Behind the Scenes Archives

HARRY’S NEW GAME

June 28, 2018

HARRY CROSBIE (OBE) has been keeping busy with plans for his own gaff and the Vicar Street venue. He has also been fighting... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S BALANCING ACT

June 28, 2018

LIONEL SHRIVER’S outburst in The Spectator rubbishing publisher Penguin’s diversity policies (ie taking into account the gender, sexuality, etc of those to be... Read more »

SARAH GLENNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

June 13, 2018

THE BOARD of IMMA, chaired by David Harvey, will be relieved to have finally advertised the post of gallery director. It has only... Read more »

PENELOPE KENNY’S CONTACTS

June 13, 2018

AMONG THOSE IMMA board members keeping a close eye on the director recruitment process is Penelope Kenny, appointed in 2015 along with Dermod... Read more »

IRISH MOVIES MISS THEIR TARGET

June 13, 2018

ON MAY 25 Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (see Reviews) was released in Ireland and the UK. Produced by Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and directed... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S ANNUAL REPORT

May 31, 2018

THE LATEST annual report of the Irish Film Board (IFB) appeared without fanfare on its website last month. Since Annie Doona was confirmed... Read more »

CLADDAGH RECORDS’ NEW TUNE

May 31, 2018

FOLLOWING THE passing of Garech de Brún in March, it will be interesting to see what happens to Claddagh Records. Set up by... Read more »

A SMALL WORLD AT IMMA

May 31, 2018

THE THIRD year of purchases by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection has added four more pieces by mid-level artists to the... Read more »

CREDIT WHERE (TAX) CREDIT IS DUE

May 17, 2018

WHILE THE Joint Oireachtas culture committee prepares its report on the film industry following recent hearings, Goldhawk asked the Revenue for some facts.... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

May 17, 2018

WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S AMERICAN DREAM

May 17, 2018

THE MANNER in which the Irish government funds the long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York continues to raise questions.... Read more »

BACK ON THE GRAVY TRAIN

May 3, 2018

FOLLOWING HOT on the heels of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s hand-out to the TV production sector comes the release by Annie Doona’s... Read more »

SHEILA PRATSCHKE’S WONDERFUL LIFE

May 3, 2018

LAST MONTH Arts Council chair Sheila Pratschke gave a lengthy interview to The Irish Times but what was most interesting was what was... Read more »

THE PROJECT’S MURAL

May 3, 2018

IT MAKES a change to see the Project Theatre making headlines. Not surprisingly perhaps, the media interest was caused not by something staged... Read more »

EMER MARTIN Vs EDNA O’BRIEN

April 19, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS are due to writer-cum-filmaker Emer Martin, who gave Dame Edna O’Brien both barrels in a full-blooded comment piece last weekend in The... Read more »

DRAMATIC HAND-OUTS FROM THE BAI

April 19, 2018

THE LATEST round of the Sound & Vision fund run by Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) had €6m of TV licence... Read more »

‘Appalling waste’

April 5, 2018

LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner in which the huge Project Ireland 2014 cultural spend... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S €7M PLOT SPOILER

April 5, 2018

ON THE last Dáil sitting day before Easter, March 29, the five members present cut lonely figures and, despite questions on the matter,... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

April 5, 2018

ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I will not waver in our search for trust and... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

March 22, 2018

IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is a hazardous affair. Artist Brian Maguire has just stepped... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

March 22, 2018

NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way for a production and development coordinator, maybe the agency... Read more »

HUNT MUSEUM’S HUNT is OVER

March 22, 2018

THE LONG vacant position of director and chief executive of the Hunt Museum has gone to a woman – Jill Cousin – who... Read more »

MUSIC FESTIVAL’S SOUR NOTE

March 8, 2018

SPARE A thought for the team behind New Music Dublin (NMD) festival. Thanks to the weather ‘event’, the musical event was cancelled… for... Read more »

McGUCKIAN’S DIRECTOR’S CUT

March 8, 2018

Although The total cost of the Section 481 tax credit for filmmakers in 2017 has not yet been calculated, the Revenue told Goldhawk... Read more »

GERRY GANNON’S GET-OUT CLAUSE

March 8, 2018

AS INCOMING director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) Lynn Scarff prepares for her new role, the museum is facing yet more... Read more »

GABRIEL BYRNE’S PLOT TWIST

February 22, 2018

ACTOR AND all-round busybody Gabriel Byrne will have upset the luvvies with his pronouncement last week that there is not “an industry” when... Read more »

LITTLE DRAMA AT THEATRE AWARDS

February 22, 2018

THIS WEEKEND in the National Concert Hall, the theatre industry’s glitterati will dutifully assemble for the Irish Times Theatre Awards. The 20-year-old ritual... Read more »

US Arts Dosh

February 22, 2018

WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under the spotlight, it was interesting to see the response... Read more »

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

February 8, 2018

IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for Irish film technicians wishing a speedy recovery to star... Read more »

Yeats masterpiece

February 8, 2018

GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York (see The Phoenix 25/8/17) has remained here despite the... Read more »

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

February 8, 2018

THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the traditional Irish music company chaired by founder Garech de... Read more »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018

THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues the trend in recent years of women holding the... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018

THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards (part 1 – film and TV drama) resulted in... Read more »

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

January 25, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director of the National Museum of Ireland. Currently in situ... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

January 11, 2018

TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle was taken off the Companies Office strike-off... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL’S ART ATTACK

January 11, 2018

THE 2016 annual report of the Arts Council was published recently and includes some rather interesting figures, especially regarding the multi-million euro art... Read more »