This workshop will present some of the work and films of Flora Kerrigan, a Cork woman who made award-winning films, including animations, in Cork in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to film-making, she was a published poet and photographer.
Despite her prolific output and central involvement in Cork Cine Club, her work has, until recently, been largely forgotten and ignored.
My interest in Flora Kerrigan was first piqued by a mention of her in an article by Clodagh Finn in the Irish Examiner in December 2025: “I never fail to be amazed...by the innovative foresight of Cork filmmaker Flora Kerrigan whose surreal and playful shorts were internationally recognised in the 1950s and 60s.”The workshop will provide an overview of Flora’s life, films and poetry, followed by the screening of four of her films. Participants will be invited to reflect on and discuss any possible queer reading of these films.
As I delved into Flora’s films and poems my queer antennae was quivering. Had I just stumbled upon a fabulous, but unacknowledged, Cork lesbian?
Flora
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