Notes
Premiered online during the Covid-19 pandemic which placed restrictions on live performance.
Dear Ireland I consisted of 50 short monologues written by 50 writers. Pre-recorded and streamed online by the Abbey Theatre, the plays were self-taped by the performers from social isolation. Dear Ireland I was followed by Dear Ireland II and Dear Ireland III, a series of letters, and postcards (respectively), submitted by the public, read by actors from the Abbey stage, and streamed online.
*****
Alive by Carmel Winters, performed by Lucianne McEvoy
WALK by Enda Walsh, performed by Zara Devlin
An Impossible Woman by Iseult Golden, performed by Marion O’Dwyer
SHOWER by Sarah Hanly, performed by Denise Gough
Dear Ireland I’m fucking riddled with anxiety! by John Connors, performed by Graham Earley
windowpane by Shane O’Reilly, performed by Amanda Coogan
Dear Ireland (an unreliable ex-lover suddenly writes) by Nancy Harris, performed by Marty Rea
Home by Owen McCafferty, performed by Patrick O’Kane
Pints of Milk by Frank McGuinness, performed by Joan Sheehy
To Éire by Felispeaks, performed by Deirdre Molloy
A Start by Gina Moxley, performed by Timmy Creed
WIPER AT WORK by Abbie Spallen, performed by Jolene O’Hara
Gorse by Michael West, performed by Mark Doherty
The Box Room (A Meditation on Work) by Shaun Dunne, performed by Eva-Jane Gaffney
Poll Mór/Big Hole by Manchán Magan, performed by Bríd Criomhthain
Maxwell House by Eva O’Connor, performed by Amy McAllister
Dear Ireland by Edna O’Brien, performed by Stanley Townsend
Night 4 by Aoife Martyn, performed by Norma Sheahan
The Other Side by Arthur Riordan, performed by Rory Nolan
I want the things by Andrea Molino, performed by David Moss
Your Hands by John O’Donovan, performed by Nicola Coughlan
Dear Alex by Deirdre Kinahan, performed by Bríd Ní Neachtain
It’s All The Same by Zoe Ní Riordáin, performed by Seána Kerslake
Katty Barry’s by Karen Cogan, performed by Siobhán McSweeney
The Meadow by Jimmy Murphy, performed by Clare Dunne
West by Ursula Rani Sarma, performed by Owen McDonnell
I Know You by Zhu Yi, performed by Julia Gu
After This Thing by Pom Boyd, performed by Brendan Gleeson
staring at the sun by Stacey Gregg, performed by Conor MacNeill
Tara’s Hill by Thomas Kane Byrne, performed by Ericka Roe
These Four Walls by Sinéad Burke, performed by Eleanor Walsh
A Hand of Jacks by Dermot Bolger, performed by Dawn Bradfield
What We Never Got to Lose by Carys D. Coburn, performed by Leah Minto
A New Yorker, now? by Meadhbh McHugh, performed by Clare O’Malley
Something Worth Saying. by Colm Keegan, performed Owen Roe
The Rock by Phillip McMahon, performed by Caoilfhionn Dunne
End Meeting? by Darach Mac Con Iomaire, performed by Eoin Ó Dubhghaill
A Letter To The Manager by Sonya Kelly, performed by Deirdre Donnelly
The Golden on the Grey by Margaret Perry, performed by Breffni Holahan
Grace by Joseph O’Connor, performed by Kathy Rose O’Brien
The Three Irishmen by Kit de Waal, performed by Peter Gowen
Party Party by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, performed by Camille Lucy Ross
Flake by Keith James Walker, performed by Ashleigh Dorrell
Joe by Mark O’Halloran, performed by Andrew Bennett
Let’s Unpack That Shall We by Una McKevitt, performed by Katherine Lynch
Stone mad from the flavour of the world by Blindboy, performed by Cathy Belton
The Temple is closed, written and performed by Emmet Kirwan
Dear Ireland you will hardly notice my absence by Rosaleen McDonagh, performed by Sorcha Fox
The Good Thief by David Ireland, performed by Abigail McGibbon
Conversations with… by Jody O’Neill, performed by Marie Mullen