Archive for category: Causes & Charity

CharityBuzz is offering you a chance to make your holiday season especially bright (and thrilling!) and also charitable. As they note in their description, the proceeds of this auction will benefit Culture Project, the organization that has helped make this production of James X such a resounding success. Thinking of [...]

Updated October 19 From Irish Central: “Award-winning actor Liam Neeson and Ireland’s Cultural Ambassador Gabriel Byrne, presented Riverdance composer, Bill Whelan with the Spirit of Ireland Award, at the 12th annual Irish Arts Center Gala, in New York on Friday night…” And below this great photo of the happy recipient [...]

Updated June 28 Finally, here are my favorite pictures from the Ball. Many more pictures have been provided very kindly by the  GOAL Ball Paris Flickr stream. Thank you, GOAL! Surrounded by women. As usual. Then surrounded by men! Finally, all on his own. The hands of Gabriel Byrne And [...]

Barry McCall, fashion and celebrity photographer, answers a few questions about his recently published retrospective, Pho20graphy, all proceeds for which go to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC). Be sure to check out the video and information at the end of the interview! Byrneholics: Your [...]

UPDATE November 11: Mr. Frank Walsh, in a letter to the Irish Times, disagrees with Mr. Byrne on how funerals and the grieving process have changed in Ireland: I never cease to be amazed at how we Irish continue to celebrate and embrace death so excellently. The morgue is now [...]

Photographer Barry McCall, known for his work in the fashion world, has done something really magical. Rather than publishing a retrospective of his photographs over the past 20 years in fashion and portraiture and raking in the proceeds that such a book might yield, he has instead created a lush [...]