The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new music session where artist Bill Harris will host an experimental electronic dance night as part of our First Thursday series. Through this new series of late openings, the gallery becomes a space for hosting unexpected, experimental practices across multiple artforms from live music and expanded cinema […]

Daphne Wright
Gathering Atmospheres
Niamh Campbell has written Gathering Atmospheres, a text as a reply to a number of explorative conversations between Daphne Wright and Katie Watchorn facilitated by The Douglas Hyde Gallery’s Response Series in conjunction with the exhibition From Here to There.
Over the course of six meetings and conversations between Daphne Wright and Katie Watchorn, a form of archaeological uncovering took place, a mapping of intellectual and visual interpretation, examining traces left by the past, and an attempt to write an interpretation of present culture, atmosphere and shared knowledge. Niamh’s text is available to read in full at the gallery.
“The presence of Trinity College Dublin, the work’s containment within Trinity, the beef fat latched with functional certainty to Trinity, feels significant. Old weekday is matter, in a way, clinging to mind, putting the rural on display for the metropolis without intending anything pastoral, bucolic, or even familiar – in its melting suggestiveness, it is more like science fiction. One thinks of Flann O’Brien, of The Third Policeman in particular, a novel about tin-headed, inscrutable, notionally human policemen-entities: of murders and alternate reality and the atomic interpenetration of man and bicycle when man is riding bicycle down rutted, post-independence, country roads. This blending of postcolonial dislocation and theoretical physics is deliberate: O’Brien, a civil servant, knew all about Schrödinger.”
Niamh Campbell, Gathering Atmospheres (excerpt), 2022.
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The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new music session with music assemble Kirkos as part of our First Thursday series. Through this new series of late openings, the gallery becomes a space for hosting unexpected, experimental practices across multiple artforms from live music and expanded cinema to performance and spoken word. Join us each […]

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The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk by Dr John Bosco Conama on the history of Irish Sign Language in the context of Amanda Coogan’s Freude! Freude! project. An interpreter will be present at this talk to provide Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation. Booking required. Please use the link on this page to […]

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present an Artist Talk where artist Amanda Coogan will be joined in conversation by Dr Georgina Jackson, Director at The Douglas Hyde, to discuss the many aspects of Coogan’s Freude! Freude! project. An interpreter will be present at this talk to provide Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation. Booking required. Please use the […]

Open House is an annual three-day festival of architecture, opening up usually inaccessible architectural treasures to the public with a programme of tours and talks. A renowned example of Brutalist architecture, The Douglas Hyde Gallery will participate in Open House 2023 with a series of tours. Join us on 14 and 15 October 2023 for […]
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