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Artist Adam Doyle’s appearance on Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show last week was his first time on television. In the aftermath, a clip of an interaction between Doyle — who is also known as Spicebag — and Irish Independent Ireland editor Fionnán Sheahan went viral on Twitter.
Adam Doyle, the artist known as Spicebag, could not have foreseen the political ker–fuffle that his digital artwork would cause when he posted the image on Instagram
"The entire controversy over this artwork appears to be a deliberate, and almost laughably clumsy, attempt to distract from the fact that thousands of people in Ireland are currently facing eviction from their homes"
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Dublin City Council has previously sought removal of street art but owner says ‘we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it’
Art History and Cultural Policy Associate Professor, Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald, looks at the controversy this week around a reworked famine-era eviction scene.