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, “aligning Lucia Joyce’s modern dance career with WB Yeats’ and Ninette de Valois’ Abbey Theatre Ballets”! Listen back here.
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Elliot Moriarty and Michael James Ford at James Joyce Centre, Dublin -
Evanna Lynch at James Joyce Centre, Dublin -
Senator David Norris in his North Great Georges Street Residence -
Olwen Fouéré at the James Joyce Centre -
Robert Nicholson at James Joyce Centre, Dublin -
Bairbre Ni Chaoimh at the Viking Theatre, Clontarf
The stellar cast includes Evanna Lynch, Olwen Fouéré, Bairbre Ni Chaoimh, Michael James Ford, and Elliot Moriarty. Interviewees: Carol Loeb Shloss (Author: Lucia Joyce, To Dance in the Wake); Simon O’Connor (Composer and Director of MoLI); Olwen Fouéré (Creator of ‘Riverrun’, inspired by Lucia Joyce); Senator David Norris (Joycean), and Robert Nicholson (Curator of The James Joyce Tower). Featuring an original score by Conor Linehan. Sound supervision by Neil Kavanagh. Dream Team! Gazillion thanks to all!