The Culchie Guide To: The Spirit of Folk Festival

Useful Links: Buy a ticket - €95 for the 2 day camping pass Getting to the SoF actual site …. actually there! Best directions ever ! find Spirit of Folk of Facebook This is an UNofficial guide. Not a United Nations guide and not a Spirit of folk organisers’ guide. It’s year one and I’ve been to the site so these are my recommendations on what I have been suggesting people do and I got bored repeating myself so now they can have a link. It is my A-Z of sorts. In short: Friday 23rd - 25th September 2011 Gates open at 3pm on the Friday - I’ll be there and waiting as you see in the vid above its a 5 minute trek to anywhere maximum - from anywhere more info on spiritOF folk.com Wine-ing and Dining: Dunderry House is in the middle of nowhere. There isn’t a super … There’s more

Movie Review: Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre “Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little that I am soulless and heartless?” There has been adaptations, re-workings, re-tellings, sequels, silent films, plays, there has even been a musical ballet and yet the hold Jane Eyre has on the imagination has not been lost. It is easy to now overlook the impact the novel made when it was released all those years ago but looking back, it revolutionised feminist writing. To us now, it seems like more of a dramatic love story but to the 19th century reader, Jane was far from commonplace. A lowly governess with a mind of her own who would eventually marry the master of the house she worked in would have been entirely unheard of. And yet, Charlotte Bronte crafted the implausible tale, partially from her own experiences, of possibly one of the greatest females who never … There’s more

The Comedy Interview: Niamh Marron

As some of you may remember I was overjoyed to come across the wonderful Niamh Marron recently at a gig in Whelan’s. So much so that I stalked her on Facebook and begged her to let me interview her. She of course said yes. I sat down to chat to her about life as a comedian and the bits in between! How did you get into comedy? When I was in college I always had an interest in comedy, I was starting to lose interest in my course so I decided to mix my photography and my love of comedy together and did an end of year presentation so I got Dave McSavage, Robbie Bonham, Eleanor Tiernan and Fred Cooke in a photo in mundane poses and then contrasting that with their onstage stuff. That was the start of it. Then I started working for a photography studio but that … There’s more