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Minister Martin announces details of SEODA - Culture Ireland’s Online Arts Festival   Minister Catherine Martin TD has announced details of Culture Ireland’s online festival for mid-March which is designed to celebrate Irish arts worldwide at a time when Irish artists normally travel the globe, presenting and sharing our culture on international stages. The festival, entitled SEODA, meaning jewels, includes many of Ireland’s finest artists and companies and covers all art forms from architecture to visual arts. This 5 day festival running from 17-21 March is an...

Updated / Monday, 15 Feb 2021 15:42 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Ronan Phelan, Associate Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company introduces COMPASS, their new 'multifaceted development programme designed to place artists and play development at the centre of Rough Magic's activities'. Over this past year I've been thinking a lot about the Overton Window. Originally brought to m...

Updated / Monday, 25 Jan 2021 19:07 Sinead reports from the Department of Health RTÉ's Arts and Media Correspondent Sinead Crowley recalls the switch in assignment which saw her reporting live from the most famous conference room in Ireland. In terms of my own work, a lot has changed since I filed my first working from home diary.  At that time I was still working full time as Arts and Media correspondent, and most of my reports concerned the devastating blow dealt to the arts sector industry by Covid-19 restrictions. Shortly afterwards however I was assigned to covering Covid-19 itself an...

The revival of Our New Girl by Nancy Harris at the Gate was a welcome slice of the urban contemporary. First produced at the Bush in 2012, this psychological drama in which the idea that a woman can have it all gets a spectacular kicking. Directed by Annabelle Comyn, the show had a strong thriller-ish edge, with genuine uncertainty about how the story would twist. The dominant uncertainty was offstage however, and having opened in March, it halted its run early as the country went into its first lockdown. In the words of Druid director Garry Hynes, companies started “unproducing”, scramb...

Work by Cork-based author and poet named Book of the Year A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa named as the  An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020. A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa has been announced as the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020. A Ghost in the Throat marks Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut, and has received acclaim for its use of language and original approach, weaving together two complementary stories: the narrator’s own relationship with pregnancy and motherhood, and the life of eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill.