Behind the Scenes Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

ABBEY BOARD’S SCRIPT

April 18, 2019
GOLDHAWK was interested to know how the Abbey board reacted to last year’s decision... Read more »

ADDING UP IN CORK

April 18, 2019
THE FALLOUT from the Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, has affected a number of... Read more »

JOHN GLEESON’S NEW PLOT

April 18, 2019
THE ACCOUNTANCY profession has expanded significantly since the financial services sector was freed of... Read more »

BARBARA DAWSON’S PLAN

April 4, 2019
IT’S SLOW ahead at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where director Barbara Dawson and her... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S BURSARIES MK II

April 4, 2019
THIS MONTH, applications close for the ‘Markievicz bursaries’ (mark II) and it promises to... Read more »

THE TAXMAN COMETH… EVENTUALLY

April 4, 2019
BACK IN November 2014, Goldhawk put a few queries to Revenue as the country’s... Read more »

NO QUEUE TO SUCCEED PRATSCHKE

March 21, 2019
CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan’s search for the next chair of the Arts Council has... Read more »

SLOWLY DOES AT IVEAGH HOUSE

March 21, 2019
DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk reveal that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created... Read more »

MORE HAPPY ENDINGS FOR FILM PRODUCERS

March 21, 2019
BY HAPPY coincidence, figures have emerged from three separate film and television funding schemes... Read more »

MARIAN KEYES’S MAKE-UP

March 7, 2019
THIS MONTH the long list for the first Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) prize... Read more »

BISI BLOCKED

March 7, 2019
SPARE A thought for playwright Bisi Adigun. The Supreme Court has found that the... Read more »

CONOR BARRY’S ‘HOLE IN THE GROUND’

March 7, 2019
IRISH HORROR films and psychological thrillers have not fared well at the box office.... Read more »

NEIL MURRAY’S TACTICS

February 21, 2019
ALMOST A month after the Abbey Theatre found itself the star of yet another... Read more »

REGIME CHANGE ON MERRION SQUARE

February 21, 2019
WATCH OUT for an advert seeking to fill vacancies in the Arts Council. Given... Read more »

TAXMAN STARS IN ARTHOUSE DRAMA

February 21, 2019
JUST WHEN the dust seemed to have settled on Galway’s dalliance with ‘cultural cinema’... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BOTCHED BURSARIES

February 7, 2019
FANS OF The Phoenix will not have been surprised to hear about the sudden... Read more »

VAL RUTTLEDGE’S CHOCOLATE SURPRISE

February 7, 2019
INTERESTING to see Dublin City Council (DCC) getting exercised about a plan by an... Read more »

DEIRDRE DONAGHY’S PLOT SPOILER

February 7, 2019
THE OIREACHTAS Budgetary Oversight Committee had a recent session on tax expenditures (wake up... Read more »

ROBERT BALLAGH’S ART PROBLEM

January 24, 2019
THE OUTBREAK of tut-tutting over Robert Ballagh’s complaint about the lack of Irish players... Read more »

AFTER JAMES HICKEY AT SCREEN IRELAND

January 24, 2019
ON A rare joint appearance on radio with Screen Ireland (SI) chair Annie Doona,... Read more »

ANN MULROONEY’S SUCCESSOR

January 24, 2019
THE HUNT is under way for a new chief executive/artistic director for the VISUAL... Read more »

PASS THE FERRERO ROCHER

January 10, 2019
THE APPOINTMENT this week of an Irish five-a-side squad of “cultural ambassadors” marks the... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S PRESSIE

January 10, 2019
’TWAS BUT a week before Christmas and all were asleep when Josepha Madigan bestowed... Read more »

EUGENE DOWNES’S NEXT JOB?

January 10, 2019
GOLDHAWK was interested to see an advert for the new role of cultural director... Read more »

BUSY TIMES AT ANNAGH-MAKERRIG

December 13, 2018
EARLIER THIS year, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan spent a... Read more »

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

December 13, 2018
THE PERIOD from mid-November through to mid-January is traditionally a nervy time for idle... Read more »

CURTIN CALL AT THE ABBEY

December 13, 2018
WHILE THE Abbey Theatre’s imported Christmas show, Come From Away, has attracted lots of... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BIASED BURSARIES

November 29, 2018
NOT SURPRISINGLY, there was little (ie no) outcry after Josepha Madigan unveiled the government’s... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S NEW NUMBER CRUNCHER

November 29, 2018
CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan has been busy making appointments to the boards of some... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL VS GRAHAM McLAREN

November 29, 2018
IT’S THE time of year when our two biggest institutions announce winter and spring... Read more »

AFTER FILMBASE IN TEMPLE BAR

November 15, 2018
THE APPLICATIONS are in from arts organisations seeking to move their headquarters to the... Read more »

REPLACING JOHN MCAULIFFE

November 15, 2018
AFTER FIVE years, John McAuliffe has finished his term as a member (and deputy... Read more »

SOAKING UP THOSE FILM FUNDS

November 15, 2018
ANNIE DOONA’S Screen Ireland posted its third-quarter funding allocations last week. As with every... Read more »

NATIONAL THEATRE’S US IMPORT

November 1, 2018
FANS OF Irish theatre got a treat this week when RTÉ broadcast a show... Read more »

BOOK AWARDS BEANO

November 1, 2018
THERE WAS an exuberant gushing plug for the annual Irish Book Awards in the... Read more »

SIÚN NÍ RAGHALLAIGH’S GOOD NEWS

November 1, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised by the inclusion in Pascal Donohoe’s... Read more »