Past Exhibitions at MoLI

HOLY SHOW

22 October – 27 June 2025

An annual arts journal and production house, Holy Show presents Irish life through the eyes of writers and artists. This exhibition assembled a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the first six issues of the magazine, celebrating its explosive impact on Irish cultural life.

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Is this a poem?

23 February 2024 – 22 September 2024

This was an exhibition about pushing the boundaries of poetry. Visitors could explore the entire museum to discover works of poetry that exist beyond the page: poems that are sound, sculpture, image, film, short performances, software, and objects you could touch.

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Belfield Literary Review

The  Belfield Literary Review  is a new annual journal, which has grown out of the creative writing community in University College Dublin, and which deals with the interface between critical and creative work, hybrid texts and the experimental. Edited by Paul Perry with guest editors, this beautifully-produced journal aims to ...

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Writer's Room at MoLI

In collaboration with UCD and the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, MoLI is now taking applications from writers to avail of the Writers Room at MoLI .  This tranquil and secluded creative space will be timetabled exclusively for writers’ use 7 days-a-week, providing a much-needed retreat in a city ...

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all these words

1 November – 1 May 2023

all these words was an immersive audio-visual experience of Samuel Beckett’s novel, The Unnamable, which marked the end of his one and only ‘frenzy of writing’ and haunted much of his subsequent work in the theatre.

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Conveying Space

1 July 2022 – 1 November 2022

Conveying Space was a commissioned exhibition that captured the atmospheric qualities of the architecture on Belfield campus. It emphasised the interaction between structure and natural light. 

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