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Here, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee explains why she wanted to highlight Stacey Gregg: Stacey is an exciting but more importantly fearless writer, constantly breaking new ground. I...
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Oct 6, 2022 · The show ends on an episode set around the time of the 1998 Good Friday agreement, and the declaration of peace. Why did you choose that as the show’s end point?
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The final scenes of episode six saw Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle and James dancing around joyfully in their school hall but at home, a very different story was unfolding. Ma Mary, Da Gerry, Aunt Sarah and Grandpa Joe stared solemnly at the TV screen as reports of a fatal bombing filtered through. The sheer impact of the atrocity was echoed in Joe's ...
"I’ve not based anything on any particular incident, but it was just something at that scale," McGee said. "There were lots of times when your family stood around the TV and just couldn’t speak because this was people in your own place doing it to each other. I just wanted to nod to the fact that there were those times as well."
Earlier in the episode best friends Erin and Clare came to something of an impasse after Clare revealed that she was the girl who'd used the school essay competition to express the truth about her sexuality. Erin didn't exactly react well to her best friend's confession, telling her she was "going to boke" and encouraging her to "go back in". "I re...
“I don’t think in any way that Erin's homophobic, I just think that she’s shocked," actress Saoirse Jackson – who plays Erin – argued. "It challenges that view that Erin has about herself that she’s worldly and she’s liberal. This is another defining moment that we get to see for Erin, that actually she’s so naïve and shocked by most things. She ju...
Yes, it will. You can find out everything you need to know about series two right here. This article was originally published in February 2018
- Sarah Doran
Mar 15, 2022 · When Lisa McGee was a kid in Derry in the 1990s, she swore she would never write about Northern Ireland, least of all about the Troubles.
Oct 7, 2022 · NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Derry Girls writer and creator Lisa McGee about the third and final season of the show. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are lots of TV shows and movies about sectarian...
Feb 11, 2022 · But for now here’s a quick recap of the questions I asked and a summation of Stacey’s answers. 1. Did she know it was going to win Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fest? Here Before premiered at the South By South-West Festival in Texas in 2021, and then won for Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Festival.
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May 8, 2022 · Channel 4’s biggest ever comedy series, set in McGee’s hometown, chronicles the teenage kicks of four schoolgirls (and one boy) negotiating the twin perils of the Catholic Church and the...
