The Nineteen-O-Seven
correspondence

The Nineteen-O-Seven is a regular correspondence that seeks to interrogate and celebrate the pressing issues and exciting figures in the arts in Ireland.

Bobby Fingers: The Poetry of a Prosthetist

Bobby's narration of his own model-making combines surrealist humour, the sharpness of scripted satire, and the soothing sensory experience of a hushed Limerick accent.

The RHA Annual Exhibition: the annals of Irish visual art.

While the exhibition wonderfully reflects contemporary Ireland, it falls short of capturing the dynamism and dilemmas of modern Ireland.

Lenny Abrahamson on the importance of uncertainty, empathising with drug addicts & knowing his best work is ahead of him.

Lenny Abrahamson is currently writing a script. I ask him how he copes with the incessant sound of poorly-played rock songs from the band busking outside.

Our Irish artistic exports are world-beating, but they are the tip of an iceberg melting from the bottom.

As glamorous as the Irish arts look on the red carpet, the true health of the arts in Ireland is below the surface.

I wrote poems not cheques last Christmas.

Writing poems as a Christmas present cost-cutter: ingenious or ungenerous?