Cinema Review: The Whale
Our reviewer finds The Whale to be a beached experience...
Stories of Home and Valour at Living Canvas Marking Brigit – Dublin City Celebrating Women
Challenging traditional definitions of what strength might mean, Stories of Valour and Home explores themes of shelter, safety, and support, through the work of ten of Ireland's leading women artists.
Sounds Good: The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery
Our review of Gigi's Recovery, The Murder Capital's second album, which is sitting pretty at No.1 on the Irish album charts this week.
Bitesize: Food Dolls
We're loving videos, stories and DIY hacks from Minnesota based ‘grammers Alia and Radwa, the self-proclaimed Food Dolls who are building a go-to online hub for ‘decadent, scrumptious meals that…
Book Review: Instant Fires – Andrew Meehan
Andrew Meehan’s Instant Fires sets the tricky feelings and follies of new love against the heft of family history.
Artsdesk: Diaphanous threads – Hughie O’Donoghue
Hughie O’Donoghue’s artworks create an intriguing dynamic with the past, making visible the diaphanous threads that bind history to mythology, national ideology and fictional narrative.
Highland Fling! Burns Night Revisited
The subject of Burns Night is a contentious one here at Totally Dublin. Is it a thing in Dublin? Isn't it a thing? Well if it isn't, maybe it should…
Cinema Review: An Cailín Ciúin
"It feels as though this delicate, minimalist work is set to make a very big impact." said our reviewer Rory Kiberd last May. And it has earning a rake of…
Magnified: Where the Leaves Fall
Exploring humankind’s connection with nature, co-founder and editor of Where the Leaves Fall, David Reeve explains the passion behind this publication and project.
A Taste of Asian Fusion at Dublin Lunar New Year Festival
With food writer and consultant Mei Chin on board as this year's festival Ambassador, it comes as no surprise to see an abundance of delicious Asian culinary flavours take centre…
Artsdesk: Shimmer – Bassam Al-Sabah
What the viewer experiences is a shape-shifting multiverse, glitchy and synthetic, retro futuristic - familiar at times to anyone who has explored the medium, yet utterly strange also.
Sons of Donaghmede: Damien Dempsey Meets David Balfe (For Those I Love)
Ahead of the world premiere of Tales from the Holywell, Damien Dempsey's life story directed by Conor McPherson in the Abbey at the end of this month, we revisit our…
Book Review: The Ballycotton Job – Tom Mahon
In a tone reminiscent of a storyteller gathering people around a campfire, Tom Mahon ends the first chapter of The Ballycotton Job; ‘But we’re jumping ahead of ourselves. How did…
Roadmap: Zara’s chats…
Our music editor Zara Hedderman has been lending her ear to the tales of musicians and their stories from the industry in the IMRO podcast.
Sound: Happy Out
Pretty Happy, the Cork-based three piece Art-Punk band, discuss community spirit and getting out of their comfort zone.
In The Frame: Tony O’Shea – Stopped at traffic lights, Aungier Street
Tony O’Shea’s The Light of Day, a career retrospective runs at Photo Museum Ireland until February 18.
Hope Springs – Dublin Lunar New Year Celebrates The Year of the Rabbit
As the Dublin Lunar New Year Festival gets underway we're told that the Rabbit is regarded as a symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity, and that 2023 is predicted to…
Under The Clock: Clerys on O’Connell Street
As the hoarding finally comes down on O’Connell Street, and Dubliners get a chance to meet again once more under under the clock at Clery’s, we revisit our interview with…