Clifden Art's Festival Lecture
September 2022
On the 24th September Níall will be giving a talk as part of the 45th Clifden Arts Festival, the longest-running community arts festival in Ireland which runs from the 15th-25th September.
Rowan Moore Writes about Bishop Edward King Chapel in the Observer
April 2013
Architecture critic Rowan Moore has written a review of the Bishop Edward King Chapel with the title “The Answers to their Prayers” that was published in the Observer Magazine. The article touches on the broader themes of the interpretation and appropriation of religious symbolism in architecture, and in this context praises the paradoxical nature of the chapel; “It is…heavy and light, a bastion and a boat, a wall and a drape. It has presence, but doesn’t dominate.” Describing the form and materiality of the building Moore writes, “The building is crafted and considered: it makes ideas physical: it has intentions and carries them out in its space and matter.”