Article Category: Behind the Scenes

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EXPERTS

November 30, 2023
THE CLOSING date for applications to join the expert advisory committee of Culture Ireland (CI) has now passed, although it is unclear just how... Read more »

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TAX TREATS

November 30, 2023
A PERUSAL of the list of beneficiaries of the Section 481 tax credit in the first nine months of 2023 reveals that 82 productions... Read more »

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SISTERS CASHING IN

November 15, 2023
AS USUAL, it was rather late in the day (and following a couple of queries by Goldhawk) when Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) eventually... Read more »

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REVIEWING PAUL MURRAY

November 15, 2023
ON NOVEMBER 26 assorted scribblers will find out if they have landed the literary sales steroid that is the Booker Prize. Two Irish novelists... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023 – AIRWAVES – 2023: RTÉ’S END GAME?

November 15, 2023
AFTER YEARS of dire warnings about incompetent management, waste and dubious work practices, the scandal surrounding secret payments to Ryan Tubridy finally laid bare... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: BEHIND THE SCENES – BONO, BANSHEES AND BRENDAN BEHAN

November 15, 2023
ONCE AGAIN, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton and The Edge managed to grab much of the entertainment media’s focus in 2023, notably thanks... Read more »

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ORLAITH McBRIDE’S ARCHIVES

November 2, 2023
INTERESTING TO see that arts and culture minister Catherine Martin found time last week to drop into the €2.4m pa National Archives of Ireland... Read more »

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BIENNALE BOO-BOO

November 2, 2023
IT LOOKS like the Arts Council and Culture Ireland got a little ahead of themselves earlier this year when they advertised for expressions of... Read more »

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McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT

October 18, 2023
THE NEWS that the first budget script of finance minister Michael McGrath contained extra moolah for the country’s movie moguls was greeted with the... Read more »

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NEW CAST FOR THEATRE FESTIVAL

October 18, 2023
WITH THE Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) having wound down this week, there will be a couple of new faces added to the cast, although... Read more »

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MOOLAH IN MONAGHAN

October 5, 2023
THE NEWS that the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists, which is located in Annaghmakerrig, is to benefit to the tune of €1.5m for a... Read more »

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McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD

September 21, 2023
THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According to... Read more »

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ON THE FRINGE

September 21, 2023
AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union (TWU)... Read more »

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MARTIN DYAR’S LISTOWEL GIG

September 7, 2023
THIS WEEK sees the new director of Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) festival unveiled and it is clear that, unlike his predecessor, Martin Dyar is... Read more »

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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S LABEL

September 7, 2023
AS HOZIER’S new album, Unreal Unearth, continues to generate oodles of hype, both here and abroad, it is interesting to see that the record... Read more »

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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR

August 24, 2023
INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most of... Read more »

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FILM BOARD’S DIVERSE CAST

August 10, 2023
TO THE surprise of absolutely no one, arts minister Catherine Martin has yet to fill two seats on the Screen Ireland (SI) board, which... Read more »

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COVENEY’S NEW CHAIR

August 10, 2023
UNLIKE SCREEN Ireland, whose board members receive not a cent in fees, the directors of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) are... Read more »

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FERGUS CRONIN’S NEXT GIG

July 27, 2023
THE REMARKABLE level of promotion of the debut collection of short stories from septuagenarian businessman-turned-scribbler Fergus Cronin continues to impress Goldhawk. The latest gig... Read more »

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MACDARA’S NEW CAST

July 27, 2023
THIRD PLACE on the list of Screen Ireland’s upcoming productions is an “Untitled Universal Monster Thriller”, which is being produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures... Read more »

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RICHARD FORD’S FESTIVITIES

July 13, 2023
MAUREEN KENNELLY’S support of the new regime at Listowel Writers’ Week looks likely to land the Kerry gig a rather high-profile new president –... Read more »

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WHAT RICHARD SAID

July 13, 2023
IN THE midst of sell-out hearings into the RTÉ debacle, there was a near-empty Dáil for the sitting to adopt the report of the... Read more »

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LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK SEQUEL

June 29, 2023
EARLIER THIS month, the first Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) under the new regime, following something of a clear-out at the long-running literary gig late... Read more »

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FAT LADY SINGS

June 15, 2023
SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted opera,... Read more »

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DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY

June 15, 2023
BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual.... Read more »

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PROMOTING FERGUS CRONIN

June 1, 2023
CONGRATULATIONS TO scribbler Fergus Cronin, whose debut collection of short stories, Night Music, has attracted the sort of promotion and exposure usually only afforded... Read more »

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CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

May 18, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the rather glossy-looking Beginnings, a book commissioned by the Art Council to mark 40 years of artists’ organisation Aosdána, where... Read more »

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FAREWELL

May 18, 2023
SO, FAREWELL then The Drama Academy Development Company (DADC) in Trinity College. While a separate company, which is behind the high-profile Lir drama academy,... Read more »

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THEATRE FESTIVAL’S DIVERSITY PLOT

May 3, 2023
LAST MONTH, the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) issued a call for potential directors. It looks like David Nolan’s board is anxious to avoid the... Read more »

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CILLIAN MURPHY’S FOREIGN AFFAIR

April 19, 2023
IT IS not well understood by the public that most of the taxpayers’ moolah that subsidises film production in Ireland is soaked up by... Read more »

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STANLEY’S STRATEGY

April 19, 2023
THE QUEEN of the Body & Soul festival in Ballinlough Castle, Avril Stanley, announced recently that she has cut the shindig’s capacity by almost... Read more »

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CHASING ‘BACHELOR’S WALK’

April 6, 2023
DOCUMENTS RELEASED to Goldhawk reveal the pressure arts minister Catherine Martin came under in 2021 to come up with the readies to enable the... Read more »

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SUSAN BERGIN’S WINNING BOARD MEMBERS

April 5, 2023
AT LAST, the 2021 annual report of Susan Bergin’s Screen Ireland (SI) board has appeared in a discreet corner of the agency website. In... Read more »

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IMMA’S NEW CHAIR

March 23, 2023
THERE IS set to be a change at the top in Imma, with broadcasting entrepreneur David Harvey stepping down as chairman after seven-and-a-half years.... Read more »

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NEIL JORDAN’S ‘MARLOWE’

March 23, 2023
IT’S NOT necessarily a good look for a film when the names in the credits immediately after the lead actor are those of the... Read more »

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ARTS COUNCIL EXIT

March 8, 2023
THERE WERE some significant developments in the Arts Council last month, including the sudden exit of council officer Rachel West, probably best known for... Read more »

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