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Siobhán McSweeney

June 2024

  • Two women, one tied with rope, embracing in front of a mural of the Derry Girls

    Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom

    A two-year celebration of the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses culminates in a female-led, cross-border, multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the protagonist’s wife

December 2023

  • Siobhán McSweeney

    The Q&A
    Siobhán McSweeney: ‘Which living person do I despise? So. Many’

    The Derry Girls actor on spilling food, loving massages, and being disappointed by casting directors

April 2023

  • Dancing at Lughnasa.

    The week in theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa; Private Lives – review

    Brian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite

January 2023

  • Siobhán McSweeney

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Siobhán McSweeney: ‘​Without sounding woo woo, I think a feminine spirit has come back to Ireland’

    The actor and presenter on saying goodbye to Derry Girls, her role in Disney’s new superhero comedy Extraordinary, and why she’s been given her own table on Pottery Throw Down

December 2022

  • Máiréad Tyers as Jen in Extraordinary.

    2023 culture preview
    Superhero orgasms: how surreal sitcom Extraordinary will put a smile on viewers’ faces

    What if everyone in the world had a different superpower – including in the bedroom? Breakthrough writer Emma Moran and star Máiréad Tyers explain how their new show puts a cheeky spin on twentysomething life

April 2022

  • Whodunit? Louisa Clare Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Saoirse Monica Jackson, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell and Dylan Llewellyn in the third season of Derry Girls.

    TV review
    Derry Girls review – this modern classic goes out on a high

    As Lisa McGee’s masterclass of a sitcom begins its final season, it comes close to being a model of perfection. It’s a bittersweet goodbye

March 2022

  • ‘A slow-moving man who accepted a post in the village a few years ago’ … Conleth Hill as local garda, PJ, in ITV’s adaptation of Holding.

    TV review
    Holding review – a charming adaptation of Graham Norton’s novel

  • Siobhán McSweeney.

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    On my radar: Siobhán McSweeney’s cultural highlights

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