Jo Mangan

No less than three opera projects from Ireland have been shortlisted for this year’s Fedora prizes. That’s quite an achievement for a country where na(...)

“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

Programming a festival is like putting a selection box together. You’re trying to find the right mix. Everyone loves the salted caramels, but what abo(...)

Sleep, Max Richter’s eight-hour musical epic, is to get its Irish live premiere at this year’s Carlow Arts Festival, where the slumbering audience wil(...)

Stephen Swift Born: December 22nd, 1973 Died: June 5th, 2018 For an actor, especially an ensemble actor, the quality of the person often feeds into(...)

Minister for Arts Josepha Madigan reaffirmed a commitment to the “arm’s length” funding of arts, when she visited the Arts Council on Monday as it ann(...)

Artists and workers within the creative industries have been largely positive in their response to the Government’s Creative Ireland policy announceme(...)

There has been a broad welcome from cultural organisations for provisions announced by the Minister for Arts, Heather Humphreys, including increases i(...)

Jo Mangan is a busy woman. Our lunchtime meeting is sandwiched between a variety of media appearances relating to the National Campaign for the Arts,(...)

Campaigners for the arts need to reach out beyond their core constituency if they are to achieve real political change, a meeting in Dublin’s Project(...)