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Nov 4, 2024

 In the summer of 2024, works started on an extensive three phase restoration project at Sirius Arts Centre. Led by JCA Architects and Moroney Conservation, the works to the building began with restoring some of the features that architect Anthony Salvin designed for the RCYC clubhouse all the way back in the 1850s. 

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Nov 4, 2024

“The architects of these buildings are looking back to the Italian renaissance; this building is a revival of a revival, if you know what I mean. 

This is an Irish building which is copying a Roman building of the renaissance, which is copying a building of Ancient Rome.” 

Historian Tom Spalding is the man whose...


Nov 4, 2024

“It was something that was broken, and I had to fix it.”

In 1987 Peter Murray, then curator at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork city, embarked on an extraordinary journey: his goal was to purchase and restore the then-derelict former Royal Cork Yacht Club building in Cobh and to transform it into a cultural venue. Over...


Jul 22, 2024

"What is New Atlantic Triangulation? It's in my own experience as a black woman from Brazil with West and Central African heritage, who got Irish citizenship, reflecting on Atlantic triangulation historically has meant, and what I would like it to become. It's connecting these territories through my body and through...


Apr 5, 2024

In this episode of SIRIUS Podcasts, we join artist Sarah Browne, whose practice involves film, publishing and performance, to discuss her film installation Buttercup, which utilises the accessibility tools of audio description and captioning to explore the poetics of language interacting with image.

Buttercup focuses on...