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Council plans to turn St Werburgh’s church into 250-seat venue
The idea is for this spot next to Dublin Castle to host choirs, chamber music, trad music, poetry performances, and more.
To artists’ ire, a council poster shows the hands of AI
It’s a good moment for a conversation about local and national policies to ensure state bodies don’t switch out artists for AI, says illustrator Eva Kelly.
Once a month, a Sunday-afternoon pop-up Gaeltacht in Skerries
“There aren’t enough opportunities to practise, so the idea here is good, just to provide a forum,” says Anne McGough, who dropped in last Sunday.
The loss of Sam’s Collective, a special space in Dublin’s queer scene
Others should take the closure as an inspiration and fill the gap, says Coco Fabulasio. “Let’s build new things.”
Luke: New film “Four Mothers” is “equal parts heartwarming and heart-rending”
It’s from Darren and Colin Thornton, the sibling team behind 2016’s “A Date for Mad Mary”, “one of the truly great Irish films of the last 10 years”.
Photo of the Month: March
“As a street photographer you really see how much people have cut themselves off from each other via this little thing that fits in our hands.”
On Ormond Quay, a literary salon meets as Gaeilge
As, over the river, councillors again picked up the thread on long-standing plans for an Irish language quarter.
Dean: KhakiKid and Travy are among the Irish rap elite
They’re “a pair of gifted boy wonders on very different ends of the stylistic spectrum from each other”.
In Balleally, field recordings fill in the sound of the estuary’s missing birds
Garrett Phelan’s latest artwork is made of 28 radio shows broadcast on a loop, that force the listener to hear the landscape anew by showing the old.
Luke: There’s too much that’s familiar in this Irish-language horror film
And as the same horrors appear again and again, attention and scarewithall wanes.
In Balbriggan, an art exhibition looks back to a time when a “balbriggan” meant something
The group show Weaving Threads of Heritage opens 12 April at Ardgillan Castle.
Living in an angry phone box, and playing a video game where you get to smash up the Docklands, at a new exhibition
Liquid Urbanisms, a group show, is due to run from 14 March to 24 April at the Lab Gallery in Dublin 1.