Aoife Barry

1 week ago | independent.ie | Aoife Barry

Jess Davies writes about her own experience of having intimate photos shared without her consent in her new book No One Wants To See Your D*ck, which is an urgent update on toxic, misogynistic behaviour onlineHours before I sit down to read Jess Davies’ book No One Wants To See Your D*ck: A Handbook for Survival in the Digital World, I spot a video on Instagram that initially appears to be (but isn’t) satire.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Aoife Barry

What drives the renowned Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha? Fashion lovers will get an insight into the London-based Dubliner's inspirations when she and the photographer Perry Ogden take part in a discussion at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) next week. "I'm looking forward to sharing more about the practice and the process," Rocha told The Sunday Times. "Because with fashion we show twice a year but it's a very intimate thing.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Aoife Barry

Is there an enormous empty space in the RTE television schedule for a magazine arts show? Or have things in the media changed so much that audiences just wouldn't tune in? I've been pondering this since listening to Leagues O'Toole (owner of the concert promoter Foggy Notions) on the RTE Radio 1 show Routes, where he detailed his career in music. This included a stint presenting the RTE TV show No Disco, which was a formative part of my cultural education.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Aoife Barry

A young, studious-looking man reads a novel in the sun; tourists pile into the atmospheric Long Room library to peek at the Book of Kells; and young women snap photos of themselves beneath blooming cherry blossom trees. Welcome to spring at Trinity College Dublin.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Aoife Barry

When she arrived in New York from Connecticut as an 18-year-old in the late 1970s, Candace Bushnell was “pretty fearless”. “I was really wild, and I was like, out of control, and I don't know where that came from,” the 66-year-old author and creator tells the from her home in the Hamptons, as a large poodle lolls by a window behind her. “Because of course, now I'm very organised and take care of everything.