Substack for 17 September 2026

An evocative screen grab from a video shown in the Ana Mendieta exhibition currently running at Tate Modern. Check Substack for more detail.

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/17-september-2026?r=37fycr&utm_medium=ios

Substack for 10 September 2026

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/10-september-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 3 September 2026

 

Brian Bourke holding his life mask in his studio in Connemara - July 2026. His new show opens on 3 September 2026 in Taylor Galleries.

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/3-september-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 27 August 2026

 Apocalypse Gaza by John Behan

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/27-august-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 20 August 2026

 Annual by Pat Connor from the Family Matters exhibition (with Johanna Connor and Michael Quane) at the Cnoc Bui arts centre in Union Hall.

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/20-august-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 13 August 2026

 https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/13-august-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 6 August 2026

 https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/6-august-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 30 July 2026

 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/30-july-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 23 July 2026

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/23-july-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 16 July 2026

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/16-july-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 9 July 2026

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/9-july-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 2 July 2026

Lapdogs in Connemara and the EU, oil-rig days, TLS hatchet jobs, T-Bone Walker and Charles Bukowski. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/2-july-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 25 June 2026

An oil-rig ingenue, the Dalkey Book Festival, Claire Halpin, Bob Seger and Joe Brainard facing death.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/25-june-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 18 June 2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/18-june-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 11 June 2026

Manar Mervat al Shouha, Simon Schama, Mary Gauthier, Maurice Riordan and taking a new road in A Morsel of Memoir. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/11-june-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 4 June 2026

 https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/4-june-2026

Substack for 28 May 2026

James English at the RHA, Javier Marias, Solomon Burke, Derek Mahon and some Campfield Characters. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/28-may-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 21 May 2026

Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court, Photo at Olympia, and a restrained Little Richard. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/21-may-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 14 May 2026

The Daughters of Uranus at the Venice Biennale, Margo Timmins and the Cowboy Junkies, Philip Larkin and how our hero jumped ship. 

https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/14-may-2026

Substack for 7 May 2026

Fiddling while the world burns - Marvin Gaye - Thomas Hardy - and on stage with Spinal Tap in San Francisco in 1997.

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/7-may-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 30 April 2026

Catherine Connolly, Maurice Desmond, Buddy Guy, Patrick Hadden Keefe and William Cowper with another morsel of memoir. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/30-april-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 23 April 2026

 

Robert Ballagh, Bessie Smith and Nual Ni Dhomnaill plus the sorrows of a Tipp fan and a gripping new book.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/23-april-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 16 April 2026

Moya Brennan, Thomas Wyatt, William Blake, Rory McIlroy and the conclusion of Blue’s story.

 https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/16-april-2026?r=37fycr

Substack for 9 April 2026

Truck stops, William Blake at the NGI, Blue’s story, Olivia Laing again, and a beautiful version of a Dylan song. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/9-april-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 2 April 2026

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/2-april-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 26 March 2026

Juana by Stephen Lawlor on show this weekend at ArtEvolve at the RDS.

 https://substack.com/@johnposullivan/note/p-191991918?r=37fycr&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

Substack for 19 March 2026

 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/19-march-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 12 March 2026

Trolly Dolly by Eddie Mooney, encounters with Olivia Laing, Ry Cooder, Andrew Marvell, 6 Nations rugby and a poor start to Cheltenham.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/12-march-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 5 March 2026

The Dissonance of Sequences by Diana Copperwhite 

 https://johnposullivan.substack.com/p/5-march-2026?r=37fycr

Substack for 26 February 2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/26-february-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 19 February 2026

 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/19-february-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack for 12 February 2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/12-february-2026?r=37fycr&utm_medium=ios

Substack: 5 February 2026

Silent Theatre by Beatrice O’Connell from her new show at Taylor Galleries with contributions on Rob Doyle, Patsy Cline, Anne Sexton and a morsel of memoir. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/5-february-2026?r=37fycr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Substack: 29 January 2026

The Convalescent by Helene Schjerfbeck -  and more cultural manoeuvres involving Robert Lowell, B.B. King, the Caligula remake, and Honnold’s horror show.

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/29-january-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack: 22 January 2026

Catterline in Winter by Joan Eardley plus more cultural and political manoeuvres.  

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/22-january-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack: 15 January 2026

More tales from the Campfield, Sean Scully’s blues, The Grateful Dead’s roses and a sombre extract from the Four Quartets.

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/15-january-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack - 8 January 2026

Turner at the NGI, Shakespeare in elegiac mood, The Delines and more emanations from the Moronic Inferno. Plus diary of a young voyeur.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/08-january-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Substack: 01 January 2026

 Brace yourself - it could be a bumpy ride.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/01-january-2026?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true