We are delighted to welcome Eimhear Nig Uiginn to Dearcán Media. Eimhear is currently undergoing the ILBF’s New Entrant Scheme and will be based here at Dearcán Media from September to March 2017. Eimhear has just finished a two-week course with the BBC and will continue her training with us while working on current and…
Sheehy Skeffington: Pacifist is the life story of Frank Sheehy Skeffington, the Downpatrick born pacifist, feminist and journalist who was cruelly executed at the start of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was an eye witness to key moments in Irish history – a friend of James Joyce, a colleague of James Connolly and the…
We are in the process of finalising As Radharc na Súl which will be broadcast on TG4 on October 25th 2016. Many thanks to the families who were so generous with their time and effort in very difficult circumstances. Thanks also to the great number of people who were involved in the production – from the…
The first cut of John Philip Holland: inventor of the modern submarine will be finished soon. Many thanks to the production team, the crew and to our contributors in Ireland and America. We are looking forward to the first broadcast on TG4 on Tuesday 22nd of November. There will be a preview in Cultúrlann Uí…
Dearcan Media is organising a series of screenings of Sheehy Skeffington: Síochánaí (the life of Frank Sheehy Skeffington) prior to its broadcast on March 8th on TG4 (9.30pm). Wednesday, 24th February: Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry (7pm), Friday 26th February: Coláiste Feirste, Belfast; Sunday, 28th February: Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway (2pm); Monday 29th February: Áras Mhic…
Dearcán Media has secured a commission from TG4 and the ILBF to develop a one off documentary on John Philip Holland, the Clare born inventor of the modern submarine. His early manifestations of the submarine were funded by the IRB in the US. We will be filming the documentary in April and May in the…
Sheehy Skeffington: Síochánaí will be broadcast on TG4 on Tuesday 8th March at 9.30pm. It’s the life story of Frank Sheehy Skeffington, the Downpatrick born pacifist, feminist and journalist who was cruelly executed at the start of the Easter Rising in 1916. Frank was an eye witness to key moments in Irish history – a…
We’ve received some very positive feedback on the first broadcast of Na Píobairí Uilleann on 21.1.15: Eibhlín de Paor @edep6 · 14h 14 hours ago Comhgairdeas @GayMcKeon @Napiobairi & gach duine páirteach i gclár na hoíche an8 @TG4TV @TheRollingWave @SeanPotts3 @TheBonnymen #misneach John FitzGerald @Jdbfitzgerald · 14h 14 hours ago @Napiobairi @TG4TV Clár den…