Johnny Gogan

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Nasa handout photo of astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Photograph: Nasa/PA Wire
How should the moon landing be remembered 50 years on?

Mary Coughlan (singer) What were you doing in 1969? I was 13 and listening to Radio Luxembourg all the time! Just being a teenager around Galway a(...)

Engineer Arthur Rudolph - a prime force in the development of the V2 rocket for Nazi Germany. Photograph: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Prisoners of the Moon: The ‘100% Nazi’ behind the Moon landing

Johnny Gogan, a dogged Irish film-maker, offers an alternative commemoration of the Moon landing with this odd combination of documentary and historic(...)

Best actress: Jessie Buckley in the gobsmacking Wild Rose
Jessie Buckley and Hugh O’Conor scoop Dublin film festival prizes

The good folk at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival beat the weather this year. But it could hardly have been a more closely run thing. (...)

Actors Jim Norton and Cathy Belton during filming of Prisoners of the Moon. Photograph: Brian Farrell
Leitrim-based film director to give a different perspective on moon landing

A Leitrim-based film company will mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with a production that the director acknowledges will offer a di(...)

Hubert and Peggy Butler
The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia

If the Nuncio and the Writer (RTÉ One, Tuesday, 10.35pm) seems like a documentary in a hurry, featuring a cascade of celebrated Irish and internationa(...)

Anglers and canoeists held a rally at a Border lake on Saturday in a bid to put pressure on political parties to support a Private Member’s Bill to ban fracking.
Anglers stage lake protest in support of anti-fracking Bill

Anglers and canoeists held a rally at a Border lake on Saturday in a bid to put pressure on political parties to support a Private Member’s Bill to ba(...)

Vera Bremerton’s Leviathan, in which venison is sewn on canvas
Fake passports and violent messages: Slovenian tricksters hit the Burren

As art cults go, you couldn’t invent Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art). NSK formed in 1984 in the then Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part (...)

Donal Foreman: “I wanted it to be a collaboration with the city and that moment and with the actors. Too many Irish filmmakers say ‘I want to make a universal story, it could be set anywhere’. That was something I didn’t want to do”
Donal Foreman: Tiger cub on the prowl

Lenny Abrahamson has the smarts and Shimmy Marcus has the moves, but the hottest ticket in Irish cinema now is Donal Foreman. When his debut featur(...)

Black Ice
Black Ice

Alice (newcomer Jane McGrath) comes from a nice, bourgeois Border home, complete with soft furnishings and pop art representations of David Bowie. She(...)

Ireland's boy racers fuel Johnny Gogan’s need for Speed

What is it with the northern counties and motorcars? Folk from that part of the island just can’t get enough of squealing tires and thick petrol fumes(...)