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Installation Views
Eimear Walshe: ROMANTIC IRELAND, installation view, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024. Photo: Simon Mills.
Eimear Walshe: ROMANTIC IRELAND, installation view, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024. Photo: Simon Mills.
Exhibition

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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice. 
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice. 
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice. 
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice. 
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice. 
Gweedore, Donegal. An evicted family who have rebuilt a house out of the very land from which they were evicted.

Libretto
 Amanda Feery – composer
Eimear Walshe – librettist
Dr. Lisa Godson – researcher and historical fact checker
Ergodos: Caterina Schembri and Edu Prado – recording

Opera performed by 4 in a Bar:
Paul McGough
Shane Barriscale
Ciarán Kelly
Tristan Caldwell
Eoin Conway


Portraits

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Eimear Walshe, Portrait, 2023. Photo © Cáit Fahey. Courtesy Ireland at Venice. 
Eimear Walshe and Sara Greavu, representing Ireland at Venice 2024. Photo © Cáit Fahey. Courtesy Ireland at Venice
Previous Works

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Eimear Walshe, The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex?, 2020. Installation view. Single-channel video, 38 min. Courtesy of the artist and Arts Council Collection: Bailiúchán an Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Eimear Walshe, The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex?, 2020. Single-channel video, 38 min. Courtesy of the artist and Arts Council Collection: Bailiúchán an Chomhairle Ealaíon 
Eimear Walshe, TRADE SCHOOL, 2021. Video still.



Eimear Walshe, LAND CRUISER, 2022, 23m. A new video commissioned for the 5th edition of Drop Everything. LAND CRUISER charts a perverse quest across an Ireland marked by covetousness, murder and mortgages. Funded by The Arts Council.




Eimear Walshe, The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex? Single-channel video, 38 mins
The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex? is an artist talk in video format by Eimear Walshe. It presents a brief history of land contestation in Ireland, and questions how the history of land relations persistently impacts our most intimate thoughts, aspirations, and interactions. The research presented in this video serves as a primer for video works to be presented by the artist in phase 2 and 3 of the biennial programme. The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex?  includes a soundtrack by The Department of Energy featuring Ian Lynch.
Publications
ROMANTIC IRELAND is the accompanying publication for Eimear Walshe's participation in Ireland at Venice 2024. Set on the site of an unfinished earth build, the work stages soapy, dramatic encounters between character archetypes from the 19th–21st centuries. The publication vividly captures the energy of the filmmaking by including behind-the-scenes documentation and captioning from the libretto.

Published by Project Press
First Edition
Softcover
176 pages
92 x 172 mm
Eimear Walshe, The Piper’s Grip, 2024. The Piper’s Grip, is a tender and reverent account of the homoerotics of an Irish music session. In the tradition of Irish musical bawdry, this story portrays a man’s ecstatic reconnection with his culture, and in turn with himself.

Bilingual edition produced on the occasion of Walshe's participation in Ireland at Venice 2024. Translated to Italian by Gaia Baldassarri and Andrea Bergantino.

Published by Project Press
First Edition
Softcover
44 pages
210 x 148 mm
Eimear Walshe, The Land for the People: The Sexual Case for Land Reform in Ireland, 2021. This workbook by Eimear Walshe highlights the relevance of 19th century land conflict in the present day. The pamphlet presents a series of challenges to members Irish society through accessible exercises on themes including inheritance, displacement, community organising, and revenge.

Published by The National Sculpture Factory
Third Edition
Softcover
40 pages
210 x 148 mm
Published Press
Eimear Walshe on Decolonial Irish Folk Songs
Frieze,  3 April 2024
Eimear Walshe on Representing Ireland at the 60th Venice Biennale
ArtReview, 21 March 2024
‘It is actually possible for everyone to have a house, a decent life, and a dignified-death’
Irish Times, 3 February 2024