53-55 Crumlin Rd, Belfast www.crumlinroadgaol.com By Tony Canavan For such a grim building with such a grim past, Crumlin Road Gaol presents a merry face to the world. As well as having a café and a restaurant, it is host to grand balls and concerts by the likes of Garth Brooks and Abba tribute bands. … Read more
Underground Films, RTÉ1, 21 December 2016 By John Gibney Strange occurrences in a small Irish village, made by the same team who created the award-winning One million Dubliners, was released in cinemas last August. Aoife Kelleher’s second feature-length documentary shares an aesthetic style and broad thematic approach with its predecessor, not to mention a willingness … Read more
Reviewed by Joe Cully Jackie Uí Chionna, He was Galway: Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934 (Open Air/Four Courts Press, €19.95 pb, 304pp, ISBN 9781846826252). Mick Moloney, Across the western ocean: songs of leaving and arriving (Quinnipiac University Press/Cork University Press, €17.95 pb including CD, 56pp, ISBN 9780997837438). Angela Bourke, Voices underfoot: memory, forgetting, and oral verbal … Read more