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
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.
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.
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
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.