More than 20,000 people were housed at the peak of Ireland’s asylum era; survivors say the legacy of psychiatric trauma lives ...

A new exhibition "Ireland in Focus: Photographing Ireland in the 1950s" includes images from Dorothea Lange, and anthropologist, Robert Cresswell, as well as the largest exhibition of photographs by ...

Although predominantly known for his photography of jazz musicians, George Pickow’s shots of 1950s Ireland depict a beautiful innocence and the simplicity of daily life and as well as the craic that ...

“Brooklyn” costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux found a world of differences in how women dressed in 1952 Brooklyn versus Ireland. “Women in Ireland didn’t really wear high heels — they only came out ...

CIRCA is Ireland's leading magazine for contemporary visual arts. Appearing quarterly, its 112 full-colour pages contain news, reviews, previews, interviews, feature articles and a host of images. The ...

The Royal Irish Academy, the academy for the sciences and humanities for the whole of Ireland will vigorously promote excellence in scholarship, recognise achievements in learning, direct research ...