Focussed support for creative arts is in the pipeline for the Docklands Business to Arts, a membership-based registered charity, in collaboration with Dublin City Council and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, have set-up the Docklands Arts Fund. The fund is […]
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Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. It has renewed many people’s interest in the lives of Ireland’s rebels of the not-so-distant past. Sean Brennan and Toírdhealach Ó Braoín have organised the Donnybrook Patriots Trail, a “Photo […]
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The Dublin Horse Show is rolling around again soon – the famous international show run by the RDS in Dublin 4 every August. In the mind’s eye, the RDS most probably conjures up images of The Horse Show or a […]
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Summer seems like the appropriate time to celebrate some of Ireland’s most famous literary talents. This June saw the annual Bloomsday tribute to James Joyce, as well as a special celebration for the 150th anniversary of the birth of William […]
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The Lighthouse cinema continues its season of ‘Films you’d love your kids to see’ on Tuesday with one of the key movies of the ’80s, Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, the movie that unleashed Indiana Jones on the […]
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By day, Nikki Brooks works in the commerical property industry in Ballsbridge, but by night she transforms herself into Lady Veneray, a comedy/cabaret performer on Dublin’s nascent burlesque scene. The burlesque scene in Dublin has been expanding over the years, […]
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A new exhibition had its debut in the National Print Museum at Beggars Bush Barracks on July 1st and will be running up to August 30th. Modern Wife, Modern Life explores the representations and expectations of Irish women through the […]
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On the night that Irishtown Stage School held their end-of-year show, someone screamed, “Break a Leg!” It was meant to be the traditional good luck phrase bantered about by showbiz folk as they take to the stage. Liza Caulfield, however, […]
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The Lighthouse Cinema continues its season of ‘Movies You’d Like Your Kids To See’ with Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Wednesday. Made at the peak of Spielberg’s powers, the movie is a cinematic delight, featuring […]
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Dublin City Council’s Decade of Commemorations continues this year by marking the 100th anniversary of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. On Saturday, President Michael D. Higgins laid a wreath at the grave of the Fenian leader and revolutionary who […]
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