Article Category: Behind the Scenes

EMER MARTIN Vs EDNA O’BRIEN

April 19, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS are due to writer-cum-filmaker Emer Martin, who gave Dame Edna O’Brien both barrels... Read more »

DRAMATIC HAND-OUTS FROM THE BAI

April 19, 2018
THE LATEST round of the Sound & Vision fund run by Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting... Read more »

‘Appalling waste’

April 5, 2018
LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S €7M PLOT SPOILER

April 5, 2018
ON THE last Dáil sitting day before Easter, March 29, the five members present... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

April 5, 2018
ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

March 22, 2018
IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

March 22, 2018
NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way... Read more »

HUNT MUSEUM’S HUNT is OVER

March 22, 2018
THE LONG vacant position of director and chief executive of the Hunt Museum has... Read more »

GERRY GANNON’S GET-OUT CLAUSE

March 8, 2018
AS INCOMING director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) Lynn Scarff prepares for... Read more »

MUSIC FESTIVAL’S SOUR NOTE

March 8, 2018
SPARE A thought for the team behind New Music Dublin (NMD) festival. Thanks to... Read more »

McGUCKIAN’S DIRECTOR’S CUT

March 8, 2018
Although The total cost of the Section 481 tax credit for filmmakers in 2017... Read more »

LITTLE DRAMA AT THEATRE AWARDS

February 22, 2018
THIS WEEKEND in the National Concert Hall, the theatre industry’s glitterati will dutifully assemble... Read more »

US Arts Dosh

February 22, 2018
WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under... Read more »

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

February 8, 2018
IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for... Read more »

Yeats masterpiece

February 8, 2018
GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York... Read more »

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

February 8, 2018
THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the... Read more »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018
THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018
THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards... Read more »

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

January 25, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

January 11, 2018
TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL’S ART ATTACK

January 11, 2018
THE 2016 annual report of the Arts Council was published recently and includes some... Read more »

Pálás Programmes

January 11, 2018
GOLDHAWK has reported on the tortuous (torturous?) development of Galway’s bijou art-house cinema, Cinema... Read more »

U2’s album reviews

December 14, 2017
EVER SINCE U2 released the critical and commercial flop No Line On The Horizon... Read more »

TICKING BOXES AT THE ABBEY

December 14, 2017
ABBEY THEATRE co-directors Neil Murray and Graham McLaren have ruffled a few Irish feathers... Read more »

IT’S A SMALL WORLD

November 30, 2017
WHILE THE most talked about article in last week’s Irish Times Christmas supplement was,... Read more »

ARTS HEADS PLAYING CATCH-UP

November 30, 2017
LAST WEEK’S sitting of the joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht focused... Read more »

FICTION LAUREATES LINE UP

November 30, 2017
IT’S THAT time of year again, when the great and good of the Irish... Read more »

Selina Cartmell’s Good News

November 2, 2017
WITH the Gate Theatre’s new director, Selina Cartmell, now well ensconced in her office,... Read more »

HANDOUT TIME AT THE IRISH FILM BOARD

November 2, 2017
WHILE THE global film business focuses on Harvey Weinstein’s unmasking, it was business as... Read more »

John McAuliffe’s broadside

November 2, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the attack on culture... Read more »

THE SQUEEZE OF TROY

October 19, 2017
ON AUGUST 24 last an interesting advert appeared on the UK film and TV... Read more »

Pratschke v Humphreys

October 19, 2017
IT’S A TRYING time at the Arts Council where they have just lost a... Read more »