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Elaine Gallagher is an Irish writer/director/producer and the writer/director of An Rinceoir, screening at the Landspeak Festival. An Rinceoir (2011) was funded by Screen Ireland and is currently on the Irish language syllabus in Irish secondary schools. Elaine's other shorts include Reel: Irish Women (2016), which explores the untold story of the women who took part in the 1916 Rising—the insurrection against British rule in Ireland—and the comedy shorts Follow Me (2017), The Don'ts Of Cycling (2018) and A Fistful of Coupons (2019). In 2018 Elaine co- directed the comedy-drama independent feature-film, The Comeback, starring Rob Arkins (The Commitments). Elaine has also written for television, for the RTÉ sketch comedy series, The Mario Rosenstock Show.