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March 27, 2024
‘We are very much a Venn diagram,” Ashley Campbell says. “We are our own circle.” Thor Jensen adds: “But we also have a large overlapping piece.”
March 24, 2024
Garage, one of the great Irish films, focused on Josie, who works in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere in Ireland. Time Out wrote that he belonged “to a class of intellectually and emotionally ‘challenged’ individuals who are charged with living their lives without much family or social support”.
March 10, 2024
Born in 1952, Michael Mulcahy is one of ­Ireland’s greatest living artists, and one whose life is almost as colourful as his acclaimed works of art. Once he wandered naked through Galway city and took plastic ducks for a walk through Dublin’s Stephen’s Green.
February 27, 2024
Musician Corinne Bailey Rae will be among several stars to headline this year’s Rock Against Homelessness concert in May.
February 27, 2024
Musician Corinne Bailey Rae will be among several stars to headline this year’s Rock Against Homelessness concert in May.
February 25, 2024
In May 2011, Brendan Gleeson gave an emotional speech at College Green ahead of Barack Obama’s public address in Dublin’s city centre.
February 25, 2024
Thin Lizzy’s sixth studio album Jailbreak proved to be not only the band’s greatest record but is now regarded as one of the greatest hard rock LPs of all time, with such as acts as Metallica citing its influence. The standout tracks on the record include The Boys are Back in Town and Jailbreak – and Phil Lynott’s pal Jim Fitzpatrick designed the LP sleeve.
February 19, 2024
Here are a couple dozen free movies worth checking out on Pluto TV.
February 18, 2024
Tens of thousands of people marched at last year’s Pride parade in Dublin. Now an annual event, it wasn’t always so well attended. In 1974, David Norris was one of just eight people there. It was less a celebration of their sexuality as a small protest against the inequality they suffered because of it.
February 18, 2024
For an all-too-brief time, The Pale were one of our greatest indie acts. This greatness – often supplied by oddball Matthew Devereux (52) – sprang from their unique take on life, love and everything in between.