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NATIONAL GALLERY GLITCH

December 2, 2021
IT LOOKS like, surprise, surprise, there will be a bunch of empty seats at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) board meetings, as the... Read more »

LARRY BASS’S GOOD NEWS

December 2, 2021
SCREEN IRELAND’S third quarter ‘loans’ for producers popped up online last week and one of the winners is Larry Bass, who exited the RTÉ... Read more »

FILLING THE ARTS COUNCIL

November 18, 2021
WITH THE terms about to expire for half a dozen members of the Arts Council, minister Catherine Martin will be preparing to unveil the... Read more »

CECELIA’S COMPANIES

November 18, 2021
SUPER SCRIBBLER Cecelia Ahern is set to make yet more dosh, with Nicole Kidman having signed up to produce a TV series based on... Read more »

ANNUAL 2021: BEHIND THE SCENES – 2021: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

November 18, 2021
THE SECOND year of the pandemic brought its own problems to the arts and culture sectors but money was not one of them. Truckloads... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S CASTING CALL

November 4, 2021
THE ABBEY Theatre has advertised to fill no less than four vacancies on its depleted board. One of those who might consider throwing in... Read more »

CATHERINE TATE’S TAX BREAK

November 4, 2021
ONE OF the more venerable companies to benefit recently from the latest round of the lucrative Section 481 tax break for film and TV... Read more »

LIR’S ROONEY BOUNCE

October 21, 2021
WHILE NOVELIST Sally Rooney has been generating headlines over her stance on Israel, her influence is also being felt in Trinity College Dublin, where... Read more »

SUSAN BERGIN’S STRATEGY

October 21, 2021
WHEN SCREEN Ireland (SI)chair Susan Bergin and chief executive Desiree Finnegan launched the agency’s strategy, ‘Building for a Creative Future 2024’ earlier this month,... Read more »

DESIREE FINNEGAN’S SCREEN CHALLENGE

October 7, 2021
GIVEN THE release of the widely praised Rose Plays Julie, on the weekend of September 17 (see review p20), Goldhawk took a gander at... Read more »

’KIN’ MONEY

October 7, 2021
WHILE DISENTANGLING the finances of RTÉ‘s latest ‘home-grown’ production, Kin (see The Phoenix 24/9/21) ), a show owned by its Canadian and British co-producers,... Read more »

DAME EDNA’S WINDFALL

September 23, 2021
EARLIER THIS month it was announced that the National Library of Ireland (NLI) had acquired “Edna O’Brien’s Papers (2009-2021)”. The arts and culture minister... Read more »

‘IT’ ON THE FRINGE

September 9, 2021
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, the organisation known as the Trans Writers Union has called for a boycott of the Irish Times and... Read more »

NEESON’S GOOD NEWS

September 9, 2021
SCREEN IRELAND (SI) has finally published details of its funding for this period. Among the winners is a Hollywood ‘co-production’ starring Liam Neeson. Cumulatively,... Read more »

EOIN MCVEY’S FULL BOARD

August 26, 2021
AT LONG last, arts and culture minister Catherine Martin has filled the numerous empty seats on the board of the National Library of Ireland... Read more »

SLOW AHEAD AT MUSEUM

August 26, 2021
WHILE CATHERINE Martin has finally filled the board at the National Library, there is less sign of activity at the National Museum of Ireland,... Read more »

JUSTIN GREEN’S GIGS

August 12, 2021
THE REFUSAL to grant Electric Picnic a licence led to an immediate reaction from promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond of MCD, who said he was... Read more »

TAXMAN PLOT DEVICE

August 12, 2021
IN A bumper year for the country’s ‘independent’ film and TV producers, 33 were given the green light by the Revenue in the second... Read more »

LIZ BRENNAN’S BUDGET

July 29, 2021
PERHAPS THE new chair of Screen Ireland, Susan Bergin, might move to speed up the publishing of its funding decisions. It can take a... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

July 29, 2021
WITH A fair amount of moolah sloshing around the arts world these days, it is not surprising that the Arts Council has announced the... Read more »

MUSICIANS’ BUM NOTE

July 15, 2021
THE MUSIC has stopped for the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA) with the limited company behind the lobby group now in... Read more »

KEVIN BARRY’S NEW SCREENPLAY?

July 15, 2021
FANS OF novelist Kevin Barry’s award-winning City of Bohane could be in for a treat with the scribbler having incorporated a film production company.... Read more »

DESMOND’S HIGH NOTES

July 1, 2021
SINCE THE pandemic kicked in, arts minister Catherine Martin has been handing out grants like snuff at a wake and her latest announcement related... Read more »

IFTAS ‘GLITZ AND GLAM’

July 1, 2021
ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual IFTA gong show will be brought to you by Virgin Media One on July 4, and fronted by Gráinne Seoige (remember... Read more »

ANGELINE’S HIDDEN ASSETS

June 17, 2021
THE PROPOSED new TV series, Hidden Assets, first turned up on Goldhawk’s radar when Screen Ireland dished out €300,000 to production company Saffron Moon... Read more »

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

June 17, 2021
WHEN BUSY arts minister Catherine Martin found time last week to officially open the latest (photographic) exhibition at the National Library of Ireland (NLI),... Read more »

LIQUIDATING THE STRYPES

June 3, 2021
THE STRYPES, like a succession of Irish bands, were once (not so long ago) the next big thing but announced their break-up in 2018.... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND MOOLAH

June 3, 2021
SCREEN IRELAND has announced its funding decision for the first quarter of 2021. The loans are the first to be published since the recently... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR NCAD

May 20, 2021
SIMON HARRIS has advertised for expressions of interest from candidates interested in serving on the board of the beleaguered National College of Art and... Read more »

MARY KELLY’S PRODUCTION

May 20, 2021
CHANGE IS in the air at Wexford Festival Opera (see p18) but the good news is that the finances have started to look healthier,... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR NCAD

May 20, 2021
SIMON HARRIS has advertised for expressions of interest from candidates interested in serving on the board of the beleaguered National College of Art and... Read more »

MARY KELLY’S PRODUCTION

May 20, 2021
CHANGE IS in the air at Wexford Festival Opera (see p18) but the good news is that the finances have started to look healthier,... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S COLLECTION

May 6, 2021
THE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has added a “significant body of artworks” to the national collection, having allocated €1m to IMMA and the Crawford... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL TIGHTENS UP

May 6, 2021
THE CHARITIES Regulatory Authority (CRA) has just published a notice relating to a move by the Arts Council to combine nine trust funds where... Read more »

GERRY O’BRIEN’S SEQUEL

April 22, 2021
IT IS safe to say that the ‘Irish Film Agreement’ inked by Irish Actors Equity and Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) won’t be winning script... Read more »

OPEN CALL WINNERS

April 22, 2021
WHILE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has been throwing millions of euro at the arts during the pandemic, the Arts Council has also been getting... Read more »