Deirdre’s Diary
“What Nice Needs Now” read my travel feature in the Irish Times Magazine
As the Autumn chill sets in, I am, as promised, recalling that lovely feeling of floating out in the middle of a bay on the Cote d'Azur on a steaming hot summer's day... Read all about it in my travel feature on Nice and the Cote d'Azur in last Saturday's Irish Times...
Georgie’s Vision, first ever documentary on Mrs. WB Yeats broadcast
"Georgie's Vision", the documentary I have been toiling on all summer - since the end of April - getting the creme de la creme of the George Yeats world on board, was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM on Friday September 30th at 7pm. Hooray! Mella Travers of The Dark Room...
“International House for Young People. Nice.” on RTE Sunday Miscellany Live at Dublin Castle/ Culture Night
I was in highly esteemed company, with Cyril Kelly; poet Jessica Traynor; Historian Conor Mulvagh, and Paul Howard aka Ross O'Carroll Kelly in the Coach House at Dublin Castle for Sunday Miscellany Live on Culture Night 2016. My contribution was on the topic of my...
1943 – A Dance Odyssey at Dublin Festival of History on September 23rd 🙂
I'm delighted to see that my film "1943 - A Dance Odyssey", featuring 5 fabulous former pupils of Irish-German Modern Dance pioneer Erina Brady: Ann Fryer-Walsh; Margaret Becker; Ann Danaher/McGuire; Romy Hogan; and Barbara Sweetman-Fitzgerald, as well as rare 1943...
My Guerilla First Communion at the Dominicans
Last week RTE Radio One Sunday Miscellany broadcast my radio essay "My Guerilla First Communion at the Dominicans". You can listen back to this quirky tale involving my lovely Limerick grandparents here:...
Shooting an Arrow of Futurity about Lucia Joyce at NYU’s Dance Research Forum Ireland Conference
I'm looking forward to shooting an arrow of futurity about Lucia Joyce's Modern Dance career at Dance Research Forum Ireland's "UpRising" Conference at New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), next Friday, June 24th, at 2.30pm. The title, "Arrows of Futurity:...
Arnd Weseman reviews my Pina Bausch ebook in TANZ Magazine
eBook PINA BAUSCH Memorabilia about the great lady of German Tanztheater is shooting through the book market price ceiling. Publisher Peter Lang proudly demands $478.79 on Amazon for Deirdre Mulrooney's 2002 dissertation, "Orientalism, Orientation, and the Nomadic...
My Balkan Road Trip & Irish Times Sarajevo Travel Article…
En route to the 1st Sarajevo-Irish Festival, where I was invited to present my documentary “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” - I did feel like a bit of a nerd pulling out my 1181 page doorstopper “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” on the three flights....
St. Patrick’s Day Screening of Journey to YU at the 1st Sarajevo-Irish Festival, & RTE Lyric FM Broadcast
Set your radio dials for RTE Lyric FM today, Friday March 11th at 7pm to hear the audio version of "Journey to YU" featuring Dragana Jurisic, Olwen Fouéré (as Rebecca West) Zlata Filipovic Dijana Milosevic, & Colin Graham, sound supervision by John Davis, in...