Deirdre’s Diary
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...
Mother Tongue: Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai & Son
Following on from live events and an extended exhibition “Mother Tongue” at Kilkee’s Cultúrlann Sweeney (info and pix below), bringing my discoveries back to the community where it came from, my related Documentary “Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son” premiered on...
“Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son” on Newstalk December 16
Following on from great live events and an extended exhibition "Mother Tongue" at Kilkee's Culturlann Sweeney (info and pix below), bringing my discoveries back to the community where it came from my related Documentary “Coosheen’s...
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:...