Rose Ugoalah

A storyteller living and working in Dublin, Ireland. Rose has written for publications such as the Sunday Independent, Image magazine, and Totally Dublin, she also produced and hosted a live radio show on Liffey Sound FM. Rose is a first-class graduate of Trinity College Dublin’s Creative Writing M.Phil where she was awarded the Briena Staunton Writer’s Residency.

Rose has received Irish Arts Council funding for literature and was awarded a writing residency with the University of the Notre Dame and the Irish Writers Centre. She was selected for the inaugural Storyhouse Lab with Element Pictures to workshop her film projects. Rose writes for continuing drama with RTÉ (Ireland’s national broadcaster) and she is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin. Rose is a member of the Society of Authors, the Writer’s Guild of Ireland, and Women in Film and Television Ireland. She is currently writing her second book of fiction.

IMAGE.ie • 21st December 2018

We found the person responsible for posting sticky notes all around Dublin

A few years ago, colorful sticky notes started to appear around the city. Whoever was responsible for their appearance remained a mystery until now...

The Sunday Independent • 9th October 2018

Sunday Independent

A €200m audiovisual action plan could further boost the film sector, but staff want a fair slice of a growing pie

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Cinema Review: The Silver Branch

Review of director Katrina Costello's beautiful meditation on one farmer's relationship to his land.

Amazon.com • 1st April 2019

BLACK BILE

A collection of melancholic prose poetry with photographs. Words and images by Rose Ugoalah.

Baked Goods • 2nd March 2020

BAKED GOODS

Created, designed, edited and contributed content to the new Students' Union magazine of Griffith College Dublin.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Theatre Festival: NASSIM

In an era of information overload, the unknown is refreshing – and where Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is most comfortable...

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Theatre Festival: The Fever – 600 Highwaymen

“We don’t need to pretend that we’re somewhere else. We actually need help being in real time in real space together”

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: EPOCH – Ayesha Ahmad

Change: life’s only constant inconstant. Photographer Ayesha Ahmad endeavoured to capture its essence documenting the summer of 2018 in her first solo exhibition.

The Circular • 14th December 2018

CPR and AED Training in Nigeria

We’ve all seen the following scene in movies and on television: the hospital patient’s heart stops beating and medical professionals run into the room; two pads are placed on the patient’s chest and someone yells ”Clear!”

The Circular • 7th December 2018

Holistic Methods for Businesses Productivity – The Circular

Seductive employee perks like concierges, free food, and sleeping pods might enhance the workplace environment, but holistic business approaches are increasing in popularity as a way to cope with work-life demands...

Alberta Oil • 9th October 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

A degree in geoscience used to be a ticket to a job. Why that's no longer the case, and what today's graduates can do about it.

The Circular • 9th October 2018

IFI Documentary Festival Review: The Curious Works of Roger Doyle

Regarded as the ‘Godfather of Irish Electronica’, Roger Doyle has been composing music for over five decades.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Maeve Stone – Unwoman Part III

A pregnant woman on stage continuously giving birth over and over and over again — and that’s just the beginning of this theatre piece performed by the captivating Olwen Fouéré.

The Circular • 9th October 2018

Hard Working Class Heroes 2018: Spotlight — Bad Bones

Now in its 16th year, Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH) is still a great place to discover fresh Irish talent and see a plethora of performances around the city for a really good price.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Marise Gaughan – DROWNING

Marise Gaughan joins the mental health conversation as she uses comedic alchemy to transmute personal sorrow into something else, something all of us can laugh at.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Fringe: BLACK JAM: CURE – Fried Plantains Collective

It’ll be “lit to the nines” declares Amanda Azams, the organiser of Black Jam – the Afropunk, grime, rap, hip-hop and spoken word night.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Cinema Review: Puzzle

If you’ve ever thought that a film about people assembling puzzles would be boring, then you were absolutely right. Amazing films have been made about quiet quests, but this is no “Searching for Bobby Fischer.”

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

5 Things to Do on Culture Night 2018

From its beginnings in Temple Bar, where many a visitor enjoyed equal doses of culture-pints to match their intake of the arts, Culture Night has grown beyond the cobbled stones of the city centre to encompass all the major quarters.

Totally Dublin • 9th October 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Ailís Ní Ríain – I USED TO FEEL

“There is a very large element of surprise for audiences in this piece.” So says composer and writer Ailís Ní Ríain. “My aim is to provoke, to enable a disabled audience and disable an enabled audience.”

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