Five For Your Radar: The Frames in Clonakilty, new show from Derry Girls creator...
Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee returns with the new series How to get to Heaven from Belfast; right, the Frames play De Barra's in Clonakilty on Monday, February 9.
Anna Barden, an artist who lived and worked in Cork City, died unexpectedly on New Year’s Eve 2024. This commemorative exhibition is a tribute to her output, organised by family, friends, and colleagues, including Elaine Coakley of Backwater Artists Group and artists Katherine Boucher Beug and Gillian Cussen. Working across drawing, painting, sewing, short text, and ceramics, Anna developed a richly varied practice. The exhibition brings together finished works, studies, and archival material spanning the course of her career.
Almost a year on from the release of the ubiquitous Netflix series , screenwriter Jack Thorne returns with a four-part adaptation of . The 1954 novel by William Golding, about young boys stranded on an island who descend into bloody chaos, left a "profound scar" on Thorne, he told the BBC, adding the story made sense to him in a "completely different" way as an adult as he started to better understand the boys' behaviour.
Two and a half years on from their show Live at the Marquee in 2023, The Frames return to Cork to play De Barra’s. It forms part of a weeklong tour of grassroots venues that played a vital role in shaping their early career — Limerick’s Dolan’s Warehouse hosts Glen Hansard and co on Sunday, February 8. As the band say, the tour aims to be part of a wider ongoing conversation about the real hurdles these venues face to keep delivering quality shows. Without sustained support for these rooms, the artists of tomorrow may never get the chance to take their first steps.
A new eight-part comedy/thriller series from creator Lisa McGee, the curiously titled is a story about friendship, memory, and what happens when life doesn’t turn out quite like you’d expected. Three lifelong friends (stars Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne) in their late 30s reunite after the death of an estranged fourth member of their childhood group. Strange events at the wake send them on a darkly comic journey to uncover long-buried secrets.
Almost three years to the date of the release of her debut novel , Galway-based writer and occasional contributor Edel Coffey returns with . Twenty years after the Juliet Fox case destroyed her career, journalist Eddie cannot resist returning to Manhattan’s elite when a new luxury tower rises beside the crime scene. But dangerous people still guard their secrets, and someone will kill to keep the truth buried.
