OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Maeve O'Callaghan 

• Setting

  The living-room of Dr. Cusack's house in an English industrial town. The sitting-room of Dr. Cusack's new house in Ireland a few weeks later. Time - the present.

• Synopsis

  An Irish doctor working and living in England attempts to maintain his family's sense of its own 'Irishness' by all avenues open to him. He has ensured his offspring learn to speak Irish as children and later sends them to university in Irish cities. He ultimately sees them drifting into English customs and mannersisms and decides that there's only foolproof way to remain Irish. He moves lock and stock and barrell back to Ireland.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  6

• Total

  13

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  05 August 1937

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and from press cuttings.