Mark Phelan

Senior Lecturer in Drama @QUBelfast Trustee @LyricBelfast Historian of Irish Drama & Post-conflict Theatre in NI.

[Mark Phelan @markphelan101]

Real pleasure & privilege to participate in @LindaMulcahy7 brilliant podcast series at @OxfordCSLS on the Role Theatre in Invoking Radical Empathy, talking about social justice and roles of law & theatre in postconflict society

[The Everyman @EverymanCork]

We invited Dr @markphelan101 to discuss history, narratives and the play for our production of Making History by Brian Friel.

Read ‘History Isn’t Over Yet…’ on our blog! 📚

Dr Mark Phelan is Senior Lecturer in Drama, @QUBelfast.

https://t.co/GrP7BW3Wkc

[Lyric Theatre Belfast @LyricBelfast]

Another massive congratulations to Emily Foran for being shortlisted for Best Director at @TheStage Debut Awards 2024!

Emily’s incredible directorial debut on the Lyric Main Stage with a stunning, sold-out adaptation of #LittleWomen truly set the bar high this year.

[Halfpacehurling/Social hurling @halfpacehurling]

Great squad of Halfpacers out tonight. Well done men.
And a message to our good friend and Halfpacehurler
@martinmcneely ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Al Jazeera releases the video of the actual moment the israelis chose to bomb Awda school in Abasan in Khan Yunis: they were playing football

[Mark O’Brien @obrienmark]

Such a joy to be @LyricBelfast this evening to see Midsummers Nights Dream. Truly magical, inclusive and inviting. Privilege to be in that audience and the rain was actually an added bonus. What an atmosphere. Congrats @Jimifay and all involved. On for two more days. Don’t miss

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

Hats off to @MarkCarruthers7 After my Kama Sutra quip about the DUP on @bbctheview, he promised me, live on air, a bottle of champagne. It wasn't an empty pledge as one has very generously exchanged hands. Mark sets a fine example to our politicians on being a man of his word🍾🥂

[Jimmy Fay @Jimifay]

Directing in the rain - Midsummer Nights Dream @LyricBelfast with @BeyondSkin @KidsInControl1 thanks to @belfastcc #Belfast24 & @ArtsCouncilNI (photo of me @ciaranbdesign lights & smoke @marytumelty set Stuart Marshall, mist & rain by God).

[BBC Newsline @bbcnewsline]

A new documentary about life in one of Northern Ireland’s most deprived neighbourhoods is receiving widespread acclaim from film critics. It's called The Flats, and it follows the lives of a handful of residents in the New Lodge area of north Belfast. Rick Faragher reports.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“If we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security,” warns Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, “and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy.”

In an extraordinarily candid interview, Israel’s former internal security chief condemns what he calls Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “toxic leadership,” and argues that as the war continues, “we are losing our identity as people, as Jews, and as human beings.”

Watch our full conversation here.

[Spider Stacy @spiderstacy]

I’ve always loved this podcast. This is a particularly breathtaking episode with fantastic guests.
Disclaimer; when I say Brendan Shine looks like a farmer, I mean he looks like a heroic farmer, a titan of tillage

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

I don’t think this was the answer producers were expecting when baseball great Reggie Jackson was asked how “emotional” he felt to be back in Birmingham, Alabama.

I assume he was expected to offer some fond nostalgia.

He told the truth instead.

[Michael Quinn @Quinnfreelance]

Here's why the arts make economic sense. With funding of £1.4 million in 2023-24, @LyricBelfast employed 300 freelancers, 62 staff, commissioned 14 writers & had an economic impact of £2.7 million. The arts repay investment. @ClaireHanna @sianalliance @DeirdreHargey @ArtsMatterNI

[Michael Patrick @micktheejit]

I've had to pull out of 'Midsummer' at @LyricBelfast 😥

Been a pretty mad week - but out of hospital and all now - and my breathing is the best it's been for months.

[Kabosh @KaboshTheatre]

We’re reading a few bits as part of this lovely @HTRinfo event in @thelinenhall - pop in for a breather from the daily madness https://t.co/uTrV6fj7ug

[Lyric Theatre Belfast @LyricBelfast]

It was an absolute pleasure to have composer and musician Neil Martin in the building yesterday filming on our Main Stage as part of an Irish language documentary on his life and work for @TG4TV & @BBCnireland
with @BTRadarTV and @NIScreen.

[Claire Hanna @ClaireHanna]

Official opening of the new Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB, and of the calm, lovely Marie Heaney Square beside it.

A celebration of what Heaney means to all of us here, and of the encouragement & inspiration Belfast can give to writers of the present & future. Happy to be there.

[Cllr Micky Murray @micky_murray]

Attended the official opening of the new Seamus Heaney Centre at Uni Road today.

My absolute pleasure to bring literary genius @NiamhyMcNally with me as my guest, and bump into @geroildeen again, who’s obviously my bestie at this stage!

[lyngardner @lyngardner]

Let’s act now to make theatre and the arts part of the election conversation https://t.co/RxmlpMgwpH

[BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI]

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has said that Stormont is "short-sighted" when it comes to public funding for the arts.
https://t.co/X6CS9vhLAp

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

A Class of Her Own @rhasidatadeleke
"Rhasidat Adeleke is not only a world-class champion, she is a world-class person... You are class, so please do not let online cowards bring you down. You are Ireland and Ireland could not be more proud of you." @SimonHarrisTD