Eleanor Tiernan
Bio
Eleanor Tiernan is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, and performer known for her dry wit, sharp observational humour, and intelligent commentary on modern life, including social norms, gender roles, and everyday absurdities. She began performing in the early 2000s and quickly built a reputation for understated, carefully crafted comedy that blends irony with social observation.
She has performed internationally at major festivals including Just For Laughs in Montreal, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs, the Vodafone Comedy Festival in Dublin, Latitude, and Glastonbury, and has supported comedians such as Stewart Lee, Tig Notaro, Ardal O’Hanlon, Jason Manford, Jason Byrne, and Reginald D Hunter. Her stand-up has featured on The Alternative Comedy Experience and she was named in The Sunday Times list of Top Ten Female Stand-Ups to Watch.
Alongside stand-up, she has worked across television, radio, and theatre as a writer and actor, appearing in shows such as Bridget & Eamon and Moone Boy and contributing to RTÉ’s Irish Pictorial Weekly. In theatre, she co-created the sold-out Dublin Fringe hit City West Side Story and later developed The National Therapy Project, which was nominated for a First Fortnight Award. She also contributes opinion pieces to publications including The Irish Times.