I was delighted to see Lucy McCabe’s review of my book ‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’ in Village Magazine”.  It is great to see people engaging with the work.  McCabe’s response is thought-provoking:

‘At once alternative biography, dance history, veiled manifesto, literary essay and overdue work of scholarship, this is also a call to political arms…What distinguishes Mulrooney’s work from that of others in film, theatre, and fiction, in this boom of interest in the younger Joyce’s personality, is her celebration of the archive. And it’s the solid foundation from which she claims a vast enterprise: the insertion of Lucia Joyce into Ireland’s latent dance history. / What follows is a fascinating investigation, made vivid through letters and other sources– histories and viva voce – that connects some of the most influential voices of the time… What Mulrooney achieves is a reorganisation of the facts that gently unravels the traditional interpretation: that Lucia Joyce was a mad figure and unsuspecting muse for the more successful men around her. Instead, we encounter a woman with serious intent and commitment to dance, who, like many artists of the time, was marginalised by prevailing ideas of what a young woman ought to be.’

You can read the full text of Lucy’s well-considered, and comprehensive response in the current issue of Village Magazine here:

The Other Side of Failure

I was also happy to see the new QR code at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue in Merrion Square, linking to my short documentary ‘In the Studio with Sculptor Danny Osborne’, in which the sculptor Danny Osborne explains his spectacular creation in his own words.

Happy Days 🙂