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Not to be confused with Tara Lynn.

Tara Flynn
Flynn at a pro-choice protest in 2018 regarding the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
Born
County Cork, Ireland
Occupation(s)Actress, writer

Tara Flynn (born 1969)[1] is an Irish actress and writer. She was a member of The Nualas.

Career

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Flynn has written three satirical books: You're Grand: The Irishwoman's Secret Guide to Life,[2][3] Giving Out Yards: The Art of Complaint, Irish Style[4][5][6] and Rage-In: Trolls and Tribulations of Modern Life [7]

She was a founding member (with Sue Collins and Anne Gildea) of comedy singing group "The Nualas".[8][9]

She is a voice artist and was the voice of Molly in RTE's The Morbegs.[10][11][5]

She uses satire for activism, as in YouTube sketches such as "Racist B&B", "Armagayddon" and "The Case for Mammy / Daddy Marriage".[12]

In 2010 she brought a one-woman show Big Noise to the Edinburgh Fringe.[13]

In 2015, as part of Amnesty International Ireland's "She is not a Criminal" campaign, she spoke publicly for the first time about travelling to the Netherlands for an abortion (abortion was illegal in Ireland at the time).[14][15] She has since been a vocal campaigner for reproductive rights and the repeal of Ireland's 8th amendment.[5]

In 2017, Flynn provided the voiceover on TV3's remake of Blind Date.[16][17][18] She took over the role first done by Graham Skidmore in the original 1980s show.[16]

In 2021, 2022 and 2023 Tara joined Marian Keyes for a BBC Radio 4 programme Now You're Asking, in which they discussed problems sent in by listeners (they called them "askers").

Personal life

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Flynn met her husband, Carl Austin, at a London bar in 2008.[19] In 2013, a Kinsale man called Austin, an African American, a racial slur. This incident led Flynn to create a comedy sketch satirizing racism in Ireland, which gained 85,000 YouTube views in two days.[20]

References

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  1. ^ Sweeney, Tanya (11 June 2022). "Tara Flynn: 'It's frustrating to be 53 and still hustling for gigs'". Irish Independent. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  2. ^ Flynn, Tara (2014). You're grand : the Irishwoman's secret guide to life. Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland. ISBN 978-1-4447-9774-9.
  3. ^ Flynn, Tara. "You're Grand The Irish Woman's Secret Guide to Life". Goodreads. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. ^ Flynn, Tara (2015). Giving out yards 00436157393: the art of complaint, Irish style. Dublin, Ireland: Hachette Books Ireland. ISBN 978-1-4736-2254-8.
  5. ^ a b c "Giving Out Yards: Interview with Tara Flynn". UCC Express. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  6. ^ Flynn, Tara (15 October 2015). "Giving Out Yards". Goodreads. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  7. ^ Flynn, Tara. "Rage-In: Trolls and Tribulations of Modern Life". Headstuff. Headstuff.org.
  8. ^ Smith, Andrea (8 December 2014). "Happily, it all turned out grand for Tara and Carl". Independent.ie. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  9. ^ "The Nualas Official Website".
  10. ^ "Tara Flynn". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  11. ^ O'Connor, Amy (11 January 2018). "11 reasons why The Morbegs was the ultimate Irish kids show". The Daily Edge. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  12. ^ Muir, Hugh (16 June 2013). "Sometimes it's best to just laugh at bigots". The Guardian.
  13. ^ "Tara Flynn - Big Noise". Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme 2010. Edinburgh Festival Fringe – via issuu.
  14. ^ Flynn, Tara (14 September 2015). "You don't talk about abortion in Ireland. But I have to". The Irish Times.
  15. ^ O'Toole, Fintan (15 September 2015). "Shining light on abortion – one of Ireland's 'unknown knowns'". The Irish Times.
  16. ^ a b Kelly, Aoife (12 July 2017). "'Our Tara' - Irish Blind Date's 'Our Graham' voiceover will be Tara Flynn". Independent.ie. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  17. ^ "Irish Blind Date's 'Graham' will be female". IrishExaminer.com. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  18. ^ "'Ta-ra love!" Tara Flynn to voice over TV3's Blind Date". RTE.ie. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  19. ^ "Happily, it all turned out grand for Tara and Carl". Irish Independent. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  20. ^ "Racist B&B: Rattling the cage of bigotry". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
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