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A beautiful portrait of Ireland’s premier cultural institution - The RHA - on the 200th anniversary of its founding.
The reader is taken on a journey through the Academy’s storied history through the prism of twelve diverse perspectives.
The most significant characters involved in the rich legacy of the Academy have their stories told through Cristín Leach’s unique style.
Irish art critic Cristín Leach ( AUTHOR OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKJS OF The LAST FEW YEARS - Negative Space ) weaves history and art to present us with the diverse perspectives of twelve key figures from the rich 200-year lifespan of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. In a multi-form narrative, Cristín Leach puts a face to the people who made the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts the goliath that it is within Irish cultural life. These characters are brought to life through Cristín Leach’s innovative research and style by giving them voice and circumstance – an intimately human touch to this story. Through historical fiction, diary entries, critic-fiction, letters and poetry, From Ten till Dusk is the dramatic and tumultuous story of an institution which has been central to Irish national life for 200 years.
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Published by RHA, Dublin, November 2023.
Cristín Leach is an art critic and author of the critically acclaimed memoir Negative Space (2022). Her recent collection of short stories, essays and other forms of expanded art writing, From Ten till Dusk, was published to mark the 200 th anniversary of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Dublin. As a broadcaster, she is a regular contributor to RTÉ TV and radio, presenting the series Ireland Portrayed for RTÉ Lyric FM in 2020 and co-presenting the award-winning Through the Canvas for RTÉ Lyric FM in 2018. Her short fiction and personal essays have been published in Winter Papers and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 as part of Keywords. Her art criticism has appeared in The Sunday Times since 2003.
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