#singingstones
In Singing Stones the artist Cathal McGinley and the curator/researcher Declan Sheehan are making new work with the stone that is featured in fragments of Irish archives – from maps, to newspapers, to hunger and welfare, crime and punishment, performance and art.
Look out for #singingstones online and onsite in West Donegal, as part of Cathal McGinley’s open studio at An Gailearai in Gweedore from September to mid October 2020.
Research material featured includes:
The fight for bare life on the Olphert Estate, J.R., United Ireland 1889 January 12, in the collection of the National Library of Ireland.
Maps number 3, 4, 9 and 10 from the Bound volume of geological maps, originally held in the Royal College of Science. Volume I., held in the collection of the UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. UCD School of Geological Sciences. Geological Survey Maps. RCSI Maps Vol I.
Information from Sheets of Many Colours: The Mapping of Ireland’s Rocks, 1750–1890. By Gordon L. Herries Davies. Pp xiv, 242, illus. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society. 1983.