Global entertainment supplier TAGLive® is holding its first ever Irish casting days in Cork City and is committed to casting up to 50 Irish performers for its contracts across Greece and Spain. This year the UK based company opened an Irish operation based in Skibbereen with EU Casting Director and […]
Culture
A young student recently asked me how to ‘make blue’. Of course, being a primary colour one cannot ‘make blue’ out of other colours; just as one cannot make yellow or red. In saying this, blue is not simply blue, and in art all the different varieties of blue ‘are’ made. […]
Following the critical success of his first solo exhibition in Ireland earlier this year, O’Connell Gallery is delighted to be showing selected highlights from the Quercu collection in Clonakilty. ‘Quercu’ – the oak – brings together a new body of work by Alan Meredith. The exhibition draws together separate, but […]
The work of printmaker, Brian Lalor, as viewed in the current Uillin retrospective, reveals a Janus-faced graphic artist of, on one side, Bruegelian humour, intensity and detail, and on the other, expressionist fervour and flight. Breaking this down further, in his tighter drawings of cityscapes we glimpse an architect and […]
The highlight of the seventh Drimoleague Singing Festival, which runs from September 19-22, is sure to be the Sunday night concert featuring Hothouse Flowers, who will bring their legendary high energy show featuring rock, roll and soul, as well as a hefty dose of Irish traditional music influences to All […]
It seems that whoever I have spoken to recently has lamented our missing summer. Many claim that this year is wetter than last year “and that was bad, mind.” But I like to look at positives and I know there were at least two evenings when we sat under canvas […]