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US Arts Dosh

February 22, 2018
WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under the spotlight, it was interesting to see the response from... Read more »

GABRIEL BYRNE’S PLOT TWIST

February 22, 2018
ACTOR AND all-round busybody Gabriel Byrne will have upset the luvvies with his pronouncement last week that there is not “an industry” when talking... Read more »

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

February 8, 2018
IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for Irish film technicians wishing a speedy recovery to star Blake... Read more »

Yeats masterpiece

February 8, 2018
GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York (see The Phoenix 25/8/17) has remained here despite the decision... Read more »

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

February 8, 2018
THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the traditional Irish music company chaired by founder Garech de Brún... Read more »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018
THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues the trend in recent years of women holding the bulk... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018
THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards (part 1 – film and TV drama) resulted in a... 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 of the National Museum of Ireland. Currently in situ as... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

January 11, 2018
TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle was taken off the Companies Office strike-off list... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL’S ART ATTACK

January 11, 2018
THE 2016 annual report of the Arts Council was published recently and includes some rather interesting figures, especially regarding the multi-million euro art collection.... Read more »

Pálás Programmes

January 11, 2018
GOLDHAWK has reported on the tortuous (torturous?) development of Galway’s bijou art-house cinema, Cinema Palace. It was originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas group,... Read more »

U2’s album reviews

December 14, 2017
EVER SINCE U2 released the critical and commercial flop No Line On The Horizon in 2009, the key question among music hacks with each... 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 since they arrived from Scotland. But maybe you can’t blame... 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, of course, the profile of one Al Porter – concluding... 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 on the topical issue of sexual harassment and bullying in... Read more »

Arts Council director Orlaith McBride with the international selection panel

FICTION LAUREATES LINE UP

November 30, 2017
IT’S THAT time of year again, when the great and good of the Irish literary establishment line up for Merrion Square’s beauty contest to... Read more »

THE CHESTER BEATTY’S NEW CHAIR

November 16, 2017
AFTER ALMOST 20 years in the chair and a total of 26 years as a director since he was first appointed in January 1991,... Read more »

MORE MILLIONS FOR BAM

November 16, 2017
INTERESTING to see a €1m allocation in the Department of Culture Budget Estimates for the troubled Cork Event Centre project. This latest allocation suggests... Read more »

RED ROCKS IN THE SUNSET

November 16, 2017
THERE REMAINS some confusion over the fate of Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s TV3 Garda station soap, Red Rock. A fortnight after TV3 put... 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, the good news is that the financial picture looks rosy.... 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 usual at Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) where the... Read more »

John McAuliffe’s broadside

November 2, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the attack on culture minister Heather Humphreys and her Creative Ireland programme, penned by... Read more »

THE SQUEEZE OF TROY

October 19, 2017
ON AUGUST 24 last an interesting advert appeared on the UK film and TV production guild website. It relates to the latest international show... Read more »

Pratschke v Humphreys

October 19, 2017
IT’S A TRYING time at the Arts Council where they have just lost a board member, the unions are kicking up and the chair... Read more »

TAPPING THE TAXMAN

October 5, 2017
THE REVENUE’S latest figures for Section 481 film and TV production tax beneficiaries have just been released at a time when Goldhawk hears the... Read more »

NGI misses john yeats MASTERPIECE

October 5, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised at the latest state splurge on Yeats items, both ahead of and at Sotheby’s so-called ‘Yeats... Read more »

Brunswick Debt

September 21, 2017
THE LIQUIDATION of the long-established Brunswick Press is now complete but there was not too much left for creditors after the professionals took their... Read more »

AnneMarie Naughton’s Rangle

September 21, 2017
THE SUBJECT of industrial relations in the film industry is an especially touchy one and a new arrival on the scene could lead to... Read more »

HUNT ON AT the HUNT MUSEUM

September 7, 2017
AT LONG last, the job of director of the Hunt Museum in Limerick has been advertised (in the Limerick Leader). This process has somehow... Read more »

NEW FACES AT CRAFTS COUNCIL

September 7, 2017
THE MINISTER for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald, has just appointed two new members to the board of the Design and Crafts Council... Read more »

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN PROBLEM

September 7, 2017
THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 accounts for Octagon Films Ltd reminded Goldhawk of the ongoing legal tango in the Four Goldmines between Octagon directors... Read more »

Open Call at Galway 2020

August 24, 2017
Hannah Kiely Capital of Culture operation has just appointed Chris Baldwin as its creative director and many other important positions have now been filled.... Read more »

Chester Beatty Vacancies

August 24, 2017
IT IS not only Galway 2020 that is short on directors. Over at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, there are currently two vacancies... Read more »

HARRY’S PLAY

August 10, 2017
Harry Crosbie THE PACE is picking up for Harry Crosbie’s proposed People’s Theatre in Dublin’s docklands. Presumably, the running of the operation will prove... Read more »

Rose McHugh at the Crawford

August 10, 2017
Rose McHugh WHILE THERE is still no sign of an advert seeking a successor to Peter Murray as director of the Crawford Art Gallery... Read more »

Mel Gibson vs Macdara Kelleher

August 10, 2017
Mel Gibson ON JULY 31, some showbiz legal eagles in Los Angeles filed a lengthy series of claims on behalf of Hollywood star Mel... Read more »