Actor Clive Geraghty for Clifden talk

One of Ireland’s finest actors, Clive Geraghty will be at the Clifden Arts Festival this Friday, September 23, to give a talk entitled Sappy Days

This multi-talented man has performed in nearly 200 plays, many of them with the Abbey Theatre, and worked in radio, television and film. Some of his memorable TV appearances include The Tudors  Father Ted and The Clinic, as well as in An Klondike and Eipic for TG4. Last year, he worked with Vanessa Redgrave in a screen adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, directed by Jim Sheridan. He has also written several plays, scripts for Fair City, essays for Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word, and has published A Diary of an Abbey Theatre Tour.

Clive Geraghty will recount the significant moments and the trials and tribulations in his life that resulted in him becoming a sensational actor. He will explain how at the age of 17, he joined the Irish Army Air Corps as a mechanic before leaving entering the Abbey Theatre to become an actor – he eventually became a member of the Abbey Company. Along the way he will remember the people who had a significant influence on him when he was starting out on his career.

Clive Geraghty has toured extensively with the Abbey dazzling audiences all over the globe with his spectacular acting ability in the US, Australia, UK, France, Germany and Finland. In 2007, he took a break from acting to attend university and was awarded first class honours degree in modern Irish from NUI Maynooth in 2011.

His talk will take place at 2.30pm in Clifden Library.

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