Robert O'Sullivan - Writer Biography
Robert O’Sullivan is a writer currently living in Cork. Originally from the northside of the city, they studied History and Classics in University College Cork. They wrote for the college paper, including a comedy piece about their own conception - winning national awards in the process.
They then went on to work in political communications & advocacy for a time, focusing on disability & LGBTQ+ rights, and environmentalism. During this time contributed to books on bisexuality, and lobbied Irish political parties on transgender rights & policy. In 2018 they took time away from their career to care for a family member who had become critically ill.
Robert likes to focus on offbeat characters, uncommon subject matter or things generally forgotten or ignored by society at large. They include Flann O’Brien, John Waters, David Lynch & Ira Steven Behr among their influences, and are currently working on scripts in the comedy, crime and science fiction genres.
C'mere to Me - Short Synopsis
In the dark corner of ‘An Shebeen’, a rural tumbledown pub, the regulars sit nodding at each other over pints. The fire in the hearth spits and crackles, warming them only begrudgingly. One throws a stick into the flames. Another glances up at the clock. At the other side of the fireplace is sat the storyteller, a Seanchaí; and by God, they announce, doesn’t the very situation bring to mind a story they once heard.
Described as ‘Drunk History meets Reeling in the Years’, C’mere to Me is a show about the good, the bizarre, and the situationally comedic in Irish history, folklore and mythology.
The show follows Colm, our Seanchaí, and a cast of eccentric pub regulars as he regales them in a time-honoured tale - though not as you may remember it.
C’mere to Me uses old forms of oral storytelling once utilised by the Seanchaí and ancient poets of yore to recontextualise and update historial & mythical stories for a modern audience.
To get in touch with Robert or find out more about C'mere to Me, contact spotlight@screenireland.ie