A Feast of Trad

An Droichead on Belfast’s Ormeau Road has announced highlights for this summer’s Feile An Droichead, tickets for which are now on sale. Now in it’s 4th year, the Féile has become a much anticipated annual event on the traditional arts calendar and attracts some of the finest names on the Irish music scene. Running over four days …

Intellectual Baboons

People are really enjoying the Richard Dawkins quote about the National Trust’s decision to include some creationist piffle at the Giant’s Causeway interpretative centre, as quoted in the Belfast Telegraph. “The National Trust should not have given any consideration whatsoever to the intellectual baboons of young Earth creationism,” said Dawkins. The natural habitat for these …

Earnestly funny

I know, I know, I’ve left it to the last minute, but I really have to say how much I enjoyed The Importance of Being Earnest – still running at the Lyric Theatre – but only until Saturday. Wilde’s play is as funny and relevant today as it was when it was first performed on …

Séamus Ó Néill Summer School

From Emer O’Hagan: The Séamus O’Neill Summer School promises something for everyone this weekend in Castlewellan. It will be launched at 2.30pm tomorrow (8 June, 2012) in The Lodge by Louise McCreesh, presenter for BBC Radio Ulster’s Blas programme. A family orientated line-up will follow as the Armagh Rhymers, one of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated …

The Gloaming + Sam Amidon

The omens were good for the Gloaming concert in Vicar Street last night – no need for a raincoat in the mid-afternnoon sun as Dublin was a-buzzing in the warm spring weather, the trip to Forever 21 was painless – I had my teenage daughter with me, – and then we had a great meal …