Article Category: Behind the Scenes

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

January 25, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

January 11, 2018
TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL’S ART ATTACK

January 11, 2018
THE 2016 annual report of the Arts Council was published recently and includes some... Read more »

Pálás Programmes

January 11, 2018
GOLDHAWK has reported on the tortuous (torturous?) development of Galway’s bijou art-house cinema, Cinema... Read more »

U2’s album reviews

December 14, 2017
EVER SINCE U2 released the critical and commercial flop No Line On The Horizon... 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... 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,... 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... Read more »

FICTION LAUREATES LINE UP

November 30, 2017
IT’S THAT time of year again, when the great and good of the Irish... 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,... 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... Read more »

John McAuliffe’s broadside

November 2, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the attack on culture... Read more »

THE SQUEEZE OF TROY

October 19, 2017
ON AUGUST 24 last an interesting advert appeared on the UK film and TV... Read more »

Pratschke v Humphreys

October 19, 2017
IT’S A TRYING time at the Arts Council where they have just lost a... Read more »

TAPPING THE TAXMAN

October 5, 2017
THE REVENUE’S latest figures for Section 481 film and TV production tax beneficiaries have... Read more »

NGI misses john yeats MASTERPIECE

October 5, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised at the latest state splurge on... Read more »

Brunswick Debt

September 21, 2017
THE LIQUIDATION of the long-established Brunswick Press is now complete but there was not... Read more »

AnneMarie Naughton’s Rangle

September 21, 2017
THE SUBJECT of industrial relations in the film industry is an especially touchy one... 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... Read more »

NEW FACES AT CRAFTS COUNCIL

September 7, 2017
THE MINISTER for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald, has just appointed two new... 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... Read more »

Open Call at Galway 2020

August 24, 2017
Hannah Kiely Capital of Culture operation has just appointed Chris Baldwin as its creative... Read more »

Chester Beatty Vacancies

August 24, 2017
IT IS not only Galway 2020 that is short on directors. Over at the... Read more »

HARRY’S PLAY

August 10, 2017
Harry Crosbie THE PACE is picking up for Harry Crosbie’s proposed People’s Theatre in... Read more »

Rose McHugh at the Crawford

August 10, 2017
Rose McHugh WHILE THERE is still no sign of an advert seeking a successor... Read more »

Mel Gibson vs Macdara Kelleher

August 10, 2017
Mel Gibson ON JULY 31, some showbiz legal eagles in Los Angeles filed a... Read more »

BLACK HOLE BY THE LEE

July 27, 2017
Theo Cullinane WHAT ON earth is going on at the proposed Cork Event Centre?... Read more »

ROSE MCHUGH’S PRIORITIES

July 27, 2017
Rose Mchugh THE NEW chair of the Crawford Art Gallery, accountant Rose McHugh, has... 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)... 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... 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... Read more »

Judicial Archivists

July 13, 2017
AFTER A lengthy delay, arts minister Heather Humphreys has finally got around to appointing... 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... Read more »