Deirdre’s Diary
“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...
‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’ & ‘TRUE NORTH’ make Filmic Road Trip across Éire
From 'Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity' at Kerry International Film Festival in Killarney, to our special 'Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity' event featuring a reception and Q & A with our dream team of collaborators in Dublin's Museum of Literature of Ireland, to award...
My First Dance Ireland Podcast, with Joanna Banks and Fiona Quilligan
It was an absolute pleasure to host Dance Ireland 30th Anniversary podcast with dance legends Fiona Quilligan & Joanna Banks in Dance Ireland Kitchen, no less! Listen back here #dance #dancehistory #diggeslane #ballet #danceclass #Ireland @artscouncilireland...
Happy would-be 112th birthday Lucia Joyce!
My latest BAI-funded feature radio documentary about Lucia Joyce broadcast on RTE Lyric FM during the week of her July 26th birthday. She would have been turning 112 years old, high time to reclaim the much-misunderstood dancer as an artist in her own right,...
“Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity” Trieste Bloomsday premiere; Documentary for broadcast on RTE Lyric FM
It has been a busy couple of months, and I'm delighted that my short dance film "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" made its world premiere at Bloomsday Trieste on Sunday June 16th in Museo Revoltella at 6pm - an auspicious start indeed, in the city of Lucia's birth! Also my...
Lucia Joyce Short Film & Radio Project underway…
Thanks to 44 fabulous supporter/funders/believers of our crowdfunding campaign, "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity", short film starring Evanna Lynch as Lucia, choreographed by Megan Kennedy of Junk Ensemble, with costume by Claire Garvey, photography by Mella Travers, and...
The Full Seanchai: Transcript of Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son, including Pat Laffan channelling Croaker’s “The Widow’s Son”
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...