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This new novel from Brian Keogh tells a “story of the fantastic intertwined in the banal, the dead intertwined in the living”.
“This is music for intense listening in a comfortable chair as you clutch the record sleeve in both arms.”
A lot of contemporary music requires expensive venues booked months in advance, and funding for musicians and tech. “That rules out a lot of types of work.”
This book of essays by playwright, performer, columnist and member of Aosdána Rosaleen McDonagh about her life as a disabled Traveller woman is “honest and beautifully written”.
Francis Fay’s performance Queering the Landscape is scheduled for today, at the Mart HX Studios.
A violinist swaps New York for Carlingford in a romance that “has a lot going on, but not a lot of it original”.
Presented in a red folder, SYSTEMS is a rummage of artworks, essays, maps, interviews, and toolkits that interrogates the often invisible systems that shape our everyday life.
The seven songs on “Avenoir” function as “a fine entry point to an ascendant rap cult hero right before he hits that next level”.
Each woman who features also wrote about their experience of homelessness, a sliver of their own story, to go alongside their portraits.
Bob Gallagher has directed videos for Myles Manley, Naoise Roo, Girl Band, Junior Brother and Lankum. He’s also a filmmaker, a photographer, actor, and occasional choreographer.
Visitors come to see the exhibition, Home Bodies, one at a time. “It’s very intimate. Either I talk through the work or a lot of people simply want to wander with the map,” says Debi Paul.