Deirdre Kinahan
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239 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 May
Deirdre Kinahan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It works, you know, so it's quite incredible.
I mean, language is only one part of it.
Theatre is actually all about that kind of emotion and psychology.
And, you know, it's about human beings and why they behave the way they do.
It has been an obsession.
I mean, my mother always said, you'll get arrested one day for gawk and deer.
I mean, that's literally...
You know, I can't sit in a room but begin to wonder and, you know, begin to imagine about people.
I'm very dangerous to be around, Ervil.
Yeah, a little bit of you will always end up on stage because that's where you're gifted, your plays.
You know, you're gifted them by the people around you, you know.
And like, I'd love to reference another play to talk about is a play called The Homecoming of Joseph Grace.
That's opening in the Cork Midsummer Festival in June.
Yes, it is.
You know, quite bizarrely, you know, it's like, as I said, I have four plays all premiering this year and they're all around themes of exile.
It's like your four buses, you know, kind of coming in a row.
Because Joseph Grace is a play that has been in my heart and head for about 10 years.
It was a story that I found when I was writing a lot of plays out of history for the commemoration period.
And I became really interested in Roger Casement and this crazy scheme in 1916 where Roger Casement was sent over to the prisoner of war camps in Germany and
And he tried to enlist British soldiers of Irish birth into a little brigade that would then come over and help Horig Pierce and the community here fight a rebellion against England.
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