Twinsome Minds:
Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories

Performed by Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher
Featuring original music composed by Dana Lyn

Tuesday, March 22 | 7:30 PM

Through an interplay of storytelling, animation, music, and poetry, Twinsome Minds – which takes its title from a phrase in the novel Finnegans Wake – re-imagines a series of micro-narratives surrounding 1916 in Dublin and the WWI battlefields of Belgium. The stories and images of eclipsed history concentrate on twinned pairs – family members, neighbors, school friends, lovers – who ended up on opposite sides during this time of great upheaval in British-Irish relations.  The various scenes explore crossings of memory and imagination, anecdote and legend, history and myth – as well as loyalty and love.

Performed and created by philosopher Richard Kearney and moving images multi-media artist Sheila Gallagher, Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 mines what is often lost behind official historical accounts and acts of commemoration, and  proposes a transformative work of interpreting the Rising for a new generation.

Commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, Dublin