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roadmap Exhibition Niamh Barry - Light on Earth B
arry creates unique light sculptures in bronze and LED. An NCAD graduate in 1991, Barry’s work dates from lighting commissions for the Cellar Bar in the Merrion Hotel in 1997 right up to a recent one entitled Model of Vessel Scape which can be seen in the lobby of the Central Bank. Branching into ‘edge lit’ Barry blurs the lines between design, luminism and sculptural lighting. There’s both elegance, beauty and intrigue to her work which will may make you reconsider our fixation on exposed bulbs being considered the height of now. National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks Event Nollaig na mBan Exhibition Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again You are like a rich man entering heaven Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again. Seamus Heaney – The Rain Stick It’s not how you picture a Nobel prize winner delivering his collection to a national institution. “In 2011,” says Katherine McSharry, Head of Outreach at National Library of Ireland and the Project Director of this exhibition, the first to take place in the new Bank of Ireland Culture and Heritage Centre, “Seamus Heaney packed up some boxes in his home in Sandymount – he wrote in the attic of the house – took them out to the car with his son Michael, drove the car to the National Library, and carried the boxes out of the car and up the stairs, with the help of Library staff, and that’s how they became part of the National Collection.” Bank of Ireland, College Green 8 Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas) was historically a day for women to relax after a busy Christmas period while men took over household duties. It also tends to mark the final day of the Christmas season – when the tree and other decorations are taken down. In more recent times, Nollaig na mBan has developed into a day to celebrate the contribution of women to society. This night of readings and insights by women on our literary and cultural scene has become a staple. Broadcaster, journalist and writer Sinéad Gleeson will MC the evening as well as read her own work, with contributions from writers Wendy Erskine, Eithne Shortall, Lauren Foley, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Dr Angela Byrne, Mary O’Donnell and Genevieve Hulme-Beaman alongside music from the magnificent Branwen. Emilie Pine whose debut collection Notes to Self has been one of the most lauded publications of 2018 will be the featured writer from Tramp Press, and the WORD group will lead a tribute to women writers who have suffered imprisonment for expressing their opinions through poetry, painting and letters. Irish Writers Centre, Sunday January 6, 7pm