Once again, Lismore was a paradise of sunshine and things literary for the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing. While the...
Art & Literature
Review: Gerard Smyth
Review: Gerard Smyth
I love the title of Gerard Smyth’s new and selected poems from Dedalus Press – The Fullness of Time. While it might suggest a...
WIT Graduate Show
WIT Graduate Show
Graduate or degree shows are often the first step into a commercial world of art or design and possibly the first public review...
Review: Techshots @ Greyfriars
Review: Techshots @ Greyfriars
You must get in to see the Techshots Photographic society Show at Greyfriars Gallery upstairs. It features the work of 13 people...
Review: Alannah Byrne
Review: Alannah Byrne
Allanah Byrne is newly graduated from Crawford College in Cork and her exhibition at the SOMA Gallery, Lombard Street reflects...
Review: Texaco Children’s Art
Review: Texaco Children’s Art
Inside in the Cathedral the award winning selection of Texaco Children’s Art is wonderful to browse through. My eye and...
Review: Art in Cathedral Square
Review: Art in Cathedral Square
Sometimes, you might feel a twinge of despair at how the arts are seen in Waterford but on May Day in Cathedral Square as the...
The Road to Avondale
The Road to Avondale
To bring out a book of memoirs is always a significant thing to bring out just the first book of memory at the age of 96 is very...
Review: SOMA Art Box
Review: SOMA Art Box
It is a matter of record that I wasn’t a fan of SOMA – the contemporary art box gallery when it was on the Mall in the old...
Review: The Musical World of Boubil and Schonberg
Review: The Musical World of Boubil and Schonberg
To many fans of the musicals of Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, who wrote such hit shows as Les Miserables, Miss...
Eight city centre buildings transformed as art spaces
Eight city centre buildings transformed as art spaces
A partnership between the City Council and 30 arts workers, Soma Gallery and Waterford City Arts Spaces (WCAS) at 6 Lombard...
Review: Seán Dunne Writer’s Festival
Review: Seán Dunne Writer’s Festival
This year, the Seán Dunne Writer’s Festival was down to three days and despite an interesting programme, with limited advance...
