Unbeárlable

Des Bishop announces his brand new stand up show Unbéarlable. Life after Irish

School’s out and Des Bishop can now speak and perform as gaeilge. What’s next for Ireland’s adopted son of comedy having been transformed from a spectator to a player with a more attuned sense of awareness? Kicking off at Vicar Street 26 November, don’t miss his brand new show Unbéarlable, a hilarious look at life after learning Irish, for a native New Yorker finding his way. For full tour details visit desbishop.com

Comedian Tommy Nicholson remarked to Des after he learnt Irish, “Des, you have stopped looking in our windows, and you are now looking into our souls”. What Des saw in those souls were the same struggles as his own: alcoholism, a fear of intimacy and those impressionable years in a Catholic boarding school in the Diocese of Ferns. Slow sets, supper tickets and stolen pints…18 years in Ireland, Des has reached his Irish Adulthood and now his Irish inner child is crying to get out.

Des’s journey learning Irish was documented for his third television series In the Name of the Fada. Broadcasting to record numbers in March, Des’s experience is said to ‘mark his true development as a comedian and an Irishman’ Irish Times Magazine. Des went on to perform to sell out crowds with his stand up show Tongues based on the same experience. His subsequent preoccupation with the language and how it is being taught saw Des create an online learning Irish tool on desbishop.com and record and release Jump Around as gaeilge. He has also met both Ministers of Education and Taoiseach Brian Cowen to discuss the current Irish curriculum. His efforts for the Irish language culminated just recently with the Gael n Bliana, awarded to Des by Foinse.

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