Interview: Kate Canning – The Importance of Being Earnest
Smock Alley are soon to host a new production of Oscar Wilde’s extravagant and incorrigible magnum opus The Importance of Being Earnest. Part of Smock Alley’s Dinner and a Show…
Music Interview: Chris Geddes – Belle and Sebastian
For a band entering their 20th year, Belle and Sebastian are enjoying rude health, releasing a ninth studio album, and with a written account of their early years just published.…
Nice Gaff: The Ark Temple Bar
The first cultural centre for children in Europe, the Ark is a place where children can explore theatre, music, literature, art, film and other cultural activities in a space created…
Soundbite: Eveleen Coyle Fab Food Trails
Eveleen Coyle's Fab Food walking trails are journeys of culinary discovery, imparting insider knowledge of the best things happening food-wise in Ireland.
Interview: Lorna Boyle
Future Makers award-winner and recent graduate of NCAD and Goldsmiths University, Dubliner Lorna Boyle flips the traditions of jewellery construction with her inventive and eye-catching designs.
Arts Desk: Display Show
Curated by Gavin Wade, with Céline Condorelli and James Langdon, ‘Display Show’ is the first iteration of an exhibition project which seeks to examine the politics of exhibition and display.
Bolt Hostel: Call of the Wasteland
For the first time since the 1970s activists are reclaiming vacant spaces in North inner city to house homeless families. It’s hard to write an unbiased piece about a subject…
Marco Roccasalvo Campo de’ Fiori Bistro Market Bray
A passionate and devoted advocate of authentic Italian cooking, Marco Roccasalvo runs the award-winning Campo de’ Fiori Bistro Market in Bray with his wife Laura. He talked to us about…
Book Review: Girl at War – Sara Nović
Sara Nović’s first novel, Girl at War, is an MFA novel that reads exactly like an MFA novel.
Book Review: The Meursault Investigation – Kamel Daoud
In Camus’ classic novel The Stranger, eerily disaffected protagonist Meursault shoots an ‘Arab’ on a beach. Now, in his brief and passionate work The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud rewrites the…
Totally Dublin Weekender | August 6 – 9
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Totally Dublin Weekender | July 30 – August 3
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Gaze Film Festival 2015: The Participants
We met with Paul Rowley (director), Nicky Gogan (producer) and Dennis McNulty (sound) to talk about their new film, the Participants, and the Gaze Festival.
Altruism & Boardgames: Giving What We Can
We spoke with Michael and Emily who founded the Dublin chapter of Giving What We Can, the movement founded by Toby Ord that aims at effective donation of 10% of…
Dancing about architecture: Ballet Átha Cliath
Ballet Atha Cliath is a collaboration between an assortment of Dublin-based creative artists: filmmaker Howard Jones, professional ballerina Zoë Ashe-Brown, and local space-rock three-piece Cloud Castle Lake.
Totally Dublin Weekender | July 23 – 26
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Totally Dublin Weekender | July 16 – 19
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Book Review: The Book of Fate – Parinoush Saniee
Originally banned in Iran, and now translated into seven different languages, Parinoush Saniee’s bestselling The Book of Fate follows protagonist Massoumeh as she struggles to keep afloat through five decades…