I’m delighted to see that my film “1943 – A Dance Odyssey”, featuring 5 fabulous former pupils of Irish-German Modern Dance pioneer Erina Brady: Ann Fryer-Walsh; Margaret Becker; Ann Danaher/McGuire; Romy Hogan; and Barbara Sweetman-Fitzgerald, as well as rare 1943 footage by Irish film industry…
En route to the 1st Sarajevo-Irish Festival, where I was invited to present my documentary “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” – I did feel like a bit of a nerd pulling out my 1181 page doorstopper “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”…
Set your radio dials for RTE Lyric FM today, Friday March 11th at 7pm to hear the audio version of “Journey to YU” featuring Dragana Jurisic, Olwen Fouéré (as Rebecca West) Zlata Filipovic Dijana Milosevic, & Colin Graham, sound supervision by John Davis, in advance…
Wow Premier @DMulrooney @LincolnCenter 12Feb. We loved it in Dublin https://t.co/BIszfWflIn 👍 @culture_ireland #NYC pic.twitter.com/kRtbIgQRce — DarinaNíChuinneagáin (@DarinaNiC) January 27, 2016 It was a dream, and an honour to see my TG4 Splanc! film Dance Emergency/ Damhsa na hEigeandala screened larger than life on the…
I’m delighted to hear the good news that BAI Sound and Vision Fund have awarded me the funds to make a feature radio documentary on the fascinating topic of George Yeats, aka Mrs. WB Yeats. She famously wrote “thank you for leaving me out”, but…
It has been a busy two months. Journey to YU was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM on Friday November 6th – here is a link where you can listen back if you like: Journey to YU on RTE Lyric FM The film version “Journey…
I am delighted to see that my short documentary “In the Studio with Danny Osborne” about the making of his Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue is now live via QR code at the statue on Merrion Square! You can also catch it here: In the Studio…
“Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” is a photo-documentary produced, written, and directed by Deirdre Mulrooney, inspired by award winning photographer Dragana Jurišić’s RHA & Belfast Exposed exhibition “YU – The Lost Country”, which follows in the footsteps of neglected Anglo-Irish/Scottish writer…
TG4 SPLANC ARTS DOCUMENTARY (funded by TG4 & ARTS COUNCIL) 9.30pm, TG4, Wednesday July 8th, 2015 Against the backdrop of seldom-seen 1940’s bohemian Dublin, and suspicions of Nazi espionage, we recount an Irish-German artist’s forgotten struggle to bring Modern Dance/ German Ausdruckstanz to a conservative,…
I am delighted to report that Saturday’s Irish Premiere of “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)”, at Dublin’s Origin Gallery on Fitzwilliam Street Upper was a great success. But I can’t honestly say that it went off without a hitch. In fact,…