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Siobhán de Paor

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Poet and Performance Artist

Is file mé, scéalaí, scriobhnóir, beann grinn, iriseoir, chéillúraí is araile

Writer, Performer, Comic, Journalist, Celebrant

I am a bard, in the traditional sense of the word, with a political, social and shamanic function in the tribe. Filíocht ó béal/ Spoken word oral tradition transmission.

I make one-woman shows and perform spoken word. Funny and edgey. My work is biographical, with elements of improvisation. I aspire to art that is an aesthetic emanation of reality.

My role as a celebrant and ritual maker weaves with the art and I have choreographed community participation spectacles.

I work towards the purpose of re-idgenation, reponding to natural sites, contemporarising our mythologies and reclaiming pre Catholic/colonial traditions using our native lanugage as at tool.