Deirdre’s Diary
Recording ‘Caoineadh Chuaisin’ with Rossa O Snodaigh for ‘Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai & Son’
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 can see there was lots...
Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai & 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...
Work-in-Progress: Mother Tongue
Listen back to the RTE Sunday Miscellany Live podcast, featuring my story "True North" in a great line-up of contributors also featuring some of Ireland's most outstandng musicians (including a new composition by Martin Tourish called "True North"!) here:...
Sat Nam/ True North at Collins Barracks; Mother Tongue at Cathal Brugha Barracks
September is already upon us! I've been busy getting the ball rolling on my new BAI-funded radio documentary, "Clare's Forgotten Seanchai and Son" for Newstalk. I began by recording the mighty Pat Laffan as the Seanchai, Padraig (Croaker) O Briain, telling one of...
Lucia Joyce – Dancer, Ah Sweet Dancer at NLI on Lucia’s 111th Birthday
It was great to get the opportunity to speak on "Lucia Joyce - Dancer, Ah Sweet Dancer" on what would have been her 111th birthday at the National Library of Ireland. Thanks to all who turned out to mark this occasion. Though I didn't count the number of people...
The Fantastic Phenomenon of Live Tweet Responses to Lucia Joyce at Trieste Joyce School 2018
Gathering my thoughts, and processing the experience that was the Trieste Joyce School 2018, which I participated in over the final week of June in the beautiful, kaleidescopic city of James Joyce's exile, and Lucia Joyce's birth, the first thing I want to do is to...
Speaking about Lucia Joyce, Dancer, on BBC Front Row
In anticipation of Bloomsday and the Trieste Joyce School, where I am presenting a lecture entitled "Lucia Joyce, Dancer: Method in her 'Madness'?", I was delighted to speak about this extraordinary and important, but alas overlooked Irish Modern Dancer on BBC Front...
My Visiting Researcher Report, UL’s Centre for Irish-German Studies
To sum up my residency at UL's Centre for Irish-German Studies as Visiting Researcher this term, I contributed the following report to the Centre's May 2018 newsletter, thanks to all who made this possible, especially to UL's Dr. Gisela Holfter: Packed room at...
“Introducing Erin O’Brady” at University of Limerick
There will be a free public screening of my TG4 Splanc film Dance Emergency, followed by a public talk “Introducing Erin O’Brady”, in Room B1005 in UL’s Main Building on Thursday April 19th at 3pm. My talk afterwards should be about half an hour with plenty of...
Sat Nam: True North. Belgrade-Irish Festival Screening on March 14th.
Sat Nam: True North Sat Nam is Sanskrit for “True Name”. My Dad was allergic to the notion of being recorded or interviewed talking about his life up in North Ontario, where, along with my Mum, he ran the local schools in an important time capsule of transition...