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Pádhraig Ó Giollagáin
Birmingham, Sasana.
A play about the loneliness of exile and a nostalgia for the native townland. It is set in Birmingham around a group of Irish emigrants whose lives consist of digging trench after trench on mile after mile of English road. These men rape a young Irish girl in a public park. They discover she is pregnant – and one of them might be the father – but one man, Mac Dara, takes on the responsibility and manages to collect £70 a week from his colleagues to be given until the baby is born. The man among them whom the baby most resembles will be forced to marry her. The girl seeks to have an abortion by a drunken doctor but the doctor is beaten up by the men and the baby is born.
Plays General
Full-Length
8
3
27 May 1969
Faoi choimirce An Damer.
Produced by An Damer
The Damer Hall/An Damer
Rinneadh léamh ar an dráma seo ar stáitse na Péacóige sula ndearnadh an stáitsiú seo air.
An Comhlachas Náisiúnta Drámaíochta
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Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú, ó Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970 le P Ó Siadhail agus ó ghearrthóga nuachta.
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