The infamous riots at ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ took place this week in 1907. Colin Murphy uncovered some old diaries with an account of the week by an ordinary theatregoer… Saturday January 26, 1907 Went to John Synge’s new play tonight, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’. Rehearsals had been held in secret,… read more +

The Richness of Change is a series of ten ultra-short films, documenting immigration into Ireland, that I directed. Each one-minute film tells the story of one person’s move to Ireland. The films were produced by Fomacs and were broadcast on RTE in April 2008. They were commissioned by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, and originally… read more +

‘The Order of the Phoenix Park’ by ‘Twenty Major’ is the worst book I have ever finished. Admittedly, I made it just 50 pages into ‘The Da Vinci Code’, which this satirises, and about the same into the first Ross O’Carroll Kelly book, which this apes. Between them, those books sold approximately 40,100,000 copies, worldwide…. read more +

Eugene McCartan was worried. There was water running into his old Temple Bar shop, and the upstairs floors had been colonised by pigeons. The bank wouldn’t give him any money. He needed a partnership with a builder, but none of those he spoke to were interested