Ceist na Talún a collaborative project between Deirdre O’Mahony and Kate O’Shea who devised a series of workshops and discussions throughout Cashel Arts Festival in 2022.
Each day’s activity explored questions about the relationship between people and place and how best to sustain and nurture rural communities in a fair and equitable way with workshops on healthcare, mapping local histories and land rights.
Workshops:
Day 1: What makes for a healthy people and place? Deirdre O’Mahony Installation Poster series: What Would Kathleen Lynn Say? and film Screening of First Citizens Speak.
Day 2: Women and Land: Patriarchy at work on the land Discussion: Dr. Kathleen Lynch and Kate O’ Shea
Day 3: Knowledge and Lore of Land – Who writes the history of the land? The Killinaboy Mapping Group, Michele Horrigan of Askeaton Contemporary Arts with Deirdre O’Mahony.
Day 4: Songs of Land and Resistance: Workshop and Performance with Siobhán Kavanagh and Printing Workshop by Aoife Barrett PrintVanGO
Workshops:
Aoife Barrett (Print Van Go), Michele Horrigan, Siobhán Kavanagh, Killinaboy Mapping Group and Dr Kathleen Lynch,
Programme and exhibition Curated by Catherine Marshall for Cashel Arts Festival 2022.
