Arts projects – Story Archaeology: Recent Episodes
Chris Thompson and Isolde Carmody
The brilliant Celtic Eye Art Group have been extremely active so far this year and I wanted to post an update on just a few of their recent artistic and environmental projects. Back in February, The Celtic Eye Art Group celebrated Saint Brigid with a collection of Art work, Poetry, Herbal/Folklore & a St Brigid’s...
The Celtic Eye group have been busy with some exciting activities. Here are reports some of their recent events. This report is from 18th Jan 2024 We look forward to seeing Katie & her Farm PEAT team on Friday February 2nd 2-4 as we join them in Ballydangan to collaborate with the Community & Local...
Biodiversity & Survey Report 2023. The Uí Maine Kingdom groups ( Karst faming Group, Celtic Eye Art Group & Taughmaconnell Hall ) were delighted to hold a presentation on thursday October 19th at 9pm in the Taughmaconnell Hall, South Roscommon. Wonderful Co Meath Ecologist Linda Gilsenan who has worked on this survey & report over...
The Conference, in late August 2023. took place at the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre in Roscommon. A number of attendees came from all around the world with many more participating virtually. The event was focussed but well organised and very friendly. A big, and well deserved, ‘thank you’ to the conference organisers. There was plenty of...
The inspirational figure who gave her name to Ireland longest river Great News! A new paper on the story of Sinann and the restoration of her story is now available, as a pre-print prior to publication. It is available to read here The paper has been the work of Professor Ralph Kenna with the support...
Meet Kate Lionis one of the seven adult winners of the ÉIRÍ art competition and project. So, join Chris and Kate as they discuss, the many creative possiblities of digitally enhanced photography, the enviromental relevance of Australian indigenous stories and share the colours, light, and scents of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. This...
Meet Louise Shine, one of the seven adult winners of the ÉIRÍ art competition and project. So, join Chris and Ruth as they discuss, the importance of creativity in art and education, explore art and technology as well as the way in which women from Irish mythology can still speak powerfully to current issues. This...
Meet Lee Fenlon, one of the seven adult winners of the ÉIRÍ art competition and project. Now, join Chris and Lee as they discuss, what can be acheived in leaded glass and ceramic mosaic work , how Sinann has been treated in Athlone as well as stories of Boand and the Boyne. This is one...
Meet Ruth Egan, one of the seven adult winners of the ÉIRÍ art competition and project. So, join Chris and Ruth as they discuss, art, mthology and the importance of listening to the stories told by your grandmothers. This is one of a series of shorter ‘Stories in the Landscape’ conversations to celebrate the 2023...
Prizes of 500 euros have now been awarded to five schools who submitted entries to the recent arts competition celebrating the resilient female characters abounding in Irish mythological stories. Prizes were awarded to schools, rather than to individual students allowing for a range of differing creative responses including single entries, multiple entries from a number...
I am delighted to finally be able to announce the adult winners of the competition. This pos contains a ry for you to enjoy. I will, of course be adding further posts very soon. Watch out for the report from the Irisgh post and a special message from Ralph. O.nce again congratulations to all iwho...
Nicola and Rosemary are both gifted artists from the Celtic Eye artists group who have all come together to draw on their talents to create some inspiring and innovative landscape and environmental projects. Join Chris, Nicola, and Rosemary as they talk about about the wide scope of some of Celtic Eye’s impressive and on-going, still...
I have been trying to hold a ‘Conversation in the Landscape’ with Nocola Bowes, from Celtic Eye, for the last three weeks. A technical hitch interfered with our planned recoding date. Since then, Easter School holidays, and generally busy lives, have conspired togather to prevent us both from having the same date free. We may,...
Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Clare’s installation, ‘A Well at the Bottom of Sea’ formed a part of an exhibition presented by a group of artists from the Sydney Biennale, 2022: rīvus rīvus will enable aqueous beings – rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater...
I have just returned from a journey that I used to undertake for a month each year before the pandemic changed things. I have just arrived back from Brisbane, Queensland and a month of hot sunshine, sometimes just a bit too hot! It has, of course been so good to be able to give real...
I have important message for all the many artists who have submitted such excellent entries to ÉIRÍ. It was always intended that the results were to be released in January 23. Owing to illness there has been an unavoidable delay. However, the results should be available in the next few weeks. Ralph Kenna will be...
I thought I might add a few images connected to ‘Chris Ramble 4: Walking with Sheela-na-gigs’.
Join Chris as she shares a conversation with Professor Benjamin Dwyer. Ben is a prolific Irish performer and composer as well as an educator. He is currently Professor of Music at Middlesex University. SacrumProfanum is Ben’s thought provoking musical exploration of the enigmatic Sheela-na-gigs as watchers and witnesses of a thousand years of Irish history....
New research and a brand new paper. By Professor Ralph Kenna Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems The most famous story in Irish mythology is Táin Bó Cúailnge – the Cattle Raid of Cooley. It’s about a war between Connacht in the west of Ireland and Ulster in the north. When the Connacht army attacks,...
NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE KYIV BYLYNY CYCLE — EAST SLAVIC EPIC NARRATIVES In our last conversation Ralph mentioned an upcoming paper exploring the network connections and relationships contained in the Kyiv bylyny story cycle. The oldest byliny belong to a cycle dealing with the golden age of Kievan Rus in the 10th–12th century. They centre...
Hopefully, all you need to know about submitting entries to ÉIRÍ The closing date for adult entries to the competition is set for 31st October 2022 The closing date for schools’ entries has been extended to 21st, December 2022. Other Questions Q: Can I enter again this year if I submitted to the Sinann project...
‘ÉIRÍ’ Evoking Ireland’s Resilient female Ícons ‘ÉIRÍ’ An International Competition Celebrating Women and Girls in Irish Mythology An interactive support package for Primary and younger Secondary Students Feel free to download this interactive Google Slides presentation as a teaching aid for exploring the wondeful old Irish stories set in their early Medieval pre-Norman Irish context....
Join Chris and Ralph, professor of Statistical Physics and enthusiastic comparative mythologist, as they enjoy discussing the ongoing ÉIRÍ project, ‘Evoking Ireland’s Resiliant female Icons‘, and discover how you, too, can add to some exciting and unusual research as well as discovering more about Ralph’s upcoming Myths and Maths projects. Links for this episode. Find...
Coming in August The latest in the Stories in the Landscape conversations will be a second chance to meet up with statistical phycisist and mythograper, Professor Ralph Kenna. We will have an opportunity to update all the latest news on the ÉIRÍ project and discover more about some of Ralph’s latest projects and papers I...
Ardagh hill, in County Longford, Ireland is a very special ‘Stories in the Landscape’ location. This is the legendary Bri Leith, where much of the Tocmarc Étaíne is set. The Ardagh Heritage and Creative Centre, managed by story teller and educator, Ann and her colleague Annette, nestles at the foot of this beautiful hill. Join...
By Mike McCarthy & Daniel Curley An ÉIRÍ Competition article from the Irish Post : July 9th 2022 Mike McCarthy and Daniel Curley examine the ancient myths and legends that swirl across Connacht’s ethereal landscape Rathcroghan (Cruachan Aí) is the ancient royal Site of Connacht. Today the Rathcroghan Archaeological Landscape comprises a vast collection of...
Athlone academic Professor Ralph Kenna, co-director of L4, an international collaboration of four universities including Coventry’s Fluid and Complex systems Research Centre, gives the background to the arts project and competition ÉIRÍ: Évoking Ireland’s Resilient female Ícons Have you been following the ÉIRÍ project in the Irish Post over the past couple of months? The...
BY: Joe Horgan ÉIRÍ competition article from The Irish Post: June 27th 2022 When I was a teenager growing up in inner city Birmingham our Granny Murphy came over from Cork regularly to visit. She came for a week or so and usually stayed for a month or so. She was the mother of thirteen...
Have you ever heard of a Sheela na Gig? Irish composer and Professor in Music at Middlesex University, Benjamin Dwyer gives us more details of the phenomenon. IRELAND has more Sheela-ha-gigs, audaciously dfiant female stone carvings than anywhere else in Europe. Hidden away for centuries they are now resurging with ÉIRÍ – the arts competition...
Evoking Ireland’s Resilient Female Icons And.. to make it easier I have included the text below. The early Irish, epic tales are spectacular. Many, written more than 1000 years ago and told long before that, are full of fantastic feats, mysterious encounters, and strange ‘Otherworld’ locations. They also have some of the greatest women characters...
ÉIRÍ Evoking Ireland’s Resilient Female Icons I will add new reports and updates as I get them. The articles should be available on lineso I will add links when I get them.
Clare Milledge’s work re-examines contemporary environments with a focus on our engagement with ecology through art, in particular through the use of the historical figure of the artist-shaman. Working with fieldwork as her primary methodology she collects, re-organises, transforms and re-presents recordings, information and material gathered on ecological surveys and site visits. Her research output...
Join Chris and Clare, an artist from Sydney Australia, and an eloquant exponant of the art of landscape stories, as they discuss, art, ecology, the Australian landscape and, especially, Clare’s recent installation Imbás: a well at the bottom of the sea at the Sydney Biennale 22. Take the opportunity to explore the installation as Clare...
An International Competition Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology A Story to get you started. Find out more about the competion and how schools can get involved. A fully interactive Schools’ package is in preparation. It will take another week or two to complete. By the close of May, for Irish schools at least, it is...
‘ÉIRÍ’ Évoking Ireland’s Resilient female Ícons Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology €10,000 in prizes Including up to €3,000 for schools Any form of visual, musical, or literary art We are launching an international arts competition in parallel with a participatory research project to re-ignite awareness of inspirational female figures from Irish mythology and folklore who...
‘ÉIRÍ’ Évoking Ireland’s Resilient female Ícons Myths meets Maths meets Gender Socio-Physicist and comparative mythologist, Professor Ralph Kenna releases news of a new arts competition and participatory research project, Ongoing from May 1st, (Bealtaine) to October 31st (Samhain) 2022 View all of the ÉIRÍ Competition articles from the Irish Post Both aspects of the project...
Acrylic painting by Avril Egan (12″x32″ inch pre-stretched deep wedged canvas) . Inspired by the modern retelling of story from storyarchaeology.com. Dance by Bethany Teasdale. “This imagine represents the moment the goddess Sinnan met the waters of wisdom. My dance with intuition and inspiration. The spiritual sustentation of freedom without expectation. The true moment of...