Opinion, analysis, reviews & previews on Arts and Culture in Northern Ireland.
Another ‘Edge of Society Man’ – By Eamonn Mallie
He attended RBAI – read Law at Queen’s University, turned his back on all…
Browsing: The Arts
‘Must every creative being be turned into a demigod?’ Actress Áine Ní Laoghaire on Amy Winehouse in the Irish Times
The only way to make any kind of real art, apparently, is to suffer for…
‘La Guerra Sucia’ – Danny Morrison on Rodolfo Walsh and Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’
One night in 1956 the Argentinian writer Rodolfo Walsh was in a café in…
Belfast – like heaven and hell
My world was west Belfast. I lived with my family of five brothers…
Rudi – In the Shadow of Knulp
Click here to read Mike Philpott’s review of Danny Morrison’s fourth novel
Eamonn Mallie in conversation with Barry Douglas
View Barry talking to Eamonn here
Caravaggio then and now through eyes of Northern Ireland journalist Walter Ellis
Eamonn Mallie chats to Walter Ellis to find out more about his new novel ‘The Caravaggio Conspiracy’
Personal reflections on Louis le Brocquy – man and artist
Eamonn Mallie reflects on Louis le Brocquy’s contribution to the history of art in Ireland following his passing
Collecting Contemporary Art [Part 4: André Stitt – Sonic Abstract Paintings]
Brendan Jamison discusses the work of Belfast born André Stitt, considered one of the most controversial of all the leading contemporary artists in Europe
Mallie on The Arts from Ross’s: with artist Paddy McCann
South Armagh artist Paddy McCann joins me at Ross’s to discuss life as an artist
Live at The Lyric: ‘The Big Sorry Debate’ – featuring Jackie McDonald, Declan Kearney & Cast
Listen to a debate on saying sorry for killing during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, in wake of Declan Kearney’s article in An Phoblacht urging an “authentic reconciliation process”.
Mallie on The Arts from Ross’s: with poet Michael Longley
‘If prose is a river, poetry is a fountain”…
Brendan Jamison: Collecting contemporary art [Part 3: Futurism and Parody]
Sculptor Brendan Jamison discusses the works of Lydia Holmes …
Mallie on The Arts from Ross’s
This is the first of our scheduled arts programmes to be broadcast from Ross’s Auctioneers & Valuers…
Meet the man steeped in the history of Belfast’s Linen Hall Library – Mr John Killen
Do you know what is the oldest book in the Linen Hall Library?