“It’s giving colonialism”: Ireland still owes rent to dukes and earls
Although, even though the OPW lists these rents as payable, some of the named beneficiaries say they haven't been getting them.
“This is a spirited, important, knockout of a picture,” writes our reviewer. “Hazel Doupe is simply fantastic, she’s destined for great things.”
By “Dublin’s leading brothel keeper at the end of the 1700s”, this “is a hugely recommended book which will expand anyone’s sense of the Irish past and of our literary heritage”.
Sorcha Kelly’s work was inspired by a couple of Dubliners arguing outside her window about their ma.
A murderer joins his victim’s father in the search for her body. It’s a film with powerful performances let down slightly by ropey plotting, writes our reviewer.
“The USB key is a couple of different things,” says Michelle Doyle of the Repeater collective. It’s a portable exhibition and a piece of artwork in itself.
The young singer encapsulates the mixed-race Irish experience through velvety grooves.
For her Invisible Museum show, now on in Kilmainham, Laragh Pittman has borrowed objects brought in suitcases and pockets from across the world to a new home.
First challenge for this year’s Finglas Maypole Festival? Find a maypole, say those behind the push to bring the historical celebration back to the urban village.
Udham Singh waited two decades to exact revenge on Tipperary’s Michael O’Dwyer. A new book tracks what happened in those years.
Amy Coleman was unsure if others would turn up. “Is this something that people are going to like or am I going to be the weirdo knitting on her own in a pub?”
Or, as its tag line goes, it’s “Country to the ‘Core”.
In a small studio off Dorset Street, the team behind Paper Panther Productions work on their stop-gap animated stories.