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Martin Dempsey

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Martin Dempsey was very active in Aisteoirí Chéitinn in the 1940s. He is better known as an actor but he wrote plays and pantomimes, especially in the 1950s when he was a director with Aisteoirí Chéitinn when they produced plays in the Damer.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Airneán Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
An Caidéal Sa Chlós Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
An Maor Fallsa Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
Scáth A Chéile Martin Dempsey

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Castar Na Daoine Martin Dempsey Stuart Ready
Olc Maith Martin Dempsey Philip Johnson

Actor

Play Title Playwright
A Keane Sense of Humour Joe O'Donnell John B. Keane
Aaron Thy Brother Conor Farrington
Airneán Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
Aistear In Aistear Róisín Ní Shéaghdha
An Baile Seo 'Gainne Michael Judge Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha
An Caidéal Sa Chlós Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
An Fear a Phós Balbhán Tomás Mac Anna Gerard Victory
An gCaithfidh Tú Toitín? Donn Sigerson Piatt Saunders Lewis
An Maor Fallsa Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
Bratacha an Rí Liam Ó Briain Adolfo Costa du Rels
Castar Na Daoine Martin Dempsey Stuart Ready
Deirdre Ulick O'Connor
Dionysia Hugh Carr
Dragan '71 Tomás Mac Anna Seán Ó Briain
Dublin One Hugh Leonard James Joyce
It's Later Than You Think Lucienne Hill Jean Anouilh
King of the Castle Eugene McCabe
Lady Spider Donagh MacDonagh
Lig Sinn i gCathú Macdara Ó Fátharta Breandán Ó hEithir
Little City Séamus Byrne
Lon Rinn an Chairn Seán Ó Broin
McRoarty T.D. Fergus Linehan (1)
Mick and Mick Hugh Leonard
Niall Agus Carmelita
Olc Maith Martin Dempsey Philip Johnson
On Trial Máiréad Ní Ghráda
One of Our Own Fergus Linehan (1) Lennox Robinson
Scáth A Chéile Martin Dempsey
Setanta agus an Chú Tomás Mac Anna
Siúl Barr Cnoic Frank Carney
Speak of the Devil Fergus Linehan (1)
Stephen D. Hugh Leonard James Joyce
Submarine Ulick O'Connor
Tá Crut Nua ar na Sléibhte Micheál Mac Liammóir Liam Ó Briain Micheál Mac Liammóir
The Barracks Hugh Leonard John McGahern
The Chastitute John B. Keane
The Dark Lovers Ulick O'Connor
The Dead Hugh Leonard James Joyce
The Grand Inquisitor Ulick O'Connor
The Highest House on the Mountain John B. Keane
The Movements of Mr Brooker Jim O'Donnell
The Mundy Scheme Brian Friel
The Private Death of a Queen Aodhán Madden
The Saints go Cycling In Hugh Leonard Flann O'Brien
The Savages James Douglas

Director

Play Title Playwright
Airneán Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
Aistear In Aistear Róisín Ní Shéaghdha
Aistrithe ón dráma Francach 'Le Labiche et Martin'.
An Caidéal Sa Chlós Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
An Dóchas Aodh Ó Dubhgáin Herman Heijerman
Aistrithe ó 'Op Hoop Van Zegan'.
An gCaithfidh Tú Toitín? Donn Sigerson Piatt Saunders Lewis
Aistrithe ó 'Gymerwch chi sigarét?'.
An Maor Fallsa Martin Dempsey Gearóid Ó Tighearnaigh
Castar Na Daoine Martin Dempsey Stuart Ready
Aistrithe ó dhráma Sasanach.
Olc Maith Martin Dempsey Philip Johnson
Aistriúchán ar 'The Good and the Bad'.
Scáth A Chéile Martin Dempsey
Siúl Barr Cnoic Frank Carney
Smock Alley Maureen Charlton