Previous Productions
Delia
The Extraordinary story of, Mayo singer Delia Murphy dramatised for radio by Gerry Conneely.
Driector: Gerry Conneely
Producer: Riona Hughes
Sound Recording and Editing: Paula Healy
5 part series starting on Midwest Radio
on Dec 29th 2019 at 5.30pm
until January 26th 2020
Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland from the television licence fee.
She was a Sinn Fein activist at UCG where she received a Masters Degree in economics in 1922.
She established the Irish Mission in London as the best known diplomatic party house during the 1930s where she befriended the Prince of Wales and had a major altercation with the German foreign minister, an ardent member of the Nazi Party. She became the most famous person in Ireland in 1939 when her first three recordings were played on what was then called Radio Eireann.
Mellow the Moonlight, Three lovely lassies from Bannion and The Blackbird established her as Ireland's very own radio darling. Then for three years she toured the country with her traditional Irish songs in her own inimitable Mayo style.
Michael Davitt: Our Land
by Gerry Conneely
A play for radio in 3 episodes
funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
from the television licence fee.
to be broadcast on Midwest Radio
January 2017 8th, 15th & 22nd at 5.30pm
Podcasts
First episode here
Second episode here
Third Episode here
As the year of commemoration of 1916 comes to a close and we examine where Ireland is today, it is an opportunity to look at the events that proceeded the rising and at Michael Davitt in particular who was that rare breed, an effective politician, who changed everything and literally without firing a single shot
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TheGifford Girls:
Love & Rebellion
by Gerry Conneely
A play for radio in 5 episodes supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was broadcast on the Keith Finnegan Show on Galway Bay FM Easter Week 2016.
Listen to the podcasts here
The Gifford sisters Nellie, Grace, Sidney (John) and Muriel formed the core of a social and artistic milieu in early 20th century Dublin out of which emerged five of the seven signatories of the 1916 proclamation. Two of the girls Grace and Muriel were married to Joe Plunkett and Thomas MacDonagh respectively. The girls were the daughters of a staunchly protestant; unionist family of Temple Villas, Rathfarnham. They were also militant Irish republicans. This is their story. More
Margaret of Coole
Margaret of Coole, written by Gerry Conneely, is a radio play in five parts, broadcast on Galway Bay FM at 11am on the Keith Finnegan Show from Monday April 21st – Friday 25th April 2015.
The play tells the story of Margaret Gregory, wife of Robert Gregory, son of Lady Augusta Gregory. From the time before the first world war, where Robert was killed, to the war of independence.
Set to the back drop of a changing Ireland in conflict. More
The Great Push
by Patrick McGill
Broadcast on Highland Radio
Funded by The Broadcasting Auithority of Ireland from the television licence fee.
2 part series adapted for radio by Gerry Conneely,
Produced by Riona Hughes,
Broadcast 2016.
Cast Gerry Conneely, Niall Bairead, Oisin Parslow, Pete Ryan, Eric Martyn,
Seamus O'Donnell, Dylan Evans and Martyn Carrick.
The Great Push is the original and the greatest anti war classic, written with the clarity and authority of a man who stepped into the abyss and lived to tell the tale. Gerry Conneely’s performance captures the humanity and pathos of Magill and his comrades who went over the top on the 25th of Sept 1915.
"An absorbing sensitive and humanising portrayal of the suffering of war." Charles Medawar, writer and critic
