THREE days left to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends on Sunday.

View the exhibition online at rhagallery.ie.

#RHAAnnual #RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald #AlwaysFreeAdmission

Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

Interior of a small room lit by a window with two narrow lights. The walls are covered in the most ornate Arts & Craft decoration, paintings, sculpture and colours. There are angel faces, tree of life, plants, an altar with G F Watts painting above. Bonkers.

Detail of flowing 3D relief plasterwork, with vine leaves and grapes, flowers growing. Like Celtic knotwork.

Nordic style terracotta panel with arms and hands intertwined with a circle

Another wider view - an angel in crimson red is at the top, with three other people below. Loads of coiling vines representing the tree of life.

Watts Cemetery Chapel, Compton, Surrey 😯 Designed and created by Mary Watts.

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides Thistle-shaped Depastrum cyathiforme was last seen in France in 1976, but has now been found on South Uist

Lovely story from the brilliant @britishwildlife.bsky.social magazine. This mag is endlessly fascinating – recommend if you're not a subscriber already. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just FOUR days remaining to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends this Sunday. A photograph of people chatting and looking at art in the Dr. Tony Ryan room of the RHA. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

Just FOUR days remaining to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends this Sunday.

View the exhibition online at rhagallery.ie

#RHAAnnual #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald #AlwaysFreeAdmission

Ste Murray, ‘The Play Park, Ballyfermot’. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper, 42 x 29cm. Edition of 10, 10 available. Image courtesy of the artist.

Richard Malone, ‘A statue in a way / part of a conversation (rest, conflict, reticence)’ 2024. Mild steel, spray paint, plyboard, canvas, cotton thread, recycled polyester jersey, primer, hand sewn and draped, 190 x 80 x 80cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

It’s the LAST Wednesday of the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - we’re open until 7pm this evening!

Here are more highlights from the Annual (see alt text for details) - and all are for sale.

Why not view them in-person or online anytime at rhagallery.ie

A poster advertising Only FIVE days left to see the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - the show ends this Sunday. Photograph - Ros Kavanagh.

Only FIVE days left to see the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - the show ends this Sunday!

View the exhibition online at rhagallery.ie.

Late opening today until 7pm!

#RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald #AlwaysFreeAdmission

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

That's interesting (to me anyway 😅) - a great first track to have saved too!

Katharine Hepburn 1935 Photography by Ernest Bachrach

Katharine Hepburn

1935

Photography by Ernest Bachrach

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 delight “The Lady Vanishes” may not be one of your go-to Hitch pics, but it should be. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90 The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

Lunch with a side of art: Seven Irish galleries with great cafes From the Hugh Lane to LGCA – our pick of where art lovers in Ireland can nourish body and soul

We’re in very good company here - as last weekend’s Irish Times Ticket supplement listed their pick of art galleries with good food attached 😋

RHA Margadh is the perfect spot to discuss all that the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, has to offer.

A photograph by Ros Kavanagh of the main gallery in the RHA taken during the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition run.

There are just twelve days left until the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald closes.

Remember we're open late this evening until 7pm!

Visit the Annual at rhagallery.ie - it ends on Sunday 3rd August.

📷 - Ros Kavanagh.

#RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald

BirdWatch Ireland's In Your Nature podcast, hosted by Niall Hatch & Ricky Whelan, is back for a new season! This week we chat to Owen Murphy of the Breeding Waders EIP, about the fight to save some of Ireland’s most threatened ground-nesting birds. www.buzzsprout.com/1701709/epis...