Project Arts Centre is delighted to present A disentailing deed, a visual arts exhibition by Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty exploring how cultural, political and environmental issues are affected by ideas of ‘Irishness’, as shaped by popular constructions of history. Running from 7th August – 10th October 2026 at Project Arts Centre, this event – the artists’ largest presentation to date – will feature video installation, sculpture, painting, and a live music performance.

A Disentailing deed brings together many strands from the artists’ collaborative practice, drawing on their extensive research into Irish and diasporic histories. Two video installations, originally commissioned for the 41st Eva International—Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Arts, have been specially configured for us here at Project Arts Centre. One, presented as a bilingual karaoke-style video, features a newly composed song about land ownership and popular resistance in North Sligo, while the other presents ‘patriotic’ American firework shows as a mirror image of the state violence they commemorate.

A number of historical objects have been hand-replicated by the artists, each chosen for the physical traces and overlapping stories of emigration and political struggle they contain. A newly composed score will accompany the exhibition, inspired by marching tunes once played by the students of the Royal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park, which trained boys for combat in the British Army until the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922.