Deirdre’s Diary
Crowd-funder! Get on board for “Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8”
We have launched a short crowd-funder to make "TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney's Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8" to celebrate Canada 150 next month at The Dark Room (www.darkroom.ie)! Please jump on board and throw in a tenner to our campaign by clicking here:...
Hitch a free ride with me to Yugoslavia at Pearse Street Library on May 24th at 6.30pm!
Hitch a free ride with me to former Yugoslavia! After its premiere at the Belgrade-Irish Festival, and subsequent screenings at Photoireland Festival, Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival, and the Sarajevo-Irish Festival Bealtaine Festival at Pearse Street...
CANADIAN PREMIERE! Dance Emergency at Irish Film Festival, Ottawa, April 2nd, 2017
I'm delighted that my TG4 documentary Damhsa na hEigeandala/ Dance Emergency is making its CANADIAN PREMIERE at the Irish Film Festival, Ottawa, at 2pm on Sunday April 2nd! It will be followed by a skype interview with yours truly. Here is a...
Surrender on Grand Canal Street: Saint Patrick’s Day Premiere on Newstalk 106 – 108 FM!
Set around the narrator’s overlooked inner city Dublin windowsill, on which, according to local lore Eamon De Valera allegedly signed his 1916 surrender, this documentary rescues this lost anti-heroic moment in what has transformed from erstwhile Poor Law Dispensary...
Pop-up “Surrender” Yoga Class with Kathy Scott at Fringe Lab 6/2/17!
"Surrender is an active participation with the universe". Join Yogi & Trailblazer Supremo Kathy Scott, for a special pop-up yoga class inspired by the theme of "Surrender" at FRINGE LAB on Monday February 6th, 6.30pm - 7.30pm (€12). On top of being a longtime...
The Irish Times Alternative Facts of Irish Dance History
On Saturday I was a little shocked to read the Irish TImes Dance Critic contribution to "Culture Shock", and provoked to pen a letter to the editor of the Irish TImes in response. Here's the letter. Dear Sir, I was surprised to read your dance critic Michael...
All Hail George Yeats on Nollaig na mBan, on RTE Lyric FM
For Nollaig na mBan [Women's Christmas & Feast of the Epiphany] this Friday, RTE Lyric FM are broadcasting "Georgie's Vision", the first ever documentary about the extraordinary, and overlooked Mrs. WB Yeats. Hear Olwen Fouéré channel George's voices; Pat Laffan...
Read my review of Anna Karenina at the Abbey Theatre, in Village Magazine
I really enjoyed playwright Marina Carr's adaptation of Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. You can catch this mammoth 3 hour production, directed by Wayne Jordan, with a stunning cast of 21 until the end of January 2017. Read my article in the...
My review of IMDT’s Night Wandering/ Precious Metal on RTE Arena
I am busy making my current BAI-funded radio documentary project "Surrender on Grand Canal Street", for broadcast on Newstalk - more of which when the time is right! In the meantime, I enjoyed seeing Merce Cunningham's 1958 choreography "Night Wandering", and John...
Irish-German Connections in Motion at University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music & Dance
We enjoyed a fantastically eclectic discourse at the "Irish-German Connections in Motion" Conference in University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance on October 31st and November 1st - simultaneously honouring Berlin-based (and Longford-born),...