ANNUAL 2020 – ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: 2020: CANCEL CULTURE, COVID AND CONTROVERSY
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WILD MOUNTAIN JAM
November 19, 2020
THE NATIONAL public broadcaster as well as the rest of the media (social and otherwise) got their knickers in a twist over Emily Blunt... Read more »
LEO’S NEXT CHAIR
November 19, 2020
ONE OF the next appointments to be made by Leo Varadkar in his role as enterprise minister is the chair of the Design and... Read more »
PAT MOLLOY’S SUCCESSOR
November 5, 2020
STILL NO sign of the 2018 accounts at Dublin’s Hugh Lane, where there is finally to be a change at the top, with ex-banker... Read more »
FUNDING LILY-ROSE DEPP
November 5, 2020
THERE’S LITTLE doubt Irish film and television producers are having a bad year, but at least they (and their international cast members) continue to... Read more »
JOHN GORMLEY’S NEXT ROLE?
October 22, 2020
AT LONG last, culture minister Catherine Martin has advertised the board vacancies left unfilled since March at Desiree Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI). Indeed, Martin... Read more »
RAAP RAPPED
October 22, 2020
THERE WAS an interesting little ruling published last week linked to the bitter dispute between Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP) and Phonographic Performance (Ireland),... Read more »
NUALA O’CONNOR’S NEW GIG
October 8, 2020
THE APPOINTMENT of Nuala O’Connor to the government’s Future of Media Commission may draw some attention to one of the more successful production partnerships... Read more »
ROSE MCHUGH’S GOOD NEWS
October 8, 2020
ROSE MCHUGH, Crawford Art Gallery chair, was smiling last month when the government finally put some real money on the table for the long-overdue... Read more »
SI’S SMALL CAST
September 24, 2020
WITH SCREEN Ireland splashing more ‘development’ cash on another tranche of Covid-dependent producers, following its earlier ‘strategic slate development’ effort, it turns out that... Read more »
VIRTUAL AWARDS
September 24, 2020
BACK IN July, Áine Moriarty’s Irish Film & Television Academy announced the nominees for this year’s (and last year’s) IFTA film and drama awards.... Read more »
LOUISE O’NEILL’S OUTSIDER
September 10, 2020
SPARE A thought for Ian Bailey, who is well used to finding himself in the media spotlight. Now, on top of never-ending legal battles,... Read more »
AUDIT’S PREDICTABLE PLOT
September 10, 2020
THE OVERDUE ‘audit’ of the independent film and TV drama production sector by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) was released last month, but it... Read more »
VALUING LOUIS LE BROCQUY
August 27, 2020
NEXT MONTH’S auction by Sotheby’s of 19 works owned by Mick Smurfit should shine some light on the current perceived worth of a painting... Read more »
ALAN DUGGAN’S LOBBYING
August 27, 2020
IT WAS only a matter of months after James Hickey retired from the chief executive role at Screen Ireland that he landed some new... Read more »
MOOLAH FOR SI BOARD MEMBERS
August 13, 2020
THE RELEASE date for Screen Ireland’s annual report is always unheralded and slow to arrive. While Goldhawk is regularly told to wait for the... Read more »
THE GREAT BOOK’S BENEFICIARIES
August 13, 2020
WITH RTÉ preparing to broadcast a documentary next week on The Great Book of Ireland (GBI), maybe some light will be thrown on the... Read more »
IFTA’S VIRTUAL PLOT
July 30, 2020
FOLLOWING THE announcement of Áine Moriarty’s IFTA nominees for 2020 and, er, 2019 (sort of), there was the inevitable clamour about the omission of... Read more »
TAXING TIMES IN CARLOW
July 30, 2020
FANS of Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that Carlow County Council has had to bail out the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow.... Read more »
DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S NEW FUND
July 16, 2020
LOOKING AT the lists of recent handouts from Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI), it is unclear if need has been taken into consideration when... Read more »
THE PEOPLE’S THEATRE
July 16, 2020
WITH THEATRES particularly badly affected by Covid-19 and suggestions that people are in no hurry to return to the enclosed venues, Goldhawk wonders what... Read more »
ROSE McHUGH’S GOOD NEWS
July 2, 2020
ON HER way out the door of the Department of Culture, Josepha Madigan dished out €102,000 to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. It... Read more »
SARAH DILLON’S WRAPPED HANDOUTS
July 2, 2020
FANS OF GOLDHAWK will be familiar with the workings of the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s (Wrap) Fund, headed up by Sarah Dillon. It is... Read more »
BONO’S FILM STUDIO ROLE?
June 18, 2020
THE NEWS that James Morris and Alan Moloney’s proposed 48-acre film studio and ‘media park’ in west Dublin is to involve the son of... Read more »
RHA GALLERY’S ROADMAP
June 18, 2020
THE GOOD news is that the RHA Gallery re-opens in late July, although a max of 40 visitors an hour will be permitted, with... Read more »
JIGS AND REELS AND LEGAL FEES
June 4, 2020
A THIRD set of High Court proceedings has just been initiated in connection with a row between some high-profile Irish traditional music and dance... Read more »
SPINNING AT LISSADELL
June 4, 2020
WITH THE music festival season shot to bits, the only light at the end of the tunnel is the announcement by the owners of... Read more »
SKELETON CREW AT SCREEN IRELAND
June 4, 2020
THE BOARD of Screen Ireland (SI) is looking pretty depleted these days, with the terms of three board members having ended in March –... Read more »
MIRIAM ALLEN’S EDIT
May 21, 2020
IN THE wake of similar announcements from Galway 2020 and the Galway Arts Festival, Galway Film Fleadh (GFF) chief executive Miriam Allen announced earlier... Read more »
UPDATING THE HERITAGE COUNCIL
May 21, 2020
AS THE coalition negotiations drag on, more state boards are running out of time. One of these is the Heritage Council, where historian and... Read more »
EOIN COLFER’S COFFEE
May 7, 2020
BESTSELLING children’s fantasy fiction writer Eoin Colfer got a pat on the back recently from the Irish Mail on Sunday, which headlined a gushing... Read more »
ELAINE GERAGHTY’S SURVEY
May 7, 2020
THE PANDEMIC has put a stop to assorted film and TV productions and has shone a spotlight on the precarious nature of work in... Read more »
CATHAL GAFFNEY’S SIX SHOOTS
April 23, 2020
THE FILM and TV business is going through an existential Covid-19 downtime, but the public purse is always open, as evidenced by the latest... Read more »
JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S LEGACY
April 23, 2020
WHILE COMMENTATORS speculate on the make-up of any new cabinet, culture minister Josepha Madigan’s name is noticeable by its absence. She has only herself... Read more »
TRISTAN’S GOOD NEWS
April 9, 2020
JUST AS the nation’s film and TV producers are facing into the Covid-19 production abyss, Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has announced the... Read more »
JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S PR INITIATIVE
April 9, 2020
JOSEPHA MADIGAN suffered some Covid-19 political pain when her PR initiative to provide funding for artists and pat herself on the back was met... Read more »