WHEN IAN BROAD moved the 1972 Dublin Arts Festival into the Liberties area he achieved two major developpments in the Irish arts scene: "arts" and "community" found common ground, and 'festival' took on a meaning which it had probably not deserved since the early days of the Dublin Theatre Festiival.
Tis month Senator Gemma Hussey will have come to the end of her four year term as Director of the Abbey Theatre. She was appointed in July 1974 by Ritchie Ryan. This was a direct result of her involvement with the National Women's Talent Bank and her active campaign to have more women on State Boards and Commissions. She has, for many years, been in the forefront of the women's movement. In February of this year she had a stormy confrontation with George Colley on the issue of married women's taxation.
IF THE IRISH EXHIBITION of Living Art, which opened in May and closed in June, and which was reviewed in Magill last month, was to some extent domiinated by the need or urge among its artists to be original, then the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition is subbject to an even gloomier tyranny: that of convention.
ONCE UPON A TIME there were flowers in fields and gardens, and trees and landscapes, and men and young girls sat on the ground underneath the trees and laughed, and made love. And where the land went into the sea waves broke upon the shore, and children played in the sand, and men and women walked along the beach. And the sun shone down on it all, and the wind blew, and clouds moved across the sky, and the leaves twisted and the trees swayed, and the surface of the water was troubled. By Bruce Arnold
Film, Theatre, The Liberties Festival, and the Censorship Seminar
O'BRIEN'S PUB in Sussex Tce., off Upper Leeson St., Dublin, has become one of the "in" swinging pubs of late, primarily because the lack of seating accommodation in the lounge encourrages social intercourse, as they say.
The Dublin Arts festival, music, theatre, restaurants and pubs
Mulligan's, Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2. Some people would like to put a preservation order on this pub and its , atmosphere'. Devoid of plastic trimmings, fulfilling its function as a place to meet and drink in much the way that old Wild West saloons must have done, it's a natural for those who are into basic Living, maaaan.
Theatre, film, galleries and restaurants
ONE OF THE nicest ways to begin a holiday is sitting down to the palatial buffet which they serve on Irish Continental Lines' two ferries from Rosslare to Le Havre or Cherbourg. The food is excellent, the setting ideal as, with any luck at all, the sun reflects off a flat calm sea through the seascape-hugging windows. By Howard Kinlay