As energising and confrontational as the music it examined, Shell Shock Rock (1978), John T Davis’ first major film looked at the burgeoning northern punk music scene and introduced us to a documentary filmmaker unafraid to challenge the conventions of the genre. Born in Belfast in 1947, Davis’s first experience of filmmaking came via...
Emer Martin is a Dubliner and has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year 1996 in her native Ireland at the prestigious Listowel Writers’ Week. Houghton Mifflin released Breakfast in Babylon in the U.S. in 1997. She...
Born in Ennis, County Clare in 1958, Mick O’Dea studied at the National College of Art and Design and the University of Massachusetts from 1976 to 1981. In 1997 he was awarded an M.A. in European Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art having studied in in Barcelona and Winchester. He has won...