OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Celia de Fréine 

• Synopsis

  In this play we meet Louise Gavan Duffy who founded Scoil Bhríde in 1917, the first all-Irish school in the country since the demise of the hedge schools. Louise was born in France in 1884 and came to live in Ireland when she was twenty three years of age. She taught in St Ita’s, the girls’ school founded by Patrick Pearse, and spent Easter Week, 1916 in the kitchen of the GPO.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Female

  1

• Total

  1

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  10 September 2016

• Production Notes

  Á léiriú ag Umbrella Theatre Company i gcomhairle le Scoil Bhríde agus Ionad Ealaíon Raghnallach.

• Venue Notes

  Léirithe don chéad uair i Scoil Bhríde, Raghnallach.

Source Of Information

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