Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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),... 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... 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... 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... 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,... Read more »

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OSSIE KILKENNY’S CAMEO

August 25, 2022

You don’t hear too much from Ossie Kilkenny these days as he has taken quite a step back from the limelight since his... Read more »

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ROSE McHUGH’S THREE SEATS

August 11, 2022

LAST WEEK was the closing date for receipt of expressions of interest in (unremunerated) vacancies on the Rose McHugh-chaired board of the Crawford... Read more »

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CASTING GROUCH

August 11, 2022

INTERESTED PARTIES are running the abacus over the spat between RTÉ and its non-staff contractors on the one hand and Revenue and the... Read more »

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OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

July 28, 2022

A LITTLE late in the day, the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI), chaired by former Eoin McVey, has advertised for... Read more »

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PAUL CHESNEY’S FILM STUDIO

July 28, 2022

YET ANOTHER proposed film studio project made it into the news this month, this one in Mullingar. How many studio schemes can the... Read more »

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EOIN COLFER’S PARTNER

July 14, 2022

INTERESTING TO see that super successful novelist Eoin Colfer has set up a company with theatre producer Breda Cashe. Not surprisingly, the venture... Read more »

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NEW BLOOD AT NMI

July 14, 2022

WITH the closing date having passed for applicants to the board of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), it will be interesting to... Read more »

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WAITING AT IMMA

June 30, 2022

BRIAN MACCRAITH was highly critical of the delay by the minister for media etc, etc, Catherine Martin, in publishing the Future of Media... Read more »

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BRIAN MERRIMAN’S GOOD NEWS

June 30, 2022

CONTRATULATIONS ARE in order for Brian Merriman and his crew at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF), who clearly have been receiving... Read more »

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STANLEY’S DIVIDENDS

June 16, 2022

THIS WEEKEND sees the return of the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, which, according to the Irish Times, provides... Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DELAYED RELEASE

June 16, 2022

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland had quietly commissioned a €75,000 ‘inaugural’ report into the cultural impact of the... Read more »

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BRIAN MERRIMAN’S BAD REVIEW

June 2, 2022

THE REJECTION by the Arts Council appeals panel of a funding application from Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) probably came... Read more »

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