Deirdre’s Diary
Catch ‘Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY’ at Waterford Film Festival & MexIndex “Displacements” curated by Richard Ashrowan
We are delighted that Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY has been selected by curator Richard Ashrowan to be part of the "Displacements" MexIndex 2020 Screening, on Monday December 14th at 8pm, followed by a Q & A (more details, and the text, by Ashrowan, to follow soon);...
My heroic relative John Michael Hennessey (OAM), his Mother, the Mother and Babies Homes, and… Family Karma?
He found his way home. In my interior, and totally subjective map of Ireland, Waterford was always a bit of an eerie black spot. Certainly, in my family, over in Limerick and Clare, we stayed well away from Waterford. Deep in the recesses of my childhood memory, I...
My Princeton FÍS Zoom with Paul Muldoon / “Sweet Dancers: an Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance”
It was an honour to be Paul Muldoon's inaugural virtual guest with my talk "Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland" to kick off his 2020/ 2021 Princeton Fund for Irish Studies series over Zoom last Friday, September 18th. Here...
IFF International Film Festival, Elysium Gallery, Wales
"Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" made its UK premiere at Swansea's Elysium Gallery, in esteemed experimental film company on the opening night of IFF International Film Festival on Wednesday August 12th at 7pm among artists Lily Dean, Shir Handelsman, Alexander Iasenko,...
Phone Call with Mr. Joyce/ Bloomsday 2020
It was such an honour to hear my "fabulous work" on Lucia Joyce mentioned in President Michael D Higgins' wonderful Bloomsday Speech yesterday evening. I am still recovering! President Higgins' speech was extraordinary, not only passionately highlighting the...
Online Premiere of Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity at first ever virtual Bloomsday Festival 2020
We are delighted that our short dance film “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity” is making its online premiere as part of the first ever online Bloomsday Festival, from June 11th to 16th. The film stars Evanna Lynch (best known as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter), channeling...
“Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai & Son” in UCD Festival @home
It's an honour to have my BAI-funded radio documentary "Coosheen's Forgotten Seanchai and Son" featured in such an esteemed pantheon at UCD Festival @home the first virtual edition of the annual festival this weekend. Here is the blurb!: Join UCD Creative Fellow...
My review of “Thomas Mac Greevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde”
I reviewed a fascinating book entitled "Thomas Mac Greevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde" by Francis Hutton Williams in the latest issue of The Irish Review. Mac Greevy is an important person in piecing together the lost story of Lucia Joyce, which I am...
Erina Brady’s New Chapter in ‘Dance and Modernism’, & BBC Radio 3 Emergency Doco Mention
My latest chapter "Erina Brady: Mary Wigman's Irish Disciple?" in Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture, edited by Sabine Egger, Catherine Foley, and Margaret Mills Harper, has just been published by Lexington Books. This publication came out...
Dance Ireland 30th Anniversary Podcasts
Happy 2020! It was a pleasure to interview some of Ireland's greatest dance gurus for Dance Ireland as part of their 30th Anniversary Podcast series, celebrating the founders of the Association of Professional Dancers of Ireland, the seminal organisation out of which...