Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries

During my school holidays in Paris, I am glad to have had the chance to go to the Irish Cultural Centre tonight and watch Clouded Reveries by Ciara Nic Chormaic: a stunning interview-documentary with and about the poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa, an interesting figure in the Irish literary world.

I would have loved to meet her but there was just the director, a resident artist at the Irish Cultural Centre: Ciara Nic Chormaic is a lovely and friendly lady - as all the Irish people I have met, by the way, whether in Paris, Dublin or (many years ago) in Tralee and during the trip Dublin-Tralee and back by train.

Too shy to ask her my question during the conversation after the film - indeed, I have a special talent for being ready to open my mouth and ask a question only at the very moment when the question time is over - I approached Ciara Nic Ciormaic at the end of the conversation and

[To be continued]

The trailer of this beautiful and extremely well filmed documentary.

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Paris, 23rd April 2026

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