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The last thing I saw and loved was… Kneecap the film.
The book I keep coming back to… Rebecca Solnit’s Not Too Late. She writes beautifully and she’s so articulate about the vital importance of hope as we face climate change.
I find inspiration in… landscape. Seeing the layers of history and geology in the landscape of West Cork, especially the islands of Roaring Water Bay, always acts as a reminder to step back from the worries of the daily minutiae of my life. I am just one tiny moment in the vastness of history. This too shall pass.
My favourite film is… The Big Short. I love complicated films about economics and political corruption and this one explains the whole 2009 crash and what happened economically to get us there. I’ve seen it three times.
My career highlight is… there have been a few! But I especially loved performing with Croí Glan in the first Unlimited Festival at the South Bank in London during the 2012 Paralympics. The range and calibre of work by professional disabled artists during the festival was so enriching and the Royal Festival Hall is such a glorious building – talk about layers of history!
The song I listen to to get in the zone is… anything by Nils Frahm. I got to see him perform live at the National Concert Hall recently. I was in the front row so I really got to see the detail of how he works musically.
The last book I recommended is… The Ministry of the Future. It’s a brilliant, dense, enormous novel about overcoming climate change. It’s a deeply thought-provoking book about what it will really take personally and globally for us to get through this and it’s refreshingly uncompromising in its political analysis.
I never leave the house without… water. I try to drink four litres a day.
