Cork In 50 Artworks, No 20: Mural on Opera House wall, Half Moon Street 

The collaboration between a French and Irish artist incorporates graffiti into its panels of portrayals of Irish writers 

Mary Hickson of Cork Opera House with artists Psychonautes and Dusto in 2013. Picture: Clare Keogh

If you look the mural filling the various spaces of the Opera House Wall on Half Moon Street in Cork, it would be easy to surmise it had been targeted by graffiti. Actually, those tags were all part of the plan.

 Street artist Adam 'Dusto' O’Connor, who created the mural with French artist Psychonautes, recalls how the brief was that the Opera House was unhappy with illegal graffiti on the wall, and wanted to get rid of it.