Minister Martin opens Joe Mooney Summer School
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media says the return of live music festivals is providing a vital opportunity for musicians to return to normal working ways in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Catherine Martin TD launched the 2022 Joe Mooney Summer School in…
Arts North West – The Blue Raincoat Theatre’s Hunting Darwin, Sligo Live and Jack B. Yeats exhibition
This week on Arts North West we chat with John Carty of Blue Raincoat Theatre about its current production, Hunting Darwin, which opened this week. We look at the line-up for this weekend’s Sligo Live and there is a fascinating interview with curator Donal Maguire of The National Gallery of Ireland and its exhibition…
Episode Four: Arts North West
This Week: (1 min) Hawk’s Well Director, Marie O’Byrne, speaking about the National Campaign For the Arts. (11:54) Award-winning ex-RTE journalist, Susan O’Keeffe, gives us a brief on the Yeats Society Sligo and its upcoming festival. (19:12) Poet Brian Leyden reads his provocative new prose piece, Mansplaining WB Yeats. All…
Episode One: Arts North West
This Week: (2 mins) Rossa O’Snodaigh, Musician (9 mins) Louise Kennedy, Writer (17 mins 35) Philip Delamere, Leitrim Arts Office Arts North West is a weekly, magazine arts show that covers everything creative in the region. Featuring the best of music, theatre, storytelling, with the best of talent from Sligo,…
Arts House with Barbara-Rose Sanwo Sun 3rd June
Listen back to this special feature of Art House, Barbara-Rose travels to the Rathcormac Craft Village Co.Sligo where the Arts Collective showcased their very first Arts Show.
Arts House Podcast : Tradroque the new music genre combining elements of Irish Trad and Baroque!
Listen back to this podcast of Arts House, Barbara-Rose speaks with Marie Byrne who is the director of the Hawkswell Theatre and violinist for Sligo’s Baroque Orchestra. She tells about this exciting contemporary genre of music which combines elements of Irish Traditional Music and Baroque, her memories of playing with…
PODCAST : Sheehy Skeffington’s breaking windows
In this podcast of Arts House, Barbara-Rose speaks with Micheline Sheehy Skeffington. The grand daughter of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, who herself was a suffragette and nationalist, Micheline went viral for commemorating the 100th year of the Women’s vote in a very novel way.