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An Irishman Abroad

Clare Dunne (Herself) The Selection Box Special Episode

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, actress and writer Clare Dunne makes a welcomed return to An Irishman Abroad for a very special Selection Box episode. Clare speaks about the much-anticipated release of Herself, how COVID positively impacted upon her IFTA award win, the honour she felt to be named in Variety's Screenwriters to Watch 2020 list and much more. As a treat, we are also giving you a healthy chunk of exclusive content from Clare's first interview on the show which details the writing and making of Herself. Herself is in cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland on September 10th. Support Irish film and make it your first post lockdown movie. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0

I think people that have an ability to appreciate art and music and film and stories.

0:08.0

There's some people in the world that, like, they never make anything themselves, but they're

0:11.0

amazing culture vultures and they read everything, and they're racially consumed things because they think it's just brilliant and it's about life and they discuss it and they get all

0:21.7

into it and they talk about how it pushes forward arguments about what we should do about things

0:27.8

politically or how we should live or how do you cure things or makes them laugh like those people

0:33.6

that are the appreciators and the audiences are vital to all of us moving forward in the world and in art.

0:42.3

And it's like at the moment that bit where we all get to come together is missing and it's like, oh my God, I'm absolutely dying for it because I'm nothing without them but they have nothing to go to

0:56.0

if we don't get up in the morning and get out the pen and paper and write the shite before we write the good stuff

1:02.0

that's the small talk now let's go down to business now your program what's the big Well, they're going to know the Irish much better.

1:13.6

We've now got to know how largely their mind works.

1:16.6

I moved over here and immediately I had to up my game.

1:20.6

I could not have done the job I did for quite a number of years in Ireland.

1:24.6

I had to go in there in my living in England.

1:26.6

I think a lot of it's in my hair. I think there's a lot of Ireland in here. I had to go in there in my living in England. I think a lot of it's in my hair.

1:28.4

I think there's a lot of Ireland in here.

1:29.9

I had an artist up for you.

1:31.0

20 years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job,

1:35.0

we had the presidency.

1:36.8

It was some heightened awareness of how hard my tribe had had it in London.

1:41.2

No blacks, no Irish, no dogs.

1:42.7

Never has a nation so small inspired so much in London. No blacks, no Irish, no dogs. Never has a nation so small inspired so much

1:46.1

in another. So you could say there's always been a little green behind the red, white and blue.

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