Fireside chat
We are delighted to welcome to the festival two of the UK’s most admired second-generation Irish creative minds: Roisin Conaty and Bridget Christie.
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Roisin won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival, and went on to perform stand-up all over the world. She is a frequent guest on many TV panel shows on BBC and Channel 4, and has most recently released the second series of her own sitcom GameFace, which she originated, wrote and stars in.
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Bridget is an Edinburgh Comedy Award, Rose D’Or and South Bank Arts award winner and star of her own Netflix special and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. She has appeared in numerous other TV and radio programmes and has written a weekly column for the Guardian Weekend magazine.
We will be chatting with Roisin and Bridget about growing up as a second-generation Irish person in the UK, and getting their view on what influences, good and bad, come from having Irish heritage.
The chat will be hosted by Cathy Cullen from The Cinemile
Cathy Cullen is the co-host of The Cinemile, a podcast where she and her husband Dave record their walk home form the cinema. While it began as passion project , it has become a highly acclaimed and popular cinema podcast. They won Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in 2017, and have been listed as one of the top podcasts of the year in New Statesmen, one of the top 100 podcasts in the world by the Daily Mail, recommended by The Guardian, BBC radio, RTE and more. NME have said “They’re the Richard and Judy that we deserve, but never got.”
Cathy has one toddler and another on the way, so is very excited to talk to two second generation Irish women about what it means to be Irish when born in England. Cathy is from Cork, but has spent the last decade abroad, living in Sydney and now London.