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Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
Ealaíontóir - Artist

Email: caoimhghin@yahoo.com

 

Refugee
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in
 


Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

 is an Irish artist, lecturer and writer who has exhibited widely around Ireland.
His work consists of paintings based on cityscapes of Dublin, Irish history and geopolitical themes.
 

INTERVIEW

culturico.com

Podcast #16 – Unromantic, Political Art: An Interview with Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

https://culturico.com/2023/08/16/unromantic-political-art-an-interview-with-caoimhghin-o-croidheain/
 

BOOK

Against Romanticism: From Enlightenment to Enfrightenment and the Culture of Slavery

http://gaelart.net/againstromanticism.html

 

BOOK

Language from Below: The Irish Language, Ideology and Power in 20th Century Ireland 

http://gaelart.net/lfbpage.html

 

ARTICLES

Published list in Globalresearch.ca

https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/caoimhghin-croidhe-in


 

BLOG

Articles on culture as well as a database of Realist and Social Realist art from around the world

http://gaelart.blogspot.com/

 

DATABASE

Samples of social realist art from around the world with short bios of the artists

http://gaelart.net/worldart.html

 

AGALLAMH · INTERVIEW

Ar Raidió na Life & Near FM (2023) le Darren J. Prior / Mac an Phríora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0_or6Dpbk&list=PL8y5aQrHHlClTHqYasqV5M1fHluyzSXXy&index=5

 

 
 

PAINTINGS
 



Sapere Aude!
Oil on canvas / 60cm x 60cm

 






Crisis? What Crisis?
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in

 


 

Amazon
Oil on canvas / 60cm x 60cm

 





False Flag Attack
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 





Spraymen
Digital illustration
 

 





Colour Revolutions:
Orange Revolution - Ukraine, Green Revolution - Iran, Jeans Revolution - Belarus
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in

 




Death by State
(Alton Sterling, Sherman Evans, Philando Castile)
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 


 



Humanitarian Warfare
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 






Syrian Children
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in
 


 



Death and Modernity:
Torture, Suicide Bomber and Aerial Bombardment.
Oil on canvas  / 450cm x 150cm


 

 






Slum World:
Mumbai, India / Nairobi, Kenya / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oil on canvas  / 450cm x 150cm


 






Recycling the Poor:
Rubbish Dump Recycling, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Phone Recycling, Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India and Ship Dismantling, Alang Shipyard, India.

Oil on canvas  / 450cm x 150cm


 





Baltimore Riots
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 





Blue Skies, Blue Seas, Blue Gloves:
Mediterranean Migrants
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in



 






Kathmandu Earthquake
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 






Gaza Ambulance
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 






Media Studies, Libya
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in


 






Climate Chaos
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in


 






Australia Mining
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in
Indigenous Peoples and Mining


 






Bangladeshi Factory
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in


 






Mexican Border
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in

 




Environ-mental: Climate Chaos and Pollution
Oil on canvas / 120cm x 120cm / 47 in x 47 in



 






War Triptych



 





The Struggle for Africa:
Ogaden, Ethiopia; Street Battles, The Congo and Duékoué, Côte d'Ivoire
Triptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 180cm / 23.6 in x 70.6 in


 




City Demonstrations: Madrid and Athens
Diptych / Oil on canvas / 60cm x 120cm / 23.6 in x 47 in


 




Mustard Gas
Oil on canvas / 50cm x 60cm / 19.7 in x 23.6 in

 






Immigrant
Oil on canvas / 50cm x 60cm / 19.7 in x 23.6 in


 






Massacre Marketing
Oil on canvas / 50cm x 60cm / 19.7 in x 23.6 in


 






Drone Victim, Pakistan

Oil on canvas / 60cm x 60cm / 23.6 in x 23.6 in


 





Room Without a View
Oil on canvas / 60cm x 80cm / 23.6 in x 31.5 in


 






The Bullet and the Damage Done
Cairo Demonstrators, Egypt

Oil on canvas / 70cm x 100cm / 27.6 in x 39.4 in


 




Hommage à Haiti
Oil on canvas / 150cm x 150cm / 59.1 in x 59.1 in


 


 

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