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Posted in Family, History, Reviews, Theatre on Oct 3rd, 2011
Juno and the Paycock – poster image Watching Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, about the Boyle family in Dublin, was often a little like watching my own family in full flight. The hilarious spats between Juno and her husband – known alternately as Jack, The Captain and The Paycock – are like the [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Nightlife, Reviews, Theatre on Sep 27th, 2011
Back in 1997 actor Charlotte Jones, tired of sitting by a silent phone and frustrated by the lack of decent roles for women, took matters into her own hands and wrote her first play. The result was Airswimming, a dark yet heart-warming two-hander drama based on an historical snippet that she had once stumbled upon; “A Miss Kitson and [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Books, Media, Reviews, Women, Work, Writing on Apr 28th, 2011
A few weeks ago I met a delegation of Swedish journalists on a visit to Dublin. Fresh from a visit to the Irish Times offices, they remarked on the fact that there seemed to be very few women in the newsroom. They pointed out that in Sweden, men and women are so evenly distributed across [...]
Back in 1999 praise for Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut The Virgin Suicides heralded a budding young talent, an indie force to be reckoned with, a woman with an intuitive understanding of the nuance and structure to a scene. The issue here is not whether Coppola has talent, but what it is she does, or rather, [...]
Posted in Anti Room Group Post, Books, Reviews on Aug 20th, 2010
Emma Donoghue is the author of 10 novels, including the bestselling Slammerkin (2000). Her latest novel, Room, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was born in Dublin in 1969, and has been writing books since the age of 23. She lives in Canada with her partner and their two children. Room was inspired by [...]
The familiar plot motif regarding an adult child returning to the family home after a long absence found its commercial and critical success with “On Golden Pond,” a film which garnered three Academy Awards and was second at the box office in 1981. The bloodless Henry Fonda and braying Katherine Hepburn were of a piece [...]
Posted in Anti Room Group Post, Music, Reviews on Aug 6th, 2010
Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino’s celebration of all things Californian. This LA girl writes “songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep.” Her debut album Crazy For You is out now and reviewed below. You can hear some of the tracks here: AOIFE BARRY: We’ve all been there – [...]
I’ve just finished reading Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, and I miss the two of them. It’s a great read: all the energy of late 1960’s and early 1970’s New York; two youngsters finding each other by accident and uniting in art and hope. Both of them had an [...]
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