Article Category: Behind the Scenes

McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD

September 21, 2023

THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According... Read more »

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ON THE FRINGE

September 21, 2023

AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union... Read more »

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MARTIN DYAR’S LISTOWEL GIG

September 7, 2023

THIS WEEK sees the new director of Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) festival unveiled and it is clear that, unlike his predecessor, Martin Dyar... Read more »

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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S LABEL

September 7, 2023

AS HOZIER’S new album, Unreal Unearth, continues to generate oodles of hype, both here and abroad, it is interesting to see that the... Read more »

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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR

August 24, 2023

INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most... Read more »

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FILM BOARD’S DIVERSE CAST

August 10, 2023

TO THE surprise of absolutely no one, arts minister Catherine Martin has yet to fill two seats on the Screen Ireland (SI) board,... Read more »

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COVENEY’S NEW CHAIR

August 10, 2023

UNLIKE SCREEN Ireland, whose board members receive not a cent in fees, the directors of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI)... Read more »

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FERGUS CRONIN’S NEXT GIG

July 27, 2023

THE REMARKABLE level of promotion of the debut collection of short stories from septuagenarian businessman-turned-scribbler Fergus Cronin continues to impress Goldhawk. The latest... Read more »

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MACDARA’S NEW CAST

July 27, 2023

THIRD PLACE on the list of Screen Ireland’s upcoming productions is an “Untitled Universal Monster Thriller”, which is being produced by Wild Atlantic... Read more »

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RICHARD FORD’S FESTIVITIES

July 13, 2023

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S support of the new regime at Listowel Writers’ Week looks likely to land the Kerry gig a rather high-profile new president... Read more »

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WHAT RICHARD SAID

July 13, 2023

IN THE midst of sell-out hearings into the RTÉ debacle, there was a near-empty Dáil for the sitting to adopt the report of... Read more »

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LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK SEQUEL

June 29, 2023
EARLIER THIS month, the first Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) under the new regime, following something of a clear-out at the long-running literary gig late... Read more »

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FAT LADY SINGS

June 15, 2023

SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted... Read more »

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DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY

June 15, 2023
BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual.... Read more »

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PROMOTING FERGUS CRONIN

June 1, 2023
CONGRATULATIONS TO scribbler Fergus Cronin, whose debut collection of short stories, Night Music, has attracted the sort of promotion and exposure usually only afforded... Read more »

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CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

May 18, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the rather glossy-looking Beginnings, a book commissioned by the Art Council to mark 40 years of artists’ organisation Aosdána,... Read more »

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FAREWELL

May 18, 2023

SO, FAREWELL then The Drama Academy Development Company (DADC) in Trinity College. While a separate company, which is behind the high-profile Lir drama... Read more »

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THEATRE FESTIVAL’S DIVERSITY PLOT

May 3, 2023

LAST MONTH, the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) issued a call for potential directors. It looks like David Nolan’s board is anxious to avoid... Read more »

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CILLIAN MURPHY’S FOREIGN AFFAIR

April 19, 2023

IT IS not well understood by the public that most of the taxpayers’ moolah that subsidises film production in Ireland is soaked up... Read more »

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STANLEY’S STRATEGY

April 19, 2023

THE QUEEN of the Body & Soul festival in Ballinlough Castle, Avril Stanley, announced recently that she has cut the shindig’s capacity by... Read more »

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CHASING ‘BACHELOR’S WALK’

April 6, 2023

DOCUMENTS RELEASED to Goldhawk reveal the pressure arts minister Catherine Martin came under in 2021 to come up with the readies to enable... Read more »

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SUSAN BERGIN’S WINNING BOARD MEMBERS

April 5, 2023

AT LAST, the 2021 annual report of Susan Bergin’s Screen Ireland (SI) board has appeared in a discreet corner of the agency website.... Read more »

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IMMA’S NEW CHAIR

March 23, 2023

THERE IS set to be a change at the top in Imma, with broadcasting entrepreneur David Harvey stepping down as chairman after seven-and-a-half... Read more »

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NEIL JORDAN’S ‘MARLOWE’

March 23, 2023

IT’S NOT necessarily a good look for a film when the names in the credits immediately after the lead actor are those of... Read more »

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ARTS COUNCIL EXIT

March 8, 2023

THERE WERE some significant developments in the Arts Council last month, including the sudden exit of council officer Rachel West, probably best known... Read more »

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TERRY MCMAHON’S BROADSIDE

March 8, 2023

IN THE glut of recent Oscars-inspired media coverage of Irish cinema, fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the absence of references to... Read more »

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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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