{"product_id":"promise-mandy-oneill-new-irish-works","title":"Promise, Mandy O'Neill - NEW IRISH WORKS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePromise\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a school, of lessons on bar stools, pupils and politicians, a rat named Elvis, classes on the green, stifling heat in summer and damp in winter, singing, dancing, protests, rituals and a labyrinth of bureaucracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGaelscoil Bharra Primary School was established in 1994 and is housed in a series of prefabricated units. As far back as 2000 an inspector from the Department of Education recommended that planning permission for a permanent school should be initiated due to the “deplorable state of the temporary accommodation”. In 2012 the Irish government announced that it was allocating 35 million that year to replace prefabs with permanent classrooms at over 200 schools. Gaelscoil Bharra was included in this development plan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen O'Neill started this work it was with the premise of documenting the last year of the prefabs, as building was due to begin in 2013. In March 2016 the first builders finally arrived. This work is the result of the four years she has spent documenting the everyday and not so everyday happenings at the school.\u003cbr\u003e It speaks to the great potential of these young people while posing questions about the frameworks in place to help realise it. In a broader sense it queries the ongoing rhetoric of ‘recovery’ in Ireland, and why it has taken so long to begin to resolve such basic issues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Mandy O'Neill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMandy O’Neill is a Dublin based photographer. She has a BA in Photography from the DIT School of Media and is currently doing an MA in Public Culture Studies at IADT. She has been a guest lecturer at the National College of Art and Design and Griffith College Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO'Neill's practice involves explorations of the local and the everyday, which often resonate globally. It borders the genres of social commentary and the constructed image, with a strong emphasis on the portrait. She has received support from the Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland and her work was featured in the publication New Irish Works 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer work has been shortlisted twice, in 2014 and 2015 for the Hennessy Portrait Prize and for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2012 and 2014. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and is held in both public and private collections. Most recently O'Neill has exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland, RHA Dublin and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout New Irish Works\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eSelected by an international panel of 23 professionals, New Irish Works brings you a selection of 20 projects and 20 photographers representing the diverse range of practices coming from Ireland. New Irish Works 2016 is a year long project of 10 presentations and 20 publications that aims to highlight the great moment Irish Photography is experiencing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artists selected are Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Aisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett, Dara McGrath, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith, Eanna de Freine, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Jan McCullough, Jill Quigley, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Matthew Thompson, Miriam O’Connor, Noel Bowler, Robert McCormack, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam, and Yvette Monahan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery month from July 2016 to July 2017, a special presentation will be hosted at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/tlp.photoireland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Library Project\u003c\/a\u003e for two of the selected artists at a time. The presentation will include a display and a publication for each artist’s project. The two artists that will be presented during \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/2016.photoireland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhotoIreland Festival\u003c\/a\u003e 2016 are Daragh Soden and Mandy O’Neill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of the project, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/photoireland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhotoIreland\u003c\/a\u003e will bring New Irish Works abroad at key events like PhotoEspaña, with the support of the Embassy of Ireland in Madrid, and to Paris during Paris Photo, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais and Culture Ireland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out more: newirishworks.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited edition of 200\u003cbr\u003e Published by PhotoIreland\u003cbr\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e 32 pages\u003cbr\u003e 148 × 210 mm\u003cbr\u003e ISBN: 9780957684911\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PhotoIreland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4178513920031,"sku":"NIWONEILL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/NIW_MANDY_Cover-1.jpg?v=1527128719","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/it\/products\/promise-mandy-oneill-new-irish-works","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}