Saturday, October 25, 2025

Substack for 23 October 2025


The support Catherine Connolly edition - posted on Substack on Thursday 23 October. Happy to see her resounding victory and classy acceptance speech. And Heather Humphrey’s dignified response.


https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/23-october-2025?r=37fycr

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Substack for 16 October 2025

Yamba XXX from Bridget Flannery’s impressive and expressive exhibition Unquiet Layers at the Draiocht in Blanchardstown - plus soupçons of Ian Dury, Olga Tokarczuk, Ernest Dawson, and a memory of the great John Joe O’Reilly.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/16-october-2025?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thursday, October 09, 2025

Substack 9 October 2025

Sean Molloy:  Family Album 8 - showing the Molesworth Gallery.


Eclectic mix: Kiefer and Van Gogh at the Royal Academy, The Weir at the Harold Pinter, Sean Molloy at the Molesworth Gallery, Martin’s folly, the Byrds and Patrick Kavanagh. Plus a poor boy bullied in the Curragh.

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/9-october-2025?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thursday, October 02, 2025

Substack for 2 October 2025


Shorter and I hope snappier this week - and a new section entitled a Morsel of Memoir where I unearth incidents from my past. Also featured are Jimmy McGovern, Pascal Ungerer, B B King,  and Thomas Kinsella.


 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/2-october-2025?r=37fycr&utm_medium=ios

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Substack for 25 September 2025

 

Some colour from Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington, portents of doom and gloom from Bob Dylan and Michael Hartnett, and the art heroics of John Behan.


https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/25-september-2025?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true