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The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, TU Dublin, Autumn Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special civic and community activities which the students and staff members of the school across our (3) three campuses have successfully completed up to the Autumn period of 2022. The successful completion of these activities would not be possible without the active and on-going support of the 'INSPIRED' friends of Culinary Arts (school supporters) and our school's industry association supporters.

This case study explores the techniques used to interpret a commemorative exhibition staged in Dublin city library between the 14th of August and the 31st of October, 2019. The case discusses the way in which multiple media were employed to communicate the exhibition narrative to visitors, and how this resulted in very emotive, personal and meaningful visitor experiences. Through the use of a range of audio-visuals, original images, text, memorabilia and guided tours, the exhibition provided a multi-sensory experience, that engaged different cohorts of visitors with the collections, information and ideas on display. They provided a powerful means of immersing visitors, linking key events, conveying information through both textual and visual narratives, and offered different ways for visitors to interact with the exhibition.

The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, TU Dublin, Summer Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special civic and community activities which the students and staff members of the school (across our three campuses in Grangegorman, Tallaght and Blanchardstown) have successfully completed up to the Summer period of 2022. The successful completion of these activities would not be possible without the active and on-going support of the 'INSPIRED' friends of Culinary Arts (school supporters) and our school's industry association supporters.

Politicians and public representatives lay wreaths on Michael Collins' pristinely kept grave at official ceremonies on anniversaries and other State occasions. But who are the people that tend to the grave on a regular basis?

August 22nd is the 100th anniversary of the death of Michael Collins. His life has surpassed living memory, but he still continues to captivate people's imagination generations later. So why are people still so fascinated with Collins?

Visual images play an important role in helping us to interpret the past. Although they give us insight into now untenable moments, places and people that are beyond living memory, visual images are carefully constructed and without providing proper context, they risk distorting our view of history.

It is a measure of how much Anglo-Irish relations have changed in modern times that there was no surprise when it was announced that President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin would attend the funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. When Queen Elizabeth's father and predecessor as British monarch, King George VI, died on February 6th, 1952, there was almost zero public expectation that then president, Sean T. O'Kelly, and then Taoiseach Eamon de Valera, would attend the obsequies in London.

As a researcher, art historian and evaluator of a particular kind of art practice called socially engaged art, I am often met by the general public's uncertainty as to what this kind of art is. In contrast the term community arts is a familiar one and is used regularly to describe a wide variety of art practices taking place in and with particular communities.