Death announced of Wildfire Films producer Martha O’Neill
Award-winning film and television producer served on boards of Screen Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland and the Irish Film Institute
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Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’
In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean
The Guide: Gemma Hayes, Dr Strangelove, Jess Gillam and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Abbey Theatre gets €9.5m in strategic funding from Arts Council, €1m more than last year
Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies
Was a child killer at large during the Troubles?
The makers of Lost Boys: Belfast’s Missing Children question who was responsible for a series of unexplained disappearances and at least one death
Popcorn in the IFI: is this the buttery end of a long campaign to turn cinemas into feeding pens?
Much as we would wish it otherwise, the exhibitors function within the brutal matrix of neoliberal economics
‘I was a child actor in the 1970s. Now I could be the last generation of projectionists. Only a few of us remain’
What I Do: Paul Markey works at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin
The Dead: Indisputably Ireland’s greatest work of Christmas art
Hugh Linehan: It’s the time of year when I bend people’s ears about James Joyce’s Epiphany-set masterpiece
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
Irish Film Institute asks Dublin City Council to help it secure extra space
Museum venue plan has role to play in vibrancy of city’s cultural life, says IFI director
‘Fantastic buzz’ in Dublin city as restrictions end
People eager to attend pubs, restaurants, cinemas and cafes again, with some queuing for 20 minutes
‘I swear to God, he’s the image of my neighbour’: Do you recognise anyone in this 100-year-old film?
Footage shot in Ireland in the 1920s by a US ornithologist is being restored. Can you help?
Top cultural spots to visit and gifts for the festive season
‘For all the joys of the virtual world ... there is still a special pleasure in opening up a big box full of goodies’
From Sally Rooney to Avatar: How popular culture can help address climate crisis
Inserting the crisis into popular books, films and shows can highlight challenges we face
Resignations cast shadow over Sláintecare health service reforms
Government insists it is more committed than ever to implementing programme
Head of Sláintecare health reform programme resigns
Coalition ‘more committed than ever before to implementing ... programme of reform’
‘The Swiss are relaxed and lockdown measures were very humane’
Wild Geese: Photographer Shannon Guerrico co-runs an art gallery in Lausanne
Yazidi women and girls still enslaved by Isis within detention camp
Survivors trapped along with their captors among the 60,000 detainees inside Al-Hawl camp in Syria
Bicycle-drawn hearse brings cycling advocate on his last journey
Paddy Cahill made films about cycling and Dublin’s architectural legacy
Virgin Media film competition judges include Abrahamson and McGee
Irish industry ‘very conscious’ of need for more development funding, says Bill Malone
ClassicsNow festival set to bring ancient Greece and Rome to life
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
Shot dead in Dublin 100 years ago: the man who started the War of Independence
Sean Treacy, one of the most-wanted men in Ireland, was shot on Talbot Street in Dublin
The Savoy may soon be the last big cinema in the heart of Dublin
Cineworld shut down ... Bond postponed again ... The cinema sector is on life support
Irish Film Institute release treasure trove of GAA archive
All-Ireland films from the 1940s onwards will be available on the IFI Player
Tenet: One cinema is showing the film 29 times today alone
Today is a giant step in the normalisation of the cinema industry in Ireland and worldwide
Why most cinemas won’t reopen on Monday – even though they can
‘I just want to get trading. I have been sitting on my butt since March,’ says one manager
James Bond film decision was the canary in the coalmine
Coronavirus: Cinemas are closed, festivals cancelled, movie productions halted
RIC row: ‘Shameful’ if spirit and tolerance of 2016 events lost
Advisory group chair hopes War of Independence, Civil War marked as Rising was
Ready for reckoning – a film about how Germany (eventually) faced its Nazi past
Irishman's Diary: The People vs Fritz Bauer tells story of thwarted trials post-Nuremberg
Event of the Week: Horrorthon 2019
Irish Film Institute brings Little Monsters, Colour Out of Space and more to its screens
The priest who filmed inside a Dublin Magdalene Laundry
Fr Jack Delaney made rare films depicting Irish life before the advent of television
How regular doses of ‘vitamin sea’ helped one woman’s migraine attacks
By the time Beth Francis was in her twenties she was having up to 28 migraines a month
20 years after I ‘did’ Erasmus, Berlin is still my home
At the time, it seemed like a tiresome hoop to jump through. But it changed my life
What happened when Fleabag and, briefly, the Hot Priest came to a Dublin cinema?
Long queues at the Irish Film Institute for a live screening of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sell-out West End show
Ireland's original hard Border: Rare footage shows what it was like
British Pathé newsreel from 1924 depicts the ‘much debated Ulster Border’
Rare U2 Dublin concert footage revealed
Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges
Council offered to censor politically sensitive Chinese new year events
Dublin City Council agreed to change elements following Chinese embassy lobbying
If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk
Re-released this week, the ‘absolute rubbish’ film is one of the most entertaining movies ever
A farewell to Dublin’s Screen and the rest of the old-school arthouse cinemas
Whatever name the building was known by in its lifetime, it was always a city landmark
As KLF they burned £1m. Now they’re firing bricks of human ashes
Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project
Vote 100: Events to mark the centenary of the vote for women in Ireland
The ending of the ban on women voting and standing for election is being celebrated across the country
There’s an eight-hour movie coming to the Irish Film Institute
‘Dead Souls’ will be screened over two days. Can something that long be called a ‘movie’?
Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival
Lineup includes Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’, Christophe Honoré’s ‘Sorry Angel’ and a documentary about John McEnroe that includes shouting
First Look: Inside the new Stella mini-cinema in Ranelagh
Donald Clarke: Hand over €19 and a supercomfy, well-oiled cinema experience is yours
Netflix films tipped for Oscars unlikely to be shown in Irish cinemas
Independent cinemas criticise ‘exclusive’ deal with Curzon chain, which has no screens in Ireland
‘Asking for help should be the first step, not also the longest one’
‘Finding a counsellor with a wheelchair-accessible practice shouldn’t be this difficult’
Film tax relief must sharpen up its act for next sequel
Spotlight should fall on section 481, as delays in scheme weaken Irish audiovisual industry
The life of the Irish ‘magician’ behind the Sydney Opera House
New film ‘An Engineer Imagines’ explores the work of the boundary-pushing Peter Rice
Pope Francis documentary: A film that could buttress the case for sainthood
Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’
Culture clusters: Do cities need cultural hubs?
At Kilkenny Arts Festival young architects imagine what the city might look like in the future
Director of Sláintecare urged to divest stake in private firm
Laura Magahy owns consultancy firm which received €2.2m from the HSE in 2016
Laura Magahy appointed executive director of Slaintecare
Former director of Temple Bar Properties was also involved with the ‘Bertie Bowl’
Clinton and Comey to speak at separate events in Dublin on same day
Former candidate and man she claims cost her 2016 election visit on Friday of next week
Michael Collins plays a starring role as Irish historic films go free-to-view online
Irish Film Institute brings together 150 films from 1900 to 1930, showing key events of Irish history
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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