Brian Quinn A self-portrait of faith and courage I’m calling it right now: 2021 is the year of the O’Connaissance. Don’t believe me? Scroll through the comment section of any Sinéad O’Connor video on YouTube, and you’ll find hundreds of […]
Read more →By Peter McNamara The term “festival” first showed up in the English language in the middle of the 16th century. It derives from “feast” and is most often centred around the harvest. Ireland, and the wider Celtic world, has been […]
Read more →David Prendeville As we slowly trudge our way, hopefully, to the other side of the pandemic, cinemas are slowly starting to fill with new films once more. While it’s still mostly holdovers of smaller films that are making up the […]
Read more →Dermot Carmody The Round Room 200 exhibition in the Round Room at the Mansion House was opened on July 19th by the newly elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, recently retired city archivist and historian Dr. Mary Clark and […]
Read more →Dermot Carmody In this the year that the Tokyo Olympics took place, it’s not just Irish sporting achievement that will be on display in the city, but the artistic talent of young Irish people including that of 18-year-old Róisín Long […]
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This August, get ready to feast your eyes on exciting spectacles, stellar performances and magical entertainment with Fiestaval.
Read more →Brian Quinn A Dublin Odyssey filled with Dark Potential. “Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders, Here are the young men, well where have they been? We knocked on the doors of Hell’s darker chamber, Pushed to […]
Read more →Brian Quinn Begosh and Begorrah! “Once Upon A Time in Ireland,” narrates Christopher Walken, welcoming us into a country as grand as it is unfamiliar. This isn’t Ireland as we know it, as we knew it, nor how we’d ever […]
Read more →Dermot Carmody He composed musicals and a Eurovision Song Contest Winner, brought down a Taoiseach on the ground-breaking TV show he presented without really realising it, and had a song banned from RTE and made famous by Billy Connolly. The […]
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In this interview local author, artist, architect and certified renaissance woman, Derville Murphy, kindly spoke to Newsfour about what drives her to write, how art has influenced her work and what are the makings of a knockout historical fiction novel.
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