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ANNUAL 2022: BEHIND THE SCENES – RED SCARE IN THE ARTS WORLD

November 17, 2022

THE ARTS delivered their usual share of spats and colourful performances but the big winner was surely the minister responsible for signing cheques... Read more »

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CHRISTINE O’DONOVAN’S CHAIR

November 15, 2022

BARRING A disaster from the Oireachtas committee on higher education, high-powered legal eagle Christine O’Donovan will be confirmed as the chairwoman of the... Read more »

THE TALKING SHOP II

November 2, 2022

WATCHING THE Oireachtas budget oversight committee at work on the Section 481 film industry tax credit last month, it looked a lot like... Read more »

RTE’S DIVERSITY

November 2, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO the three writers of the 25-minute dramas being broadcast on RTÉ 2 under the ‘Storyland’ banner. Certainly, the selection represents a... Read more »

The Vanishing Triangle AnneMarie Naughton

VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

October 19, 2022

GIVEN THE popularity of the ‘true crime’ genre, including efforts “based on a true story”, it’s perhaps not surprising that the disappearances of... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MUSEUM PIECES

October 19, 2022

AFTER 15 months, arts minister Catherine Martin has finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of the National Museum of... Read more »

PRAXIS AND THE VENICE BIENNALE

October 6, 2022

WHEN THE Arts Union of Ireland – also known as Praxis – announced itself on the scene last year (see The Phoenix 9/4/21),... Read more »

NCAD’S CHAIR

September 22, 2022

THIS WEEK sees the election of a new chair of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), following the recent vacancy on... Read more »

SONGWRITERS’ SWAN SONG

September 22, 2022

THE FINAL creditors’ meeting has been held by the liquidator of the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA), which was set... Read more »

MARTIN’S TIMELY GRANT

September 8, 2022

IT TURNS out that the arts department was particularly eager to support Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) after the Arts... Read more »

DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS

September 8, 2022
THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film... Read more »

IMMA’S PLURALITY PITCH

August 25, 2022

IT SHOULDN’T be too much longer before arts minister Catherine Martin finally gets around to filling the four vacancies on the IMMA board,... Read more »

OSSIE KILKENNY’S CAMEO

August 25, 2022

You don’t hear too much from Ossie Kilkenny these days as he has taken quite a step back from the limelight since his... Read more »

ROSE McHUGH’S THREE SEATS

August 11, 2022

LAST WEEK was the closing date for receipt of expressions of interest in (unremunerated) vacancies on the Rose McHugh-chaired board of the Crawford... Read more »

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

CASTING GROUCH

August 11, 2022

INTERESTED PARTIES are running the abacus over the spat between RTÉ and its non-staff contractors on the one hand and Revenue and the... Read more »

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

July 28, 2022

A LITTLE late in the day, the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI), chaired by former Eoin McVey, has advertised for... Read more »

PAUL CHESNEY’S FILM STUDIO

July 28, 2022

YET ANOTHER proposed film studio project made it into the news this month, this one in Mullingar. How many studio schemes can the... Read more »

EOIN COLFER’S PARTNER

July 14, 2022

INTERESTING TO see that super successful novelist Eoin Colfer has set up a company with theatre producer Breda Cashe. Not surprisingly, the venture... Read more »

NEW BLOOD AT NMI

July 14, 2022

WITH the closing date having passed for applicants to the board of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), it will be interesting to... Read more »

WAITING AT IMMA

June 30, 2022

BRIAN MACCRAITH was highly critical of the delay by the minister for media etc, etc, Catherine Martin, in publishing the Future of Media... Read more »

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S GOOD NEWS

June 30, 2022

CONTRATULATIONS ARE in order for Brian Merriman and his crew at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF), who clearly have been receiving... Read more »

STANLEY’S DIVIDENDS

June 16, 2022

THIS WEEKEND sees the return of the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, which, according to the Irish Times, provides... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DELAYED RELEASE

June 16, 2022

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland had quietly commissioned a €75,000 ‘inaugural’ report into the cultural impact of the... Read more »

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S BAD REVIEW

June 2, 2022

THE REJECTION by the Arts Council appeals panel of a funding application from Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) probably came... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LA STORY

June 2, 2022

PRESUMABLY Leo Varadkar et al were envious of Catherine Martin’s recent LA junket, the purpose of which would have been to reassure the... Read more »

NETFLIX’S LOBBYING

May 19, 2022

IT IS something of a paradox that, under legislation intended to bolster local and European culture against globalised mass media, the Irish taxpayer... Read more »

ANDREW NOONAN’S NEW MENU

May 19, 2022

AMONG THE number of festivals lined up for a presumably pandemic-free 2022 is the music/food mishmash that is the Big Grill Festival, now... Read more »

CECELIA’S REVIEWS

May 5, 2022

IT HAS been a busy few weeks for scribbler Cecelia Ahern, whose short story collection, Roar, has been adapted for Apple TV+. Not... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S CARBON CALCULATOR

May 5, 2022

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S Screen Ireland is developing something of an addiction to policy papers. Earlier this year, it told Goldhawk that its report on... Read more »

WRITERS CENTRE’S WINNING PLOT

April 20, 2022

NEXT WEEK sees the launch (online, natch) by the Irish Writers Centre (IWC) of the 2023 Novel Fair, which promises to introduce 12... Read more »

LUVVIES ARE REVOLTING

April 18, 2022

THE BOLSHY spear carriers at Irish Equity, the union representing assorted luvvies, clearly boosted by Gerry O’Brien sharing his contract from 1984 for... Read more »

KIERAN’S CORRIGAN’S NAN

April 7, 2022

BACK IN 2019 Catherine Tate’s The Nan Movie was shot in Ireland with Goldhawk’s old pal Kieran Corrigan handling the €1m-€2m tax credit... Read more »

PAT KIELY’S BIG DEAL

April 7, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for ex-Virgin Media television boss Pat Kiely, whose decision to go it alone is paying off. Kiely is a... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE’S TOP-UPS

March 24, 2022

SCREEN IRELAND (SI) funding offers in the last quarter of 2021 are curiously low rent compared with previous awards. Presumably, the state agency, headed... Read more »

CLOSING DATE FOR NCAD CHAIR

March 24, 2022

THIS WEEK sees the closing date for a vacancy on the board of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), with the... Read more »

MCD’S RIGHT NOTES

March 10, 2022

LAST MONTH concert promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond announced that it was “great to be back open”, promising to sell around 1.7 million tickets... Read more »