Question of Taste: Eva Birdthistle

The curator of Spleodar Halloween festival is from a carnival family, and chooses David Bowie, Pat Kinevane and Dawn French among her top picks
Question of Taste: Eva Birdthistle

Eva Birdthistle, curator of Spleodar, which includes a workshop on how to make monster sock puppets, right.

Eva Birdthistle is from Limerick, and is curator of Spleodar, the Childrens’ Halloween Arts Festival,  which takes place in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, until Oct 31. 

“I was born into a carnival family, I spent every summer, christmas and halloween working on our funfair, I suppose I grew up on the 'show', and even though it was long unsociable hours it really gave me a strong work ethic,” says Eva. 

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