Holy Show

09/12/2024

Do your Christmasly duties and support Irish artists all in one go. Check out the latest issue of Holy Show, including work from…
     .oconnell       & Katie Oliver

                             

09/12/2024

Do your Christmassy duties and support Irish artists in one go. Check out the latest issue of Holy Show, including work from…
      .oconnell        & Katie Oliver
                             

05/11/2024

More Holy Show doings this week... Greatest Story Ever Told is back for another turn at the this Thursday with stories their authors wouldn’t dare commit to paper (but would to a half-cut basement bar crowd). Join writers & to hear their stories, their thoughts and theories on storytelling vs story/poem-writing, and other completely unrelated stuff.

And on Saturday, Literary Cabaret will take place in the beautiful Joyce lounge in Bewley’s Grafton with & , hosted by Holy Show editor

Free events, booking at link in bio

13/08/2024

6.00PM – 21 AUG 2024 CILL RIALAIG ARTS CENTRE
All are welcome to the launch of Óstán, an exhibition of photographs by artist Damien O'Connell that captures time spent in the ruins of Óstán Rinn Rua. Writer Katie Oliver has written an essay about the hotel which featured in the latest issue of Holy Show, available to buy at the launch,

08/08/2024

Join us on Wed 21 Aug for Óstán, an exhibition of new work by artist .oconnell taking place centre. We’ll also celebrate the connected essay, Ruin Gaze, about the Waterville Beach Hotel in Reenroe, Kerry, written by author Katie Oliver, published in the latest issue of Holy Show. This husband~wife collaboration was our Absolutely Anywhere Residency selection for 2024. The exhibition runs from 19-26 August. Copies will be available for sales at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre at the launch and at the gallery shop thereafter, and from our website holyshow.ie (see link in bio)

30/11/2023

€10 & free post on all individual copies of Holy Show in December (and today too, 30 Nov!)

Shpice up that stocking or Christmas gift with some great non-fiction and Irish art.

12/11/2023

09/11/2023

First 5 issues of Holy Show all together! Thanks to the writers, filmmakers, photographers, artists, choreographers, illustrators, theatre makers, dancers, musicians, architects. … particularly those who are two or more of the above… who used all their knowledge, craft and good taste to fill the first 5 issues.

Single copies of each are still available, or buy together as a bundle at a generous discount. Link in bio.

Thanks to the who have funded us from issue #03 onwards, and will fund us again in 2024.

02/11/2023

We're doing a thing at the Dublin Book Festival next Friday night in Brooks Hotel Dublin

Free, walk-in, drop-downstairs-from-bar, GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD – true ones – spun by a gang of Irish writers. Very comfy seats too!

Join us at the DBF After Dark Festival Club for an evening of stories and mingling with authors and other guests.

17/08/2023

This is a bit of an experiment. An exhibition based on our new issue, displaying lots of original artwork featured in the mag, plus some new work from featured artists. And slapping the pages of our mag on the walls too. I initially just planned to do a standard launch at Pallas Projects cause it’s such a cool venue, nice mix of indoor and outdoor space (and the staff have been so sound and helpful) but I kind of got carried away, inspired in a big way by what and .exe did in collaboration with at .projects.studios last year on their Marian Year project.

In addition to the exhibition launch on Thursday 6th, we’ve also arranged a day of events with and who’ve organised some class writers to read from their latest issues ~ & Kimberly Campanello ~ on Saturday 8th, alongside reading from Holy Show. All three journal’s mags and swag will be on sale throughout the exhibition. Thanks to Dean & Emily; and Catherine, Liam & Seán for taking a punt on this.

Huge thanks to for sorting us with Ireland’s finest tipples for both Thurs and Sat events.

And massive thanks as always to the Arts Council with funding our growing ambitions for launch events and productions.

Hopefully see yous at one or other of these events, or drop in during the afternoon on the Friday (12-6pm) or Sunday (12-3pm)

15/08/2023

Because we haven’t really shown off the new issue enough…

Subscribe for a tenner a year and pick up this new special edition tote bag for free (they’re all a bit special, mind) and that tenner includes postage.

See link in bio for subs or sales.

08/08/2023

We're doing this with The Pig's Back and Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny on SAT 19th August.

08/08/2023

We got in touch with a few months ago seeing if they’d be up for a joint launch of our mags in Donegal this summer. Of course they were. Emily and Jeremy have turned this into a proper day-long literary spectacular. Ramelton Notions! We’re so happy to be a part of it, excited to attend it, and looking forward to seeing it again next year maybe, and the year after. With more of our journaling friends in the mix we hope. But first things first. Join us for the first iteration and help us make it a roaring success on Saturday 19th August.

𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 – 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗦. Town Hall, 3pm

reads from his new memoir, Adventures in Wonderland, and talks to about his amazing life at the forefront of the music revolution.

Over his 40+ year career, he has worked with some of the biggest names in music, at different times managing the careers of Van Morrison, Ray Davies of The Kinks, The Waterboys and Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐠’𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 Town Hall, 5pm

The Pig’s Back is a literary journal produced by the RCC Letterkenny and edited by Ramelton residents Dean Fee and Emily Cooper. Ramelton Notions is a collaboration with Dublin-based arts magazine Holy Show (Brendan Mac Evilly and Peter McNama). Readings on the night from IAN MALENEY, ALICIA MCAULEY, ROSA MÄKELÄ and BRENDAN CALLAGHAN.

𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 / 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 Conways Bar, 9pm

Drawing from an array of influences – stemming from an early exposure to the rattling impact of 90s grunge and the visceral inventiveness of The Velvet Underground and Nico, to a later appreciation for shoegaze’s immersive soundscapes and storied country music by Lee Hazlewood – these elements colour Elaine Malone’s brilliantly expansive psych-rock material.

‘Slow Place Like Home‘ is the music of producer/musician Keith Mannion.

08/07/2023

Looking forward to a full hand of events this summer, and grateful to be working and playing with a number of pals and colleagues in literature and the arts to make it happen … and .projects.studios as well as loads of writers and artists on the billing tba.

First up is our Sunday Sermon at the with and

We’re thankful as ever to the for funding our launches and literary adventures.

19/04/2023

We’re coming to
on the 18th May for
for a night of chats and music with and .reidy

All will gather round the fireside for a night of homespun entertainment and discuss the tradition of the party piece. Each artistwill deliver their own performance and examine the ways in which we entertain ourselves – at home and in public, alone and together. A rollicking, performative house party from Ireland’s summer arts annual, Holy Show. hosted by Holy Show editor

For more info & tickets see link in bio.

Supported by the

09/02/2023

‘The Alphabet of Birds’ is a live audio visual essay from that mixes live readings with four short documentaries from Director that feature artists , , and . The essay and
films are live-scored by musicians and

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Sunday Mass and sea swimming; bird alphabets and stone collecting; Goya and Monet; the Stations of the Cross and the Sacred Heart of Jesus; bedrooms and bedsits; insomnia and parental love. Writer and artist Sara Baume covers wide ground in this spellbinding audio-visual essay. Ultimately, it’s a show about our obsessions and passions – the multitude of rituals that fill our daily lives with meaning.

Tickets in Linktree above.
SAT 18 FEB – 7.30pm Space Upstairs

With support from and

24/01/2023

After touring to 8 venues across Ireland, we're finally bringing 's 'live audio visual essay' to Dublin on the 18th of Feb.

Live readings from Baume are interspersed with four short documentaries from Director that feature artists , , and . The essay and
films are live-scored by musicians and

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Sunday Mass and sea swimming; bird alphabets and stone collecting; Goya and Monet; the Stations of the Cross and the Sacred Heart of Jesus; bedrooms and bedsits; insomnia and parental love. Writer and artist Sara Baume covers wide ground in this spellbinding audio-visual essay. Ultimately, it’s a show about our obsessions and passions – the multitude of rituals that fill our daily lives with meaning.

Tickets in Linktree above. 
  SAT 18 FEB – 7.30pm Space Upstairs

With support from and