Article Category: Behind the Scenes

MUSEUM PIECE

June 4, 2026

THE CLOSING date for applications for the job of director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) has passed and Cathal O’Donoghue’s board... Read more »

CRAWFORD’S GALLERY SPACE

May 21, 2026

WITH A whopping €94m redevelopment project on the go at the Crawford Art Gallery (CAG) in Cork, it is not surprising that culture... Read more »

PEARSON’S CRITIC

May 7, 2026

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED Tommy Tiernan interviewing one of the best things to have come out of north London, Kathy Burke, on his eponymous show... Read more »

FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

April 23, 2026

INTERESTING TO see the unsuitable Collections Resource Centre of the stretched National Museum of Ireland (NMI) making headlines last week, with chairman Cathal... Read more »

NEW STORY FOR IMMA

April 9, 2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO culture minister Patrick O’Donovan, who has finally filled the board at Imma. Goldhawk had previously highlighted (see The Phoenix 12/6/25) the... Read more »

JESSIE’S PLOT SPOILER

March 26, 2026

Predictably, at Oscars time, there’s a bandwagon to be jumped upon when one of our own grabs a gilded statuette but further down... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S FULL PLATE

March 12, 2026

SPARE A thought for intrepid Element Pictures producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe. With the Oscars on March 15, they are up for... Read more »

REX RYAN’S RUN

February 26, 2026

ON THE basis that there is no such thing as bad publicity, presumably Rex Ryan and the Glass Mask Theatre Company board will... Read more »

HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

February 12, 2026

HARDLY HAD the ink dried on Goldhawk’s report of a default on a $1.1bn studio mortgage in sunny California for Ardmore and Troy... Read more »

OLIVER SEARS’S COMMITTEE WORK

January 29, 2026

AS JANUARY draws to an end there is still no sign of any report from the Government’s committee on the repatriation of cultural... Read more »

PAT KIELY’S GOOD NEWS

January 15, 2026

CULTURE MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan launched the latest taxpayer crutch for the nation’s voracious television producers, saying: “This new tax credit is about backing... Read more »

WEXFORD OPERA’S BIG PRODUCTION

December 11, 2025

WITH THE curtain having come down on the 2025 Wexford Festival Opera (WFO), the focus now turns to next year’s 75th anniversary shindig,... Read more »

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

November 27, 2025

A RECENT investigation by the Guardian in the UK looked into the finer details of the workings of the tax credit scheme for... Read more »

MAURA McGRATH MAKES WAY

October 30, 2025

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been plenty going on at the National Concert Hall (NCH) in recent months and now... Read more »

O’DONOVAN LOSES THE PLOT

October 16, 2025

FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of a grant awarded to Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) – now chaired by former Fianna Fáil senator... Read more »

MOLI’S SCARY PLOT

October 2, 2025

ALMOST 20 months on from when it first emerged that the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on St Stephen’s Green was in financial... Read more »

MOLING’S MISSION

September 18, 2025

AS REVEALED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 25/7/25), culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has installed his department’s favourite troubleshooter, Moling Ryan, as the interim... Read more »

DIVERSITY DRAMA

September 4, 2025

THERE MUST have been a little discomfort at the Irish Times when hacks covered the latest adventures of scribbler John Boyne, whose presence... Read more »

BANISHING BANVILLE

August 21, 2025

POOR OLD Jawn Banville must be wondering what he did wrong when he found himself out in the cold earlier this month after... Read more »