Deirdre Mulrooney

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity makes Welsh debut at IFF Film Festival, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020-08-12 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | 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 2
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 2
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 2
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..

About this Event

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

About this Event

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.
