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ROMANTIC IRELAND 

Exhibition: 20 Apr 2024 – 24 Nov 2024
Opening: 18 Apr 2024, 11

ROMANTIC IRELAND 
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (still), 2023. Photo: Faolán Carey.

'ROMANTIC IRELAND' comprises a multi-channel video installation and an operatic soundtrack housed in an immersive sculpture. Set on the site of an unfinished earth build, the video stages soapy, dramatic encounters between character archetypes from the 19th–21st centuries. These figures occupy an abstracted ruin, a site under simultaneous construction and demolition. The pavilion soundtrack is a five-voice opera describing the scene of an eviction, composed by Amanda Feery with a libretto by Walshe.