Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International, Fighting Words, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, National Women’s Council of Ireland, Trócaire, and Poetry Ireland will implement the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland…

A Conversation with Mary Moynihan, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality About this series Interculturalism, Literature and the Arts in Ireland autumn webinar series is organised by MU English Dr Rita Sakr. The webinars will explore the connections among literary/artistic practice and the promotion of…

On Wednesday 25 November, Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan was delighted to present at The Wheel’s EU Funding and Civil Society: The Launch of Access Europe. This event with Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne TD launched The Wheel’s Access Europe project. Funded by the Department of…

Film Screening and Panel Discussion, 7.30pm, 17 October 2020 The event Artists Against Fascism will begin at 7.30pm, Saturday 17 October with the screening of our film Humanity in the Ruins, featuring stories of artists who stood up against fascism during and after the Spanish Civil War and World War…

Smashing Times welcome the announcement of Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, TD, of a new bursary scheme for women artists titled the 'Markievicz Bursaries'. Awards under this new scheme will be made annually to up to 5 artists/writers (either individual artists working alone or in collaboration…

We are delighted that the production we are involved in of the Karl Kraus play The Last Days of Mankind in Leith Theatre, Edinburgh is running smoothly, has received great reviews, and is garnering a fantastic audience response. The play is an epic anti-war satire, translated here by Patrick Healy, Irish…

Smashing Times are delighted to be involved in the Leith Theatre production of the Karl Kraus play The Last Days of Mankind. The play is an epic anti-war satire, and is translated here by Patrick Healy, Irish Joycean poet, philosopher and professor. The play will be performed at the Leith Theatre…