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A note in the published script says this play was later produced as 'Persevering Pat' at the Little Theatre, Adelphi, Strand, on March 13, 1925.
On inheriting land and money, sheepish County Down bachelor Peter O'Hare becomes the target of two different families seeking to make good matches for their respective daughters. With his housekeeper Widow Dougherty turning advisor, but also seeking a proposal for herself, Peter is taken on a whirlwind of offer, counter-offer and refusal. Eventually, the situation proves so confusing that he slips away to emigrate to America, only announcing the sale of his farm and escape to the village by telegram.
Plays General
Full-Length
3
6
24 November 1913
Produced by Ulster (Literary)Theatre
Grand Opera House
Love and Land
1928
Talbot Press
DublinRepublic of Ireland
All Territories
All Rights
Lynn Doyle Archive, Belfast Central Library
Belfast Ulster and Irish Studies Department,Royal AvenueBelfastNorthern Ireland
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Information for this entry has come from Margaret McHenry's 'The Ulster Theatre in Ireland', from the published script and from reviews of the premiere production.
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