What If Dublin… Loved Its Little Parks?
I envision a role, even a destiny for the parks, not as discrete bounded entities but as active hubs enlivening wide arcs of urban green.
Letter Love: Holly Pereira – Hyper Pictures
We caught up with illustrator, animator and signwriter Holly Pereira ahead of her appearance at RHA Hennessy Lost Fridays to discuss illustration, her love of big letters and the creatives…
Cinema Review: Trespass Against Us
Damning social considerations aside, this is a poorly acted, uneven and half-hearted film whose central father-son relationships fail to intrigue or engage.
Audio Review: Oczy Mlody – The Flaming Lips
Ambitious? Certainly. Silly? Somewhat. Their best work in years? Absolutely.
Cinema Review: Fences
An impeccably acted affair, with electrifying turns by Washington, who also directs, Viola Davis as his long-suffering wife, and newcomer Jovan Adepo.
Book Review: Private Citizens – Tony Tulathimutte
Private Citizens has more to offer than satire. Tulathimutte’s protagonists appear as horrified by themselves – and their world – as we are.
Book Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was – Sjón
The book, like the boy, moves ever outward – from the intimate towards an expanded focus that takes in the whole of Icelandic society.
Book Review: Nutshell – Ian McEwan
In Ian McEwan’s brilliantly realised latest novel, Prince Hamlet literally does find himself ‘bounded in a nutshell’, or rather, a womb.
Book Review: Doctorow Collected Stories – E. L. Doctorow
Some of Doctorow’s most notable short fiction has been re-released in this new edition. Unfortunately, his qualities as a novelist do not translate into satisfying stories.
Book Review: The Fire This Time – Jesmyn Ward (Ed.)
Multiple authors agonise over how to tell their children that people will see them as less human because of their skin colour.
Cinema Review: It’s Only the End of the World
Wringing high drama from the banal, this is classic Dolan
Cinema Review: Certain Women
Based on the short stories of Maile Meloy, Certain Women consists of three distinct narratives linked by a central theme — strong women operating in a male-dominated world — and…
Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2017
This year a host of more than 60 Irish and International guests are set to visit the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. Festival Director Grainne Humphreys gives us the lowdown…
Off The Laoise: Laoise Ní Nualláin
Laoise Ní Nualláin is a Galway musician on the verge of breaking big. We met her ahead of the launch of her upcoming debut EP Halfway, due out this spring.
Artsdesk: Having a Kiki
"Connecting with other queer voices can create a space of self reflection and affirmation”. Visual artist and educator Emma Haugh talks to us about Having a Kiki: Queer Desire and…
Cinema Review: The Great Wall
A film undone by a severely underwritten script, wonky CGI, and a talented cast delivering career-worst performances.
Garb: Kiki Na Art
With artistic origins, six years in Vietnam and the solo establishment of an independent business under her belt, when it comes to Dublin’s creative scene, Kiki Na Art has arrived.