She is represented by Mark Casarotto of Casarotto Ramsey & Associates. Audrey is also chairwoman of the ‘Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild’. She is also developing two feature scripts which she will also direct. Lost to play the ghost of Peig Sayers in the bilingual series Paddywhackery. She is currently adapting Kate Thompson’s award winning children’s novel ‘The New Policeman’ for producer Hawk Koch. Free Online Library: I CHOOSE TG4 INSTEAD OF LOST Fionnuala happy to ditch. As well as writing for the RTE soap opera ‘Fair City and television series ‘On Home Ground’, she co-wrote and directed ‘Teenage Cics’ a six part television drama series for TG4 and BBC NI. In addition a ‘Short Short’ she wrote entitled ‘Chicken’ was selected for official competition in the 2001 ‘Cannes Film. Multi-award winning, it has also been included on the Irish Leaving Certificate syllabus. That year her co-written script ‘Honor Bright’ was announced as the winner of the Miramax Script Writing Award’ while a short film she directed, ‘In Loving Memory’ won a number of awards including the Prix du Public at the prestigious Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival.Īudrey then made Clare sa Speir’ one of the 2001 RTE ‘Oscailt’ short film series. I hope they are of some use to you, if not for the leaving-cert, at least to give you some understanding of the film making process.įeel free to post questions though while I will try to answer I can not promise to answer quickly!Ī graduate of the National Film School in 1998 Audrey O’Reilly has been working as a writer and director with increasing success. At another stage I will talk about the writing of the film, a very different ball game altogether. These are notes I’ve used in a class I’ve given about directing and the approach I used to make the film. However obviously I do have certain insight into the film so I’ve decided to post this blog. To be honest I know very little about how it’s been taught or what sort of questions you are being asked about it. Peig Sayers (Dún Chaoin, 29 marzo 1873 Dingle, 8 dicembre 1958) è stata una scrittrice e seanachaí irlandese di lingua irlandese Biografia. I obviously did not make the film with the intention that it would go onto torture thousands of students for years to come so this is my small attempt to atone. I apologise in advance for those who consider Clare to be the Peig Sayers of the media section of the leaving –cert. She has collaborated with the Irish Arts Center NYC, Bloc TG4, Bohemians FC and is a founding member of Medusa Collective. Peig was a woman full of life, fun and craic who loved to entertain and drew people to her – there’s a reason why her stories were so important.Hi, my name is Audrey O’Reilly and I am the writer director of Clare Sa Speir. It was not her fault that she and her stories went viral. Peig deserves so much better – she was so such an integral part of documenting the oral history of a time gone by. Or to be more precise, in the Los Angeles Times.Since Colm Bairéad’s film An Cailín Ciúin was nominated for this year’s Oscars, the newspaper is just one of. She was one of the most important storytellers of our time and an inspiration to me as a storyteller of sorts myself.Īt some stage, people need to stop reverting to past gripes and move on and grow. The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. I believe that Peig has been unjustly represented across many media and by our educational system. Craolfar PEIG, clár faisnéise faoin seanchaí Peig Sayers ar TG4 ar an Céadaoin 10ú Márta ag 9.30.i.n. A new documentary from TG4 will revisit the iconic Peig, her brilliant personality. PEIG will air on 10 March 9:30pm on TG4 or can be viewed on the TG4 player. The documentary will question how our relationship with her reflects our complex relationship with our heritage, our language and who we are. Similar to how social media updates and reality TV can be taken out of context, Peig was associated with the old world of piety an image which was inflicted upon her by the Irish state in a book that was carefully edited to reflect just one version of her life. Wow Another one with a limited imagination. ‘This woman generously shared not only her life story but many other stories that she had collected over the years – I don’t believe the abuse she continuously receives is warranted.’ Peig was one of the greatest Irish storytellers, a born performer and entertainer.Īs Máire Ní Dhálaigh, of the OPW’s Blasket Centre, says, ‘Peig was the Netflix of the time’. ‘I wonder what Peig would have said, if she knew that we’d still be talking about her, at length, in the year 2021?’ ponders Sinéad.
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