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Does the modern festival of Halloween, with its traditions of flying witches, games of chance and haunted by ghosts, have its roots in the Stone Age?
Researcher Padraig Meehan explores the possibility that the turning points marking seasonal change were intentionally marked in the central monument at the Carrowmore passage tomb complex in County Sligo.
Walter Bernardini had a long career in advertising. Born and brought up in Glasgow, he started work there at the age of 15. His natural artistic ability together with a keen sense of creativity enabled him to produce much award winning work. He moved to Dublin in 1963, and in 1966 was invited to form a graphic design consultancy as its principal designer and illustrator.
Now retired, he can devote more time to the personal painting and drawing that took a back seat during his career. He works in watercolour, gouache, acrylics, pastels and oils.
His work has been exhibited at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy and is held in many private and corporate collections.
Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.
Dublin-born Bernadette Madden studied painting at Ireland’s National College of Art and Design (NCAD). She works mainly in batik (wax resist on linen) and screenprint on paper.
She has had solo exhibitions internationally, and her work features in collections owned by the Arts Council, the National Museum of Ireland, and Trinity College Dublin, among others.
She has been a member of the NCAD board and of Ireland’s Cultural Relations Committee.
Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
‘This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it’s also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows‘ Independent on Sunday
Irish fairy tales and legends are full of enchantment, brave deeds and lost loves. Told from generation to generation, they are as fascinating now as they were to their original listeners.
This wonderfully rich and varied collection are ten of the best-loved traditional Irish stories, retold by author and poet Una Leavy. The Pot of Gold captures the trickery and mischief of leprechauns; the story of Oisin in Tir na nÓg marks the end of the great Fianna. From 2000 years ago comes The Children of Lir – all stories to be treasured for years to come.
Kevin McAleenan was born in Banbridge, County Down. He studied art at the University of Ulster and graduated in 1985. Kevin’s paintings – ‘a response to a way of life slowly fading in a changing Ireland’ – focus on creating striking colour relationships, which drift towards the abstract. His images are distilled into strong, interlocking colour blocks.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond. Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it’s no accident.
George Callaghan was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He studied at Belfast College of Art and worked as a commercial artist, designer and art director at agencies including McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett. He describes the style of his art as ‘sophisticated naive’. He has been creative in many directions, including being a harp maker and player of the Celtic harp, and has lived in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania and France. His autobiography is titled The Last Minstrel.
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. His account of his experience, and his vision for all that psychedelics could offer to mankind, has influenced writers, artists and thinkers around the world.
The unabridged text of The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
Each card is imagined, designed and created in Ireland by me, Lainey, with love & laughter at the core, designed to give you a little giggle and a definite ‘feel good factor’ every time you see them.
Packed with a mix of intelligent wit, inspiration, happiness and fun, each design is created using a mix of standout typography, creative design features, with a ‘little’ edge and a contemporary feel.
Quality products and design are in LAINEY K’s DNA and is at the core of everything I create. Here is some more information you’ll be wanting to know about the products:
– Cards are 130mm x 130mm and printed on premium, uncoated 300gsm card, and individually packed in a cello bag with kraft envelope.
Write your stress away with the laid-back characters on the cover of this quirky journal!
Gustav Klimt’s Tree of Life graces this beautiful journal, gleaming with gold foil accents and glossy textured embossing.
A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with an introduction by Richard Hughes. Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, the novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart, this is a novel about lovelessness – ‘Only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?’