); For Sheriff Street to be seen outside of Ireland in a positive light, it feels like a dream
Artist Gemma Dunleavy features in Playback, a showcase premiering at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival this Sunday. By Adam Daly Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 7:30 PM Mar 3rd 2021, 7:30 PM 36,792 Views 4 Comments
“IF YOU GOOGLE Sheriff Street or North Wall you don’t get any positive stories,” says Gemma Dunleavy, the Dublin songwriter, producer and rising star whose work is reclaiming the narrative of her close-knit community.
Her single Up De Flats is one of 12 music videos that feature in a new project showcasing the work of artists across the hip hop and R&B spectrum in Ireland.
Whether she's dressed in chainmail or in an evening gown, quoting Celtic folk music or the Zambian national anthem, Denise Chaila is slaying it. Known initially as a rising star of Irish hip-hop, Cha…
Irish radio stations urged to implement plans to tackle gender disparity in playlists
Data shows that 85% of Irish musicians played on Irish radio are male.
Irish female artists like Denise Chaila are getting more airplay after data collected from Irish radio stations between June and December 2020 found that 85% of the top 20 most played songs were performed by male musicians.
Mon, 01 Mar, 2021 - 09:40
Pádraig Hoare
Radio stations in Ireland have been urged by equality campaigners to implement comprehensive data-driven plans to counteract the glaring gender disparity of musicians receiving airplay.
The Why Not Her campaign compiled data from June to December 2020 on the top 20 most played songs by Irish artists on radio stations across the country, finding that 85% of artists in the top 100 airplay charts across all stations were male.
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Acts Of Desperation author Megan Nolan (Pic: Lynn Rothwell)
Waterford-born, London-based Megan Nolan is an essayist and critic - her work has have published everywhere from
The New York Times and the
New Statesman (where she writes a regular column) to
Winter Papers and here on RTÉ Culture.
This month she publishes her first novel,
Acts Of Desperation (published by Jonathan Cape); it s a darkly funny tale of a toxic relationship and secret female desire, already acclaimed by the likes of Marian Keyes and Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård.
We asked Megan for her choice cultural picks.