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      • “I often think there’s a greater advantage to being an outsider, though it’s difficult. I spent the first 20 years of my life trying to assimilate. I didn’t feel Irish. Wanted to be. At home, I stopped speaking French – I would only answer in English, because I wanted to be one of the fishermen, with the lads.”

      Olwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage ...

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  3. www.irishtimes.com › culture › stageOlwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage ...

    Jan 20, 2024 · Olwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage to being an outsider’. The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in...

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  4. www.independent.ie › style › actor-olwen-fouere-as-aActor Olwen Fouéré: ‘As a Breton family in the west of ...

    Jun 13, 2021 · But it’s strongly in my DNA. When I hear Breton music or singing I feel something physically. It’s a sense of recognition. Culturally the language is close to Irish.

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Olwen_FouéréOlwen Fouéré - Wikipedia

    Olwen Fouéré (born 2 March 1954) is an Irish actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born in Galway, Ireland to Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

  7. www.tn2magazine.ie › falling-for-fourere-anFalling for Fouéré - An Interview with Olwen Fouéré | TN2 ...

    Apr 29, 2016 · If one could pinpoint a singular surfeit in Irish theatre, it would surely be its proclivity for naturalism. Fouéré, with her surrealist acts of disturbance that pose challenges to reality, offers an antidote to naturalistic excess and familiarity.

  8. www.irishtimes.com › culture › stageOlwen Fouéré and the Breton connection: This time it’s ...

    Feb 3, 2017 · For a long time now, Olwen Fouéré has been Ireland's leading avant -garde theatre performer. But what does that really mean? Broadly, the avant-garde is defined by two things. One is the...

  9. www.hotpress.com › film-tv › olwen-fouere-ive-alwaysOlwen Fouéré: "I’ve always been interested in people who are ...

    Apr 13, 2022 · Self-deprecation aside, Olwen admits she “couldn’t believe it” when she saw that The Irish Times had included her in their list of ‘The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time’ in 2020.

  10. www.irishtimes.com › culture › stageHow Olwen Fouéré conquered Beckett’s memory challenge

    Jul 20, 2015 · The actor continues her performances of notoriously tricky Irish prose works with Beckett’s Lessness, which comprises 60 sentences apparently chosen at random. Olwen Fouéré in Lessness at the...