Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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... 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... 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... Read more »

Hot Chocolate

February 9, 2017

AN ARTS centre on King’s Street in Dublin 1, the Chocolate Factory, has initiated legal action against Dublin City Council (DCC), although nobody... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FAMILIAR WINNERS

February 9, 2017

THE IRISH Film Board (IFB) has just published its fourth quarter offers for 2016 and it transpires that “loans” amounting to €2m were... Read more »

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

February 9, 2017

FOLLOWING THE exit at the end of 2016 of Sarah Lynch, general manager of Galway’s Druid Theatre for the previous 18 years, there... Read more »

WHY FIACH IS SMILING

January 25, 2017

NOW THAT the Irish theatre industry’s annual navel-gazing exercise is just over a month away, it’s time to tally up the nominations for... Read more »

IRISH FILM BOARD’S LATEST AUDITIONS

January 25, 2017

AN ARTICLE earlier this month by Colm McCarthy in the Sindo characterising the Revenue’s Section 481 tax credit as grants will not have... Read more »

HEATHER’S ‘IMPLICIT POWER’

January 25, 2017

THE DECISION by arts minister Heather Humphreys to add a surrender letter signed by Pádraig Pearse to the register of cultural objects has... Read more »

Vacancies at the IMC

January 25, 2017

A YEAR after their terms expired, Heather Humphreys has advertised for applications to sit on the board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC).... Read more »

CONFLICTS AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

January 12, 2017

A LITTLE late in the day, arts minister Heather Humphreys managed to make appointments to the Arts Council board just before Christmas where... Read more »

CHILD’S PLAY AT THE BAI

January 12, 2017

HOT ON the heels of the move by Dee Forbes (D4 as she’s known in Montrose) to disband the in-house children’s programme unit... Read more »

PUNTING PADraig PEARSE

December 14, 2016

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the failure of the state to bid for the Padraig Pearse surrender letter... Read more »

DOWNEY STEPS DOWN

December 14, 2016

GOOD TO see Caroline Downey, wife of promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond and co-owner of MCD, taking the opportunity to put in a good... Read more »

IN AND OUT AT THE ABBEY

December 14, 2016

THE NEW directors of the Abbey Theatre, Neil Murray and Graham McLaren, have been waiting in the wings for more than a year... Read more »

NEW NGI FACES

December 1, 2016

AFTER A predictable delay, arts minister Heather Humphreys finally got around to appointing new directors of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). There... Read more »

LIAM COLLINS TAKING LIBERTIES

December 1, 2016

IN THE Sindo last weekend, hack Liam Collins used his Zozimus column to put the boot into “the high-minded literati” who criticised publisher... Read more »

December 1, 2016

THE LEGAL action by Winfried Hannemacher’s W2 Filmproduktion action against Octagon Films’ Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn (see The Phoenix 1/7/16) is due... Read more »

HUGH MAGUIRE’S SUCCESSOR?

November 3, 2016

GOLDHAWK is wondering when the board of the Hunt Museum in Limerick will get around to advertising for a new director. The position... Read more »

SILENCE AT THE MUSEUM

November 3, 2016

OPPOSITION is clearly building to the farcical plan to shift the Seanad into the National Museum of Ireland’s educational spaces on Kildare Street,... Read more »

DISHING OUT THE HALLOWEEN TREATS

November 3, 2016

IT’S THAT time of year when the cashiers at the Revenue and Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) announce their latest hand-outs of... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S GATE GIG

October 20, 2016

MICHAEL COLGAN may have run the Gate for 33 years, but it didn’t take too long to find his replacement. Four months after... Read more »

BONO AND THE CLINTONs

October 20, 2016

NEWSPAPER readers can scarcely failed to have noticed the column inches generated by U2’s recent onstage attacks on Donald Trump. First, there was... Read more »

AND THE AWARD DOESN’T GO TO …

October 20, 2016

BACK IN 2014, there was such a general uproar about the IFTA “shambles” on RTÉ that the national broadcaster decided enough was enough... Read more »

A MAN WITHDRAWING PAINTING

October 5, 2016

Man Doing Accounts (detail) THERE WAS an interesting aside in last weekend’s account of the latest Adams Irish art sale, penned by Michael... Read more »

REVIEWING THE CORK FILM FESTIVAL

October 5, 2016

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk shine some light on the machinations leading to the recent bailing out of the Cork Film Festival and the... Read more »

SHERIDAN’S SECRET STINKER

September 21, 2016

THE REVIEWS of Jim Sheridan’s adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture have already attracted attention to the movie for all the wrong... Read more »

EUGENE DOWNES’S WARNING SHOT

September 21, 2016

WHEN THE Joint Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht, chaired by Meath Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín, met on... Read more »

CREDITS NOT ROLLING FOR SOLAS PROJECT

September 7, 2016

GOLDHAWK IS beginning to wonder if only the 30-year archive rule will shed light on the dealings around the overspend on Galway’s Picture... Read more »

FEMMES FATALES AT THE ABBEY

September 7, 2016

THE INTRODUCTION by the Abbey Theatre of new “guiding principles for gender equality” – including “achieving gender equality in all areas of the... Read more »

BARBARA GALAVAN’S ‘KEY ASKS’

August 24, 2016

THERE WAS a time when Barbara Galavan’s lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), claimed over 200 members – film and television outfits that... Read more »

Anne Clarke’s opera award

August 24, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS to theatre producer Anne Clarke who goes from success to success. The Arts Council has now greenlighted a huge €½m grant from... Read more »

DARRYL DOWNEY’S SAD SONG

August 24, 2016

WITH Electric Picnic set to kick off next month the festival season proper draws to a close. Meanwhile, the fall-out continues from the... Read more »