This year, the Seán Dunne Writer’s Festival was down to three days and despite an interesting programme, with limited advance...
Art & Literature
Review:Rayleen Clancy
Review:Rayleen Clancy
Rayleen Clancy’s new exhibition LAX-SNN is a set of paintings mostly watercolour that are very much transitional work that at...
Review: Natasha Edmondson
Review: Natasha Edmondson
I like the accessibility of the Index Gallery at Central Library, Lady Lane, and I like the austere bare walls approach, with...
Review: Alan Garvey
Review: Alan Garvey
One of Ireland’s up and coming poets is Alan Garvey who spent much productive time here in Waterford before love and the...
More Razzle Dazzle
More Razzle Dazzle
Such was the success of the Liam Nolan edited collection of stories Razzle Dazzle for the Loughrea Creative Writing Group that...
Review: Ellen Mccarthy
Review: Ellen Mccarthy
The Waterford author, Ellen McCarthy, came to notice when she won a competition on a RTE1 television programme and since then...
Review: The Mona Lisa’s On Our Fridge
Review: The Mona Lisa’s On Our Fridge
It must be something in the tranquillity of Lismore that attracts quality children’s authors and artists. Corina Duyn has...
Review: Jay Lear
Review: Jay Lear
The first of the year exhibition at Garter Lane Arts Centre is the Solva based artist, Jay Lear, who had his first solo...
Review: The Sun-Fish
Review: The Sun-Fish
Sometimes, the right book just pops up at the right time and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain’s new Gallery Press book – a Poetry...
Photographic exhibition
Photographic exhibition
■□■ View More Photos Arts events are few and infrequent at the start of a year, so it is especially welcome to have HORIZON, a...
Review: Tom Fewer
Review: Tom Fewer
Tom Fewer laments the passing, or lack of attention given to, rhyming poetry and rather than rant about the reversion of verse,...
Review: Ger Sweeney
Review: Ger Sweeney
There is a touch of cold and a touch of silence and vast tundra-like spaces in some of Ger Sweeney’s exhibition over two floors...

