by build_1h7qoh | Jan 26, 2019 | Culture, Documentaries, Photography, Projects, Radio, Writing
Forget Google maps. Today, we are off the grid in West Clare. On the Doonbeg road 2km North of well known ‘Victorian seaside resort’ Kilkee the road-sign on a bare, ascending left turn announces “L2024”. L2024? You’d never guess that just over the brow of this...
by build_1h7qoh | Nov 10, 2018 | Culture, Documentaries, Projects, Radio, Writing
I was absolutely delighted to get an original score by the extraordinary Rossa O Snodaigh in the can last week for my upcoming radio doco on Newstalk “Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son” – with sound supervisor supremo Neil Kavanagh. As you...
by build_1h7qoh | Jan 1, 2018 | Culture, Dance, Documentaries, Film, Projects, Radio, Theatre, Writing
Happy New Year! As 2018 dawns, complete with its day one Wolf Super Moon to kick us into its oncoming action, I am just going to take a moment to recap on the year that was. First of all, it was an extremely tough year for me and my family with the loss of my dear...
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 | 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...
