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Dean: Brigid Mae Power’s covers album is a classic of the form
The Galway native’s connection to the music on Songs for You “feels personal”.
A new film about writer Edna O’Brien “cuts through the fluff and grandstanding of documentaries of this type”
“Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story” is playing in theatres from 31 January.
In Phibsboro, an artist looks a little differently at her family
Lauren Conway started with a project on her mother, then did one on her brother, and now has an exhibition soon on her chemistry and crystal-loving sister.
On Capel Street, encounters at a barbershop birth an independent record label
“Everyone one that started The7 I met here,” said Tharick Benck recently, during a shift in the Vintage Studio.
Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.
Dean: Rapper Kendino leads a triumphant night of Asian-Irish ingenuity
The three artists on the ticket “are forward-thinking superfly radicals that indulge in what you might call a romantic urban sound”.
With a gig on the North Bull Wall, an experimental punk band reclaims the city
“A lot of avenues are restricted to us because someone else owns it,” says John Ryan of Vsevolod Plotkin. “But no one owns this. It’s public, we can use it.”
Photo of the Month: October
“I liked the woman’s matching coat and hair, it seemed like an obvious picture to take.”
Poet, painter and activist Michael O’Flanagan works to preserve old Kilmainham one piece at a time
To ensure the now vanished shop The Orchard is remembered, he painted it. To try to save the old library building, he ran for council.
As residents of Portrane and Donabate campaign for a cultural space, a beautiful hall nearby sits empty
The grand Victorian hall at St Ita’s used to host show bands, Christmas dances, and more, says Paschal Henchy, who worked at the hospital for 44 years.
Dean: F3miii’s electro-R&B glitter-bomb is smooth and delectable
“Take his small body of work together and there’s no doubt about it, this is the kind of new groove to woo us to smithereens.”
From Ballyfermot to Cannes, a Dublin novel gets a makeover as a French film
Neville Thompson’s 1997 book “Jackie Loves Johnser OK?” has been remade into the new €35.7 million Gilles Lellouche film “L’Amour Ouf”.