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 […]

Brandon LaBelle and Rachel O’Dwyer in conversation
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Garrett Phelan has described radio as ‘sculpture that moves through you’: “Terrestrial radio exists as a sculptural form for me. It travels out into the abyss forever, into the otherness. It goes through our bodies and the walls of the gallery and becomes symbolic for many things.” (1) At the core of Phelan’s current exhibition at the DHG, FREE THOUGHT FM, has been a live radio broadcast from the gallery over 30 days (25 March–23 April 2019). Speakers on FREE THOUGHT FM are called ‘free thinkers’, and the broadcast itself is free of the usual markers of standard radio, such as jingles, ads and music. In between the live conversations, what is broadcast is the ambient sound of the gallery. FREE THOUGHT FM has explored the possibilities of radio as a medium for transmitting free expression and free thinking, and offered a platform to voices often excluded from mainstream media, with conversations focusing on social inequality in Dublin and inequality of access to education.
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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 […]

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new performance by artist Isadora Epstein 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 First […]

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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