Posts tagged ‘People’
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Seasoned political journalist James Naughtie shares his thoughts on the US presidential race, and what makes a good interview, with Peter Cheney.
Less than a year before the USA chooses a new President, Jim Naughtie finds that many Americans no longer believe in the American Dream. The BBC Today Programme presenter has covered every presidential election since 1988 and is discussing the current state of US politics after speaking at the Belfast Festival at Queen’s.
“Many Americans, say aged between 30 and 50, are profoundly sceptical of the idea with which they grew up, that it was...
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
A display of poems, paintings and photographs highlighted the talents of MLAs and the relevance of art to society as a whole. Peter Cheney sums up the MLA Art exhibition.
Original examples of political art were on display at Parliament Buildings over the summer. Thirty-six Assembly members submitted 44 contributions to the MLA Art competition, organised by Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre.
Danny Kinahan took the overall top prize. His ‘Homage to Basil Blackshaw’ comprises four blocks of colour, with an etching of Parliament Building on each, and is based on Blackshaw’s piece...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Thirty years have passed since the Horslips introduced their unique brand of ‘Celtic rock’, but the band is still playing packed out venues across Europe. Meadhbh Monahan speaks to Barry Devlin, a native of Ardboe, County Tyrone, about their comeback.
Described in the 1970s and 80s as “the band that defined a generation,” 62-year- old Barry Devlin reflects that the Horslips were in fact “a band that were defined by a generation.”
The legendary five-man ensemble, who made Irish traditional music ‘cool’, played what they thought would be their final gig in Belfast’s Ulster...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Artist, musician and student Adrian Margey tells Meadhbh Monahan about his love of the North Coast and his vision for the creative industries.
From painting “the green open fields round Kilrea, the farm houses, and even the neighbours that called in to visit,” Adrian Margey has progressed to using his paintings to “explore the landscape and musical traditions of the island of Ireland as a whole.”
The 26-year-old was encouraged to “take up the brush” through his childhood experience of exploring historic artefacts and admiring old paintings in antique shops and auction houses...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Sculptor Anthony ‘Anto’ Brennan is best known for his satirical chess set once played by Tony Blair but the pieces on show at his Belfast gallery mark many historical moments in Northern Ireland politics. Emma Blee visits to find out more.
There aren’t many artists that could count Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Mary McAleese as customers but Anto Brennan’s political chess set has attracted the most unlikely of fans.
He had “always been good at art” and became especially inspired whilst working as a builder in London during the early 1990s so he started making clay figures...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
West Belfast actor Martin McCann is proving to be a hit on the big screen. He talks to Emma Blee about the tricky business of acting, working with Pete Postlethwaite and his plans for the future.
“I’m learning constantly, not just from famous people but also from other actors my age, my peers,” remarks Martin McCann.
Brought up in the Divis flats, he “always loved films and acting” and at the age of 11 spotted an advert for playing the role of the Artful Dodger at the Belfast Arts Theatre. “I auditioned for it and got it. I just kept acting because I liked it and my career...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Northern Ireland is expected to come alive next June when the Olympic torch visits ahead of the 2012 Games.
The route, which will cover every nation and region in the UK, will see the Olympic torch travel 8,000 miles in 74 days, after it arrives from Greece.
On Sunday 3 June the iconic flame will visit Portrush and will travel to Derry the following day. It will stop in Newry on 5 June and Belfast on 6 June.
After the torch finishes its travels in Northern Ireland there is a day of “no activity”, the only break within the tour, as it will travel from the province to Scotland that...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Becoming captain of Fermanagh after open heart surgery and two painful knee operations “meant everything” to Teemore man Barry Owens, who is now “disappointed” that 11 players have decided to leave the team. He speaks to Meadhbh Monahan.
Despite the Fermanagh team’s poor run of late, at the time of interview, Barry Owens was determined to “get on a winning streak for the championship.”
This wasn’t helped by the departure of key players such as former captain James Sherry, Mark Little and Thomas McElroy because of various grievances with management.
Owens says: “Myself...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Emerging writer David Ireland has been appointed playwright-in- residence at the new Lyric Theatre which re-opens in May. He tells Emma Blee about breaking into theatre and his ambitions for the year ahead.
When a fresh-faced David Ireland wrote to Kenneth Branagh around 15 years ago to ask for funding to go to drama school, it didn’t cross his mind that one day he would work alongside the actor.
“I’m going to have to thank him for his cheque when I see him. I just hope he doesn’t want it back,” he jokes.
Now in his thirties, the news that he had been appointed playwright-in-residence...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Famous works, depicting Ireland’s cultural and artistic heritage are currently on display at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Photographs taken by Sir Roger Casement, John Millington Synge and George Bernard Shaw are just some of the features of an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
‘The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s’ aims to explore the development of modernity in Ireland and contains 250 works by more than 180 artists, writers, film-makers, architects, designers and composers.
Focussing in the innovative and the experimental, the exhibition...
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