OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Mícheál Ó hAodha 

• Setting

  The Quinlvian farmhouse in Co Clare, 1942

• Synopsis

  The elder son of a former Irish republican incurs the wrath of the local priest by his efforts to form a peasant co-operative. As a result, the bishop withdraws the younger son from a seminary in Maynooth. The mother, outraged at wrecking of her ambitions for her younger son, tries to oust the elder one from his inheritance.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  16 April 1951

• Producer

  Produced by Dublin Repetory Theatre

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Produced on the Peacock stage.

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