{"id":42989,"date":"2025-09-04T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:45:13","slug":"emmet-kirwan-its-becoming-harder-i-think-for-people-if-they-dont-have-a-familial-background-in-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42989\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmet Kirwan: \u2018It\u2019s becoming harder, I think, for people if they don\u2019t have a familial background in theatre\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nJust Saying\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b24de2b0-9404-4cbb-8a2e-99e5dbc5d968.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Emmet Kirwan (45) is a playwright and actor. His play \u2018Dublin Oldschool\u2019 won the Stewart Parker Major trust award, and was turned into a feature film. He lives with his wife and their young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I lived in Raheen, in west Tallaght. A terraced house. My dad was a milkman and then he became a taxi driver. My mam is nearly 40 years now working in the Credit Union and is a member of the board. I have three brothers. I\u2019m the youngest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just Saying Actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan. Photo: Steve Humphreys Emmet Kirwan (45) is a playwright and actor.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942,22482],"class_list":{"0":"post-42989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}