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On a layover in Dublin, a filmmaker pays homage to Quackser Fortune
“We’re leaving here in three hours,” said Frank Durant, at The Gravediggers.
Rewriting Dublin’s nightlife – is Ray O’Donoghue the man to give us the night?
Last year, Dublin finally got a night mayor. What has he been working on?
In new exhibition, artist highlights gap between how co-living was advertised and how living there actually felt
Eva Richardson McCrea’s “The Decameron / Na Deich Lá” opens 13 February at Project Arts Centre.
In Fairview, an artist elevates his chosen icons
“They are the people I want to portray and liken to those important figures from art back then,” says Jordan Cassidy.
Dean: Brigid Mae Power’s covers album is a classic of the form
The Galway native’s connection to the music on Songs for You “feels personal”.
A new film about writer Edna O’Brien “cuts through the fluff and grandstanding of documentaries of this type”
“Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story” is playing in theatres from 31 January.
In Phibsboro, an artist looks a little differently at her family
Lauren Conway started with a project on her mother, then did one on her brother, and now has an exhibition soon on her chemistry and crystal-loving sister.
On Capel Street, encounters at a barbershop birth an independent record label
“Everyone one that started The7 I met here,” said Tharick Benck recently, during a shift in the Vintage Studio.
Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.
Dean: Rapper Kendino leads a triumphant night of Asian-Irish ingenuity
The three artists on the ticket “are forward-thinking superfly radicals that indulge in what you might call a romantic urban sound”.
With a gig on the North Bull Wall, an experimental punk band reclaims the city
“A lot of avenues are restricted to us because someone else owns it,” says John Ryan of Vsevolod Plotkin. “But no one owns this. It’s public, we can use it.”