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Contemporary Irish Life & Art

Contemporary Irish Life & Art Contemporary Irish Life & Art Contemporary Irish Life & Art

An annual magazine that presents all flavours of life, society and culture through the eyes of Ireland’s artists and writers.

Magazine Subscription €10 per year

Contemporary Irish Life & Art

Contemporary Irish Life & Art Contemporary Irish Life & Art Contemporary Irish Life & Art

An annual magazine that presents all flavours of life, society and culture through the eyes of Ireland’s artists and writers.

Magazine Subscription €10 per year

2022: Issue 04

    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, 112 pages printed 

    4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly 

    non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

    2021: Issue 03

      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, 96 pages printed 

      4-color with perfect binding on uncoated stock with environmentally friendly 

      non-hazardous vegetable-based inks.

      2020: Issue 02

        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. 

        2019: Issue 01

          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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