16 February 2022, 6pm
Mark O’Connell, award winning author, will join broadcaster and journalist Ella McSweeney to discuss his writing and research within the environment and context of Tamsin Snow’s solo exhibition On Ice.
The exhibition mirages everyday reality and science-fiction to align with the accelerated closeness and reliance of the body with technology.
Mark O'Connell is the author of Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books
Ella McSweeney is an Irish journalist and reporter. She has worked for BBC, RTÉ (Ireland's national broadcaster) and the Guardian newspaper. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and is a post graduate student in food policy at City University, London.
15 — 21 September 2025
Guardians over the city is a part of the Flags series annually commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for Wellington Quay on the occasion of Culture Night.
19 September 2025, 5–8pm
Go behind the scenes at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, meet the artists and learn about a creative practice.
19 — 20 September 2025, Friday: 2–8pm; Saturday: 11am–4pm
Join artist Samir Mahmood for a drop-in workshop taking inspiration from his commissioned flags Guardians of the City.
