Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

HUMPHREYS’S ARTS COUNCIL ADVERT

August 10, 2016

THE MINISTER for Arts, Heather Humphreys, has finally got around to filling those empty seats at the Arts Council, although Goldhawk hopes the... Read more »

FILLING THOSE TOP ARTS JOBS

July 28, 2016

WITH THE renewal of the contract of James Hickey as chief executive of the Irish Film Board (IFB) this month, a pattern is... Read more »

NOW THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

July 28, 2016

THEY SAY “there’s no business like show business” and this is strongly supported by the latest healthy flow of public money into the... Read more »

IMMA’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

July 15, 2016

THIS WEEK sees the opening of an exhibition at IMMA featuring four works by Irish artists that have been acquired by the Hennessy... Read more »

TENDER TIME

July 15, 2016

A COUPLE of tenders have been advertised this month in the arts world – one for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) and... Read more »

GRÁINNE SEOIGE’S WINDING-UP

July 2, 2016

SPARE A thought for RTÉ siren and high-profile Gaeilgeóir Gráinne Seoige, who has had a tough time recently. The latest news is that... Read more »

CASTING DELAY AT FILM BOARD

July 2, 2016

ONE OF the various state boards with a long-standing vacancy is the Irish Film Board (IFB). In December last year, Minister for Arts,... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S PRIORITIES

July 2, 2016

WITH Heather Humphreys coming under fire for the apparent downgrading of the arts portfolio in her department, she has finally moved to appoint... Read more »

AFTER COLGAN AT THE GATE

June 17, 2016

WHEN NEWS of Michael Colgan’s retirement as director of the Gate Theatre surfaced last week, media attention quickly focused on his legacy. But... Read more »

STAR WARS Vs THE TAXPAYER

June 17, 2016

AN INTERESTING detail was included in the congratulatory press release issued by the Irish Film Board (IFB) at the start of the month,... Read more »

ORLAITH McBRIDE’S CONTRACT

June 17, 2016

The plenary session of the Sheila Pratschke-chaired Arts Council (which is currently three members shy) is set to discuss the renewal of McBride’s... Read more »

LENNY’S ARTS SALVO

June 1, 2016

HARDLY HAD the ink dried on Heather Humphreys’s appointment as Minister for Farms and Arts, than Oscar-nominated film director Lenny Abrahamson launched a... Read more »

CIARÁN LENNON’S STUDIO

June 1, 2016

SPARE A thought for artist and Aosdána member, Ciarán Lennon, who has been embroiled in a legal spat over access to his Dublin... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL ON THE MOVE?

June 1, 2016

COULD the Arts Council be moving out of Merrion Square? This may depend on the outcome of the appeal by its landlord –... Read more »

JIM SHERIDAN’S ‘SECRET’ PROBLEM

May 18, 2016

IT’S A far cry from 2003 for film director Jim Sheridan. Back then, he was finishing his autobiographical opus, In America, and fronting... Read more »

FEARGHAL O’BOYLE’S EXAMINATION

May 18, 2016

THE PUBLISHING business in Ireland is a tough one and the latest company to feel the heat is The Columba Book Service Ltd,... Read more »