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The sinking of the Lusitania on May 7 1915, off the Cork coast, by a German submarine electrified Ireland, Britain and America. In Ireland, the fact that German submarines were lurking so close to the Irish shore, added fuel to the propaganda that Germany was planning to invade the country. It spurred recruitment into the armed forces. In Britain, the shameful practice of using passenger liners to carry munitions across the Atlantic without telling the passengers they were in effect travelling on a British war ship, was to come to an end.

Gormley’s Fine Art is delighted to return to Kilkenny for its eighth year, situated in Parliament Street (former Dunnes Stores building) in Kilkenny city centre, for the duration of the arts festival.

“THERE’S A cool web of language winds us in,” wrote poet Robert Graves and for those in the arts who deploy text as a key element of their work the recurrent challenge is to break free of that web and find fresh, stimulating, ways to express themselves and communicate with their audiences.