'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
David Heffernan is a good friend and a regular confidante. I’ve written about our relationship in a previous post, and that’s available here. A one-time RTÉ presenter on radio and television, he’s also made some of the best and most celebrated music television in the country’s history. As one of the founding partners at Frontier Films, he’s... Continue Reading →
Donal O'Keeffe is an artist, writer and columnist with Journal.ie based in Fermoy, County Cork who, on the occasion of the death of Lou Reed, posted a wonderful piece to his blog A Hundred and forty characters is usually enough It's a terrific, personal piece and we're delighted to carry that piece here. Lou Reed is gone.... Continue Reading →
The summer of 1990 is fondly recalled in Ireland by those of a certain age, and especially so in Cork. We’ve already referenced these magical few months, on the playing fields and in the pubs and clubs, in several other posts and those are available here. That three month period was dominated, to a large extent, by Ireland’s... Continue Reading →
I’m not especially good at staying in touch with my friends and Dave Heffernan, among several others, will attest to that. It’s a good year when we catch up a couple of times socially and yet, for all that, I’ll still think nothing of seeking him out for advice and tapping him up, usually out... Continue Reading →
Guest Post by Dr Áine Mangaoang, Research Fellow Dublin City University , Visiting Lecturer Iceland Academy of the Arts “To ask for a map is to say ‘tell me a story’” (Turchi, 2004:11). Once known as the city of a thousand bands, Dublin’s reputation as a city of popular music-making is largely considered as one that consistently, even... Continue Reading →
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