Under a tent in Merrion Square, queer resilience
On a recent Monday, contributors to the new collection Glórtha Aiteacha \ Queer Voices shared readings to celebrate pathways, often through struggle, to joy and community.
Film Review Belfast | Kenneth Branagh’s love letter to the city of his youth is steeped in mawkish memory
Film Review Belfast | Kenneth Branagh’s love letter to the city of his youth is steeped in mawkish memory
Seeing Non-Fiction as Left-Behind, the Journal “Tolka” Seeks to Elevate It
Why is there generally, though, a greater focus on fiction over non-fiction? “I think a lot of it is about risk and I’d say the publishing industry, despite being creative, is actually very conservative – in all meanings of the term – and risk-averse,” Tomaselli says.
TV Review | The Crown’s Fourth Season Turns on its Duty Bound Queen
The Crown season four opens with a bang. Quite literally.
For three seasons, creator and lead writer Peter Morgan had been reticent about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. While incidents like Aberfan disaster and the UK miners’ strike of 1972 were given the time they deserved, the escalating conflict across the Irish Sea never got a look in.
The presence of Lord Mountbatten (Charles Dance), however, made tackling the subject an inevitability.
Irish pop star Jack Rua opens up about new music and intimacy in isolation
With the world on stand-still, many are feeling lonely, isolated, and frustrated. Jack Rua has channelled this energy into his music with new song, ‘Isolation.’
“I had a conversation with a f**king crow”: LGBT+ performers on how the lockdown has impacted them
“I had a conversation with a fucking crow, man.” Wallis Bird is one of the LGBT+ performers and artists telling me about the impact the Covid-19 lockdown has had on their life.
WATCH: Irish drag royalty Panti Bliss and Bunny O’Hare lip sync to Édith Piaf
With Ireland’s LGBT+ community practising self-isolation, you might be needing a drag fix to get you through the day. Why not enjoy drag royalty Panti Bliss and Bunny O’Hare performing a hilarious lip-sync to an Édith Piaf classic?
Remembering The Dragon - one of Dublin's most iconic queer venues
Located on 64 South Great George’s Street, The Dragon was one of two dedicated queer nightclubs in Dublin until its closure in 2015. It was youth-focused and, at times, chaotic – mainly due to the club’s unusual layout.
This iconic piece of pop art was inspired by a gay romance
Robert Indiana’s ‘LOVE’ is regarded as one of the most famous pieces of pop art in history. Even if you are not familiar with the artist, you will certainly be familiar with the piece itself. Although an instantly recognisable piece of pop art, what many don’t know is that it was inspired by Indiana’s love for another man.
Derry Girls star says RuPaul's Drag Race UK will be an 'eff you' to bigots
Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan has claimed that RuPaul’s Drag Race UK will take aim at the nation’s bigots.
Special guests and speakers announced for The North Is Next at Dublin Fringe
The guests and speakers for The North Is Next, a special zine launch and event created in collaboration between GCN, Dublin Fringe and Outburst Arts, have been announced.
These are the rumoured queens of RuPaul's Drag Race season 12
Following the announcement that Drag Race season 12 had officially begun casting calls, rumours have spread about who will be in the new cast.
New Pride Run video game lets you dance off against Trump and Putin
The upcoming Pride Run video game from developers IV Productions, allows you to dance off and show your true colours at Pride events across the globe, including San Francisco, Berlin, Madrid, Istanbul, Moscow, and more. (Unfortunately, a bonus level set in Dublin is not currently in the works.)
Irish queer festival 'Love Sensation' announces new additions to line-up
Love Sensation, a brand new queer festival, takes place on August 17 and 18, 2019, at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. It is the brainchild of Mother founder and club night veteran Cormac Cashman, who today announced new additions to the eclectic line-up.
Furtastic news: Dublin Bear Pride is back!
On June 28 and 29, 2019, Dublin’s hairiest event of the year returns: Dublin Bear Pride will kick-off on Friday 28 in the Adelphi at 9pm with Fur – a club night. This will feature a set by DJ El Styra.
Film Review | The DCEU Gets Fun With the Charming Heartfelt Shazam!
Shazam! strips back the appeal of superhero adventures to its essentials – childhood wish fulfilment – and gives it a glossy millennial sheen.
A Woman Remembers Her Rathgar Bookshop, Closed a Year Now
Liz Meldon had been nervous about coming back, she says.
We are leaving the road in Rathgar where her bookshop used to be. She had spent more than a decade of her life working here, but she hadn’t come back for quite a while.
“I couldn’t put a finger on exactly why,” she says. “It’s always the people you miss the most, about anything. I mean think about it.”
She takes one last look in the window to wave goodbye to old friends, customers, and pulls away. Through the windshield is a wet winter morning.
Working-Class Heroines, Reviewed
The stories told by working-class women in inner-city Dublin that are included in Kevin C. Kearns’ book Working-Class Heroines have acquired a new resonance in contemporary Ireland.
It might even be fair to say that this book resonates more strongly today than it did when it was first published in 2004.
A Dublin Bloom | An Interview with Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger is a stalwart of the Irish literary scene, having written numerous novels and plays since the mid-1980s. He is known to indigenous readers as a champion of working-class narratives, but the subject matter of his fiction is far-reaching and touches off many facets of Irish life. It is unsurprising then that he would choose to concern himself with Joyce‘s Ulysses, a sprawling narrative that interrogates the contradictions of life in Dublin in the early 20th century.
10 Years On | Is Funny Games A Soulless Exercise In Movie Violence?
The original Funny Games debuted in 1997, generating a critical storm of both condemnation and adoration. Directed by arthouse darling Michael Haneke, the film acts as a contemplative thesis on the nature of consumable violence, particularly that which is expressed through the American slasher film. Haneke remade the film, beat for beat, with an American cast in 2007 (and released on this day in 2008).
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