The Genealogy Project is an alternative history of this island excavated from the ancestries of the five cross-disciplinary artists performing it. The performance offers new heroes and unheard narratives of citizenship and nationhood, facts of extraordinary and conflicted men and women that lie dormant in our records.

The performers Emma O’Kane, Seán MacErlaine, Michael John McCarthy, Katherine O’Malley and Shane O’Reilly are intrinsically connected by blood to the content. 200 years of each of their ancestries have been expertly researched by Genealogist Nicola Morris and will be collaboratively work-shopped to create a tailored and unique fusion of music, dance and text.

This is something new.

This development is supported by the Abbey Theatre and Dublin City Council.