Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days is the second in a series of media projects bringing the life and legacy of Ella Young to modern audiences.

The Morrigan is a drama of Young’s life in the cultural and political movement that led to the 1916 Rising and foundation of the Irish Free State. You can listen to “The Morrigan,” as broadcast on Dublin City Radio in 2020.

The Morrigan and Halcyon Days are from Tulsk Productions, a group of Irish and US producers and scholars fascinated with twentieth century poet and mystic Ella Young. Team leader, Dorothea MacDowell, is the author of Ella Young’s biography, Ella Young and Her World.

The Morrigan was funded by private and public donations, mainly from Ireland. Tulsk is now assembling funding for Halcyon Days, a limited-series podcast which will tell the story of how Ella Young left post-revolutionary Ireland and inspired a cultural revolution that continues today. Eventually, we would like to make a film.

In 2023, the Government of Ireland’s Emigrant Support Programme funded the writing of a script for Halcyon Days, Ella Young in California, by former KCBX radio producer Ben Purper.

Now that the script is finished, Tulsk plans to produce the play in 2025, commemorating 100 years since Ella Young left Ireland.

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