Gallery: PhotoIreland 2013’s New Irish Works
New Irish Works celebrates the diversity of contemporary photographers based or born in Ireland. Here is a sample of what is on show.
Mano Le Tough Interviewed
At this point, it’s probably fair to say that Mano Le Tough is living the dream. Heaving left Dublin for Berlin almost six years ago, the man known to his
Pallas Projects/Studios: Running in the Hall 2
Pallas Projects/Studios, those vagrant art champions, have been doing a neat job at settling into a more permanent home. Their spacious digs, an old Coombe school-building with a dirty great
Dripping Wax – Kanye, QOTSA, Halves & James Holden
Kanye West Yeezus Yeezus is a tale of stress and release, of abrasive and confrontational music and lyrics giving way inevitably to melodic, ambrosial sighs. It’s tempting to
Come On Live Long
Come On Live Long are a five-piece Dublin band who have spent two EPs bridging the gaps between folk and electronica, with a few massive indie rock sing-along crescendos in
7 Inches: Metro Area
Nightflight boys Dave Redmond and Paul Fogarty gave us a primer for the uninitiated – and some deeper cuts for the experts
10 Ways To Spend Bloomsday 2013
Next Sunday will see Dublin turn into a stage for the Bloomsday celebrations – a commemoration of James Joyce’s work named after Ulysses’ Leopold Bloom. So as to prevent you
Ryan’s, Beggar’s Bush
Anton was sure he knew where the pub was, that he knew the area like the back of his hand, but it is only via a short conversation with a
Dripping Wax: Disclosure’s Settle, After Dark II, Nikki Louder, Altar of Plagues
Our new music review pretends it's listening to something other than The Thrills.
Deep In The Game: Nay from Harmless Noise
Ireland's premier homegrown music blogger speaks out on the 'cooling' of sentiment in the Irish scene, getting abuse on the internet and 'being' the country.
Kool Keith interview
Pissy streets, homosexuality as a trend, the South inheriting 808s and nobody ever calling Radiohead old school with rap's one and only - Kool Keith.
Comic-book Fatigue: Is Man of Steel One Adaptation Too Far?
The excitement surrounding the imminent release of Man of Steel shows that the wave of comic-book movies is still cresting, but can audience interest survive beyond this current saturation point?
Rediscovering Ballymun
It just escapes the shadow of the last remaining towers. Not quite where you might expect to find a burgeoning eco-fashion brand, but then again Rediscover is part of Ballymun’s
Irish Art at the Venice Biennale: Richard Mosse and Ella de Burca
“At the moment I am standing beside the canal, and a little boat just went by – a very posh yacht, and there was a woman drinking from a silver
Deep In The Game: Oireachtas Retort interview
Oireachtas Retort talks filling in the gaps, the futility of the Dàil and Enda Kenny as abortion promoter as Karl McDonald continues Deep In The Game
A Hand-Drawn Dublin Diary: Week 2
We've got a very talented French illustrator spending the summer with us. Rather than have her scribbling portraits of Wavves for an article you're not even going to read, we've…
Interview: Sunil Sharpe
Sunil Sharpe has been a vital part of the Irish techno scene for well over a decade. As a producer and DJ he has long been in demand all over
Interview: Boddika
Starting off in 2000 as one half of Instra:Mental, Alex Green threw drum & bass and electro together and had everyone dancing to whatever the hell came out. Green has