With Irish fashion drowning in a sea of wool and knits, Fashion Editor Kieran Murphy interviews the shining light in Irish design that is Fionnuala Bourke. When you consider Irish fashion, you might be tempted to turn towards Phillip Tracy’s eccentric hats or else be swamped with images of Orla Kiely’s mindless prints, but…
We have long had to put up with them in the Daily Mail but now they’re invading our perfume counters, Imelda Hehir investigates celebrity perfumes. Does anyone recall how big a deal J-Lo’s ‘Glow’ was about ten years ago and now we can’t but assume a perfume is standard practice like releasing a single,…
Have hipsters gone too far? Rachel Sullivan investigates the moustache trend For anyone who has ever considered cutting out a felt moustache and pasting it across your forehead, or perhaps stapling a paper reproduction to your upper lip, please reconsider your intentions. The quiet creep of the moustache trend into the realm of insignificance…
Michaél Phelan tells us what’s in store for the upcoming Dramat Short Play Festival. Dramat are about to launch an exciting few weeks of theatre, and to open their first term productions, they are presenting three original short plays, each written by students of University College Cork in the Dramat Short Play Festival. The…
The seats filled and the atmosphere was electric at the very mention of Romeo and Juliet – but did Corcadorca do the Bard any justice? Geraldine Carey reviews. It was a wet Tuesday evening when I travelled to the Cork Opera House to see the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet, a production by the Corcadorca…
The early twentieth century saw drastic changes in Ireland’s political, social and economic conditions. These changes are sharply represented in the works of Limerick artist, Sean Keating (1889-1977). The latest Crawford exhibition, Sean Keating: Contemporary Contexts, explores the works of Sean Keating and how his representation of hardship and struggle relates to the work…
Deputy Entertainments Editor Jack Broughan reviews Ty Segal’s latest offering It’s that time of the month again; it seems Ty Segal has released yet another album. His fourth release in the last year, Segal is most definitely not shy about putting out a wealth of records. Indeed in the past four years his discography…
UK trio Muse were always going to be a band in danger of veering over the line of taste into self-parody, and their mainstream appeal becoming commercial domination has done them no favours lately, either. But no-one could have foreseen this, reckons Music Editor and longtime Muse fan Mike McGrath-Bryan. In 2010, Muse confirmed what…
A trip to the record shop may seem quaint to casual music consumers today, especially youngsters now weaned on downloads, but, as Music Ed. Mike McGrath-Bryan finds, a ramble to PLUGD reveals a revered journey of discovery that now, more than ever, is necessary to appreciate and understand music, regardless of taste… A long-standing institution…
Looper is one of 2012’s more enjoyable sci-fi larks, writes Cathal Dennehy Christopher Nolan, the man behind the Dark Knight Trilogy, has played a major role in changing the way many people look at blockbusters today. 2010’s Inception proved to everybody that a blockbuster didn’t have to be mindless, bland, explosion-filled trash, but rather…