Deirdre’s Diary
Behind the scenes on Finné Finalé Episode on “Limerick’s own Billy Elliot” Roy Galvin
The TG4 Finné episode I directed for TUA films about “Limerick’s own Billy Elliot” Roy Galvin will be broadcast on TG4 on Wednesday March 9th, at 9.30pm, and be available to view thereafter on TG4 Player. The programme charts Roy’s childhood in Limerick city centre...
TG4 Finné Episode on “Limerick’s own Billy Elliot” coming soon!
I was delighted to get the opportunity to direct an episode of the great TG4 series "Finné", exploring the seismic social change in Ireland over the last 50 years, as embodied in compelling Irish people. With the help of a great team at Tua Productions, my episode is...
“Dream, Comfort, and Memory to Spare” in Belfield Literary Review
I'm delighted to be included in the first issue of this stylish new journal "New Transatlantic Dialogues", edited by Gregory Betts and Lucy Collins, designed by Simon O'Connor of MoLI, from where it can be purchased.
Fabulous BBC Gaeilge Animation of “An Cuimhin Leat Damhsa”/ “Do you Remember Dance?”
I was really thrilled to see this fabulous animation of my radio essay "An Cuimhín Leat Damhsa?", now available to all, subtitled in English, on BBC Gaeilge! As a pandemic project, i undertook to brush up on my Irish by sitting Ardteist Gaeilge Ardleibhéal/ Honours...
Bon voyage to 1920s Paris with “Calico” by Michael Hastings at the Bloomsday Festival June 11 – 30
I'm happy to have produced, directed, and edited Michael Hastings' 2004 RSC-commissioned play "Calico" about Lucia Joyce with such a wonderful cast for Bloomsday Festival 2021: James Joyce: Phelim Drew Nora: Paula Greevy-Lee Lucia: Evanna Lynch Giorgio: Ross Gaynor...
“An Cuimhín Leat Damhsa?” my Irish language début on BBC Radio Ulster’s “Blas”
I was delighted to make my début in the Irish language on BBC Ulster show 'Blas' last week! Did I mention that the pandemic has me doing honours Irish for the Leaving Certificate at Crumlin College of Further Education, and that I have been reborn as Deirdre Ní...
Know your 5km: Surrender on Grand Canal Street
Well it looks like we are destined to remain within our own 5km for quite a while longer. So keeping this in mind, I decided to celebrate my lovely neighbours and our little known local lore by sharing my BAI-funded documentary "Surrender on Grand Canal Street',...
Rejkavik Feminist Film Festival – a cool way to kick off 2021
Happy 2021! Here's to the scientific magic of the vaccine, and being able to meet and brush up off of each other again! I'm delighted that "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity"'s first twirl in the new year will be at Rejkavik Feminist Film Festival, January 14 - 17th. Alas...
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...