document 2 – we go again

We were back in Whelans on Monday March 3 2025 with a panel discussing the importance that ‘ents’ officers played in developing the music scene in Ireland. Delighted that the following people shared their stories on the night

Young Revolutionaries: The Student Union Entertainment’s Officers Who Changed Ireland

Edwina Forkin (TCD first’s female Ents Officer 1988/89: Therapy?, The La’s, Voice of the Beehive, Not Our World, The Dixons)

Peter Jones (Bolton Street 1985/87: The Slowest Clock, The Joshua Trio, Paranoid Visions, The Candyshop)

Ber Angley (UCL Limerick: The Stunning, The Pale, The Cranberries, the Christians, Christy Moore, Clannad, Tom Robinson, Toasted Heretic)

Paddy McPoland (RTC Carlow 1980s: Something Happens!, Aslan, A House and Light A Big Fire)

Colm O’Dwyer (TCD 1991/1992: Cranberries, Kirsty McColl, Jeff Buckley)

Marcus de Cogan (UCD 1976/77: Eddie and the Hot Rods, Racing Cars, Dr Feelgood and manager: The Resistors)

Pat O’Mahony (NIHE 1986/87: Auto Da Fe, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts, The Partisans)

Admission is free but there will be a collection on the night for Irish Red Cross