• The Cycle of Life

    Slea Head

    We decided to spend some days in Dingle, County Kerry.Why Dingle?Well this is a place that I’ve always had a fondness for and it has been many years since I visited. I made a documentary in the mid-1980s called Up Sraid Eoin (John Street) – it was the story of the Dingle wren boys. We filmed it one St Stephens Day and it was broadcast on RTE the following year. I had been introduced to Dingle while I was working in UCD’s Audio Visual Centre – we spent a whole summer recording stories and music for the Department of Irish Folklore/Irish Folklore Commission. The irony was that we were using…