Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »