To celebrate heritage week 2022, Leitrim County Council Heritage Office commissioned Edwina Guckian of Dreoilín Productions to create a short documentary on MacClancy’s castle at Rossclogher. Situated 1 mile from Kinlough town the castle was built on a crannóg on Lough Melvin less than 30… Read More »MacClancy’s Castle Documentary
How can we think creatively about building a fairer and more sustainable future for food and farming? How does traditional culture play a role? Ella McSweeney, Cuan Greene and Edwina Guckian discuss on a new episode of Ireland’s Edge – The Podcast recorded at Other… Read More »Other Voices 2022 – Ireland’s Edge – Fieldwork
Maria Moynihan Meet the beef farmer’s daughter, dancer and community campaigner who is on a mission to preserve past traditions; and protect the future. – Irish Country Living
Edwina Guckian has been awarded Artist in Residence at St. Patrick’s Campus DCU, Drumcondra, Dublin as part of the Art’s Council YPCE Residencies under the School of Arts Education and Movement. YPCE Residencies support artists or arts organisations to spend an academic year in residence… Read More »St. Patrick’s Campus DCU Artist in Residence 2022/2023
Leitrim dancer Edwina Guckian received Outstanding Contribution award at this year’s Gradam Ceoil TG4 which was held in the National Concert Hall on Easter Sunday 2022. Edwina Guckian is a dancer, choreographer, film maker and cultural producer from Drumsna, Co. Leitrim. Growing up in a… Read More »Edwina honoured at TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards
As It Happened is produced and filmed by Edwina Guckian and supported by Leitrim County Council & the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative. 9 Leitrim artists were commissioned to create work in response to… Read More »As It Happened
Edwina Guckian and members of Sowing the Seed project feature in the December 2021 issue of National Geographic. For at least 400 years during Christmas season, Irish mummers have dressed in straw outfits while going house-to-house captivating residents with their plays, rhymes, singing, dancing, and music. In the… Read More »The Leitrim Mummers’ feature in National Geographic
Here Comes I Jack Straw, curated and produced by Edwina Guckian for Christmas 2021 involving 25 mummers/Leitrim artists and 15 Leitrim communities. This project is supported by Leitrim County Council & The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media under the Local Live… Read More »Here Comes I Jack Straw
‘To The Mountain’ is a series of commissions of Leitrim artists by The Iron Mountain Literature Festival filmed and edited by Edwina Guckian of Dreoilín Productions. Featuring 7 Leitrim artists: Ailie Blunnie – Michael Harding – Róisín Kelly – Alice Lyons – Patrick McCabe –… Read More »To The Mountain
Curated by Edwina Guckian and hosted at the Cavan – Leitrim Railway Museum, Dromod, Co. Leitrim On Sunday 19th & Monday 20th September 2021, The Travelling Sessions was funded by Leitrim County Council and the Department of Arts & Culture. Performing artists included: Brian Lennon,… Read More »The Travelling Sessions