Homecoming Event at Highlanes Gallery and Knowth   Saturday 17th June, 2023   5-9pm   From Highlanes Gallery to Knowth, join us for an evening centre on the Boyne Valley, and its influence on the artist Jo Baer   Jo Baer’s work has returned to Ireland and to the region of its tumultuous influence marking […]

Professional Development for Art Teachers Artist-Teacher-Researcher/ Winter Session Tuesday 3rd January 8.30am-1.15pm Highlanes Gallery, the municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East is situated in the heart of the Boyne Valley, and close to Brú na Bóinne and Newgrange, which has some of the finest examples of megalithic art in Western Europe. Join […]

Discover more about the life and work of Nano Reid in this fascinating walking tour with community historian Brendan Matthews   Explore more about artist Nano Reid and her life as you traverse some of the streets and lanes and the most beautiful rural settings of the old Market town of Drogheda, reflecting on the […]

Meeting at the gallery, Brendan Matthews first stop will be closeby at Magdalene St. and to the Public House premises where Nano was born.   Here, he will outline Nano Reid`s family background along Magdalene St. and the Peter St. /Fair St. junction, elaborating on the wider context of Nano’s paternal and maternal (Downey’s), homesteads. […]

Explore more about artist Nano Reid and her life as you traverse some of the streets and lanes and the most beautiful rural settings of the old Market town of Drogheda, reflecting on the sights and sounds that inspired much of the artist’s greatest work.   Beginning at Highlanes Gallery the tour will proceed down […]

Join us on the final days of Nano Reid ADAMANTINE & discover more about Nano Reid’s early & late years through two informative walking tours About this event Explore more about artist Nano Reid and her life with community historian Brendan Matthews, as he takes you through some of the streets and lanes of the […]

Join the catalogue’s contributors for an engaging morning with new writing & research on the life, work, and legacy of Nano Reid. Saturday, 20 November 2021 11am to 3pm   The word ‘adamantine’ suggests something bold, unswerving, powerfully itself. These attributes apply not just to Nano Reid’s work, but also to the way she lived […]

PLASTIC – Online Guided Tour Wed, 10 February 2021 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Join one of the exhibition Mediator Team for a dynamic online tour of this stimulating exhibition. Book your Zoom place through Eventbrite here; https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/plastic-online-guided-tour-tickets-136411342999 About the Exhibition: PLASTIC – a touring exhibition that interrogates our current and future relationship with the material. […]

PLASTIC – Online Guided Tour Wed, 3 February 2021 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Join one of the exhibition Mediator Team for a dynamic online tour of this stimulating exhibition. Book your Zoom place through Eventbrite here; https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/plastic-online-guided-tour-tickets-136410510509 About the Exhibition: PLASTIC – a touring exhibition that interrogates our current and future relationship with the material. […]

The Franciscan Order was first established in Drogheda in the year 1240 and they remained in the town for some 760 years before finally, on Sunday July 30th in the year of 2000 (the New Millennium), the final Mass was Celebrated in their Church at Lawrence St. by Fr. Ulic Troy. Through periods in history, […]