Student Spesh: Interview with Noel Brady
Studying the built environment is challenging and, as DIT’s Lecturer in Design, Theory and Urbanism Noel Brady says, not something you can cram for at the end of your final
Student Spesh: Interview with Dr Francis Halsall
Continuing our focus on student life this week we have an interview with Dr Francis Halsall, lecturer in modern and contemporary art and director of the MA in Art in
Student Spesh: Interview with Dr Daniel Geary
Arts and Humanities have remained a popular option for students starting university this year, but what is it really like to not only study in the area but work in
Student Spesh: Coming Out In College
The process of coming out often takes many months, if not years. It is a highly personal experience that can be challenging along the way, but is usually very rewarding
What Maisie Knew
As the credits appear, we observe a title — “Based on a novel by Henry James’ — that jars with the utterly contemporary feeling evoked by an opening sequence set…
Fringe 2013: Maeve Higgins – Moving City
Our roundup of festival highlights from Fringe 2013 concludes with Maeve Higgins’ Moving City. It’s been the year of Maeve. After the launch of her first book We Have
Fringe 2013: James Walmsley – Don’t Swim With Killer Whales
Our preview of highlights from the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival continues with Don’t Swim With Killer Whales by James Walmsley. The guitar-wielding comedian from Dead Cat Bounce brings his
Fringe 2013: Louise Lowe on Thirteen
Totally Dublin’s preview of highlights from this year’s Fringe Festival continues with a look at festival centrepiece Thirteen. The Boys Of Foley Street was one of the most talked-about and…
Fringe 2013: Caoimhin O Raghallaigh – Mice Will Play
Continuing our look at highlights from the 2013 Fringe Festival with Mice Will Play by Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and Nic Gareiss. Renowned fiddler Caoimhin and his virtuosic dancing bandmate Nic
Fringe 2013: Bush Moukarzel – Lippy
Continuing our look at some of the highlights of 2013’s Fringe Festival, we spoke with Bush Moukarzel on his new show Lippy. Heralded as last year’s biggest breakthrough company after
Fringe 2013: Collapsing Horse – Distance From The Event
Another year, another brain-frazzling Fringe program. This year themed loosely around activism, outsiders, women and children (it is the Lockout anniversary, after all), the cross-pollination of artistic and performative disciplines
The Death Of Dead Cat Bounce
September 20th marks the end of an era for Shane O’Brien, James Walmsley, Demian Fox and Mick Cullinan. Having toured 6 shows internationally, won numerous awards and starred in their
Literary Review, September: Morrissey, Carson, Curran
Parallax Sinéad Morrissey Ekphrasis is the cornerstone of Sinéad Morrissey’s fifth collection. From Denis Thorpe’s photographs, inside the newly-deceased L. S. Lowry’s house, to Alexander Robert Hogg’s pictures of Belfast
A Bonfire To My Family’s Past: David Vann Interviewed
David Vann's writing operates within a tradition of rural American writing notable in its refusal to po-facedly romanticise the rites and customs associated with the land.