If you were to ask me to put together a folk/trad line-up of my favourite artists, then I would probably come up with the same one that will be on the stage of the MAC on Monday night in A Stór Mo Chroí – A Musical Gathering. The duo that make up Lumiere is probably …
Author Archives: Robert McMillen
Armagh Artists at the Duncairn Centre
Wednesday, 1 October sees the launch of an exhibition of new work from two artists originally from Armagh, Lorcan Vallely and Stephen Farnan, at the beautiful new Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts in north Belfast. Lorcan Vallely, who has recently moved back to Armagh and set up studio in the city, studied fine art at …
Seirbhís úr nuachta ó RTÉ
Seo an preasráiteas a chuir RTÉ amach faoin tseirbhís úr nuachta Gaeilge: Amárach, cuirfear tús le ré nua i gcúrsaí nuachta in RTÉ, le seirbhís chuimsitheach nuachta ar-líne i nGaeilge den chéad uair, agus atheagar ar an nuacht Ghaeilge ar an raidió a fhágfaidh gur ó RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta i gCasla i gcroílár na …
Open House, Bangor
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, Oh I do like to be beside the sea … Bangor on the north Down coast has turned into Festival City, with something exciting happening nearly every weekend for the past month and arguably, the best of the bunch still to come thanks to the Open …
Walking Towards a Song
I like quizzes. My field of knowledge might not be very deep but it is quite wide. I know things others amongst of my peers aren’t remotely interested in which earns me looks of admiration during University Challenge or at the pub quizzes I used to go to. The Scór is a competition run by …
Eastside Arts Festival
There has long been the impression that the north’s Protestants don’t do the arts. It is patently untrue as Eastside Arts festival in East Belfast is about to prove. To my casual eye, it seems that Eastside have got it just right. The most successful festivals manage a perfect mixture of the local and the global, …
Liam Ó Maonlaí ag comhrá le Robert McMillen
Tá Liam Maonlaí le bheith ag seinm ag The Hay Festival i gCeanannas Mhór, ach cupla mí ó shin labhair sé le Robert McMillen fá na pleananna atá aige don am atá le theacht.
Paula Leyden at Kells
One of the great things about literary festivals such as the Hay Festival here in Kells is the serendipity of it all, heading into the unknown and finding something wonderful. It’s great when yo listen to someone and don’t want them to stop. The name Paula Leyden was in my mind somewhere like a tree …
Hay at Kells and Aonach Tailteann
In half an hour I’m heading off to Teltown, a placename that seems to come right out of a children’s story book or a TV cartoon for under-5s. This particular Teltown, however, is in County Meath, near Kells where a satellite of the literature festival heid in Hay-on-Wye is running until Sunday. But if we …
Can’t Forget About You … or David Ireland
I was at David Ireland’s uproarious play Can’t Forget About You at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast on Thursday night and it was even better the second time around. The audience, which included comedienne Victoria Wood, were rolling in the aisles in a story where Stevie (Declan Rodgers), a 25-year-old Belfast boy falls in love with …
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