Deirdre Mulrooney

Saint Lucia's Day Event
2022-12-13 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | James Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1, North Great George's Street, Dublin, Ireland
“Come and See Me, I’m a Crossword Puzzle” rehearsal with Kathleen Warner Yeates and Lucia Kickham, November 4th, 2022
In “Come and See Me, I’m a Crossword Puzzle” we mark the 40th anniversary of Lucia Joyce’s December 1982 death on the eve of her Saint’s day, in Northampton, England. In the Julian calendar, Saint Lucia’s day coincided with the Winter Solstice. Join our Saint Lucia’s Day procession celebrating light and love in the dark heart of winter as, anchored by verbatim text, we highlight Lucia’s overlooked creativity, and artistic achievements. Add your candle to the annual Joyce family Saint Lucia’s Day ritual, in honour of our misunderstood artistic ancestor, Lucia Anna Joyce. Through dance, discussion, theatre and exhibition, Deirdre Mulrooney has created a beautiful evening to celebrate Lucia Joyce with performances by dancer Lucia Kickham and actors Kathleen Warner Yeates, Darina Gallagher, and the voice of David Herlihy.
The event is part supported by an Arts Council Agility Award.
Thanks to Aoife Carey, Kathleen Warner Yeates, Darina Gallagher and the team at the James Joyce Centre, Philip Sicker, Fritz Senn, Alison Fraser of University at Buffalo Special Collections, Caitríona Yeats, National Library of Ireland, University of Tulsa, Conor Linehan, Megan Kennedy, Evanna Lynch, Claire Garvey, and Seán Sweeney.
Date: December 13 2022
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Free via eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/come-and-see-me-im-a-crossword-puzzle-tickets-478018615547
Supported by an Arts Council Agility Award, and the James Joyce Centre.

"Ulysses in the World" Symposium at Georgetown University
2022-09-10 | Georgetown University, Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
I am delighted to be invited to contribute to a panel discussion on James Joyce and Dance alongside Dr. Michelle Clayton of Browne University, and choreographer Liz Roche, after the world premiere of Liz’s dance production “Yes and Yes”, inspired by Ulysses at Solas Nua, Washington DC, on September 9th. This day long symposium features an impressive line-up of the world’s top Joyceans, and I am looking forward to the entire day’s discussions, as well as exploring Washington DC, where I have not been since I was 12 years old. We stopped over on a family road trip from Toronto to Disneyland, Florida, fadó fadó, and have some Super 8 film footage of us outside the Whitehouse gates, which I may root out and share with you!
Joyce and Dance! On top of my ongoing research into and reclamation of Lucia Joyce’s dance career, after reading Ulysses with #Ulysses80, I am really looking forward to delving further into this topic.

Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY at Bloomsday Film Festival 2022
2022-06-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Irish FIlm Institute, Eustace Street, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
“Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY” , starring Evanna Lynch will feature in Bloomsday Film Festival 2022 in “Brief Encounters: New Joycean Shorts” at the Irish Film Institute on June 11th at 4pm.

Virtual Bookclub #Ulyssesin80 to read Ulysses in 80 days! All aboard!
2022-06-01 - 2022-08-19 | Dublin
I’m delighted to be on the steering group of Cliona O’Farrelly’s wonderful virtual bookclub, as we set out on an epic 80 day odyssey from June 1st, to read Ulysses all together at a pace of approximately 6 pages per day up to August 19th! All aboard! All welcome!
Now or never!
More info here www.ulysses80.ie
Bigí linn!

HOW?
ALL TOGETHER EVERY DAY
https://ulysses80.ie/how

At 7am on each day of the project, starting on June 1st, a message will be posted on our website, emailed, FaceBooked and Tweeted from the #Ulysses80 BookClub giving the first few words and the last few words of the section to be read that day, together with the line numbers (from the Gutenberg Press edition). The relevant page numbers of several printed editions will be posted on our website. People will be invited to contribute their thoughts, comments and insights about the day’s section using the hashtag #Ulysses80 to curate the conversations. If we start Episode 1, Telemachus, at the Sandycove Martello Tower on June 1st, then, by BloomsDay on June 16th we’ll be towards the middle of Episode 8 Lestrygonians and ‘in’ Davy Byrne’s Pub in time for the famous lunch of a Gorgonzola sandwich with a glass of Burgundy. On that day, everyone in the #Ulysses80 Book Club across the globe will be invited to raise a glass together to celebrate reaching the quarterway mark, as we head in towards the more challenging Episodes of the book. Having a whole community of fellow readers regularly chipping in their comments and observations will surely help us all through the more obtuse and (dare it be said?!) boring sections.

The last Episode, [number 18, ‘Penelope’], Molly’s wonderful 8 sentence soliloquy, will take about 10 days in August when many of us will be on holidays, or at least taking things a bit easier. Day 80, the last day of the journey when we can all say Yes Yes Yes with great relief and celebration, falls on August 19th the date of publication of the real letter on foot and mouth by Joyce’s friend Blackwood Price alluded to in Chapter 2, Nestor. In Ulysses, everything is connected and disconnected….

TG4 Finné Episode on Roy Galvin March 9th, at 9.30pm
2022-03-09 21:30 - 22:30 | Your Television Screen
The TG4 Finné episode I directed 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 where the streets were his playground, and what it was like for him growing up gay when that phenomenon supposedly didn’t exist in Limerick at the time. We follow Roy’s blossoming as an artist, his move up to the capital to be a professional musician with Jury’s Irish Cabaret and the world that opened up to him in Dublin – disco dancing at Flikkers nightclub, decriminalisation, the discovery of ballet and his own transformation into Ireland’s first homegrown Irish ballet dancer, all the way through to the recent advent marriage equality – and his own marriage. Embodying the incredible social change in Ireland over the last 50 years, Roy dances us through his life and times, from disco to ballet to Sean Nós, interspersed with era defining archive from David Norris, and more. There is even some knitting.
I was delighted to work with the great team at TUA films on this project – producer Aisling Ní Fhlaithearta (who valiantly went beyond the call of duty when she jumped in to Roy’s adult ballet class at Dance Limerick with me); DOP Jass Foley; additional camera Eoin Kelly-Smith; Ailbhe Ní Donnachadh; editor Conall de Cléir, and of course series producer supremo Paddy Hayes. Coming from Indie world, it was a pleasure to have the backup and support of such a talented professional team. What a treat.
I had been admiring Finné on TG4 for a long time, and it is a dream come true to get the opportunity not only to direct an episode, but also for it to be the grand finale of 4 series of this epic award-winning series on social change in Ireland over the last 50 years.
I hope you enjoy the finished product and would love to hear your thoughts on the programme if it inspires any.
Bigí linn!
Roy Galvin and the sadly recently deceased Katherine Lewis, in training with Myrtle Lambkin fadó
Roy in BAC

UCD Where Research meets Creativity Seminar
2021-11-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Dublin
I’m looking forward to sharing my ongoing experiences of where research meets creativity in my work with UCD undergraduate students .

TRUE NORTH screening and talk at Memorial University, Newfoundland
2021-11-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Dublin
I am looking forward to sharing my short documentary film “TRUE NORTH Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8” as part of Dr. Shoshannah Ganz’s fascinating Grenfell English Film and Lecture Series at Memorial University, Newfoundland on November 3rd. I’m honoured to be invited to participate in such a fascinating lineup and exploration of Canadian and indigenous identity, and looking forward to the conversation
.

"Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY" at Light Moves Festival of Screendance
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 | Dance Limerick, St. John's Square, Limerick, Ireland
“Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY” will feature in the 6th edition of international festival of dance on film “Light Moves” in Limerick city, September 23 – 26, 2021. We are part of the opening programme “Short Films Irish Focus” on Thursday September 23rd at Dance Limerick from 5 to 6pm – admission free!
Light Moves is curated by Jürgen Simpson and Mary Wycherley and produced by Dance Limerick, in partnership with DMARC (Digital Media and Arts Research Centre) at University of Limerick. The festival is supported by the Arts Council and presented in association with Limerick City and County Council.

Bloomsday Festival Irish Premiere of "Calico" by Michael Hastings
2021-06-11 - 2021-06-16 | Bloomsday Festival, North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
I am delighted to be presenting the Irish premiere of “Calico” by Michael Hastings, in a continuation of my exploration of Lucia Joyce with actress Evanna Lynch. Evanna stars as Lucia; Aidan Moriarty as Samuel Beckett; Phelim Drew as James Joyce; Paula Greevy-Lee as Nora; Ross Gaynor as Giorgio; Aisling O’Mara as Helen; and Jack Walsh as Tom MacGreevy. What a cast!

This Bloomsday Festival 2021 Online Reading is kihdly supported by the James Joyce Centre, with About Face Theatre Company helping out on the technical end.
Currently in the can and being edited!

TRUE NORTH & my mother at 'Borders & Beyond' Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland Conference 2021
2021-05-13 - 2021-05-14 | Dublin
I’m looking forward to sharing “TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8”, at ‘Borders and Beyond’, the 20th Biennial Conference of Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland 2021, at Queen’s University Belfast at 1.20pm on Thursday May 13th, followed by a Q & A with myself and my mother, who will participate from Toronto.
Here is a link to the fascinating full programme: https://fliphtml5.com/kicov/tkaw
& you can register for the conference until May 11th here: http://canadianstudiesireland.com/QUBconference.html
Free and All Welcome!
True North: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8
Abstract: “TRUE NORTH” offers a unique representation of Irish-Canadian experience via Paud Mulrooney’s never-seen Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves in the 70s and 80s, with his young family, (including the film-maker). Ogoki Post has come into international focus thanks to Gord Downie, lead singer of top Canadian band Tragically Hip’s latest album ‘Secret Path’, the proceeds of which go to truth and reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations. Paud Mulrooney, a school teacher from Limerick, Ireland, was on this path decades ago, when he brought his wife and family to live with the Ojibway and Cree people, and ran the local schools there at a critical period of transition from the Residential school system to more enlightened native community-run schools, developing a new curriculum suited to native traditions and lifestyle. ‘True North’ reveals what drew Paud Mulrooney there – from his days in Trinity College Dublin to an encounter with Vietnam War Draft Dodgers who were forming a film co-op when he arrived to Toronto in the 1960s – bathed in the gorgeous hues of his original dreamy Super 8 reels and slow photography. ‘TRUE NORTH’ was nominated for best documentary at Richard Harris International Festival 2019; was selected for the Belgrade-Irish Festival 2018; and Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart shared the film with her Canadian Studies class when she held the Craig Dobbin Chair for Canadian Studies in 2018.

Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY at the 1st Jim Sheridan Short Film Festival, Jan 22 - 24 '21
2021-01-22 - 2021-01-24 | Dublin
We are absolutely delighted that Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY has been selected for
the 1st Jim Sheridan Short Film Competiton! Hooray!
Check it out online from January 22nd to 24th at https://www.dublinarabicfilmfestival.com/jim-sheridan-short-film-competition.html

Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY at Rejkavik Feminist Film Festival January 14 - 17 2021
2021-01-14 - 2021-01-17 | Dublin
Delighted to start 2021 with a screening of “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity” in Rejkavik at RVK Feminist Film Festival!
It will be available to view throughout the festival in the “SISTER” Award category!
Thanks to our Icelandic sisters!
I only wish we could be there in person!
More info to follow soon..

'Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity' selected for MexIndex 2020 "Displacements" by Richard Ashrowan
2020-12-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Dublin
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.

Crowdfunding Webinar
2020-12-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Dublin
I’m looking forward to discussing my wonderful crowdfunding experiences via www.fundit.ie, with whom I have successfully funded several film projects, including, most recently “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity”.
More details to follow soon.

Where Research Meets Creativity Webinar
2020-11-20 10:00 - 23:30 | Dublin
I’m looking forward to sharing my experiences of where research meets creativity in my work with UCD undergraduate students.

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity at 14th Waterford Film Festival
2020-11-20 - 2020-11-22 | Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland
We are delighted that Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity will feature as part of the 14th Waterford Film Festival,
November 20th – 22nd 2020. For more info, and to book, click here.

Sweet Dancers: An illustrated Talk on Irish Dance. Princeton University
2020-09-18 16:30 - 18:00 | James Stewart Film Theatre, Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542 United States, Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, New Jersey, United States
Please join me for “Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance” via zoom on September 18th. Free and all welcome!

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity makes Welsh debut at IFF Film Festival, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020-08-12 19:00 - 20:30 | elysium 210 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1PE, elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales, SA1 1PE, United Kingdom
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity will feature in the elysium International Film Festival Week
on Wednesday August 12th at 7pm.

The festival runs from Weds 12th to Sat 15th August, with four installaments premiering on Elysium Gallery Y
ouTube channel and social media outlets at 7pm UK time. The running order is:

Weds 12th:
Lily Dean, Shir Handelsman, Alexander Iasenko, Deirdre Mulrooney, Behnaz
Fahari

Thurs 13th:#
Tracy Satchwill, Svetlana Ochkovskaya, RV & Oliver Tida Tida, Izaak
Brandt, Diamond Frances, Finn Rabbitt Dove

Fri 14th:
Emily Peacock, Cointeen Trash, Gisela Ferreira, Nirit Rechavi, Zhang
Ruiqi, Kieron Da Silva Beckerton

Sat 15th:
Abel Korinsky, Julia Keenan, Sean Smuda, Javier Velazquez, Mitja Zupanc,
Jack Thomson

Elysium gallery will be reopening from Aug 5th so the films will also be played on a show reel
at some point during the Film week.

Think ND Kylemore Book Club: Understanding the Body with WB Yeats and James Joyce
2020-08-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Dublin
In connection with “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity”, which will be available to view for 7 days as part of the series, Deirdre and Evanna Lynch will be participating in ThinkND Kylemore Book Club series “Understanding the Body with WB Yeats and James Joyce”, hosted by the great Declan Kiberd on Wednesday August 5th at 6pm (Irish time). Our session is titled “Body and Mind”.
“In this segment, Professor Declan Kiberd will situate the series within our current collective experience of the coronavirus pandemic as daily attention is drawn to the vulnerability of our bodies. Introducing readers to two major Irish authors, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, Kiberd will explain how their work invites readers to interrogate the body and its relationship to the mind, to pain, to history, and to creative expression.”

Lucia Joyce Bloomsday 2020 Broadcasts
2020-06-14 - 2020-06-16 | Dublin
RTE Lyric FM will re-broadcast my BAI-funded feature radio documentary on Lucia Joyce to tie in with Bloomsday 2020, on Sunday June 14th at 6pm. This will tie in with further virtual events to be announced on Bloomsday itself, June 16th. Watch this space! In the meantime, here is the information on the radio documentary:

Reassessing the artistic significance and legacy of Lucia Joyce as an artist in her own right, with Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter) as Lucia Joyce and a cast featuring Olwen Fouéré, Bairbre Ni Chaoimh, Michael James Ford and Elliot Moriarty.
Aligning Lucia’s promising modern dance career at the heart of 1920s Parisian avant-garde with Yeats’ & de Valois’ Abbey Theatre Ballets, we ask, what if the overlooked daughter of the famous writer had been allowed to fulfill her promise?
Interviewees: Carol Loeb Shloss (Lucia Joyce, To Dance in the Wake); Simon O’Connor director of www.MoLI.ie; Olwen Fouéré creator of Riverrun; David Norris & Robert Nicholson.
Producer/Presenter : Deirdre Mulrooney
A Deirdre Mulrooney Production for RTE lyric fm, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Original score: Conor Linehan
Sound Supervision: Neil Kavanagh
For more info click here: https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/0711/1061493-reclaiming-lucia-joyce-the-lyric-feature/
Evanna Lynch’s Instagram Post from rehearsals at O’Connell House, Notre Dame Global Gateway Dublin

Online Premiere of Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity at Bloomsday Festival June 11 - 16
2020-06-11 - 2020-06-16 | Bloomsday Festival, North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
We are delighted that our short dance film “Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity” is making its online premiere as part of the first ever online Bloomsday Festival, from June 11th to 16th. The film stars Evanna Lynch (best known as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter), channeling Lucia Joyce as captured by photographer Berenice Abbott at the height of her dancing prowess in 1920s Paris. Choreography is by Megan Kennedy of Junk Ensemble; Costume by Claire Garvey; Original score by Conor Linehan; Shot by Brian O’Leary; Edited by Aoife Carey; Stills photography by Mella Travers. Produced, directed, and concept by Deirdre Mulrooney.
The film premiered at Bloomsday Trieste 2019, followed by a special screening at Museum of Literature of Ireland; Kerry International Film Festival; and Richard Harris International Film Festival, where Evanna Lynch was nominated for best actor in a female role.
For more info on the online streaming of the film please go to Bloomsday Festval here.
Evanna Lynch’s Instagram Post from rehearsals at Notre Dame Global Gateway, O’Connell House, Merrion Square, Dublin
Rehearsing at Notre Dame Global Gateway, O’Connell House.

UCD Festival @ Home/ Coosheen's Forgotten Seanchai and Son
2020-05-22 - 2020-05-24 | Dublin
UCD Festival, which is virtual this year due to Covid 19, will feature my BAI-funded radio documentary which was broadcast on Newstalk, “Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son”, in association with UCD’s National Folklore Collection.
Deirdre Mulrooney unearths the vernacular magic of forgotten Irish language village Coosheen, County Clare and its unsung storytellers – a special place which despite being on the windswept “Wild Atlantic Way” today doesn’t even register on Google maps.
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 hill, descending into the mighty Atlantic towards infinity, this modest boreen leads to what not so long ago was a thriving Irish language village of fisher folk, kelp collectors, and an award-winning storyteller with connections to Walt Disney.
Preferring anonymity, “Coosheen”, with its magnificent Atlantic vista North towards the Aran Islands, boasts no sign at all, let alone the Iar Ghaeltacht sign to which it is entitled, trumpeting its heritage on the “Wild Atlantic Way”. Join producer Deirdre Mulrooney who was lucky enough to spend her childhood summers in this remote spot, in her BAI-funded feature radio documentary “Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son”, as she discovers a 1950 National Folklore Collection recording of the forgotten Oireachtas winning Seanchai even they never knew about – Padraig “Croaker” Ó Briain – who was born in 1873 and lived on the site where her parents built a traditional cottage in the 1980s.
Enlisting the help of young Irish scholar Ailbe Van der Heide, Professor Angela Bourke (Voices Underfoot; The Burning of Bridgie Cleary; Maeve Brennan: Homeless at the New Yorker) and actor Pat Laffan (Father Ted; The Snapper; Barry Lyndon; The Queen; Abbey Theatre Company), together they decipher and unravel the magic of Croaker’s idiosyncratic and site-specific, yet universal fairy tales.
Charting the transition from Clare Irish speaking Seanchai father to English language poet and memoirist son Paddy “The Poet” O’Brien (1920 – 1977), Aonghus Óg McNally (whose own grandfather Ray McNally, creator of Hugh in Brian Friel’s 1980 play ‘Translations’, had a house in Coosheen village), sings the poet’s Coosheen memoir and witty lyrics back to life. Val Geary, last indigenous child in Coosheen village, and Anne Daly, great-grand-daughter of the Seanchai, reminisce on Paddy “The Poet” O’Brien’s mischievous and unforgettable character, and his drive to immortalise his beloved, but disappearing Coosheen village in verse; while Margaret Kelleher, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD (The Maamtrasna Murders), puts this intimate family story into the wider context of seismic language shift in Ireland.
Premiering “Caoineadh Chuaisin”, a haunting, original score by Rossa Ó Snodaigh of Kila, Irish language activist, author of several books ás gaeilge, and convenor of ‘Mindfield: An Puball Gaeilge’ at the Electric Picnic.
Featuring:
Anne Daly, great-grand-daughter of Padraig “Croaker” Ó Briain, fisherman and forgotten Seanchai of Coosheen
Val Geary, last indigenous child of Coosheen Village
Professor Angela Bourke, Author of “Voices Underfoot”, Famine Folio; The Burning of Bridgie Cleary; Maeve Brennan: Homeless at the New Yorker
Margaret Kelleher, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature & Drama at UCD, Author of The Maamtrasna Murders (UCD Press: 2018).
Aonghus Óg McNally (whose grandfather Ray McNally had a house in Coosheen), performs song/poems and Coosheen Memoir by Paddy “The Poet” O’Brien
Pat Laffan (Barry Lyndon; Father Ted; The Snapper; The Queen; Abbey Theatre Company) as Padraig “Croaker” Ó Briain
1950 Clare Irish recording of Croaker Ó Briain by National Folklore Commission, translated by Ailbe Van der Heide (UCD)
1950 recording of Pádraig Ó Briain by Tadhg Ó Murchadha courtesy of National Folklore Collection UCD
Original score by Rossa Ó Snodaigh of Kila (Irish language activist, author of several books in Irish)
CREDITS:
Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son was produced and presented by Deirdre Mulrooney. Sound Supervision and Mixing by Neil Kavanagh.
More info to follow!
Recording Croaker’s version of The Widow’s Son, translated to English by Ailbe van der Heide and adapted by DM
Pat Laffan in his living room recording Croaker’s version of The Widow’s Son

"Georgie's Vision" features in Herstory Event at National Library of Ireland
2020-02-01 13:00 | National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
George Yeats by John Butler Yeats
I’ll be speaking about George Yeats, and showing my documentary “Georgie’s Vision” (funded by BAI Sound & Vision; broadcast originally as a radio documentary on RTE Lyric FM), as part of this event highlighting some of the extraordinary women in the life of WB Yeats, including Lilly, Lolly, and Anne Yeats. I’ll be in esteemed company with Elaine Sisson (IADT) and Lucy Collins (UCD).

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity @ Richard Harris International Film Festival
2019-10-27 10:30 - 2019-11-02 12:00 | The Commercial, 46 - 47 Catherine Street, Limerick, Ireland
NAT / INTL SHORTS BLOCK (9) MOVING ON..

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ADMISSION €5
Barry Wilson – Persuasions to Enjoy directed by Shane Serrano
To the Boats directed by Michael Driscoll
Swipe at First Sight directed by Kevin de la Isla O’Neill & Stephen Crilly
AFLOAT directed by Ronan Dempsey
Walls of Limerick directed by Arturo Bandinelli
Her Name is… directed by Claire Byrne & Lydia McGuinness
First Disco directed by Helen O’Reilly
Procession directed by Jeda De Brí
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity directed by Deirdre Mulrooney
Everything Looks Better in the Sunshine directed by Jonathan Farrelly & Mark Smyth

TRUE NORTH @ Richard Harris International Film Festival
2019-10-25 15:00 - 16:30 | Belltable, 69 O'Connell Street, Limerick, Ireland
TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8”, is a half-hour film by Deirdre Mulrooney offering a rare window into the life of Native Canadians via an Irish Family who were fortunate enough to share their path in the 70s & 80s.
“TRUE NORTH” offers a unique representation of Irish-Canadian experience via Paud Mulrooney’s never-seen Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves in the 70s and 80s, with his young family, (including the film-maker). Ogoki Post has come into international focus thanks to Gord Downie, lead singer of top Canadian band Tragically Hip’s latest album ‘Secret Path’, the proceeds of which go to truth and reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations. Paud Mulrooney, a school teacher from Limerick, was on this path decades ago, when he brought his wife and family to live with the Ojibway and Cree people, and ran the local schools there at a critical period of transition from the Residential school system to more enlightened native community-run schools, developing a new curriculum suited to native traditions and lifestyle. ‘True North’ reveals what drew Paud Mulrooney there – from his days in Trinity College Dublin to an encounter with Vietnam War Draft Dodgers who were forming a film co-op when he arrived to Toronto in the 1960s – bathed in the gorgeous hues of his original dreamy Super 8 reels and slow photography.
For more info on Gord Downie’s “Secret Path” see www.secretpath.ca
The For the Cause block will feature 6 Nat/Intl Shorts Films:
The Marksman
Directed by Conor Healy
Runtime: 1 minute, 10 seconds
An army sniper contemplates the lives of those he is tasked with eliminating.

Ashmina
Directed by Dekel Berenson
Runtime: 15 minutes
In an impoverished country, rife with contradiction, a young girl is torn between her obligation to her family and the influence of foreign visitors.

The Boy Who Wanted to Fly
Directed by Jorge Muriel
Runtime: 20 minutes
In the Madrid of the 80s, Ivan, a five-year-old boy, is confronted with the birth of a new brother. His sister is dad´s favorite, the newborn is mom’s favorite. Which place does he take in this new situation? What if He could fly and escape?

Moth
Directed by Allyn Quigley
Runtime: 14 minutes
A taxi driver returns to work after the death of his daughter, only to come across the young boy who may be responsible

True North: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8
Directed by Deirdre Mulrooney
Runtime: 27 minutes, 30 seconds
This half-hour film offers a rare window into the life of Native Canadians via an Irish Family who were fortunate enough to share their path in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Third King
Directed by Chistoph Oliver Strunck
Runtime: 25 minutes
The coldest German winter of World War II. African-American private Jamar gets lost behind the enemy frontline. When he takes shelter in a cabin deep in the forest he struggles in an uncertain path with fateful encounters for heading home again.

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity @ MoLI
2019-10-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Museum of Literature Ireland, UCD Newman House, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Premiere of ‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’ at the Museum of Literature Ireland. In this special one-off event, after the screening Simon O’Connor with host an Artist Talk about Lucia Joyce and the making of the film featuring choreographer Megan Kennedy, choreographer Claire Garvey, stills photographer Mella Travers, composer Conor Linehan and, of course, the film’s producer and director, Deirdre Mulrooney.

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity @ Kerry International Film Festival
2019-10-20 16:00 - 18:00 | St. Mary’s Church of the Sloes, Kenmare Place, Killarney, St. Mary's Church of the Sloes, Kenmare Place, Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland
Irish Premiere: Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity
Sunday October 20th 4pm – 6pm at St. Mary’s Church of the Sloes, Kenmare Place, Killarney

Shorts – New Narratives + Q&A/Intro

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Teen + / 105 min (plus Q&A/Intro)
Each of these exciting Irish and International short films plays with narrative structures. This is a unique mix of spoken word, music, dance or even silent films that experiment with new and fresh narrative progression. Each film stands alone, so expect the unexpected.
ARTHUR KING – CHANGING LANDSCAPES
Director: Brian Canning, Sam Johnson / Producer: Sam Johnson, Lisa Klipsic
Los Angeles based art collective Arthur King travels to rural Iowa to gather audio and visual samples from a small family farm in order to reuse them creatively in a large-scale, improvisational visual art and music performance within the same setting.
Walls of Limerick
Director: Arturo Bandinelli / Producer: Kat and Dawg Productions
Walls of Limerick is a vertical dance film that explores the psychological effects that harsh political borders have on people.
PLACES
Director & Producer: Claudia Barral Magaz / Producer: Andrés Pulido Santamaría
In Places we explore the limits of time and it’s course. It captures the trip to different instants, always from the same place, expanding the possibilities of the ellipsis and giving birth to an artistic universe that evokes memories using always the same spatial coordinates.
Happy Easter
Director & Producer: Boris Utkin
A schoolboy tells a story of how a bunch of youngsters robbed a grocery store near the nightclub.
The Dream Report
Director & Producer: Jack O’Shea
A deadpan sci-fi interweaving moments of familiar routine with esoteric messages from deep space.
X Anniversary
Director & Producer: Yvette Farmer
Four monologues performed by the same actor exploring themes of grief, regret, LGBTQ and our wants and desires.
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity
Director & Producer: Deirdre Mulrooney
We imagine and pay tribute to misunderstood artist Lucia Joyce at ‘full capacity’, referencing Berenice Abbott’s iconic 1928 large format photograph of Lucia in her self-designed silver fish costume, and a little-known link with WB Yeats’s Abbey Theatre Ballets.
The Garden
Director & Producer: Patrick Müller
Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, déjà vus: A hike through H.P. Lovecraft’s most personal garden.
Billy Willy
Director & Producer: Michael Barwise & Sean Mullan
Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of Jazz.
Was That A Yes?
Director: Ray Mac Donnacha / Producer: Kevin Ó Flatharta
Date-night disaster, sometimes you wish you could start the perfect evening all over again.
Tuna
Director: Cliona Noonan / Producer: IADT Dun Laoghaire
A late-night supermarket cashier with a strange obsession is visited by a mysterious customer.
