naomi elster

Beneath a few layers of blue paint on the wall of Dublin’s Project Arts Centre is a 14 foot red heart. The words “repeal the 8th” are strewn across it in white, and were visible to all who walked by the building until the day they were…

#WakingtheFeminists, the movement catalysed by The Abbey Theatre’s 1916 commemorations, is winding down the public campaign which drew the world’s attention to the lack of women in Irish theatre.   In reality, the 1916 commissions were…

I can do horror I can do horror Write it anyway. Blackfriars Bridge got its name From something terrible and fantastical that happened Because of the strange, black-garbed phantoms That walked the streets of London once. That was…