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Seán French was elected as Lord Mayor of Cork 100 years ago today. While he served 12 terms, Aodh Quinlivan and John Ger O’Riordan explain why it wasn’t smooth sailing for French
Directed by Neil Jordan, The Company of Wolves was a lot more than Little Red Riding Hood remade as a feminist, slasher movie. Released in 1984, it was (as the New York Times noted) “absolutely jam-packed with the kind of symbols that delight Freudian analysts of culture, particularly of folk tales”.
Empire magazine called it in 2012 “the best Irish film in some time”. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, produced by Ed Guiney and written by Malcolm Campbell, What Richard Did was an adaptation of Kevin Power’s novel Bad Day in Blackrock, inspired by the killing of Dublin teenager Brian Murphy in 2000.
Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith is much admired. Long-term supporter Elvis Costello wrote in a Vanity Fair magazine article that his Wastin’ Time album was an essential part of a record collection along with Joni Mitchell’s Blue, The Beach Boys’s Pet Sounds and Frank Sinatra’s Only the Lonely.
Like sheep filtering into a pen, a vast crowd of millennials drained from the other arenas at Electric Picnic last September and flocked into a single tent.