[2] Array Collective's activities have included placard-making workshops and participating in activist events and demonstrations with elaborate costumes and props.
The event was conceived as "a wake for the centenary of Ireland’s partition",[9] "which involved a phantasmagoria of performances, stories and wild costumes bringing a carnivalesque lightness to an often dark, difficult and divided political backdrop".
[1][2] The installation took the form of an immersive síbín space [anglicised spelling shebeen] or a “pub without permission”,[10] filled with banners, photographs, ashtrays, and snacks.
[5] The performers of "The Druithaib's Ball" event and subsequent installation are Vasiliki Stasinaki, Richard O’Leary, Cleamairí Feirste, Phillip Hession, Méabh Meir and Rosa Tralee.
[13] The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones questioned the "aesthetic achievement" of the installation while noting how it represented the "work of people who deploy their gifts in useful ways far from London galleries".
[14] The Druithaib's Ball came to viral prominence in early 2022 when TikTok content creator @itsreefa uploaded an 8-second long video entitled, "Welcome to Coventry " on 12 January.