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Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

July 31, 2025
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A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

Edinburgh University Press
August 10, 2023

Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

The Scottish State and the People in Early Modern Scotland

Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

Chasing the Dragon

The Writer as Memory Activist