One day we were a team of scientists charged with investigating other planets, next we were curators of the past and built our own museum with artefacts borrowed from grandparents and elderly neighbours. It’s only now I realise how lucky we were.Īfter university, I did a teaching diploma and for ten years I taught in primary schools in my own town. My friends were creators, actors, writers. I was involved with Macnas almost from its beginnings and went on to write three plays with them. Out of that madness came Druid, Galway Arts Festival, Macnas and some of the most creative people I have ever met. Our academic pursuits played second fiddle to our discovery of ourselves and our own talents. Technically, I studied Old Irish and English in NUIG, though really I studied how to run a dramatic society and how to write your own plays, and direct them, and act in them! We were blessed with an education that let us run wild and didn’t anchor us to the ground with too many exams. I watched Mozart’s opera Cossi Fan Tutti in Irish, and acted in Brecht’s Theepenny Opera also in Irish. There, I watched plays as old as the story of Diarmuid and Gráinne, and as new as the plays from Criostóir O’Floinn and Brian Friel.
I started acting in An Taibhdhearc, the National Irish Language Theatre when I was ten years old.
I was born and grew up in Galway, and I have lived there all my life, bar one year that I took out to study in Dublin. I have always been involved in telling stories. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.
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