Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- Staff Reporter

Acclaimed Irish visual artist Oona Hyland has inaugurated her solo exhibition titled "An Duanaire: Visual Poems of the Dispossessed" at the Garden Gallery in Baridhara, marking the first-ever solo showcase by an Irish artist in Bangladesh.

The exhibition, organized jointly by Gallery Cosmos and the Embassy of Ireland under the Ireland-Bangladesh Art Exchange Programme, aims to deepen artistic collaboration and foster cultural dialogue between the two nations.

Irish Ambassador to Bangladesh Kevin Kelly, who is based in New Delhi, opened the exhibition and praised the initiative as a "dynamic platform for creative partnership." He highlighted Hyland's three-week residency in Dhaka as a landmark in Ireland'...