OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Máire Ní Chinnéide 

• Setting

  Áit: Cathair éigin in Éirinn Am: An t-am fé láthair [1908]

• Synopsis

  Young Diarmuid Ó Conaill has announced his engagement and his mother Máire is delighted. Máire has a secret, however: unbeknownst to Diarmuid, his father was a raging alcoholic and died young as a result. Diarmuid himself has never touched a drop – his mother has seen to that – but when his uncle urges him to take a drop of wine at the engagement party, Diamuid accepts a glass, and then another glass, and rapidly startst to lose control...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 August 1908

• Production Notes

  Léiríodh an dráma seo ag Oireachtas na bliana 1908

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón leabhar 'Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970' le Pádraig Ó Siadhail.