Artist Michael Holly continues his ONLY IN ASKEATON series of films in the West Limerick landscape, to investigate and offer new viewpoints and ideas to how we live in an enriching land.
In mid-2025, his fieldwork in the region’s infrastructure takes a broad scope, from a proposed fracked gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary to the medieval Ardshanbally broach-pin, unearthed during excavation works for a new motorway underway. Probing the complex reasons for these scenarios – from Adare’s affluent billions, Ryder Cup golf, and a new age of industrialisation – he muses on intersecting politics of commerce, heritage and ecology. Ardshanbally is realised in collaboration with Tony Lowes, writer, activist and founder of Friends of the Irish Environment.