{"id":30313,"date":"2024-11-08T03:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/nilly-and-nullius\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T03:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:03:49","slug":"nilly-and-nullius","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/nilly-and-nullius\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilly and Nullius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Nilly and Nullius<\/strong><\/em><strong> by Theatre Maker and Actor Donal O\u2019Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 11 May, 4:30pm. Tickets: \u20ac5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2024muartsandmindsfestival.eventbrite.ie\/\"><strong>Get your tickets on Eventbrite!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MU Arts and Minds Festival Writer-in-Residence Donal O\u2019Kelly reads excerpts from his current work-in-progress exploring modern border control doctrine and its tangled roots.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><em>After several years of digging with a short-handle shovel in the backyard of his late mother\u2019s reformatory convent in the north-west of Ireland, Nilly is amazed one drizzly day when he breaks through into an ancient underground bunker. The rising stench of wealth amassment mania envelopes him in its saturating mist and he slumps to the sludge. When he awakes, cautiously aware of the basic tenets of the National Monuments Act, he quietly excavates alone, with his three psyches, the extensive cave-works he names Nullius, and documents in diary-style the people he encounters there, alive, dead and imaginary. Every now and then, he reaches up and manages to grasp one of the writhing roots hanging from some flourishing plant of a fertility grove above, cuts it and sucks the glistening pulp for border security savvy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the artist:<\/strong><br \/><span>Donal O\u2019Kelly has been a playwright and actor for four decades, touring his solo shows such as Catalpa, Bat The Father Rabbit The Son, Fionnuala and Hairy Jaysus globally. &nbsp;He\u2019s now focusing on writing creative non-fiction, and is writing a book on the origins of the Direct Provision system of accommodation for people in need of international refuge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30314,"template":"","class_list":["post-30313","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nilly and Nullius - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nilly and Nullius by Theatre Maker and Actor Donal O\u2019KellySaturday 11 May, 4:30pm.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/nilly-and-nullius\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nilly and Nullius - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nilly and Nullius by Theatre Maker and Actor Donal O\u2019Kelly Saturday 11 May, 4:30pm. 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