Deirdre’s Diary
Bloomsday Premiere of “The Clouds are not Inaccessible” at the Irish Film Institute!
I'm delighted that my surrealist short aerial dance film, "The Clouds are not Inaccessible", based on a 1932 text by Lucia Joyce will premiere at the Irish Film Institute as part of Bloomsday FIlm Festival alongside René Clair's 1924 surrealist masterpiece "Entr'acte"...
Thanks to Valerie Waters for RTE Nationwide report, & to Canada Council for the Arts for supporting Turtle Island Family Album!
Thanks to Valerie Waters for the fantastic RTE Nationwide report on April 20th, which sets myself and my Mum up nicely for our imminent return trip to Cat Lake First Nations next month. In the meantime I was thrilled to receive support from Canada Council for the...
“The Clouds are not Inaccessible”/ “Les Nuages ne sont pas Inaccessibles” in the can!
Delighted to report that the stars aligned earlier this month with this super-talented crew, and our short aerial dance film "The Clouds are not Inaccessible"/ "Les Nuages ne sont Inaccessibles" is safely in the can, and currently being edited. Thanks to our...
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity now available in the Theatre section of Shakespeare & Company, Paris, & other 2026 news
On a recent visit to the legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, I was glad to see that my book reclaiming Lucia Joyce as an artist is now available in their Theatre section for 2026 - so feel free to grab a copy there, and be sure to spread the word to all...
Toronto Launch of ’50 Irish Lives in Canada’
It was wonderful to make it to the launch of ‘Fifty Irish Lives in Canada’ edited by Mark McGowan & Eamonn McKee at University of Toronto with my Mum, brother Richard, school friend Carolyn & the legend that is Godfrey Jordan . What an honour to contribute...
Contributing Number 50 to Fifty Irish Lives in Canada
I was delighted to contribute the 50th, and last entry to "Fifty Irish Lives in Canada", about my dear late Dad. This new book, edited by Mark McGowan and Eamonn McKee, is being launched on December 3rd at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. I'm looking...
“Thomas MacGreevy and the Abbey Theatre Ballets” at Yeats 2025 Conference, Trinity College Dublin
I love Margaret Clarke's painting "Columbine Rests" (ca. 1923/1924) featuring a tired ballerina being serenaded by Pierrot. (It's also known as "Pierrot and Columbine"). It is very apt that Thomas McGreevy (as he was then known, without the additional "a") should...
“Lucia Joyce and Carl Jung” letter to the Irish Times, July 30th 2025
“Lucia Joyce in Paris” Bloomsday talk at the Alliance Française de Dublin
Merci to the French Embassy in Ireland for inviting me to present an illustrated talk entitled "Lucia Joyce in Paris" at the Alliance Française on Bloomsday this year. It was a delight to share the highlights of my month at Centre Culturel Irlandais, walking in...
Village Magazine Review of ‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’; Merrion Square QR code for ‘In the Studio with Sculptor Danny Osborne’
At once alternative biography, dance history, veiled manifesto, literary essay and overdue work of scholarship, this is also a call to political arms.