OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Máire Ní Shíothcháin 

• Adapted / Translated From

  T.C. Murray

• Author Notes

  Aistriúchán ar 'Birthright'.

• Synopsis

  A play about rural Ireland of late marriage and large scale emigration, dominated by the new class of small landowners who had only got control of their land since 1903 when the Wyndham Act was passed. Bat Morrissey has bought his farm from money he earned in the States and has worked hard to drain the bog land and to try to make it viable. But his son Hugh is more interested in socialising and playing hurling. The generational conflict escalates to the point at which Hugh is beaten to death.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  1

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  30 March 1916

• Producer

  Produced by Na Cluicheoirí

• Original Venue

  The Irish Theatre (previously known as The Theatre Of Ireland)
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú, ó Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970 le P Ó Siadhail agus ó A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000 le Christopher Morash.