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CO. ANTRIM
Fenderesky Gallery
105 Royal Avenue Belfast, BT1 1FF. T: 028 (048 from
ROI) 90235245; info@fendereskygallery.com; www.fendereskygallery.com. Fri & Sat: 2-5pm or by appointment. Dec 1–23 & Jan 6–Feb 4 Group Exhibition Contemporary works in various media.

CO. ARMAGH
Armagh County Museum
The Mall East, Armagh, BT61 9BE, Northern Ireland. T: +44 (0)28 3752 3070; acm.info@nmni.com; www.nmni.com/acm/What-s-on/Current-Exhibitions/
Enslaved. Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm; Sat: 10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm. Free admission. Until Jan 7 Enslaved John Bradshaw. Photographs by Bradshaw of the locations associated with the Atlantic slave trade.

CO. CORK
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place, Cork. T +353 (0)21 490 7852; info@crawfordartgallery.ie; www.crawfordartgallery.ie. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm; Late Thurs until 8pm. Until Jan 14 Barrie Cooke. A touring exhibition from Imma, Dublin. Curated by Karen Sweeney, Assistant Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Ongoing: A Rocky Road An examination of public and media reaction to various Irish artworks over the years. Gerard Byrne, John Carson, David Lilburn, Danny McCarthy, Eilis O’Connell, Nigel Rolfe, Owen South and others. Curated by Sean Lynch.

Lavit Gallery
5 Fr. Mathew Street, Cork. T: 021 4277749; thelavitgallery@eircom.net; www.lavitgallery.com. Mon-Fri: 10.30am-6pm; Sat: 10.30am-5pm. Until Dec 24 Christmas Exhibition 30% off all works priced over 100 euro. From Jan 31 Student of the Year Exhibition Sinéad Fagan and Raphael Llewellyn. Works by the recipients of the 2011 Cork Arts Society Student of the Year Award.

CO. DUBLIN
Abbey Theatre
26/27 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1. T: 353 1 8872200; F: 01 8729177; www.abbeytheatre.ie. Until Jan 28 The Government Inspector Roddy Doyle's version of
Nikolai Gogol's satire on bureaucracy and corruption.

Chester Beatty Library
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2. T: 4070750; fax: 4070760;
info@cbl.ie; www.cbl.ie. Tues-Fri: 10am-5pm; Sat: 11am-5pm; Sun: 1-5pm. Ongoing: China through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872 Some 50 images of Chinese people, landscapes and everyday life in 19th century China.

Centre for Creative Practices
15 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, T: 01 7995416;
www.cfcp.ie. Dec 8-18, Daily 11am-7pm: The Winter Arts Fair Works include prints, paintings, drawings, photography, jewellery, cards from local and international artists such as Carol Crimmins, Jo Cummins, Monika Fabijanczyk, Camilla Fanning, Katarzyna Gajewska, Peter Gordon, Janusz Kapusta, Frank O’Dea, John Rooney, Martha Wakula-Mac, Tunde Toth and many more. The Fair opens on Dec 8 at 6pm with jazz singer Dorota Konczewska. Enjoy homemade mulled wine or a complimentary cup of tea. Fair events include an arts auction, on Dec 10, jazz concerts, screenings, performance and a Christmas card-making workshop run by printmaker Marta Wakula-Mac. The Fair will finish with a Christmas party of music and light projections by DJ Chuck on Dec 17. Details on events and the arts auction catalogue can be viewed on www.cfcp.ie/waf11. All funds raised will help the artists & the Centre in maintaining its presence.

Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College Dublin 2. T: 353 1 8961116; F: 670 8330; dhgallery@tcd.ie; www.douglashydegallery.com. Mon-Fri: 11am-6pm; Thurs: 11am-7pm; Sat: 11am-4.45pm. Until Jan 25 Mike Disfarmer (b. 1884). Studio photographic portraits. Until Jan 25 Grandfather's Envelopes Works of paper by Kouzaki Hiromu.

Draíocht
The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown,
Dublin 15. T: 353 1 8098021; Box office: 8852622;
F: 8243434; marketing@draiocht.ie; www.draiocht.ie. Mon- Sat: 10am-6pm. Ground Floor Gallery: Ongoing Amharc Fhine Gall VIII Unknown Knowns Recent Art Graduates from Fingal Andrew Carson, Sally-Anne Kelly and Lisa Shaughnessy. Curated by Ailve McCormack. An exploration of "unknown knowns" through the Egyptian Book of the Dead's treatment of the afterlife; online social interaction; identity and the unknown self; and the deconstruction and construction of paintings and sculpture. Ongoing: Selected Works to Date Caroline Donohue. “This body of work has been inspired by my ongoing exploration of physical, psychological and poetic space. I am interested in the delicate point where man and the natural world co-exist or in some cases collide." Etchings, drawings and assemblage. Donohue's recent exhibitions include Where Boarders Meet, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin (2010); On Reflection curated by Caroline Cowley/ Cleo Fagan, Dublin (2007); Precaution at Imma, Dublin (2005); Triennale de Chamalières, Lyon, France (2010); and Artist in esponse, Muzuem Drowy, Gorlice, Poland (2008-2010).

Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Charlemont House, Parnell Sq. N. T: 353 1 2225550; info.hughlane@dublincity.ie; www.hughlane.ie. Tues-Thurs: 10am-6pm; Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 11am-5pm. Closed Mon. Admission free. Until Jan 15 Civil Rights etc. Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton. Major retrospective exhibition by two of Britain’s most respected artists. Until Jan 15 DISTURBANCE Willie Doherty. Survey of Doherty's works from the early 80s to today. Until Jan 15 The Golden Bough: Tim Robinson. Civil Rights etc. and DISTURBANCE are accompanied by fully illustrated catalogues. A new publication documenting all exhibitions in The Golden Bough series is also available. Ongoing: Francis Bacon’s Studio; Sean Scully Gallery; Stained Glass Room; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; and John Deakin: Photographs.

Farmleigh Gallery
Castleknock, Dublin 15. T: 353 1 8155900; www.farmleigh.ie. Tues-Sun and bank hol:10am-5pm. Last admittance to the Farmleigh Estate is 5pm–gates close at 6pm. Free adm. OPW-managed heritage property. Gallery open for the duration of the exhibition. Until Dec 23 Human/ Nature A survey exhibition of Irish landscape photography from the State Art Collection, presented by the Farmleigh Gallery and the OPW's Art Management department. Curated by Davey Moor. Mainly selected from the last 15 years, a productive period in Irish photographic art, the works portray the important distinction between "land" and landscape, while acknowledging the inherent weight of art history and its linguistic framing.

Gate Theatre
Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, Dublin. Box office: 353 1 8744045; boxoffice@gate-theatre.ie; www.gate-theatre.ie. Until Jan 14 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey.

Hillsboro Fine Art
49 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1. T: 353 1 8788242; info@hillsborofineart.com; www.hillsborofineart.com. Mon-Fri: 10.30am-6pm; Sat: 10.30am-3.30pm. Dec 8-22 Annual winter group show of gallery and invited artists including Michael Warren, Stella Vine, Michael Canning, Alan Davie, Eddie Kennedy, Patrick Graham, Sheila Rennick, John Noel Smith, Gwen O’Dowd, Eamon Colman, David Crone, Fiona Dowling, Jonathan Hunter, Larry Poons, Phil Kelly, Pam Harris, Samuel Walsh, George Warren, John Gibbons, Paddy McCann, Gary Komarin, Guk-Hyun Lee, Maurice Cockrill and others.

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. T: 353 1 6129900; F: 6129999; info@imma.ie; www.imma.ie. Tues-Sat: 10am-5.30pm, except Wed 10.30am-5.30pm; Sun/bank holidays: Noon-5.30pm. Closed Mon. Last admission: 5.15pm. Free admission, except for special exhibitions. Until Jan 29 A Day Like Any Other Rivane Neuenschwander. Due to essential refurbishment works the main building at Imma is closed until December 2012. Exhibitions will be shown in the New Galleries during this period. The café, bookshop and grounds will remain open as normal. Imma will also present exhibitions in an offsite location in 2012.

NCAD Gallery
100 Thomas St, Dublin 8. T: 6364390; kellya@ncad.
ie; www.ncad.ie/gallery. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Admission free. Until Jan 21 Poetics of the Handmade, Contemporary Glass from China by Xiaowei Zhuang, Professor of Glass at the Fine Arts College of the University of Shanghai. Inventive sculptural work in glass by a leading practitioner. Curated by Debbie Dawson, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design lecturer. The exhibition is part of a touring exhibition from the CIT/Crawford College of Art, Cork. Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang runs the University of Shanghai's Glass Studio MA programme. He was appointed Director of the Glass Museum of Shanghai in 2008, and is a member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Glass of the International
Council of Museums. His work is in national and international private and public collections. See Prof. Xiao Wei Zhuang's work at www.glassart-studio.com/intro-en.htm. Supported by the Crafts Council of Ireland as part of the Year of Craft 2011.

National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2. T: 353 1 661 5133; visitorservices@ngi.ie; www.nationalgallery.ie. Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm; Thurs until 8.30pm; Sun: 12pm-5.30pm. Admission free. Entrance via Clare Street. Millennium Wing – Ongoing: Masterpieces from the Collection. From Dec 19 Fables and Fairy Tales. Print Gallery: Until Dec 15 The Gift of Knowledge: Enriching the Library and Archive Collections. Jan 1-31 Turner: A Light in the Darkness.

Rathfarnham Castle
Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Tel: 01 4939462; catherine.
oconnor@opw.ie. Wed-Sun: 10.30am-5pm (last
admissions 4pm). Admission free. Ongoing: The Berkeley Costume and Toy Collection A collection of 18th and 19th century toys, dolls and costumes. The Irish ar tist and collector Countess Ann Griffin Bernstorff began the collection in Co. Wexford over 20 years ago. Assembled from the contents of family trunks, auctions and donations, the collection covers a period of 80 years (1740-1820). The exhibits range from rare artefacts to robust playthings and everyday period garments. Ongoing: 21st Century Icons Curated by Ann Mulrooney (National Craft Gallery). Based on the form of the torc as an icon of Celtic identity and status, 21 innovative makers were asked to redesign this bronze and gold neckwear for the 21st century.

Royal Hibernian Academy
Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2. T: 6612558; F: 6610762;E: info@rhagallery.ie; www.royalhibernianacademy.ie. Adm. free. Mon-Sat: 11am-5pm. Until Dec 21 Selection from a New Series Charles Tyrrell. RHA Ashford Gallery: Until Dec 21 Turning Point Martina Cleary. RHA Galleries I, II & II and Atrium: Until Dec 21 Apertures & Anxieties Artists celebrate 300 years of Trinity’s School of Medicine. Aideen Barry, Megan Eustace, Andrew Folan RHA, Nick Miller, Ciaran Murphy, Maria McKinney, Theresa Nanigian, Abigail O’Brien RHA, Eilis O’Connell RHA, Garrett Phelan and Grace Weir.

Rua Red
South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24. T: 353 1 4515860; boxoffice@ruared.ie; www.ruared.ie; Twitter: @RUARED. Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm. Gallery 1: Until Dec 10 Winter Open A cross-section of artists and craft makers selected by our guest panel. Painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, installation, jewellery, mixed-media work, craft and applied artwork. Artists exhibiting include Elizabeth Archbold, Karen Donnellan, Darek Fortas, Emmet Kierans, Gail Mahon, Bernie Masterson, Nicole McKenna, Sorcha O'Horain and Rachel Swan. All works are for sale. Selected by a panel that included Ann Mulrooney (Curator, National Craft Gallery) and Hilary Murray (Curator, Collections, Irish Museum of Modern Art). Gallery 2: Until Dec 10 Constellation Alice Peillon. Multimedia paintings built up in layers of various material, creating dynamic images.

Taylor Galleries
16 Kildare St, Dublin 2. T: 353 1 6766055; F: 6766642; taylorgalleries@gmail.com; www.taylorgalleries.ie; Twitter: @TaylorGalleries. Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm; Sat 11am-3pm. Until Dec 10 Paintings from Sierra de las Nieves, Málaga Michael Cullen. Until Jan 28 Winter Group Show Exhibition of work by gallery artists featuring cloud paintings by Tim Goulding. Private view: Dec 15, Thurs, 6-8pm.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2. T: +353 (0) 1 6710073; F: 6777527; info@templebargallery.com; www.temple
bargallery.com; Twitter: @TBGandS. Dec 2-4 Dublin Art Book Fair and Magazine Archive Over 20 art book publishers present artist books and self-published artist books/catalogues. From Dec 16 Bit Symphony Liam O'Callaghan. Audiovisual installation of musical loops by reassembled turntables, amplifiers and speaker.

CO. FERMANAGH
Higher Bridges Gallery
Clinton Centre, Belmore St, Enniskillen. Contact: Arts
Office, Fermanagh District Council; T: +0044 (0)28 66325050; diane.henshaw@fermanagh.gov.uk. Mon-Fri: 9am-4pm. Dec 2-21 1 FT SQ 4th annual open submission Christmas exhibition, with more than 100 works by selected new, established, emerging, amateur and semi-professional artists. All works are one foot square. Jan 6-28 The Swimming Naked Prophecy Drawing exhibition by 25 contemporary Irish-based artists, responding to Ireland's current social, economic and political circumstances. Curated by Mermaid Arts Centre. Artists: Aideen Barry, Stephen Brandes, Alan Butler, Mark Clare, Felicity Clear, Róisín Coyle, Culturstruction (Jo Anne Butler + Tara Kennedy), Jennifer Cunningham, Clodagh Emoe, Fiona Hallinan, Seán Hillen, Jesse Jones, John Jones, Vera Klute, Sam Keogh, David Lilburn, Sean Lynch, Brian Maguire, Bea McMahon, Tom Molloy, Teresa Nanigian, Sorcha O’Brien, Dominic Thorpe, Saskia Vermeulen.

CO. KERRY
St. John's Theatre and Arts Centre
The Square, Listowel. 068 22566; stjohnstheatre@
eircom.net; www.stjohnstheatrelistowel.com. Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm; 7pm-11pm on show nights. Until Dec 23 Undiscovered A collaboration of work in mixed media created by Kerry Parents & Friends, Association, Listowel, and artists Lisa Fingleton, Maurice Hannon, Marie Brennan and Trish Healy. Jan 2-31 Stracfhéachaínt Siar Photographic exhibition looking back on the events and activities, the artists and the audiences at St. John's in 2011.

CO. KILKENNY
National Craft Gallery
Castle Yard, Kilkenny. 056 7796147. ncg@ccoi.ie; www.nationalcraftgallery.ie. (Feb-Mar) Tues-Sat: 10am-5.30pm; Sun & Bank hol: 11am-5.30pm. Adm. free. Until Jan 11 Modern Languages Contemporary responses to the Irish vernacular by five international artists and designers. Curated by Katy West. From Jan 20 Shaping the Void Solo exhibition by seminal Irish maker Deirdre McLoughlin, who is based in the Netherlands. For the latest information on Education and Outreach Events visit www.nationalcraftgallery.ie or find us on Facebook. Exhibitions tours: daily–booking required.

CO. LOUTH
Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery
Laurence Street, Drogheda. T: +353 (0) 419803311;
F: 041 9803313; info@highlanes.ie; www.highlanes.ie.
Mon-Sat: 10.30am-5pm; Closed Sun. Until Jan 11 The Art of Failure isn't Hard to Master Thomas Brezing. Until Jan 11 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection A selection of work from the collection. Prints, drawings and paintings.

Droichead Arts Gallery
Stockwell St., Drogheda T: 041 9833946; info@droichead.com; www.droichead.com. Until Jan 5 Longevity, if not immortality Sabina Mac Mahon. Works related to the relics of saints, with specific reference to St. Oliver Plunkett.

CO. MAYO
Custom House Studios
The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo. T: 098 28735; customhouse@eircom.net; www.customhousestudios.ie. Dec 15-Jan 15: Winter Exhibition 2011 (Opening night Dec 15, 7.30pm) Works by Rachael Agnew, Emma Bourke, Breda Burns, Laura Burns, Antonia Lopez Castro, Fintan Friel, Betty Gannon, David Gearty, Walpurga Ortag-Glanzer, Ralph Gilbert, Pam Gray, Richard Hearns, Tina Hearty, Dorothee Kölle, Niall McCormack, Amanda McMahon, Sue Morris, Cora Murphy, Sheila Naughton, Jackie Nickerson, Kathlyn O’Brien, Jane O’Sullivan, Andreas Ortag, Sussi Quinn, Benita Stoney, Anna Spearman, Irma van Baalen and Ian Wieczorek.

CO. SLIGO
Hamilton Gallery
4 Castle Street, Sligo. T: 353 71 91 43686; F: +353 7191 0365; info@hamiltongallery.ie; www.hamiltongallery.ie. Twitter: @HamiltonSligo; Facebook: Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Dec 1-Jan 28 Invited Artists Exhibition The Hamilton Gallery celebrates the Christmas season with an exhibition by invited artists: Michael Flaherty, Conor Gallagher, Neil Greig, Annie Harrison, Irene Hegarty, Brian McDonagh, Billy Moore, Vivien Murray, Leonora Neary, John O’Connor, Cormac O’Leary, David Quinn, Martha Quinn, Derval Symes, Myriam Venables and Ian Wieczorek.

The Model
The Mall, Sligo. +353 (0)719141405; info@themodel.
ie; www.themodel.ie; Twitter: @modelsligo. Wed-Sat:
11am-5:30pm; Sun: 12-5pm. Closed: Mon-Tues. Until Dec 23 (sub)TEXT Multimedia installation examining
process, concept, and aesthetics. Film, sound, and the written word by the Model's Studio Artists. Until Jan 29 Ireland in the Twentieth Century Irish social and political life in the 20th century, drawn from the Model's Niland Collection. Until Jan 29 Norah McGuinness: Illustrations to Stories of Red Hanrahan McGuinness’s rarely seen illustrations for WB Yeats Stories of Red Hanrahan. From Dec 10 Isabel Nolan Major solo exhibition, produced in collaboration with Le Musée d’art Moderne de Saint-Etienne. Abstract and figurative sculptures, paintings, drawings and fabric works. Nolan has had exhibitions at Smart, Amsterdam, 2009, The Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea, 2009; Mediation Biennale, Poznan, Poland, 2008 and the 2005 Venice Biennale.

CO. WATERFORD
Garter Lane Arts Centre
5 O'Connell Street, Waterford. T: 051 877153; gallery@garterlane.ie; www.garterlane.ie. Tues-Sat: 11am-5.30pm. Admission free. Closed Mon except Mon, Dec 19. Admission free. Dec 2-22 Waterford Homecraft Christmas Fair Buy local handmade crafts, from unique wooden bowls to natural cosmetics, in both minimal and traditional styles. Laser and credit cards accepted. Admission free.

CO. WEXFORD
Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket, Wexford. T: 053 9123764; F: 053 9121765; E: catherine@wexfordartscentre.ie; www.wexfordartscentre.ie. Tues-Sat: 10am-5.30pm. Jan 10-Feb 4 Material Culture Bridget O’Gorman. Emerging Visual Artist Award Winner 2010, a partnership initiative between The Arts Council, Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre. The award gives the winner a monetary award and a solo exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre. Material Culture presents sculptural and video-based narratives referencing the 19th-century ethos of imagination and anthropomorphism. Themes of mass production, consumption, globalism, adaptability and survival. Bridget O’Gorman received a BA in Fine Art painting from the Crawford College of Art in 2003. In 2008, she completed an MFA between the Department of
Applied Art and the School of Sculpture at Edinburgh
College of Art in Scotland. She has received awards from the Crafts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers London, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, the Bank of Ireland and Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office. Selected group exhibitions include Claremorris Open 2011, curated by Chris Hammond, and Re-Set, selected by Emma-Lucy O’Brien at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. Education: Léaró Parent & Toddler Art Workshops Ages two to four years. Parental participation is required. Léaró is a partnership initiative between Wexford Arts Centre and Cuidiú, the Irish Childbirth Trust. Parents/caregivers and their children learn how to become more creative and develop their relationship. Tues, Jan 10 and Jan 24, 3-4pm: Puppets – Bring characters to life by making puppets and puppet theatres. Little Artist Club Every Sat, from Jan 14. Children make artworks related to the internal workings of their bodies. From Jan 11, every Wed, 7-9pm: Drawing & Painting Workshops for Adults. Jan 21, Sat, 2-5pm: Discovery Club – Ready, Steady, Rockets! Ages 6-12 years. Children learn how to make and launch their own rockets.