Lisa Godson
@lisagdub.bsky.social
Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
Congrats Damien, amazing stuff
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Congrats Damien, amazing stuff
Safe travels, looking forward to seeing you at some stage, wishing you some spirit-shocking wonder meanwhile, and wrap up, its bleedin’ freezin’ as my kids keep saying
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Safe travels, looking forward to seeing you at some stage, wishing you some spirit-shocking wonder meanwhile, and wrap up, its bleedin’ freezin’ as my kids keep saying
tbh more’s the pity in a way
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
tbh more’s the pity in a way
the rest is a good cure!
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the rest is a good cure!
Always better to see her despite a heinous ailment I’m suffering from this week…R’s here with her son visiting colleges that he might apply to, you may have some wisdom on that front
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Always better to see her despite a heinous ailment I’m suffering from this week…R’s here with her son visiting colleges that he might apply to, you may have some wisdom on that front
Oh do please. Rachel here from NYC this week and we were saying nice things about you
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Oh do please. Rachel here from NYC this week and we were saying nice things about you
Cheers…feels like being a slice of processed cheese under a hot grill, getting zapped by an electric prong every 20 mins while covered in itching powder. Hate it!
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cheers…feels like being a slice of processed cheese under a hot grill, getting zapped by an electric prong every 20 mins while covered in itching powder. Hate it!
Feel a bit of an eijit saying it but anyway, it’s great, keep going
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Feel a bit of an eijit saying it but anyway, it’s great, keep going
May I say - you’re doing a great job
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
May I say - you’re doing a great job
Maybe those light things help? The sea usually does
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Maybe those light things help? The sea usually does
Keep it out of sunlight, with high spf lip stuff & get the shingles vax as advised. I’ve crazy bad shingles at the minute and it’s agonising…so regret not vaxxing.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Keep it out of sunlight, with high spf lip stuff & get the shingles vax as advised. I’ve crazy bad shingles at the minute and it’s agonising…so regret not vaxxing.
Same…tho the light is beautiful this past week if you can get out at all during the day. Work hours and expectations should change in tune w it, we should all have more dream time when it’s so dark
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Same…tho the light is beautiful this past week if you can get out at all during the day. Work hours and expectations should change in tune w it, we should all have more dream time when it’s so dark
We call them nuggets from the sewer
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We call them nuggets from the sewer
Beautiful…were you at? Was on Sherkin island couple weeks back and same…
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Beautiful…were you at? Was on Sherkin island couple weeks back and same…
Velasquez is the painters’ painter…
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Velasquez is the painters’ painter…
thanks R for another stimulus to discussion!
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
thanks R for another stimulus to discussion!
That said, the ‘evolutionary towards abstraction’ model of modernism is shite
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
That said, the ‘evolutionary towards abstraction’ model of modernism is shite
He was super establishment - role in RHA another big factor. I don’t mind his work and esp his Ardnacrusha drawings but his monopoly/dictats were deeply frustrating for students and artists who wanted to be more experimental and didn’t have the means to travel/exhibit
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
He was super establishment - role in RHA another big factor. I don’t mind his work and esp his Ardnacrusha drawings but his monopoly/dictats were deeply frustrating for students and artists who wanted to be more experimental and didn’t have the means to travel/exhibit
Maybe earlier people were bored of Irish stuff, or felt it needed external injection & it’s more interesting now. With art, there was a far smaller audience and so hard for many people to see work other than tiny b&w repros so an audience would need actual or cultural capital to ‘get’ abstraction
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Maybe earlier people were bored of Irish stuff, or felt it needed external injection & it’s more interesting now. With art, there was a far smaller audience and so hard for many people to see work other than tiny b&w repros so an audience would need actual or cultural capital to ‘get’ abstraction
Interesting…is that cos he was semi-official artist of the state and agin abstraction or cos he wasn’t a great painter? I know Orpen was his art daddy but I always think that Keating wished he could paint like Velasquez, the faces in los Barrachos for example vs SK Men of the West
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Interesting…is that cos he was semi-official artist of the state and agin abstraction or cos he wasn’t a great painter? I know Orpen was his art daddy but I always think that Keating wished he could paint like Velasquez, the faces in los Barrachos for example vs SK Men of the West
Irish lit was mainly for dads
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Irish lit was mainly for dads
Yes…funny, just got lots of my old books out of storage and it reminded me how we were mad for non Irish lit when I was a nipper (teens-20s), esp Russian, French, Latin American and Japanese.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Yes…funny, just got lots of my old books out of storage and it reminded me how we were mad for non Irish lit when I was a nipper (teens-20s), esp Russian, French, Latin American and Japanese.
Is that almost a rhetorical nicety? Like don’t talk down Irish lit?
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Is that almost a rhetorical nicety? Like don’t talk down Irish lit?