The singing tradition in Drogheda is a strong, vibrant and much admired cultural core of the region connecting generations & spanning four decades, and while originally passed on orally, technoology has supported this group who would meet normally at Carberry’s Pub on Wednesday’s, across screens during the darker times of the pandemic. For Culture Night […]

Join Community Historian Brendan Matthews for the second of our Heritage Week Talks. Explore some of the artwork in the Collection that considers the industrial life of Drogheda Port as you walk and talk with Brendan Matthews this Heritage Week. After a short introduction in the courtyard of the Methodist Church, walk to the Port […]

Join Community Historian Brendan Matthews in the first of our Heritage Week Talks. Historical, landscape & portrait artists of early 19th century Drogheda, the Tumalti brothers are very much the forgotten artists of Drogheda; they were active in the town from the later 1820’s and by the mid 1840’s their reputation as artists, sculptors and […]

Join artist Claire Halpin for a lively and reflective discussion on works, historic and contemporary in the Collection, including Anderson Paisley, Drogheda from the Railway Station 1849, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork. No prior knowledge or experience is needed and this is an enjoyable way of discovering more […]

Join us for a morning with artist Helena Gorey discussing her life and work for this latest week of Collection Thoughts – Collection Talks from her home in County Kilkenny. Helena’s work’s, Untitled & Seed have just been newly acquired for the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection this year, and will be on view for the first time as part of […]

Join artist Kevin Mooney for another Highlanes Gallery Collection Thoughts – Collection Talks Lecture, this Thursday 29th April in his cork studio. Kevin’s work Amnesia was acquired to the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection in 2020, and will be on view for the first time as part of the Collection. Book your Zoom place through Eventbrite here; […]

Join art historian and writer William Gallagher, Thursday April 22nd for a special look into artist Janet Mullarney’s work. ‘Throwing shapes or quietly sitting, twirling in the limelight or dancing with the imagination, Janet Mullarney’s troupe of beguiling inventions act out a radiant new drama on what it is to be alive, to think, feel, […]

Flexible Foil Figurines – Easter Workshop Fri, 9 Apr 2021, 11:00 GMT Julie Duhy leads this recorded workshop where she has been inspired by the life and work of artist Janet Mullarney (1952-2020) whose work, My Mind’s i and Another Mind’s i have been acquired to the Collection and are presented in our spring exhibition programme. The first part of […]

Explore 3 Dimensional Art Easter Workshop Easter Workshop/ Thursday 8th April 2021/ 11.00am-12.00pm Participants: 15 max             Age: 8-12 My Minds I –  Soft Sculpture Workshop with Claire Halpin Join artist Claire Halpin in her studio as we explore the exotic and otherworldly work of Janet Mullarney, looking at her sculptural and installation works from the […]

Join artist Raphael Hynes as he presents a 5-week lecture series with a unique look of changing art styles and roles that took place over the late 18th century right up to the early 20th. Feel free to book separately on each of the dates or at any point book for our special 5-Lecture ticket […]