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Lucasfilm and Disney+ were happy for Irish studio Cartoon Saloon to put an Irish twist on their contribution to Star Wars: Visions, writes Esther McCarthy

Presenter Blathnaid Treacy launched the latest exhibition by the esteemed Bray painter Nuala O’Toole, at the wonderful Nine Restaurant, on Albert Walk, in Bray on Friday evening, April 28, to a warm and welcoming crowd.

Presenter Blathnaid Treacy launched the latest exhibition by the esteemed Bray painter Nuala O’Toole, at the wonderful Nine Restaurant, on Albert Walk, in Bray on Friday evening, April 28, to a warm and welcoming crowd.

Always keen on a new challenge, the unassuming Kin, Wire and Queer as Folk star gets on his gumshoes for Barber, his new film

In a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Don Bluth has been a director, animator, production designer, video game designer, illustrator, and teacher with such beloved films as 'The Secret of NIMH' and 'An American Tail' to his credit.

Pacheco was the clean-up supervisor of Disney Animation's last hand-drawn features, "The Princess and the Frog" and "Winnie the Pooh."

Speaker’s Corner: The head of animation at Cartoon Saloon tells us about his trade

When the Golden Globes go virtual on March 1, Cartoon Saloon will once again be a hand-drawn David to the CGI Goliath of a major studio. Wolfwalkers, an animated jewel of a feature by the Irish studio, is one of the contenders, but the favourite is Soul, Pixars latest box office behemoth. When the Oscar nominations are announced later next month, the same battle lines will be drawn. In a sense its déjà vu for the Kilkenny-based company. Both times when Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for a...

Save this story for later. In the seventeenth century, after wolves were hunted to extinction in most of the British Isles, Ireland was sometimes referred to as Wolf-Land. The implication, perhaps, was that it needed to be tamed. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army invaded Ireland on behalf of the Commonwealth of England, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Irish people. The Army also appointed professional hunters to cull the country’s wolves. Cromwell’s men captured ...