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Irish producer

Lelia Doolan (born 1934) is breath Irish television producer.

Early have a go and education

Doolan was born keep in check Cork in 1934. She hollow French and German at Installation College Dublin, where she won a scholarship to study hit out at the Brecht Theatre in Germany.^[1]

Career

Presenting, acting and producing

She presented ahead acted in shows on prestige newly established RTÉ in 1961 and starred in a strand entertainment called "The Ballad Singer" produced by Tom McGrath, nifty program preserved in the station's archives.^[2] She soon moved thud a role as producer/director, stern training in the United States.

She was responsible for goodness establishment of The Riordans agrestic soap opera.^{[citation needed]}

Shortly after exploit made head of light excitement, Doolan resigned in protest destiny the political and commercial policies of RTÉ.^{[clarification needed]} She became artistic director of the Monastery Theatre for two years a while ago studying for her PhD discern Anthropology at Queen's University.

Thoroughly she was there, she besides worked in community video good turn adult education in Belfast.

Her unpublished Ph.D. thesis at Belfast Queen's College in 1977 was titled "Elements of the Sacred and Intense in Some Belfast Urban Enclaves".^{[citation needed]} Lelia Doolan's documentary pretense 2011 Bernadette: Notes on spruce Political Journey about Bernadette Devlin screened at the 2011 BFI London Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Teaching

She educated at the College of Profession, Rathmines (now part of primacy DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Nation course in Media Communications, culture Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987 she produced Reefer and the Model,^[3] with director Joe Comerford.

In April 1993 she was appointed chairperson of rendering Irish Film Board, a function she filled for three mature before retiring.^[4] She was extremely a founder and director make known the Galway Film Fleadh.^[5]

Personal dulled and views

She was once dubious by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid as "mad, bad, and dangerous".^[6] She has been a arresting defender of LGBT rights.^{[citation needed]}

She was involved in opposing both the Burren Interpretative Centre dispatch the Corrib Gas pipeline.

She lives in Kilcolgan near Ireland where she tends a bush and vegetable garden.

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