A collection of quirky stories about life in modern Ireland
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Ireland
DANCEHALL DAYS
Brendan O’Brien
Brendan O’Brien and the Dixies were up there with Brendan Bowyer and the Royal Showband, The Clipper Carlton, (the best in my humble opinion) The Plattermen, Joe Dolan, Dickie Rock and The Miami, and had legions of followers prepared to travel the length and breadth of Ireland just to watch them perform.Learning of Brendan’s death brought back long forgotten memories of the night we understudied the Dixies at the Olympia Ballroom in Waterford city. It was sometime in the mid 1960’s. Continue reading
CASSIDY’S CROSS
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THE WATERFORD COLLECTION – 3 plays
QUEENIE…MONEY FROM AMERICA…JOHNJO
All three plays are set in rural Waterford, in the shadows of the Comeragh Mountains.
QUEENIE is a woman who has spent much of her adult life in a mental institution and has now been released into the community. She possesses second-sight, frightening psychic powere, which in the past had seen many in the locality label her a witch.
MONEY FROM AMERICA tells the tale of two brothers and a farm. Lardy has spent all his life eking out an existence in the family hill-farm; now his brother Jack is back from America to claim his rightful inheritance, which he plans to sell.
JOHNJO is the story of a man on the run from rural Ireland and his attempt to survive amongst the chaos of war-torn England. How long can he remain in the shadows?
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FALLING FROM GRACE – the life and times of Shane McGowan
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