
‘Film Club’ – Buy a Ticket – Review by Dan O’Neill Fathers and Sons – a perennial topic for artists and fabulists since biblical times. What makes for a good relationship? As […]
‘Film Club’ – Buy a Ticket – Review by Dan O’Neill Fathers and Sons – a perennial topic for artists and fabulists since biblical times. What makes for a good relationship? As […]
So, this week it’s all about the Dublin Writers Festival for me at least! It’s quite an exciting line up, with Sebastian Barry, Johnny Vegas among many others. The Docklands Summer Festival […]
Fear and Trembling – ‘My Age of Anxiety’ – Review by Dan O’Neill By most reckonings, Scott Stossel has had and is having a successful life. He went to Harvard, is married […]
Coldbrook – Review by Mary Donnelly In a CERN type experimental laboratory in the Appalachian mountains a “breach”, a door between worlds, is opened, all living things that come through are zapped […]
Jack McNulty is the Temporary Gentleman, a retired Irish soldier who served in the British Army during the Second World War. His story is also based on the maternal grandfather of the […]
American Smoke by Iain Sinclair – Review by Cormac Donnelly In “American Smoke” Iain Sinclair traces a path through the landscape of the United States and the channels of his memories, searching […]
In truth, no one night could encompass the effect that someone like Seamus Heaney has had on Ireland. It’s an impossible task to take on, but the lovely night at the National […]
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon – Book Review by Helen O’Leary There are several things that particularly appeal about this debut novel that is set in April […]
There is something that draws you in about the world that Emma Donoghue has created for her latest novel ‘Frog Music’. The book is set in San Francisco during 1876. It is […]
Film Freak by Christopher Folwer – Review by Mary Donnelly Like many readers I came to Christopher Fowler after seeing the rather arresting cover of Spanky in the horror section of a […]
The Programme of the 2014 Dublin Writers Festival has just been announced. We’ll do a full review of the programme later, but there’s a couple of events that jumped off the page […]
This week, we’ve got a new production of ‘An Ideal Husband’ starting in the Gate. The Japanese Film Festival starts in the Lighthouse, and there’s the Spotlight seminar in the IFI. On […]
JKF’s Last Hundred Days by Thurston Clarke – Review by Cormac Donnelly When President Obama shook the hand of Raul Castro at the funeral of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, international media […]
The clocks have done their springing forward and it’s starting to feel an awful lot like Summer! Yes, we’re hoping for a good one, and it should draw people out of hibernation […]
The Spinning Heart was the first published novel by Donal Ryan, and tells the tale of small town life in Limerick. The story is told as a collection of interwoven short stories. […]
Dublin has recovered from the general madness of St. Patrick’s day and the world continues as before. There’s lots of new stuff to see and do around the city, so without further […]
St. Patty’s day is here. Need I say anything else? Yes, tourists have engulfed our fair capital and are desperately seeking the promised land that is ‘Temple Bar’! Theatre The Abbey – […]
It’s almost Paddy’s day, but the big day itself isn’t until next week! We still have a chunk of the festival itself on for you to explore. You can find out full […]
Seamus Heaney was Ireland’s greatest living poet and a Nobel prize winner, who sadly died in August of last year. Poetry Ireland and One City: One Book have organised a night to […]
Mark Kermode is a grumpy man. He is made more grumpy by the state of our cinemas- how they show movies, what they are showing, how they sell their tickets. Remember when […]
Gruff is back, with a new ablum, but also a film, book and an app! He’s back in a big way, as he says himself, it’s a “multisensory experience telling the incredible […]
Dublin Writers Festival kicks off this May, running from the 17th to the 25th. They’ve just announced a few events, with Ray Davies of the Kinks possibly the most the exciting of […]
The Free by Willy Vlautin – Review by Helen O’Leary Willy Vlautin’s reputation as a novelist is slowly growing. His last book was short listed for the IMPAC Prize but he still […]
Is Worst. Person. Ever. one of the worst novels ever written? No, but Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel is without a doubt his worst.novel.ever. I say this from the point of view of […]
This is one of Guy Delisle’s earliest Travelogues, with a trip to Shenzhen, China to oversee the completion of a children’s cartoon in 1997. Delisle spent a three month period in China, […]
Love is in the air…. everywhere I look around… do do do, do do do. Yes, it’s another one of those holidays created by greeting card companies, if you want to be […]
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Written by Mary M Talbot, Drawn by Bryan Talbot. Published by Jonathan Cape. This is a graphic novel written by Mary Talbot and illustrated by her […]
Willy Vlautin may not be a household name, but many will know him better as the lead singer with the band Richmond Fontaine! Willy has also written a number of books, including […]
Bill Callahan is in Dublin, yes, that Bill Callahan, of Smog fame, and even (Smog) fame, if you want to get precious about it. It’s hard to compete with that for your […]