Behind the Scenes Archives

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 »

ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S NEW JOB

November 14, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to outgoing Arts Council director Orlaith McBride, who has landed the I100,000 pa job of director of the National Archives of Ireland... Read more »

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SUDDEN EXIT AT ARTS COUNCIL

November 14, 2019

IT LOOKS like we will have to wait a while longer to have a full Arts Council following the sudden resignation of one... 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 »

LABHRÁS Ó MURCHÚ’S NARROW ESCAPE

October 16, 2019

ALTHOUGH MINISTER for Culture Josepha Madigan was happy to boast after the Budget of a €5m hike in funding to €80m for the... 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 »

THE ABBEY’S CASTING CHALLENGE

October 3, 2019

STILL NO sign of a new board member at the Abbey Theatre, where there is a vacancy for someone who knows how to... 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 »

GOOD TIMES AT THE GATE

September 19, 2019

THERE HAS been a cast change at the Abbey where its head of producing, Sarah Lynch, has decided to exit stage left after... Read more »

RUTH MCGOWAN’S SPONSOR

September 19, 2019

WHILE THE Dublin Theatre Festival is yet to kick off, Ruth McGowan’s Dublin Fringe Festival is just winding up its 25th hooley. She... Read more »

JOHN CRONIN’S NEW ROLE

September 19, 2019

THERE IS a new cast member at the Dublin Theatre Festival (which kicks off next week) in the form of high-flying legal eagle... 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 »

ARTS COUNCIL VACANCIES

September 5, 2019

MINISTER FOR Culture Josepha Madigan is finally to get around to filling those empty Arts Council seats, given that the closing date for... 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 »

ADDING UP AT KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL

August 22, 2019

THE 2017 loss at the Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) led to a number of steps being taken to bring the festival back into... Read more »

KEEPING UP WITH JOHN McDONOUGH

August 8, 2019

INFORMATION is fairly thin on the ground at the Department of Culture when it comes to discussing the filling of the €100,000 pa... Read more »

JOHN HEDIGAN’S REPORT

August 8, 2019

WITH A new Director soon to head up the National Archives of Ireland, it is to be hoped that whoever does land the... Read more »

O’DONOGHUE DELIVERS FIRST REPORT

July 25, 2019

THE CASH-STRAPPED Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is advertising for a general manager at one of the handful of properties for which it is... Read more »

NGI SEEKS NEW FACES

July 25, 2019

TWO SEATS on the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) board are up for grabs and would-be directors have until August 15 to apply... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S UPLIFTING TIMES

July 25, 2019

JUST AS culture minister Josepha Madigan was emerging unscathed from swing-gate, a happy distraction arrived in the form of a nihil obstat from... Read more »

EUGENE DOWNES’S NEW GIG

July 11, 2019

GOOD NEWS for fans of Irish cultural promotion abroad. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has finally offered the new position... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S ANIMAL CHARITY

July 11, 2019

THE MUSIC festivals just keep coming and there is now fierce competition for music fans’ moolah. While Electric Picnic is still going strong,... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S CHINESE FRIENDS

July 11, 2019

THE RECENT debut of the China Ireland International Film Festival – which took place at assorted Dublin cinemas as well as the UCD... Read more »

KEVIN RAFTER’S BAPTISM

June 27, 2019

LAST WEEK, the new chair of the Arts Council, Kevin Rafter, oversaw his first meeting of the board – a bruising two-day annual... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND’S DISTRIBUTORS

June 27, 2019

FINANCIAL hand-outs in Screen Ireland’s 2017 annual report will no doubt be of interest to incoming boss Désirée Finnegan, who replaces James Hickey.... Read more »

JENNIFER ZAMPARELLI’S REVIEW

June 12, 2019

THE NEW look 2FM has been attracting mixed reviews following its makeover, but one of the players, former Breakfast Republic co-presenter Jennifer Zamparelli,... Read more »

KATIE HOLLY’S IMPRESSIVE CUT

June 12, 2019

IS THERE any state agency, aside Screen Ireland (chaired by Annie Doona), where some 8% of its ‘loan’ budget is mopped up by... Read more »

PETER AIKEN’S CHARGE

June 12, 2019

WITH THE musical festival season in full flow post-Slane, the focus now moves to other big shindigs such as Electric Picnic, Body and... Read more »

SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY

May 29, 2019

AS THE annual Cannes film junket (which featured a rare Irish success) came to a close on Sunday, it coincided with the arrival... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S OLD SHOWS

May 29, 2019

NEXT WEEK sees the return to the Gate of the hit show at the northside theatre, Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper. Given it had... Read more »

PAT MOYLAN’S GRANT

May 29, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to former Arts Council chair Pat Moylan who is again to tour her smash hit show, Angela’s Ashes The Musical, two years... Read more »