• Landless Presents: Two Miles Of Earth For A Marking Stone

    March 8, 2021 - By 

    As part of International Women’s Day and the Capital Irish Film Festival, and commissioned by Solas Nua, traditional vocal quartet Landless have crafted a free concert film of traditional songs in collaboration with experimental visual artists Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, titled Two Miles of Earth for a Marching Stone. Brigid, the Irish pre-Christian goddess of poetry, is the inspiration for a psychic vision exploring feelings of intangible longing arising from experiences of emigration. Film clips set in the North-West of Ireland will appear as interjections through the music, with the themes of the songs mirroring each corresponding scene in the saga. The songs will follow…

  • Caroline Cawley – A Promoter’s Perspective

    March 6, 2018 - By 

    Caroline Cawley reflects on her time working as a promoter for Club AC10 and DJing in Dublin. She currently lives in the UK and plays in two bands, Dystopian Future Movies and Church of the Cosmic Skull.  Whilst holed up in my room (one ear of my Walkman secretly inserted), gazing out across the rolling Sligo fields and ‘studying’ for my Leaving Cert at the turn of the millennium, the idea of playing my favourite slightly left-of-field alternative rock tunes to a bopping audience would have seemed like an unattainable dream. But ask and you shall receive. After leaving university…

  • March4Repeal – International Women’s Day 2017

    February 28, 2017 - By 

    Having declared “No More Delays – Name the Date for a Referendum”, the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment will organise and spearhead a huge march this International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8) from Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance at Parnell Square East. Asking the public to “demand a Referendum to Repeal the Eighth Amendment and respect women’s lives, health and choices” the march will kick off at 5.30pm and run until 7.30pm. Go here for the march’s Facebook event page.

  • Women of Notes @ Thirty Four, Dublin

    February 21, 2016 - By 

    Set to launch at new Dublin cafe Thirty Four on Saturday, March 5, Women of Notes/Mná na Notaí is a new photography and narrative series that aims to celebrate some of the country’s most prominent and successful female musicians. A year-long project that coincides with International Women’s Day 2016, it is the latest collaboration between music photographer Ruth Medjber and journalist Louise Bruton, and features the likes of Mary Black, Lisa Hannigan, Fight Like Apes’ MayKay, SOAK, Heathers, sisters Loah and Feather, Sleep Thieves‘ Sorcha Brennan, Wyvern Lingo, Saint Sister, Joni, Sinead White and more. According to the organisers, “each…

  • International Women’s Day @ Gulpd Cafe, Cork

    March 12, 2015 - By 

    Held as part of International Women’s Day 2015, Brid O’Donovan popped along to Celebrate The Ladies, The Ladies! at Cork’s Gulpd Cafe at the weekend to capture performances by Roslyn Steer, Aisling O Riordan, Elaine Howley and Sadhbh O Flynn. Lisa O Grady hosted the evening.

  • Army of We: International Women’s Day 2015

    March 6, 2015 - By 

    In March 2010 Oh Yeah put out a call for women in music to come together for a photo that would be included in the NI Music Exhibition. The photo (above) was launched on International Women’s Day (IWD) and was inspired by an earlier more spontaneous image (below), which captured a group of promising young acts that were around at the time. For some reason there were no women in that earlier picture, it wasn’t intentional, but it did get us thinking about the gender gap in music. Since then we have marked IWD annually by showcasing or celebrating great…

  • Her World: An Evening of Björk @ Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast

    March 5, 2015 - By 

    As part of the Oh Yeah Centre’s International Women’s Day on Saturday March 7, five female and female-fronted acts will come together to perform a selection of Björk’s back catalogue. This comes following her new archives book, an exhibition of her career and latest album, Vulnicure, and her emphasis on often-overlooked contributions to women in the art community – a problem she successfully fights through leading by example. Each set will consist of 2 covers of songs by the iconic, innovative, Icelandic artist, and interpreting her music as well as performing their own material on the night are piano-playing songstress Katharine…