Behind the Scenes Archives

Behind the Scenes

BLACK HOLE BY THE LEE

July 27, 2017
Theo Cullinane WHAT ON earth is going on at the proposed Cork Event Centre? The construction company charged with the delivering the 6,000-seat venue,... Read more »

ROSE MCHUGH’S PRIORITIES

July 27, 2017
Rose Mchugh THE NEW chair of the Crawford Art Gallery, accountant Rose McHugh, has plenty on her plate in Cork where the retirement of... Read more »

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE IFB

July 27, 2017
Miriam Allen IT WAS announced last week that Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) is introducing assorted funding schemes that can be accessed only... Read more »

VISUAL’S NATIONAL AMBITIONS

July 13, 2017
EARLIER THIS month, the Indo’s Creative Ireland summer series paid a visit to Carlow’s expensive Visual Centre for Contemporary Art (VISUAL), where chief executive... Read more »

Judicial Archivists

July 13, 2017
AFTER A lengthy delay, arts minister Heather Humphreys has finally got around to appointing new members to the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC). Not... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S LATEST BARGAIN BUY

July 13, 2017
PERHAPS IT is no surprise that Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s Element Pictures is behind the latest cinematic clean-up operation. It turns out that... Read more »

SARAH GLENNIE’S BIG PAY HIKE

June 29, 2017
THE NEW director of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Sarah Glennie, director of IMMA. Her decision to exit Kilmainham comes... Read more »

SEAN RAINBIRD’s contract

June 29, 2017
WHILE NCAD has been able to announced that it has a new director, there is still no word from the National Gallery of Ireland... Read more »

UNION BATTLES ON FILM SITES

June 29, 2017
THERE HAS been an upping of the ante in the increasingly strained relations between film and TV producers and the union that represent the... Read more »

Closing Credits for Picture Palace

June 29, 2017
A LIQUIDATOR is to be appointed to Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace Ltd next week, the firm behind that super expensive bijou art... Read more »

NIAMH BRENNAN’S RETICENCE

June 15, 2017
AN UPCOMING meeting of the Niamh Brennan-chaired board of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) will need to make a decision on... Read more »

Quietly Does It

June 15, 2017
RECORDS ARE thin on the ground on recent developments in the arts world, involving the Abbey Theatre and the Arts Council. In the case... Read more »

THE TAXMAN COMETH TO FILM LUVVIES

June 15, 2017
THE REVENUE Commissioner has just published this year’s first quarter list of beneficiaries of the Section 481 tax wheeze beneficiaries. Although termed a tax... Read more »

MICHAEL O’KEEFFE’S €5M

June 2, 2017
THERE WAS good news for assorted producers last month when Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) dished out over €5m in grants to... Read more »

NO PIZZA FOR SELINA CARTMELL

June 2, 2017
AS SHE gets started as the new director at the Gate Theatre, Selina Cartmell seems intent on doing all she can to break with... Read more »

STILL ON THE HUNT

June 2, 2017
STILL NO sign of white smoke at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, where the former Director, Hugh Maguire, exited exactly one year ago. Maybe... Read more »

JUMPING THE GUN AT ABBEY

May 17, 2017
AS PREDICTED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 5/5/17), arts minister Heather Humphreys has appointed Frances Ruane, former director of the Economic and Social Research... Read more »

COOKING UP A STORM

May 17, 2017
NEXT MONTH sees the publication by Mercier Press of the debut book by the latest celebrity chef to hit the airwaves, known by his... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS DOES IT, AGAIN

May 17, 2017
IT WAS a select group of 150 film and TV movers and shakers, insiders to a woman and man, who were quietly brought together... Read more »

EXITING THE CORK FESTIVAL

May 3, 2017
NOW THAT the May 17 Cannes Film Festival junket is coming into focus, one subject of discussion, among the Irish contingent at least, will... Read more »

SMALL CHANGE FOR THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

May 3, 2017
THIS WEEK should see the publication by Sotheby’s of the catalogue for next month’s auction of the historic collection of rare books and manuscripts... Read more »

‘EXTRA-ORDINARY’ generosity at the NLI

April 19, 2017
WITH THE papers of Conor Cruise O’Brien now on the list of acquisitions being targeted by the National Library of Ireland (NLI), it is... Read more »

DUKE V GARRAHY

April 19, 2017
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Michael Duke has popped up in the court lists after filing High Court proceedings against Elizabeth Garrahy’s Arts For Peace Foundation... Read more »

IFB Shuts The Door

April 19, 2017
ANNIE DOONA’S Irish Film Board (IFB) recently closed its screenplay development funding scheme due, it said, to a need to reassess the fund following... Read more »

FAT LADY PREPARES TO SING

April 19, 2017
THIS WEEK is the deadline for shortlisting applicants hoping to become the go-to company for producing main-scale opera in Dublin for the next few... Read more »

PATRICK SUTTON’S RESIGNATION

April 5, 2017
A FILING in the Companies Office last week showed, Patrick Sutton, long-time Director of the Smock Alley 1662 theatre in Dublin’s Temple Bar, stepped... Read more »

CRAFT COUNCIL CANDIDATES

April 5, 2017
THE CLOSING date has now passed for those who fancy serving on the board of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI), where... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S AGENDA

April 5, 2017
WHILE THE new board members of the Irish Film Board (IFB) get their feet under the table, and chair designate Annie Doona awaits her... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIl MONEY MAN

March 23, 2017
A NEW adviser is in place at 70 Merrion Square, whose job it is to advise Arts Council clients how to tap the coffers... Read more »

IFB MEMBERS’ ‘RELATED TRANSACTIONS’

March 23, 2017
COMPARED TO much larger statutory bodies like RTÉ, Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has always taken its time when it comes to releasing... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S UNPAID CHAIR

March 23, 2017
WITH A new chair of the Abbey Theatre to be appointed, following the retirement of former High Court judge Bryan McMahon, the list of... Read more »

GARRY HYNES FEELS THE HEAT

March 9, 2017
WITH Druid Theatre’s artistic director Garry Hynes coming in for fierce criticism over the lack of female playwrights in the company’s latest programme, one... Read more »

AND THE AWARD GOES TO …

March 9, 2017
THE ANNUAL gong show season is upon us again and after the Oscars debacle, Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins at the IFTAs will also... Read more »

NO €40K HIKE FOR RAINBIRD

February 23, 2017
Sean Rainbird (Left) WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has been generating plenty of publicity courtesy of the touring Caravaggio exhibition, a quieter... Read more »

HEATHER’S POT OF GOLD

February 23, 2017
WITH THE economy throwing off more cash, arts minister Heather Humphreys was able to dish out millions of euro to assorted arts and culture... Read more »

SOS FROM ARDMORE SAS

February 23, 2017
LAST WEEKEND, there were 3,314 signatories to the Save Ardmore Studios (SAS) online petition, the numbers slowing to a trickle over the last month,... Read more »