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Brendan Daly

I’m a freelance print and radio journalist based in Galway, Ireland. I write about the arts, history, and travel, and contribute to the Sunday Business Post, Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Books Ireland. I’ve written about theatre for the Sunday Business Post and Irish Theatre Magazine. I have made radio documentaries – one about the biggest table quiz in the world and one about the first surfer in Europe – for two national radio stations in Ireland: RTE and Newstalk.






BWW Review: Waiting Never Felt So Good in WAITING FOR GODOT
BWW Review: Waiting Never Felt So Good in WAITING FOR GODOT
July 18, 2016

“Nothing happens,” thunders Estragon, “nobody comes, nobody goes – it's awful!” We are, of course, in the existential nowhere of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's modern masterpiece, which flings metaphysical anguish up against slapstick comedy.

BWW Review: Grieving for the dead in ARLINGTON [A LOVE STORY]
BWW Review: Grieving for the dead in ARLINGTON [A LOVE STORY]
July 15, 2016

Fresh from co-writing the musical play Lazarus with David Bowie, the awards-laden Irish dramatist Enda Walsh presents the world premiere of his latest work: Arlington [a love story].

BWW Review: Bursting the Dam of Loneliness in THE WEIR
BWW Review: Bursting the Dam of Loneliness in THE WEIR
June 25, 2016

Four local men gather in a forgotten pub in a remote part of Ireland and attempt to impress an outsider, a young woman newly-arrived to the area, with their ghost stories, but she delivers a haunting story of loss that devastates them.

BWW Review: Consecrating Childhood Confusions in Frank O'Connor's GOD BLESS THE CHILD
BWW Review: Consecrating Childhood Confusions in Frank O'Connor's GOD BLESS THE CHILD
June 8, 2016

On the 50th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed Irish short story writer Frank O'Connor, God Bless the Child fuses three of his works into a largely successful stage adaptation.



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