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…

  #singingstones In 1850, in Dublin’s Richmond male penitentiary, vagrants whether old, infirm or children were employed at stone breaking. Vagrants had to fulfil their fair share of the labour, which was determined by their bodily strength, or as punishment their dinner allowance was halved….