OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Seán Mac Mathúna 

• Setting

  Ceantar Gaeltachta ar an teorainn idir Ciarraí agus Corcaigh díreach roimh Chogadh na Saoirse.

• Notes

  Bhuaigh an dráma seo Duais Amharclann na Mainistreach ag Oireachtas 1991.

• Synopsis

  The play explores human weaknesses at the start of the War of Independence in 1919. An IRB organiser arrives in a Gaeltacht area in the Doire na Sagart mountains on the Cork-Kerry border. Irish as a spoken language is waning as parents rear their children through English. The IRB organiser has instructions for the local band of ill-equipped and untrained volunteers, but the locals are not up to the fight and the IRB man sets out to "blood" them.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  9

• Female

  1

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  22 April 1992

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Ar stáitse na Péacóige a léiríodh an dráma seo.

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Léiríodh an dráma seo as Béarla ceithre oíche in aghaidh na seachtaine, agus dhá oíche as Gaeilge, leis an bhfoireann chéanna, rud nár deineadh riamh cheana in Éirinn.

Source Of Information

Níor aimsíodh clár don léiriú seo agus fuarthas an t-eolas faoi ó ghearrthóga nuachta; tógadh sonraí breise faoin bhfoireann ón leagan Béarla den dráma mar atá i Playography agus tá roinnt d'ainmneacha na gcarachtar as Béarla dá bharr sin.