Lisa Tierney Keogh
8 results

‘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(...)

Meghan’s Irish roots, Irish ‘breeder girls’, and prepping to become a Dubliner again
- Abroad
- July 13, 2018, 14:00
“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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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 defends criticism of all-male 2017 programme
- Stage
- March 2, 2017, 19:20
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(...)

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(...)

Culture Shock: The great art and terrible example of theatrical suicides
- Culture
- May 24, 2014, 01:00
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(...)