Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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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TERRY MCMAHON’S BROADSIDE

March 8, 2023
IN THE glut of recent Oscars-inspired media coverage of Irish cinema, fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the absence of references to Irish... Read more »

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DRAMA FOR THE JUDGES

February 22, 2023
SPARE A thought for the judges in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022, who have been dragged into the latest culture war as... Read more »

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JAMES HICKEY’S LEVY LOBBY

February 22, 2023
GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal James Hickey was juggling his many former and current hats at last week’s sitting of the Oireachtas culture and arts committee.... Read more »

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DAVID HARVEY’S FULL SQUAD

February 9, 2023
ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin has a tendency to take her time to fill board vacancies but the good news is that she has finally... Read more »

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UPLIFT LETDOWN

February 9, 2023
APPOINTMENTS TO the forthcoming Media Commission, two Dáil committee hearings, and related media policy reports and press releases all jostled for public attention in... Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DIVIDEND

January 26, 2023
ON JANUARY 20 Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) finally published its 108-page report on the Section 481 film tax credit, entitled: The Cultural Dividend... Read more »

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KERLIN’S SMILING DIRECTORS

January 26, 2023
ART-LOVING moneybags Paddy McKillen has been busy fighting legal actions in recent times courtesy of his increasingly fraught relationship with the Qatari royal Al... Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE’S IN-TRAY

January 12, 2023
THERE IS no sign of a plot twist at Screen Ireland (SI) when it comes to publishing its annual reports. Successive head honchos, including... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S UNJUST TRANSITION

January 12, 2023
WITH THE Arts Council planning to significantly expand its scale, maybe one of the new hires could keep an eye on the activities of... Read more »

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PLOT THICKENS AT LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK

December 15, 2022
GOLDHAWK HAS been struck by coverage of the Arts Council-inspired restructuring of the Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) organisation, including the disbanding of the long-standing... Read more »

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CARRY ON CARLOW

December 1, 2022
HAVING LOST out on some money-spinners last year due to the pandemic, the cash-strapped Visual arts centre in Carlow is hoping nothing derails this... Read more »

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BOYD BARRETT’S CAMEO ROLE

December 1, 2022
WATCHING THE Oireachtas select committee on finance and public expenditure go through the nuts and bolts of the recently published Finance Bill would be... Read more »

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JOHN BRADY’S PLOT TWIST

November 17, 2022
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been a relentless rise in the number of film and TV studio projects at various stages... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: BEHIND THE SCENES – RED SCARE IN THE ARTS WORLD

November 17, 2022
THE ARTS delivered their usual share of spats and colourful performances but the big winner was surely the minister responsible for signing cheques and... Read more »

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CHRISTINE O’DONOVAN’S CHAIR

November 15, 2022
BARRING A disaster from the Oireachtas committee on higher education, high-powered legal eagle Christine O’Donovan will be confirmed as the chairwoman of the National... Read more »

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THE TALKING SHOP II

November 2, 2022
WATCHING THE Oireachtas budget oversight committee at work on the Section 481 film industry tax credit last month, it looked a lot like a... Read more »

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RTE’S DIVERSITY

November 2, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO the three writers of the 25-minute dramas being broadcast on RTÉ 2 under the ‘Storyland’ banner. Certainly, the selection represents a vote... Read more »

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VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

October 19, 2022
GIVEN THE popularity of the ‘true crime’ genre, including efforts “based on a true story”, it’s perhaps not surprising that the disappearances of some... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S MUSEUM PIECES

October 19, 2022
AFTER 15 months, arts minister Catherine Martin has finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of the National Museum of Ireland... Read more »

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PRAXIS AND THE VENICE BIENNALE

October 6, 2022
WHEN THE Arts Union of Ireland – also known as Praxis – announced itself on the scene last year (see The Phoenix 9/4/21), it... Read more »

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NCAD’S CHAIR

September 22, 2022
THIS WEEK sees the election of a new chair of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), following the recent vacancy on the... Read more »

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SONGWRITERS’ SWAN SONG

September 22, 2022
THE FINAL creditors’ meeting has been held by the liquidator of the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA), which was set up... Read more »

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MARTIN’S TIMELY GRANT

September 8, 2022
IT TURNS out that the arts department was particularly eager to support Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) after the Arts Council... Read more »

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DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS

September 8, 2022
THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film... Read more »

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IMMA’S PLURALITY PITCH

August 25, 2022
IT SHOULDN’T be too much longer before arts minister Catherine Martin finally gets around to filling the four vacancies on the IMMA board, three... Read more »

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