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Live: Orla Gartland in Dublin, 2025
Irish pop-rock queen Orla Gartland fulfilled her dream and played at a sold-out Olympia for the first time. Of course, I couldn’t miss it! I discovered Orla during the pandemic after she toured for her debut album Woman on the Internet. I fell in love with her immediately and knew I had to see her live as soon as I could. That came true this month when Orla played a sold-out Olympia (shoutout to my buddy Alan for sharing his pre-sale with me!). This concert was special in many ways. It was the first time Orla had played at the Olympia Theatre and such a big venue in Ireland. I…
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Live: Loreen at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 2025
Two-time Eurovision winner Loreen visited Dublin for the second time in the last two years. As a big fan, I simply had to go see the Swedish queen again. And my camera as well! Loreen’s concert in 2023 at The Academy was the reason I decided to get my concert camera. Since then, I’ve taken photos of many concerts and artists. When Loreen announced her tour last year and at my favorite 3Olympia Theatre, I was immediately excited. I went to the concert with my friend D. and we had tickets to the Circle (we also sat there for Reneé Rapp a year ago). Unfortunately, there were Irish people sitting…
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SuirCon 2024: Comic Con in Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford
Last year I fulfilled another photography dream, which was to photograph a local Comic Con. As usual, I want to share the photos and stories with you. SuirCon, as the Comic Con is called, is named after the River Suir which runs through Waterford. The first SuirCon was held in November 2018 and took a break during 2020-2021 due to Covid. We had never had a convention in the city before Suircon as far as I know. After last year’s Imagine Arts Festival, which you can read about here, I gained confidence and decided to try to photograph SuirCon. After all these years, it was finally time. SuirCon used to…
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Waterford Imagine Arts Festival 2024 through photographer’s eyes
Last fall, I had the unique opportunity to photograph one of the longest-running festivals in Waterford, the Imagine Arts Festival. The Imagine Arts Festival was first held in 2001 and was created for a simple reason – local artists felt that the city lacked an artistic platform. Nowadays, the festival runs for 1 week in October and the program includes live music, workshops, dance, exhibitions, theater performances and various tours. Each year has its own theme and a program is then put together accordingly, to which artists can send their proposals from the beginning of the year. Of all the festivals I have introduced to you so far, the Imagine…
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Photo Corner: Snowy Waterford 2025
Waterford is located in the south of the island and doesn’t snow here in winter. Except for 2010, 2018 and this January… When the weather forecast called for freezing weather for the first week of the year, I was hoping it would turn into snow again. This was first seen in the west and north of the island, and it arrived unplanned (the forecast never actually predicted snow for Waterford) on the afternoon of Sunday, January 5th. It was originally supposed to snow with rain, but when I looked out the window around 3pm, it was just snowing. At first I thought the snow wouldn’t stick to the ground, but…
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Hi Brno!
Last summer I flew to the Czech Republic, to visit friends and family, and spent most of my time in Brno. Where I haven’t been since moving to Ireland. So I have experiences for you and of course lots of photos. Brno is a chapter in itself. I used to live in a small town not far from it and Brno meant mainly doctor visits and surgeries for me. It wasn’t much fun. Of course, we went there to the cinema or to the Christmas markets, but when you go there X number of times a year for a check-up of braces or surgery, you just get sick of the…
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Live: Aiko in Dublin 2024
The last concert of 2024 was the Czech singer Aiko. She also visited Dublin with her Aikonic tour and I was able to shake it one last time! I discovered Aiko thanks to Eurovision, where she represented us this year with the song Pedestal. She missed the final by 1 point. However, I liked the song and the singer later released another album, Aikonic, which also caught my attention. Shortly after that, she announced a tour of Europe, and at that time Dublin was not on the list. She added Dublin later, at the request of fans on social networks. The concert took place at The Academy 2 (the basement…
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For the first time in Telč, Czechia
Last summer I flew to the Czech Republic to visit family and friends, and we also went to Telč for a day. It was my first time there, so I’m happy to share my experiences and photos. I can hear my mom saying, “Not for the first time? You were there when you were 4.” Yes, mom. I remember every detail… We went to Telč from Brno, by car, with my friend M. and her daughter (my age) J. When my mom confirmed that we were going on a day trip to Telč, I immediately googled what it looked like and what there was to see. I have to say…
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Live: Sarah Kinsley in Dublin 2024
I’ve been eagerly awaiting Sarah Kinsley’s concert in Dublin for years, and when she finally announced a Dublin stop, of course I had to go. I was so excited that I bought my tickets in presale on the way from the airport in Austria haha Sarah Kinsley is from New York and has been making music for a few years now. I came across her on Instagram, where she was showing how she composed the music for the song Over + Under. I was intrigued by the whole process and especially the music itself – a mix of modern and classical. That was almost 4 years ago and I have…
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Live: Bambie Thug in Dublin 2024
Ireland finally sent an amazing artist to Eurovision this year. Doomsday Blue is not a genre I would normally listen to, but I was so intrigued that when Bambie announced a European tour, I had to go! First of all, I would like to point out that Bambie Thug uses the pronoun “they”, so I will write everything in the plural 🙂 Bambie is from County Cork, but they live in London and were not that well-known in Ireland before Eurovision, even though they had released a few songs by then. This year, the selection of the Irish song at Eurovision was similar to the Czech Republic – several artists…
