Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’
The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011
The Famine: artists and the nightmare of our ‘crushed and bleeding soul’
Major exhibition shows how artists and illustrators tried to reflect the horrors of the Great Hunger
‘Beautiful failures’: the disturbing power of the art of the Troubles
After years of censorship, controversy and caution the Ulster Museum is staging the first major retrospective of Troubles-related art
Michael Farrell: an international artist who never forgot his roots
Micheal Farrell, one of the greatest Irish artists of his generation, is well served by a new show
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