# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Hawk Against the Dove A Powerful New Exhibition Confronting Addiction in Small-town Ireland
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The Hawk Against the Dove

A Powerful Exhibition Confronting Addiction in Small-town Ireland
Exhibition Launch at Art House Athy, 19 July at 3.30PM with acclaimed Athy photographer John Minihan. Athy, Co. Kildare 

The Hawk Against the Dove, a profoundly moving collaboration between Antoinette Foley and James Mahon, premieres this month in Art House. Athy, 42A Leinster Street. 

This powerful collaborative photography exhibition offers an
unflinching portrait of addiction, resilience, and redemption in rural Ireland.
Once associated primarily with urban centres, drug addiction has increasingly taken root in small towns and rural communities.
 The Hawk Against the Dove traces this shift through the lived experience of Antoinette Foley, whose personal journey lays bare
the often-invisible cost of substance abuse in towns like Athy.

Born into a Traveller family, Antoinette’s life spirals following teenage love, heartbreak, and the trauma of family separation. Her descent into addiction is chronicled with raw honesty, from the streets of Athy to the banks of the River Barrow. Yet, at the heart of this story is not only pain, but a fragile, persistent hope – the memory of the girl she once was, and the future she still dares to imagine.

Blending documentary insight with poetic reflection, The Hawk Against the Dove is both a personal and political statement. It confronts the weight of judgment placed on women, Travellers, and addicts, while affirming the power of storytelling as a path to
healing and change.

This timely and resonant work invites audiences to bear witness – not only to struggle, but to survive.


For media enquiries, interviews, press images or further information, please contact:

Anthony Haughey, Director of Art House Athy: haughey.anthony@gmail.com

James Mahon, Photographer and Author: athy2012@gmail.com

Instagram & Facebook: art.house.athy.2025
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kildare/the-hawk-against-the-dove-a-powerful-new-exhibition-confronting-addiction-in-small-town-ireland/200028480895757
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions, art, literary-art, photography, nonprofit, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 52

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Kildare
- **state**: KE
- **country**: Ireland
- **location**: Art House Athy - 41a Leinster Street, Athy, Co.Kildare
- **lat**: 52.992464018544
- **long**: -6.9828665308032
- **full address**: Art House Athy - 41a Leinster Street, Athy, Co.Kildare, 43 Leinster Street, Athy, County Kildare, R14 FK54, Ireland, Kildare

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- **organizer**: Art House Athy (https://allevents.in/org/art-house-athy/25840768)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Art House Athy - 41a Leinster Street, Athy, Co.Kildare, 43 Leinster Street, Athy, County Kildare, R14 FK54, Ireland, Kildare
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Art House Athy
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions, art, literary-art, photography, nonprofit, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Hawk Against the Dove A Powerful New Exhibition Confronting Addiction in Small-town Ireland ?
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