Deirdre’s Diary
“In the Studio with Danny Osborne” is live via QR code at Oscar Wilde Statue 🙂
I am delighted to see that my short documentary "In the Studio with Danny Osborne" about the making of his Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue is now live via QR code at the statue on Merrion Square! You can also catch it here: In the Studio with Danny Osborne from Deirdre...
PHOTOIRELAND Festival Screenings of “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (July 14 – 17).
“Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” is a photo-documentary produced, written, and directed by Deirdre Mulrooney, inspired by award winning photographer Dragana Jurišić's RHA & Belfast Exposed exhibition “YU – The Lost Country”, which follows in the...
My doco Damhsa na hEigeandala/ Dance Emergency is on TG4 again tonight!
TG4 SPLANC ARTS DOCUMENTARY (funded by TG4 & ARTS COUNCIL) 9.30pm, TG4, Wednesday July 8th, 2015 Against the backdrop of seldom-seen 1940’s bohemian Dublin, and suspicions of Nazi espionage, we recount an Irish-German artist’s forgotten struggle to bring Modern...
“Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West) ” – the Photo-Documentary that dictated its own Intermission…
I am delighted to report that Saturday's Irish Premiere of "Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)", at Dublin's Origin Gallery on Fitzwilliam Street Upper was a great success. But I can't honestly say that it went off without a hitch. In fact, this pushy...
Buying “Black-Outs” on Summer Solstice Weekend
I am loving the stretch in the evenings. They are almost at their outermost stretch. Which is why it felt strange today to be buying "blackouts" at Guiney's of Talbot street, to block out this gorgeous and too shortlived evening light! But I have to. The reason? ...
“Come Dance with Me” at the Art Park
Celebrating our overlooked dance legacy, I co-curated this projection "Come Dance with Me" at the Art Park - Ireland's largest outdoor screen, at Spencer Dock, behind Conference Centre Dublin - on the occasion of Liz Roche Company's "Bastard Amber", the first ever...
Arts Tonight (RTE) contributions on Bastard Amber, WB Yeats & Ninette De Valois at the Abbey Theatre
I was on Arts Tonight with Vincent Woods on Monday evening, interviewing choreographer Liz Roche, and composer Ray Harman (during their rehearsals at Dance House), about their contributions to "Bastard Amber" at the Abbey Theatre as part of the imminent Dublin Dance...
Read moreThis is the reason mysterious places like Dun Aengus are where they are, I reckon. No surprise then that the Buddhist Meditation centre Dzogchen Beara, which was at the top of my “to check out” list was also nearby, drawn no doubt towards the spectacular, almost abstract, view of sky and sea.
Out There Productions and the Beara-ble Lightness of Being in West Cork
It is raining cats and dogs in Dublin as I write this. A dirty day to beat all other dirty days. It now seems like a dream that I was in a pocket of sunshine out on the remote Beara Peninsula, West Cork, a week ago with Out There Productions. Paradoxically, it was...
Erina Brady features in Tanz Magazin
My contributor copy of Tanz Magazin just arrived in the post! I'm thrilled to see Erina Brady getting (long overdue) recognition for her overlooked contribution to Irish cultural history in this month's edition...
Journey to YU and the Belgrade-Irish Festival 2015 🙂
I was honoured to be invited to present work at this year’s Belgrade-Irish Festival by Dubliner Jas Kaminski, director of the festival which is in its 3rd year. I had approached Jas to let him know about my photo-documentary project “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of...