28 April,
Irish Language / Performance /
Story Tellers: Oein DeBhairduin and Richard O’Leary
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 11:30am
An Taibhdhearc / €10/12
Tickets On Sale NowDuration 60 mins
Come along for this bilingual storytelling event with Oein DeBhairduin and Richard O’Leary.
Oein DeBhairduin is a writer, activist and educator with a passion for preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. His works include Twiggy Woman and Why The Moon Travels, which are rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community.
Richard O’Leary is the homoseanchaí, featured in the ‘The Druthaib’s Ball’ by Turner Prize winners Array Collective. ‘Teenage Rebel in the GPO 1983’ is a tale of vast sums of money, paper trails and telephone calls. An incredible story, like an Irish fairy tale, but true. Told in Irish with some English.
Éist le Risteard Ó Laoghaire agus é ag caint faoin éirí amach in Ard-Oifig an Phoist i 1983. Scéal faoi shuimeanna móra airgid, rianta páipéir agus ghlaonna gutháin. Scéal na rún oifigiúil agus faoin ngrá faoi cheilt. Scéal dochreidte, cosúil le síscéal Éireannach, ach is fíorscéal atá ann. Is homoseanchaí é Risteard Ó Laoghaire a bhí le feiceáil sa ‘Druthaib’s Ball’ leis an Array Collective a bhuaigh Duais Turner i 2021. I nGaeilge le roinnt Béarla.
Author Biographies
Oein DeBhairduin is a writer, activist and educator with a passion for preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. Oein is the author of the award-winning Why the moon travels. His other works are Weave, The Slug and the Snail and Twiggy Woman. He is the Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer with the National Museum of Ireland and seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and, most of all, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship.
Richard O’Leary grew up near Blarney, county Cork but is long time resident in county Down. He obtained a BA in History and Politics at University College Dublin and a doctorate at Oxford University followed by an academic career at Queen’s University Belfast. Since 2016 he has worked as a seanchaí. He is the creator and performer of the solo storytelling shows ‘There’s a Bishop in my Bedroom’ and ‘Border Fairies’. He was the guest seanchaí who featured in the ‘The Druthaib’s Ball’ by the Array Collective which won the Turner Prize in 2021.
Event Location
An Taibhdhearc
19 Middle St, Galway, H91 RX76
Tickets On Sale Now Back to What's OnThe main auditorium is step free, and there are accessible toilet facilities. There are two accessible parking spaces either end of Middle Street and three spaces on Saint Augustine Street opposite. There is a Loop system. HEPA filter will be in use
