Deirdre is author of Irish Moves, an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland (The LIffey Press), and Orientalism, Orientation, and The Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch (Peter Lang Gmbh).  Committed to re-inscribing the body into Irish cultural history, most recently Deirdre presented an interdisciplinary Saint Lucia’s Day event “Come and See Me, I’m a Crossword Puzzle”, at Dublin’s James Joyce Centre to celebrate Lucia Joyce’s overlooked creativity and to mark the 40th anniversary of her death. The associated exhibition runs on until February 2nd, 2023.  Deirdre’s widely acclaimed BAI-funded feature radio documentary, and short dance film “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity”, (both starring Evanna Lynch), and her Joyce Studies Annual essay “Fail Better: Lucia Joyce and the Abbey Theatre Ballets” change the narrative about Lucia Joyce as a significant artist. She produced, directed, and edited “Calico” by Michael Hastings for Bloomsday Festival 2021.   Deirdre presented “Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance” at Paul Muldoon’s Princeton University FÍS series, and hosted Dance Ireland’s 30th Anniversary podcasts.  She is an occasional contributor to RTE Sunday Miscellany, and her Arts journalism has appeared in top publications.  Deirdre produces and directs theatre, and her own creative film documentaries including ‘Damhsa na hÉigeandála’ (TG4), and ‘1943 – A Dance Odyssey’ (RTE), about Irish-German modern dance pioneer Erina Brady; ‘TRUE NORTH’, and many more BAI-funded, commissioned, and Indie projects with her own production company ‘Out There Productions’. Deirdre has contributed several chapters to books on theatre and dance, as well as to Anthologies.  On top of her original academic work, teaching, broadcasting, and making original feature radio documentaries (RTE Lyric FM & Newstalk 106 – 108fm), Deirdre curates exhibitions too.  Deirdre is a contributor to Photo Album of the Irish: Canada, (currently on exhibition at EPIC Museum of Emigration until March 5th, 2023), and is developing further projects on this topic with her Ojibway friends in Cat Lake, North Ontario. During the pandemic, Deirdre did Ardteist Gaeilge Ardleibhéal, and was delighted to get a H2!  In 2022 Deirdre directed a TG4 “Finné” episode on one of her Gaeilge gurus, ‘Limerick’s own Billy Elliot’, Roy Galvin, and her new experimental short Goodbye Marian Avenue was selected for Irish Artists’ Film Index.   During the centenary year of Ulysses’ publication, Deirdre was an invited participant in Global Irish Studies’ “Ulysses and the World” symposium at Georgetown University, Washington DC, interviewing choreographer Liz Roche about “Yes and Yes”; she was on the steering committee of #Ulysses80 virtual bookclub; and Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY featured in Bloomsday Film Festival 2022 at the IFI.