Nick Maxwell National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks By Donal Fallon For many people, RTÉ’s Brainstorm website offered a first introduction to the work of museum curator and GAA historian Siobhán Doyle. While live sports were absent for much of 2020, Doyle’s fascinating insights into the history and culture of the Gaelic Athletic Association explored subjects as … Read more
Written, produced and presented by Patricia Baker Newstalk, 20 August 2023 By Sylvie Kleinman Every monument will eventually come down. They are, by their very nature, antagonistic. This documentary is a thought-provoking stroll through Dublin by Patricia Baker, who explores monuments, specifically statues. Some of the controversies they engender, and what and how we choose … Read more
RTÉ1, 31 July 2023 Directed by Alan Gilsenan By Brian Trench In the opening clip of this documentary, Noël Browne is a guest on RTÉ’s Late Late Show and the host, Gay Byrne, takes a call from a woman who confesses that she once tore down Browne’s election posters on the urging of the nuns … Read more
By Lorraine McCann Amongst the array of documents found in the Louth County Archives are several registers of licences spanning the 1917–50 period created under the Cinematograph Act, 1909. This act, introduced in the United Kingdom, was primarily concerned with the safety of buildings to be used as cinemas as a consequence of fires in … Read more
By Gabriela Lojewska and Philip McEvansoneya The exhibition of Polish art that took place in Dublin in 1937 was a doubly significant event. First, it was an episode in the wider campaign of the new Polish state, the Second Republic, founded in 1918, to mark its arrival on the international stage as an independent nation … Read more