by build_1h7qoh | Jan 2, 2017 | Culture, Documentaries, Radio, Writing
For Nollaig na mBan [Women’s Christmas & Feast of the Epiphany] this Friday, RTE Lyric FM are broadcasting “Georgie’s Vision”, the first ever documentary about the extraordinary, and overlooked Mrs. WB Yeats. Hear Olwen Fouéré channel...
by build_1h7qoh | Dec 20, 2016 | Culture, Theatre, Writing
I really enjoyed playwright Marina Carr’s adaptation of Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. You can catch this mammoth 3 hour production, directed by Wayne Jordan, with a stunning cast of 21 until the end of January 2017. Read my...
by build_1h7qoh | Dec 9, 2016 | Culture, Dance, Radio
I am busy making my current BAI-funded radio documentary project “Surrender on Grand Canal Street”, for broadcast on Newstalk – more of which when the time is right! In the meantime, I enjoyed seeing Merce Cunningham’s 1958 choreography...
by build_1h7qoh | Nov 11, 2016 | Culture, Dance, Documentaries, Projects
We enjoyed a fantastically eclectic discourse at the “Irish-German Connections in Motion” Conference in University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance on October 31st and November 1st – simultaneously honouring Berlin-based...
by build_1h7qoh | Oct 13, 2016 | Culture, Documentaries, Radio, Travel, Writing
As the Autumn chill sets in, I am, as promised, recalling that lovely feeling of floating out in the middle of a bay on the Cote d’Azur on a steaming hot summer’s day… Read all about it in my travel feature on Nice and the Cote d’Azur in last...
by build_1h7qoh | Oct 4, 2016 | Culture, Documentaries, Writing
“Georgie’s Vision”, the documentary I have been toiling on all summer – since the end of April – getting the creme de la creme of the George Yeats world on board, was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM on Friday September 30th at 7pm. Hooray! ...