Article Category: Behind the Scenes

FUNDING ‘JIHAD JANE’

February 27, 2020

MACDARA KELLEHER and Morgan Bushe have become major players in the film business in recent years with their tie-in to Troy Studios, where... Read more »

JOHN BANVILLE’S BLACK BOOK

February 27, 2020

HAVING ADMIRED the wily John Banville’s hype offensive for his latest buke, The Secret Guests, Goldhawk could not resist giving it the once... Read more »

JOHN BANVILLE’S ROYAL FLUSH

February 13, 2020

THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a new annual Irish literary award last week came as a pleasant surprise to Irish writers, who have had limited... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN

February 13, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk were previously alerted to the disappearance from the 2019 red-carpet calendar of the annual IFTA awards ceremony (see The Phoenix,... Read more »

IN AND OUT AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

January 30, 2020

SOME ITEMS in the recent Arts Council minutes caught Goldhawk’s eye. For example, it was noted, “There is still uncertainty over the allowable... Read more »

VARADKAR’S PLOT SPOILER

January 30, 2020

THE UPWARDS trajectory continues for Troy Studios in Limerick, where Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chief executive and shareholder, has proved adept at squeezing public... Read more »

BLAKE LIVELY’S RHYTHM SECTION

January 30, 2020

FANS OF The Phoenix who like their Nordic-Noir detective series may have watched the last episode of Wisting on BBC4 last week, but... Read more »

NEW TUNE FOR THE NCH

January 30, 2020

IT WILL be interesting to see if culture minister Josepha Madigan looks to make a few board appointments before the new government is... Read more »

DÓNALL CURTIN’S COMMITTEE

January 16, 2020

OVER ON Merrion Square, the Arts Council has been adding to its sprawling art collection with the purchase of 19 new works from... Read more »

KEVIN RAFTER’S REQUEST

January 16, 2020

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware (see The Phoenix, 29/11/19), the Abbey Theatre is looking to fill three seats on its board that... Read more »

MARIAN FINUCANE’S ADVISOR

January 16, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to hear his old friend, tax accountant-cum-filmmaker Kieran Corrigan, pop up briefly at the end of the radio tribute to... Read more »

THEATRICAL LICENCE AT THE ABBEY

December 12, 2019

VERY LATE in the day, the Abbey Theatre has got around to advertising the three long-unfilled vacancies on its board. Unusually, however, the... Read more »

KATE O’RIORDAN’S RTÉ DRAMA

December 12, 2019

AT A time when Dee Forbes and RTÉ have again been crying wolf about the death of public-service broadcasting, Montrose has given a... Read more »

JIM SHERIDAN’S GOOD NEWS

November 28, 2019

IT IS three years since Goldhawk reported on the then prospects for Jim Sheridan’s adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture (see The... Read more »

QUESTIONS FOR THE ABBEY

November 28, 2019

EARLIER THIS month, the Abbey Theatre published its 2018 annual report, which generated mainly positive media coverage. However, there are some unusual entries... Read more »

SINÉAD O’CONNOR’S TAX BILL

October 31, 2019

IT HAS been hard to avoid Sinéad O’Connor (aka Shuhada’ Davitt) recently and her media outings have successfully generated huge interest in her... Read more »

ALL ABOARD AT ARTS COUNCIL

October 31, 2019

THE LONG-overdue appointment of new Arts Council directors is to be welcomed. The incoming trio includes Claudine McMahon, Vodafone Ireland’s head of, er,... Read more »

JOHN ARKINS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

October 31, 2019

HALLOWEEN MAY not be the most auspicious date on which to close submissions for the audit by the Work Relations Commission (WRC) of... Read more »

LEO’S HOLLYWOOD LUVVIETHON

October 16, 2019

WITH LAST month’s coast-to-coast luvviethon in the US – which saw Leo Varadkar hobnobbing with Jimmy Fallon and NBC/Universal in New York and... Read more »

TAXING MATTERS AT VISUAL IN CARLOW

October 16, 2019

WHAT ON earth is going on at VISUAL, the multi-million euro contemporary arts centre in Carlow? The board has lost eight directors and... Read more »

BROWN BAG FIGURES

October 3, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to Brown Bag studios founder Cathal Gaffney, who is in the middle of a purple patch. Figures just filed by a company... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S FAMOUS FIVE

September 5, 2019

LAST WEEK, culture minister Josepha Madigan announced the first €20,000-a-head winners of the Markievicz Awards – the minister’s new bursary scheme to commemorate... Read more »

BREXIT’S NO-DEAL HORROR PLOT

September 5, 2019

THE LIKELY ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario is a horror plot for the Irish film and TV industry, since a high proportion of the players... Read more »

EUGENE DOWNES’S LOW-HANGING FRUIT

August 22, 2019

WITH THE 2019 Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) having just finished, it was the first outing for the new director, Olga Barry. Her predecessor,... Read more »