The building it’s in at UCD is due to be fully refurbished, starting later this year. Pádraic Moore fears the museum could lose some of its character and charm, once it is modernised.
A documentary maker’s memoir explores his relationship with the aquatic world, with tales of shallow dives and far-flung adventures that break on gentle waves of poetry and images of coast and wildlife.
A typical All Times Now Nothing show incorporates a live recording of a television fed through Clíona Ní Laoi’s webcam, and Alfred Brooks using his sampler to regurgitate particularly apt lines.
In “The New Music”, a pianist’s life changes when he is diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s and moves into a shared Dublin house with three punk rockers.
Narcissus Marsh amassed a collection of 150 books in Hebrew and Yiddish, and over the centuries the library added about 100 more Jewish books to his original collection.
Delaney plays traditional music and can sing a bit of sean-nós if he wants to. But he is also a house-music DJ and wants to break Irish-language songs out of their usual genres.
“I found a lot of my songs through songs of Irish chivalry and old books and I had to come up with airs that hadn’t been sung for centuries,” says Sean Fitzgerald.
Every time Kevin Gaines has worked with or around other artists, he’s picked things up – a mallet, a forgotten skill, or just the energy and creativity of a place, he says.
