Posts tagged ‘People’
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A Dundalk amateur photography club has become the first Irish group to win the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP) world cup. eolas speaks to Chairman Gabriel O’Shaughnessy.
A gallery of evocative photographs from the Dundalk Photographic Society earned the club first place in the prestigious FIAP world cup in December.
The club, which is in its thirtieth year, has 65 members and meets once a week to “hone their skills and develop their ideas.”
Five photographers made up the winning contingent, who claimed the top spot against competition from 140 clubs...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
‘The Stray Sod Country’ is the last in a small town series, Pat McCabe tells Meadhbh Monahan.
Depicting the darkest elements of human nature in small Irish border towns has always been a bastion of Pat McCabe’s.
Through Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy, Pat McNab in Emerald Germs of Ireland and Ned Strange in Winterwood, McCabe – one of Ireland’s most acclaimed authors – has bombarded readers with murder, child abuse and, in his latest novel, the devil himself.
One commentator has said that reading McCabe’s work is “a terrifying experience.” However, that is “only...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Famous works, depicting Ireland’s cultural and artistic heritage is currently on display at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. eolas reports.
Photographs taken by Sir Roger Casement, John Millington Synge and George Bernard Shaw are just some of the features of an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
‘The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s’ aims to explore the development of modernity in Ireland and contains 250 works by more than 180 artists, writers, film-makers, architects, designers and composers.
Focussing in the innovative and the experimental,...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Turtle Bunbury tells Meadhbh Monahan about the interesting stories he has uncovered about some of Ireland’s greatest sportsmen and women.
Capturing the “epicness” of how 44 Irish sports people, trainers and commentators “reached the top of their game” was the impetus behind Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell’s fifth collaboration. The author and photographer have previously penned award winning books such as the ‘Vanishing Ireland’ series.
With interesting snippets not to be found in regular sports anthologies, ‘Sporting Legends of Ireland’ features portrait interviews...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Frank McGuinness, famous Donegal playwright and Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin, takes time out from preparing lectures to tell Meadhbh Monahan about the events in his life that have helped shape his work and how he is still “terrified” to watch his plays being performed on opening night.
Suicide, homosexuality, death and war. Frank McGuinness has dealt with these topics and more throughout his illustrious 27 year career.
Born in Buncrana, on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, McGuinness’ most famous plays include: The Factory Girls, Observe the...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
A former successful Fine Gael front-bencher, Ivan Yates left politics to run a chain of bookies. He spoke to Meadhbh Monahan about his career choices and the enjoyment he gets from his latest role as co-presenter of Breakfast on Dublin’s Newstalk station.
Ivan Yates has always made decisions by asking himself “what’s the best opportunity in front of me?” By grabbing these opportunities, he has enjoyed careers in farming, politics, book-making and the media.
Currently presenting the Breakfast Show on Dublin’s Newstalk 106 radio station, Yates was once the youngest politician...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
eolas asks what is unique about painting faces as government-owned portraits finish their tour.
Government art collections usually adorn public offices but the general public themselves each year have the chance to see what hangs on those walls. ‘Faces’ was the most recent display and is just concluding.
Annual joint art exhibitions organised between the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the North’s Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) have been held for 12 years.
This year’s exhibition was on show at Queen’s University Belfast in August and Portstewart’s Flowerfield...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Frank McGuinness, famous Donegal playwright and Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin, takes time out from preparing lectures to tell Meadhbh Monahan about the events in his life that have helped shape his work and how he is still “terrified” to watch his plays being performed on opening night.
Suicide, homosexuality, death and war. Frank McGuinness has dealt with these topics and more throughout his illustrious 27 year career.
Born in Buncrana, on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, McGuinness’ most famous plays include: The Factory Girls, Observe the...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
The new British Ambassador, Julian King, speaks to Meadhbh Monahan about his desire to see Ireland and the UK working together on “shared challenges” such as the environment and climate change.
Since his arrival to the leafy surroundings of the British Embassy on Merrion Road three months ago, British Ambassador Julian King has been getting straight down to the “business” of leading his team in their various political, economic and consular roles.
Aged 45, King admits many people were surprised that such a young Ambassador was appointed to Ireland. He has no qualms about his...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
In addition to running his corporate photography business based in Dublin, 1IMAGE Photography, the award-winning photographer Bryan Brophy has a serious passion for studio photography.
Brophy, who is perhaps better known for his corporate work, says: “All photography is a challenge in trying to achieve as perfect an image as possible, usually with a lot of elements beyond your control. Location work has its difficulties to overcome and so does studio work, but with studio work you have more control over the lighting, to achieve the image you have in your mind’s eye. Location and...
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