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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: WORK OF THE WEEK 33 KINSALE REVISITED DAVID LILBURN
Description: Conor Tallon and curator Michael Waldron explore Kinsale Revisited (2000) - a drypoint print by David Lilburn in which features of the County Cork town, including The Spaniard and Charles Fort’s star-shaped form.In this aerial map-like view, much of Kinsale addresses the coastal inlet that has long defined it as a strategic harbour. Reflecting on his work, Lilburn considers that “the porous membrane of the southern edge of the island of Ireland is continually traversed with arrivals and departures – military, commercial, criminal, or cultural.”Having studied history at Trinity College Dublin, the artist describes our coast...