Jo Mangan
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Three Irish opera projects shortlisted for prestigious European prize
- Music
- February 22, 2021, 05:00
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(...)

Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
- Music
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
“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(...)

Carlow Arts Festival: Wide awake to the virtual and the real
- Culture
- May 30, 2019, 05:00
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(...)

A concert to send you to sleep? Max Richter epic gets Irish premiere
- Music
- March 28, 2019, 18:05
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(...)

An actor and a gentleman, with a gift for comedy and living well
- Stage
- June 30, 2018, 06:00
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 reaffirms ‘arm’s-length’ approach to arts funding
- Culture
- June 25, 2018, 18:45
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(...)

Creative Ireland: artists respond
- Heritage
- December 8, 2016
Artists and workers within the creative industries have been largely positive in their response to the Government’s Creative Ireland policy announceme(...)

Budget 2017: Arts groups welcome increase in funding
- Irish News
- October 11, 2016, 19:34
There has been a broad welcome from cultural organisations for provisions announced by the Minister for Arts, Heather Humphreys, including increases i(...)

Jo Mangan: ‘Most people who produce art earn less than €10,000 a year’
- Stage
- June 14, 2016, 06:00
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,(...)

Arts campaigners told to broaden audience to get message across
- Culture
- June 9, 2016, 22:26
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(...)