The Swallow - VISUAL

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art &
The George Bernard Shaw Theatre

The Swallow

An isolated artist reflects on memory, loss, and art’s immortality while writing in a cluttered, sea-threatened home.

Sunday 16 November 2025, 3pm, CLUB |

Admission: €7 including booking fee

Book Tickets
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An artist, isolated from the world but not from her memories, unpacks the remnants of a life long-lived and tries to make sense of her own unwillingness to let go.

In a small house by the sea, a woman begins a letter to an unknown correspondent. Surrounded by the books, mementoes and clutter of her life, her home exposed to the waves of a rising ocean, she writes about the history of lost art. Considering what has been lost, and wondering about her own desire to hold on, she meditates on memory and on art’s aspiration to immortality.

Director: Tadhg O'Sullivan

71 mins | Ireland | 2023 | CLUB

Tickets can be purchased online, in person or over the phone at Box Office. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Wheelchair users and any group over 8 persons should book tickets directly through Box Office. Further Terms and Conditions can be found at visualcarlow.ie/visit/booking-information.

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