Irish folk theatre - a paper by David 'Daithí' Kearney

Evolution of Irish folk theatre

 

People interested in theatre, or Celtic folk performing arts, might be interested in this paper by David 'Daithí' Kearney.  He posted this on his Academia.edu page:-

 

http://www.academia.edu/4181666/The_Evolution_of_Irish_Folk_Theatre …

 

David is on the faculty at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Section of Music.  (If you're a researcher, you might consider joining Academia.edu yourself, to provide online access to papers and talks you've written.)

Celtic Diaspora

"Whittaker" thinks it's important for Celtic musicians to be aware what's going on in other Celtic lands.  With that in mind, we've added a few Welsh CDs to the Whittaker Library stock.  Take a look here.

Image by Ogwyn Davies

I've also been indexing useful websites onto my Diigo account.  Here are the Welsh sites.

And then - did you think I'd omit the Irish websites?  (Me, half-Welsh, wed to a Scot, two of whose great-grandparents came from Ballymoney; I have genuine Celtic pretensions!)

Lasair Award - Irish Film and TV Network

Film and TV students! Look here - an award!

Be quick ...deadline extended.

Filmbase and TG4 have announced that the deadline for the Lasair award scheme has been extended until the 27th January 2012. Filmbase and TG4 are also organising an information session for filmmakers interested in applying to the Lasair short film award scheme. Lasair, now in its 5th round, is Filmbase and TG4’s scheme for supporting filmmakers to produce short films in the Irish language.

Full details here


Mention of the Irish language suggests that you might need to find Irish collaborators ...?

This will be added to Whittaker Live's Awards, Grants, Prizes page