“Erskine’s cutting insights into the lives of everyday people shine through” in this short-story collection, writes our reviewer.
Clive Shannon used to play for the RTÉ symphony orchestra. These days he plays at Urban Plant Life on Cork Street.
Director Bertie Brosnan takes a candid look at the downsides of celebrity in this “behind-the-scenes featurette”, writes Luke Maxwell.
The collective is mostly staff members who are artists, and professional artists with links to Connolly Hospital.
“I thought the documentary was worth making because nobody else had done it,” says writer and director Kevin Brannigan.
Allchival has over the past year focused on extracting forgotten threads of Irish musical history through reissues.
For more than a decade, Brian Showers has compiled and anthologised Irish Gothic and horror writers. Few, though, have been such a mystery to him as the strangely named George Edmund Lobo.
Club Comfort was born as an escape from dull dance music in other clubs, and as a safe space for queer and trans people, say its trio of founders.
Most agree the doorway, in the heart of what has historically been the markets area, once belonged to a prison.
In this episode, you’ll hear Richie’s story. About picking mushies with him over Inchydoney Bay in 1993, about how he spent a summer on building sites in London, about how he later ended up in prison, and about how he died.
This fast-paced tale of a woman with amnesia in search of her past is “beautiful, tragic at times, and original”, writes Daniel Seery.
“We have to find a legal way of doing it,” said City Arts Officer Ray Yeates. But “the partnership process is full of potential”.
