Caroline E. Farrell's Blog, page 23
August 14, 2015
Intruder
It goes by many names, the space invader, the infiltrator, the head fuck, to name a few. Arrives unannounced and unexpected, taking residence in your comfort zone, droning on incessantly with negative speak, the stuff that hurts your head,while you hover uncomfortably in your own space, out-of-place. Welcome overstayed when none has been offered, sapping strength as the clock ticks and panic builds because you have things to do, life to live, but you can’t turf it out because you don’t know h...
August 12, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Rare Bird of Fashion – IRIS APFEL
Or, in her own words – A Geriatric Starlet!
Interior designer and fashion icon, Iris Apfel, now 93, and whose husband of 66 years, Carl, turned 100 during the making of this documentary of her life, built her career on a love of colour, texture, craft and originality. An advocate of anything that isn’t the ‘norm’ she founded her own company, Old World Weavers, in the 1950’s which she and Carl ran until retirement in 1992. With an emphasis on restoring and replicating fine textiles, the couple...
Doing it with Passion: Writers in Ireland Series: Hugh Travers
Hugh Travers is a graduate of D.I.T (B.Sc. Film and Broadcasting) and The Huston School of Film (M.A. in Screenwriting). He received a scholarship to The Professional Programme in Screenwriting at UCLA. He has written a number of award-winning short films, and is currently working on Over The Bar, a feature film in development with the IFB, Deadpan Pictures & Dan Films. Over The Bar was recently selected for The Brit List, a shortlist of the best unproduced scripts of 2014. Most recently his...
August 11, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Fried Eggs
Eloise, a timid and ladylike soul,is getting tired ofbeing confronted by the male conquests ofher more adventurous sister, Lulu. And though perhaps hemight just be the fix they each need to move on, the last thing Eloisewants now is to meet Lulu’s latest conquest…
A very powerful one-woman show, produced by Moonstone Productions, written and directed by Lindsay Sedgwick, and starring Karen Connell, the writing is powerful, the subject matter gripping,and the performance by Karen is winsome an...
August 6, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Caroline Finnerty
Caroline Finnerty is the author of the novels ‘In a Moment’, ‘The Last Goodbye’ and ‘Into The Night Sky’. Her fourth novel ‘My Sister’s Child’ will be published in September. She lives on the banks of the Grand Canal in County Kildare with her husband, three young children and their dog.
When did you first begin to write, Caroline?
I have memories of making little books complete with illustrations as a child; I would staple them together and ‘design’ their covers. I also remember in secondar...
July 30, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy is a writer, spoken-word performer, musician and journalist. His debut novel, John the Revelator was shortlisted for both the Costa First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction. His second novel, Shall We Gather at the River, once described by Kevin Barry as ‘A wild inventive butt-kicker’ and by Metro as ‘Thrillingly unpredictable, if not downright malevolent’, was published in 2013. Peter’s band, The Revelator Orchestra released their second album The Brotherhood of t...
July 26, 2015
From the Librarian’s Cellar: Danny Collins
An aging rock star, with all theshallow vices that go with a life of vanity and excess,realises whattruly matterswhen he receives a long-lost letter from John Lennon. Cancelling yet another bankable tour,Danny instead sets out to make amends to the son he never knew…
I know, I know, schmaltzy, and I rarely entertain schmaltzy, but, BUT it is Pacino, AL PACINO. And Annette Bening, and Bobby Cannavaleand Jennifer Garner, and CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER! And right there are five fabulousreasons why Dann...
July 25, 2015
About Caroline…
Writer and Filmmaker, Caroline’s short film IN RIBBONS,which she wrote and co-produced, has beenofficially selected to screen at the 2015 BELFAST Film Festival, the 2015 CORONA FASTNET Film Festival, the 2015 Corti De Sogni Film Festival, Ravenna, Italy and the Underground Cinema Film Festival, 2015.The film will also feature in the upcoming edition of Cinéwoman [womenartconnect].
Carolinewas also shortlisted at‘The Waterford Film Festival 2014′ and the ‘Kildare Film Commission 2014′for her s...
July 23, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Martina Reilly
Martina Reilly has had many careers. She’s been a supermarket packer (she knows you can’t put a loaf of bread in with a packet of bleach), a lounge girl (she can avoid a grope at close quarters), she even worked in her local council. Nothing, however gives her as much pleasure as the job she has now – it involves drinking lots of coffee and concocting elaborate lies. No, she’s not a politician, she’s a writer. To date, she has written nineteen novels, including four for young adults. Her book...
July 21, 2015
From the Librarian’s Cellar: The Wonders
A coming-of-age story, The Wonders isas whimsical in its characterization as it is gritty in the subsistence farmland setting of the Umbrian/ Tuscan hillsides.
Twelve year-old Gelsomina’s days areruled byhard graft on the small isolated farm she shares with her very sweet mother, her over-bearing, and often blunderingfather, her three younger sisters, and Coco – who works on the farm, though her actual relationship with the familyis never clarified.The family survive mainly through their trad...
