Deirdre’s Diary
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...
HNY: End of year round-up & glance ahead to 2018…
Happy New Year! As 2018 dawns, complete with its day one Wolf Super Moon to kick us into its oncoming action, I am just going to take a moment to recap on the year that was. First of all, it was an extremely tough year for me and my family with the loss of my dear...
Marking WBY’s 100th wedding anniversary, “Georgie’s Vision” features at International Yeats Society Conference 2017, in NYC
I recently made an audio-visual version of my BAI-funded radio documentary "Georgie's Vision", (first broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, September 30th, 2016), which premiered last weekend at the 2017 International Yeats Society Conference in NYC, to mark the centenary...
Culture Night: Dance Emergency in the Military Archive at Cathal Brugha Barracks
I was delighted that after giving a talk entitled "Unearthing Herstory at Cathal Brugha Barracks" on International Women's Day (March 8th) artist in residence Margaret Fitzgibbon invited me back to show my documentary "Dance Emergency", about Irish-German Modern Dance...
My IMMA Summer Party Talk; The “True North” Canada Day Screening
Celebrate Canada 150 on Canada Day with the premiere of “TRUE NORTH” at The Dark Room 🙂
Thanks to 30 fabulous supporters of our crowd-funding campaign on www.FUNDIT.ie, we are 173% funded, and can go ahead to celebrate Canada 150 with: TRUE NORTH @ THE DARK ROOM, CANADA DAY, July 1st 2017 Celebrating 150 years of Canada this Canada Day, July 1st, 2017,...
Crowd-funder! Get on board for “Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8”
We have launched a short crowd-funder to make "TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney's Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8" to celebrate Canada 150 next month at The Dark Room (www.darkroom.ie)! Please jump on board and throw in a tenner to our campaign by clicking here:...
Hitch a free ride with me to Yugoslavia at Pearse Street Library on May 24th at 6.30pm!
Hitch a free ride with me to former Yugoslavia! After its premiere at the Belgrade-Irish Festival, and subsequent screenings at Photoireland Festival, Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival, and the Sarajevo-Irish Festival Bealtaine Festival at Pearse Street...
CANADIAN PREMIERE! Dance Emergency at Irish Film Festival, Ottawa, April 2nd, 2017
I'm delighted that my TG4 documentary Damhsa na hEigeandala/ Dance Emergency is making its CANADIAN PREMIERE at the Irish Film Festival, Ottawa, at 2pm on Sunday April 2nd! It will be followed by a skype interview with yours truly. Here is a...
Surrender on Grand Canal Street: Saint Patrick’s Day Premiere on Newstalk 106 – 108 FM!
Set around the narrator’s overlooked inner city Dublin windowsill, on which, according to local lore Eamon De Valera allegedly signed his 1916 surrender, this documentary rescues this lost anti-heroic moment in what has transformed from erstwhile Poor Law Dispensary...