Lisa Tierney Keogh

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This Beautiful Village: Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s comedy recapitulates the salient political talking points of our time within a nostalgic form. Photograph: Pat Redmond
This Beautiful Village: One-note characters addressing a symphony of concerns

THIS BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★★☆☆ “We’re not going to bring down the patriarchy tonight,” one member of a south Co Dublin residents’(...)

Lisa Tierney-Keogh: ‘The talk of a blue wave of Democratic voters was just that: talk.’
‘I still feel so connected to America, but grateful to be gone’
  • Abroad
  • November 11, 2018, 11:00

There is no dust settling after the US midterms. Within 24 hours of the elections, Donald Trump started clearing house and throwing tantrums. He fired(...)

As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited Dublin this week, Catherine Nash asks, why the need to trace her Irish roots? Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Meghan’s Irish roots, Irish ‘breeder girls’, and prepping to become a Dubliner again

“In the time I’ve been gone, a lot has happened in Ireland. The country has changed. And so have I. I take great pride in being Irish, even more in be(...)

Lisa Tierney-Keogh: 'The theatre community has an opportunity to be leaders in eradicating sexual harassment, assault, discrimination, gender pay inequity, and all the other humiliating, awful plagues we endure. This is a golden moment for Irish theatre.'
Gate report: ‘I left Ireland to escape this culture of silence’
  • Abroad
  • February 26, 2018, 16:45

I left Ireland for myriad reasons. I needed to leave, to try on new things, to breathe different air, to be in a different pond with different fish, t(...)

Lisa Tierney-Keogh: ‘I have encountered more opportunity, more chances to pursue my dreams in the US than I’ve had anywhere else I’ve travelled to.’ Photograph: Maribel de la Torre
America is home to many brave people, but it's no longer the land of the free
  • Abroad
  • January 26, 2018, 16:33

The final line of the US national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, goes “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”. There is an intense pr(...)

‘We put on our armour, we brush it off, we avert eyes, we occasionally confront. Mostly, we pretend it isn’t happening.’ Photograph: iStock
I’ve learned the hard way to dress modestly in New York
  • Abroad
  • October 19, 2017, 13:00

It has been a tough week to be a woman. Since the moment The New York Times and New Yorker reports about Harvey Weinstein emerged, the media has been (...)

Druid Theatre artistic director Garry Hynes said it was not ‘logical to expect that any one programme at any one time can have exact gender parity, much less any one speciality in any one programme’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Druid Theatre defends criticism of all-male 2017 programme

Druid Theatre artistic director Garry Hynes has defended its 2017 all-male programme and said gender equality in the theatre will take time. Druid h(...)

The Waking the Feminists symposium at Fordham University
Waking the Feminists takes to the US stage
  • Stage
  • February 29, 2016, 18:29

The Waking the Feminists movement has spread its campaign to New York, with two events in the city this week. On Sunday, a symposium on the protest(...)

Four Last Things: Elizabeth A Davis with Victor Verhaeghe and Justin Hagan in the off-Broadway production. Photograph: Russ Rowland/Royal Family Productions
Culture Shock: The great art and terrible example of theatrical suicides

At the dark and quiet level of everyday life the great drama of Irish society is suicide. It is the ultimate act: irreversible, unfathomable, devastat(...)