Candice Gordon

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Candice Gordon, first full-time cultural officer for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, based in the Irish embassy Berlin: “Cultural diplomacy is about opening dialogue and finding connections between countries, not forcing things down people’s throats.” she says. . Photograph: Tom Taylor
New cultural officer seeks to boost Ireland’s image in Germany

Ireland’s image in Germany is “positive but limited”, with ingrained ideas of hard-drinking wild Celts playing traditional music, says Candice Gordon,(...)

Pillow Queens: a band recently described as “gimmick free”.
Gig of the Week: Seoda Summer Party

Diversity is a wonderful thing, as the multifaceted Irish music scene can prove. It wasn’t always so, of course. And we are also only too aware that m(...)

Craw is a new arts and performance festival launching this month in Berlin. Photograph: Turlach O Broin
What’s stuck in their craw? Irish artists create Berlin festival

Karl Marx Strasse in Berlin’s Neukölln district is usually abuzz with Turks and tattooed hipsters, but not on this sultry Sunday afternoon. The real (...)

Candice Gordon, co-founder of Berlin’s Craw festival. Photograph: Maren Michaelis
'There's so much I love about Ireland, but I felt suffocated there'

There is so much about Ireland that I love but I get an overwhelming suffocating feeling there, like there’s no room to move, experiment, create. I fo(...)

German chancellor Angela Merkel . “It’s a good sign that Merkel, scarcely a week into her fourth term, will welcome Varadkar with full military honours for a working lunch.” Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images
Brexit break-up with UK means Varadkar needs to woo Merkel

Last Friday, as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tilted at imaginary windmills in Washington, Berlin rocked its way into St Patrick’s Day. In the legendary Berg(...)