‘I feel a real momentum and I’ll keep going with it’

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

FOR THOSE who lived through it, 2020 was a year that will never be forgotten. It was also a year that few, if any, will remember with any trace of positivity. There may, though, be an exception.

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Getting To Know...Racheal Palmer

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Knowing my family is happy and well.

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‘I have always been fortunate to be linked with Druid’

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

PUTNEY BRIDGE, London. It is 7.40am on a bright May morning in 2017. A woman is on her way to work when a jogger, determined not to break his stride or change his pattern, pushes her out of the way, into the path of an oncoming bus.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, friends, an open fire, and musical instruments.

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‘There were chapters in my twenties where I could have been a bit like Luke’

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

WHEN THE email arrived, asking Fiachna Ó Braonáin to audition for a part in TG4’s long running soap Ros ns Rún, his first thought was “Again?”

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being healthy.

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‘I enjoy being the bassline of the story’

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

IF HEARING Bach’s Goldberg Variations for the first time, at the age of 14, was not life changing for cellist Natalie Clein, it was close to that - a profound sense of awe which has stayed with her to this day.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Balance.

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‘Music is living, growing, evolving’

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

IN THE bleak midwinter of the Covid pandemic and another lockdown, there is a bright point of light - Music for Galway’s annual midwinter festival, the first major event of any year on Galway’s cultural calendar, is going ahead.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Early morning. Pot of tea. Book.

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‘Everything I do and write is influenced by feminism’

Thu, Jan 07, 2021

IT IS 1975. Second wave feminism is in full flow, and a young woman, with dreams of becoming an artist, puts a failed relationship behind her and travels to Italy.

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‘We’re continuing Gilgamesh, making it work in a different way’

Thu, Dec 10, 2020

“SHE’S SOME woman for one woman” is a phrase that can very easily be applied to Macnas artistic director Noeline Kavanagh, who also embodies that old adage, “The show must go on.”

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Dec 10, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A delicious dinner and a few drinks with my partner and friends, before a gig in Róisín Dubh. Maybe next year.

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‘It’s about keeping live music alive‘

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

VLADIMIR JABLOKOV’S 2020 captures many of the ups and downs, the obvious lows, and unexpected highs of this strange year, but above all, it encapsulates the sheer resilience of the arts in the face of the pandemic and lockdown.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting in a café or pub, reading a book, having a coffee, waiting for a friend to arrive.

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Eoin Dolan - Good human being

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

IT ALL began with something that no longer exists. It started at a rehearsal by the long defunct Renmore Brass Band, but it would have a profound effect on one young member of the audience.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A day when the painting is going well and the coffee is good, followed by a pint of Beamish with the fella.

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‘The arts take us to a different place, a more human place’

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

THE ARTS are essential to politics, precisely because they can go beyond ideologies and entrenched positions, into the mind and lived experience of another person. Through the artist’s presentation of that life, we can see another perspective; who we might be in other circumstances; or into a reality we have been fortunate enough not to have lived.

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'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having pints of the local brew in a quaint old English pub.

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‘A cursory glance at his career gives us some sense of his stardom’

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

HE WAS Ireland’s first literary celebrity; he moved in exciting political and artistic circles; he was a best selling writer; a political satirist; a biographer, and above all a celebrated lyricist, admired by Hector Berlioz.

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