Eamonn Dillon: From Nothing Comes Everything

08/06/2025

https://www.eamonndilloneverything.com/post/portaloo-sunset

In continuing posting all the old content from my website here is a link to the first post on my blog The Healing Has Begun. Its named after a Van Morrison song if you didn't know and is themed mostly on healing, mental health and well being. This first post concerns the happiest i can ever remember being on the night when i first learned to let go.

Have you ever been completely happy?Have you ever been completely happy?What does that even mean? To be completely happy? For a lot of us, I would say it's a concept that's hard even to describe because it seems so remote. It's probably something that we've experienced only fleetingly, if we've expe...

29/04/2025

20/02/2025

The second film I made (although the first to be planned) was Joe Odiboh Release, the life story of a Nigerian artist trapped in Ireland's Direct Provision refugee processing system.
You can see it on my website here:

https://www.eamonndilloneverything.com/joe-odiboh-release

01/02/2025

From the archives comes my first ever film Miss Apollo, filmed at the start of 2017.
Miss Apollo is the story of Cheryl Murphy an aspiring fashion model who became a victim of the housing crisis and got to live out her dream within the confines of Apollo House, an abandoned office building in Dublin that was briefly occupied by protesters and used to house the city's homeless.
Miss Apollo is a tale of not allowing difficult circumstances prevent you from chasing your dreams.

See the link below:

Miss Apollo In December 2016, Apollo House, a disused office building in Dublin’s city centre was occupied by a group of activists. Demanding changes to the Irish government’s housing policies which had led to rising homeless numbers, they filled the building with rough sleepers from the streets...

22/01/2025

Van Morrison: A Stranger In His Own World, one of my essays on Irish things.

Part 2 of my essay on Van Morrison's life, music and place in the world can be found here:

https://www.eamonndilloneverything.com/van-2

09/01/2025

https://www.eamonndilloneverything.com/van-1

We continue our dredge through the vaults of my old material with this very opinionated (or so Ive been told) detailing of the life of Ireland's greatest singer-songwriter:
Van Morrison: A Stranger In His Own World - Part 1

15/12/2024

I will be posting all the old content from my website here in the following weeks if you'd like to catch up with it.
This week I am posting my interview with Paul and Manuel, two members of the Dublin branch of environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion. As is the theme of the pod I asked them to express how they came to feel so strongly about environmental issues that they made it a significant part of their lives.

https://www.eamonndilloneverything.com/podcast-1/episode/213f9d9f/s1-ep2-extinction-rebellion

15/12/2024

Frank speaks at the For Reel Recovery Centre in Florida.

15/12/2024

Florida Photodump - On the road with Frank's Road

26/11/2024

Our new poster, looks pretty good right?

26/11/2024

I'm very pleased to announce that Frank's Road has won the award for best documentary short at this year's Art of Recovery Film Festival in Florida. Thanks again to the Art of Recovery guys, Paddywagon and Frank himself.

24/11/2024

The audience at Art of Recovery enjoying Frank's Road.