Off The Cuff: Dublin Comedy Improv 21st Birthday
Dublin Improv celebrates its 21st birthday this month and in honour of one Dublin’s longest running comedy clubs I had a chat with members Ian Coppinger, Tara Flynn, Danny Kehoe,…
The Most Sexist Website On The Internet?
Last week, I was asked to write a piece about sexism on the internet. I didn’t think it would be a particularly difficult task – after all, how often do
Now You See Me
Director: Louis Leterrier Talent: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher Release Date: 3rd July 2013 Part clever heist thriller, part fantasy romp for babies, this story of hipster
The Bling Ring
Director: Sofia Coppola Talent: Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien Release Date: 5th July 2013 Based closely on the Vanity Fair article ‘The Suspects Wore Louboutins’ by Nancy
The Gathering: Riverdance
Merrion Square will once more serve as a stage for a special, free family event: an exclusive event centred around the famous Riverdance show. As a part of The Gathering
Life’s A Drag: Interview With Panti
The iconic performer takes us through a career that began when homosexuality was illegal, to today being the only drag queen to have been awarded an Arts Council grant. Here…
10 Days In Dublin: Spoken Word, Token Word’s Iseult Sheehy and Joshua Lim
“The May Blaze” is a new company. Why did you choose the festival to launch it? I was invited to stage a production for the 10 Days In Dublin festival
Literary Review, July
Featuring Renata Adler, Giedra Radvilaviciute and Paul Muldoon's The Word on the Street.
Restaurant Review: NEDE
After 17 years of brunch, lunch and dinner, there were confused cries of protest among Eden’s loyal customer base when it was announced earlier this summer that a re-brand was
Interview: Alison Spittle
Alison Spittle has been playing the Dublin comedy circuit for two years, starting off with a quick weekly round-up on Bernard O’Shea’s radio show and now bringing the Republic of…
PhotoIreland Festival 2013
PhotoIreland is living up to its name this year, its hungry limbs reaching across the length of the country to put on group shows in Cork and Limerick as well
The Shelbourne Hotel No. 27 Bar & Lounge
The appeal of the Shelbourne as a cultural artefact is unquestionable, and not so simple so as to be extrapolated in the space of a single page, though it is…
Interview: Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy has been publishing intellectually exacting poems, plays and novels since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until recently, almost twenty years after her first play was performed, that her…
10 Days In Dublin: Turning Down Sex’s Mutant Debs
So tell us a bit about Turning Down Sex’s collective philosophy on rock and/or roll and life in general. We’ve always been pretty relaxed about our music, and the advantage
Anseo
I’d bought a titanic Korg drum machine specifically for the night. Cait’s dad packed it into the boot of the car with our guitars, dodgy Yamaha keyboards and mic-stands, and
Art Tunnel Smithfield
Progress isn’t always written in stone. The existence of ghost estates and eerily bare structures around the island should tell us that. Not too long ago, during Ireland’s erstwhile boom,…
10 Days In Dublin: Dan and Rob, Founders
Festival season is not just about bands and DJs playing in muddy fields. From July 4th to July 13th, the open, multidisciplinary festival 10 Days In Dublin will be taking
Ireland’s 19th Century Wimbledon Invasion
New York’s Madison Square Garden has just opened its doors; Albert Einstein is brought into the world; much of the upper echelons of Victorian society are waltzing to the sounds