THEATRE: Girl On An Altar
The incomparable Eileen Walsh stars in playwright Marina Carr's acclaimed take on the Greek tragedy Agamemnon, reimagined as an intimate portrait of a once-unbreakable couple who can't bring themselves to forgive the past, but can't live without each other. Marina Carr and director Annabelle Comyn talk to RTÉ Arena below (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 8 July - 19 August 2023)
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FILM: Galway Film Fleadh
Celebrating 35 years of bringing new Irish cinema, world cinema and filmmakers from across the world to Galway, this year's Film Fleadh opens on Tuesday with Maggie Smith, Laura Linney and Kathy Bates in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Dublin-shot The Miracle Club, and closes the following Sunday with pop icon Cyndi Lauper in person for her documentary portrait Let The Canary Sing, with a plethora of celluloid delights inbetween (Various venues, Galway, 11th-16th July)
EXHIBITION: It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA
This National Gallery of Ireland and the Royal Hibernian Academy collaborate on this showcase of women's membership of the Royal Hibernian Academy, from the election in 1923 of the first woman member, Sarah Purser, to the first woman President, Abigail O’Brien, in 2018. As part of the RHA bicentenary celebrations, this exhibition combines an historic survey of the past 100 years together with a presentation of work by current woman members of the Academy. While half of the artists represented in the exhibition are living, the other half span the decades from the 1920s (National Gallery of Ireland, until October 2023)
It Took a Century is our new exhibition, opening tomorrow in collaboration with @RHAGallery.
— National Gallery of Ireland (@NGIreland) June 30, 2023
Showcasing artwork in a variety of media by women members of the Royal Hibernian Academy past and present, you'll find it in Room 21. Admission free.https://t.co/0Wej6Sblqo pic.twitter.com/nOf0oKzkry
RADIO: Caravan Radio
All aboard for a melodic road trip... Join musician and songwriter Oisín Leech (from The Lost Brothers) for a new summer series of his cult radio fave, where he goes on a musical trail and maps out his passion for music across all the genres. Catch up with previous episodes here, and sample some sounds below (RTÉ Radio 1, Thursdays from 10pm)
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BOOK: The Slug and the Snail
Two slugs travel happily together until they meet a crow who asks them where their home is. The younger brother, embarrassed, makes himself a shell, and calls himself a snail. The older brother carries on as he is. At first, the brothers grow apart. But in time, they learn to respect each other's way of life... Drawn from the Irish Traveller storytelling tradition, Oein DeBhairduin's tale (beautifully illustrated by Olya Anima) is a gentle allegory about identity, self-acceptance and different ways of seeing the world. (Out now, published by Skein Press/Little Island)
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