Substack for 19 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

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

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

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

Substack for 18 September 2025

A spicy taste of Eve Babitz, an austere offering from Louis MacNeice, a Fats Domino classic, Aidan O’Brien back in the saddle, Eoin MacLochlainn at the Olivier Cornet Gallery and more from the Moronic Inferno.

 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnposullivan/p/18-september-2025?r=37fycr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true