A look at how the trials and tribulations of Temple Bar may help guide future cultural quarters across the city. If we need them.
The latest issue of this Dublin literary journal is “an honest, raw and genuine exploration of act of writing”, says author Elske Rahill.
A documentary follows the unlikely rise of a Dublin-based mattress salesmen in this surprisingly low-key documentary about the men behind the social-media phenomenon Mattress Mick.
This weekend, it will have been a century since Dublin Mean Time was erased. Ten women sound artists will commemorate the occasion with a performance at Richmond Barracks.
Luke Maxwell tries to pin down why “The Young Offenders” made him laugh more than any other film this year.
This work is a collection of X-rays, including images of people hidden in trucks, obscured with ink, obliging the viewer to investigate, writes the artist. This is just a detail, click through to see the full image.
It’s about “combating the social stigma, empowering women, and demystifying our bodies”, says the zine’s editor, Michelle Powell.
There are lots of paintings of rural Ireland, but fewer of its urban centres, writes the artist. “My paintings are trying to observe and document what Dublin is like” now, he says.
In this video, writer Dave Lordan reviews the sci-fi novel “Edge of Heaven” by R.B. Kelly, published in Dublin by Liberties Press.
In his work, Kennedy seeks “to create timeless spaces, a constructed world in which dockland motifs sit in utopian landscapes”. You can see it this month at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services in D8.
More than 10 years after the idea of a statue of folk singer Luke Kelly was put forward and approved, there are now potentially two on offer.
“I was taken in by the film’s earnestness and taken aback by its forcefulness,” writes Luke Maxwell. “This is an Irish film that deserves to be seen the world over.”
