HOLY SHOW

ISSUE 07 INCLUDES:

You Would Love It | Stephen Sexton, Seán Hillen

A Blonde on Blondes | Roisin Kiberd

What We Brought Back from the Montains | Grace Wells, Róisín De Buitléar, William Bock, Síomha Brock, Heather Griffin, Peadar-Tom Mercier, Patrick Mulvihill, Zoë Rush

Heavy Petting | David McGovern, Day Magee

Curve of the Foyle | Megan Doherty, Maeve O’Lynn

Phone Down | Julie Morrissy, Lee Welch

Ursonate, Ursonate! | Kevin Breathnach, Andy Allen-Olivar

It’s got text, photography, collage, paintings, exhibition, poetry (and sound poetry!), conversation and more. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 06 INCLUDES:

Mega Dreoilín | Caelainn Hogan, Han Hogan and Dónal Fullam

United Ireland Under Water | Susannah Dickey and Array Collective

Love is a Place | Jane Clarke and David Stephenson

At Sea | Sandy Kennedy and Caroline Bergvall

Toiliterature | Sam Coll, Jess Raymon and Greg Byrne

A Boy Can Dream | Eoin Rogers

Ruin Gaze | Katie Oliver and Damien O’Connell

Reading Ulysses | Jenny Browne

It’s got text, photography, illustration, exhibition, poetry, conversation and more. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 05 INCLUDES:

Hibernofuturism by ROB DOYLE & HUGH MULHERN – “I began what I liked to think of as preliminary negotiations with the machine intelligence”;
NICOLE FLATTERY's Diary – “I like at writer’s festivals when people are quietly competitive about certain things. What room was your event in? Was it in a large room like my event? Could it hold an awful lot of people, like my event? No, I want to say. My event was in a very small room. It was in a tiny room. In fact, it was in the toilet.” With visuals from HANNAH-CLARE DE GORDUN;
How can we process our emotions in the face of media oversaturation and communication in crisis? IAN MALENY responds to work by CHRISTOPHER STEENSON;
Four Fireside Stories from SARA CHUDZIK, GONCHIGKHAND BYAMBAA (Khandaa), MAHITO INDI HENDERSON & BLÁITHÍN MAC DONNELL;
GRACE DYAS’ Hero’s Journey phone shop sales targets and dodgy SIM cards; Ken Doherty, Bebo, and spitting blood;
How to Win at Monopoly (or why you can't afford a house) commissioned lecture from visual artist DECLAN CLARKE;
Cans and Chats at the Grotto by CAELAINN HOGAN, SPICEBAG and 1EUROFIDDY;
Wild Atlantic Women: KRISTEN POLI travels to Donegal to meet Irish surf champions Maia Monaghan and Una Britton With photography from AISLING CLARK;
Satan’s Screamin’ Skates – A comic strip from KAV

It’s got text, photography, illustration, AI, textiles and conversation. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 04 INCLUDES:

What happens when the stories you tell your friends down the pub are committed to print? Greatest Story Ever Told with LIANNE O’HARA, PAUL MURRAY, SIOBHÁN KANE, JIMMY LARKIN & GAVIN CORBETT;
LIAM CAGNEY interviews three Irish DJs who regularly play in Berlin – CORMAC, ELLLL and SUNIL SHARPE, set alongside artwork from CIARA LEE;
Behind the scenes of a major dance company on tour, MICHAEL KEEGAN-DOLAN shares the highs and lows of life on the road with MÁM;
A House Party with HUGH COONEY, MICHAEL HARDING, Æ MAK, PETER MCNAMARA, DECLAN O’ROURKE, NIDHI ZAK & ARIA EIPE;
NIAMH CAMPBELL goes on location in Connemara where PAT COLLINS is directing John McGahern’s late masterpiece, That They May Face the Rising Sun (with artwork from LAURA MCMORROW);
SÉAN HEWITT at the National Library of Ireland’s Irish Queer Archive;
Daily Picture Diaries by ANTIC HAM on Achill Island;
Pixels becoming brush strokes with CARL HICKEY;
LENA CHEN writes from her ‘Absolutely Anywhere’ Residency on webcammodels.com.

It’s got text, photography, illustration, choreography, film and conversation. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 03 INCLUDES:

40 years of MARTIN PARR in Ireland: Iconic photographs matched with stellar writing from NICOLE FLATTERY & SEAMUS O’ROURKE;
Snug Project: Artists’ Perspectives on the Pub, with FINN RICHARDS, GINA MOXLEY, SALVATORE OF LUCAN and NATALIA BEYLIS;
ROISIN KIBERD shares her Berlin Lockdown Diary, illustrated by ROBERT MIROLO;
ANNE ENRIGHT, HILARY FANNIN & POM BOYD in conversation on Dartmouth Square;
ACID GRANNY: Dublin’s Rambling Rave in a Trolley;
The Alphabet of Birds, a new essay from SARA BAUME, with stills from four films by JAMIE GOLDRICK;
GARY COYLE sends a Postcard From Tory capturing contemporary island life and relating the History of the Tory School of Painters;
Thoughts on the post-pandemic city, by KERRY GUINAN, EMMETT SCANLON & SEAN O’REILLY, with the Irish Architecture Foundation and Dyehouse Films.

It’s got text, photography, illustration, poetry, film, audio and conversation. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 02 INCLUDES:

surreal headlines abound in the broadsheet newspaper, The Inch Conglomerate;
Darndale to Highbury, Munich to Dalymout: a journey from football to poetry;
a four-way conversation about the fairies;
visual art from the Guillamene swimming cove;
an illustrated essay about Skin;
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, the story behind the film;
A Hugh Cooney Retrospective;
A Queer Ceilí at the Marty Forsythe;
Loopies Field, a photographic work in progress from an Irish farm.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Laura Fitzgerald, John Cummins, Jamie Goldrick, David Knox, Sinéad Mercier, Michael Holly, Eddie Lenihan, Síle Walsh, Sinéad O’Shea, Wendy Erskine, Niamh Hannaford, Hugh Cooney, Dominic Montague and Becks Butler.

It’s got text, photography, illustration, poetry, film, audio and conversation. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

ISSUE 01 INCLUDES:

a gonzo travelogue to dawn Easter Mass in County Kerry;
an essay on the topic of bogs, family and Alzheimer’s disease;
a conversation between a writer and a senator on their vision for education in Ireland, alongside photos from Deserted Schoolhouses of Ireland;
musings on a piece of RTÉ archival footage from Halloween in County Cavan 1986 with original illustrations;
a photo-essay / memoir produced by a visual artist, arranged for the stage and adapted to print;
a collaboration between a poet, a filmmaker and a choreographer;
a conversation set round a kitchen table in Kinvara about a long-lost portrait;
ruminations on the sublime beauty and profound oddness of the Irish language, extracted from Arán & Im, in theatres now.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Declan O'Rourke, Lisa McInerney, Sen. Lynn Ruane, Gary Coyle, Claire Brankin, Ian Maleney, Roisín Kiberd, Robbie Brennan, Enda O'Flaherty, Dani Gill, Stephanie Dufresne, Muiris Crowley, Laura Sheeran, Manchán Magan, John Conneely, Liadain O'Donovan and Julia Monard.

It’s got text, photography, illustration, choreography, film, audio and conversation. It analyses, criticizes and entertains. It tells great stories.

Printed in Ireland. Holy Show is 190mm width by 270mm height, printed 4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

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