OVERVIEW
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Playwright
Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde)
Setting
Coill
Notes
Léiríodh an dráma seo don chéad uair i ngáirdín George Moore (AE)ar Phlás Ely ar an 19 Bealtaine 1902. Bhí an t-údar mar 'An Tincéar' ann agus Sinéad Bean de Valera mar 'An tSídheog'. George Moore féin a bhí ina stiurthóir ar an dráma.
Synopsis
An ugly old fairy, weeping and desperate, meets a young man in the woods and begs him to kiss her. He refuses, disgusted. She then asks the same of a young farmer and is refused again. The fairy has been placed under a curse by the Queen of the Fairies and is doomed to die before sunfall unless she manages to get a human man to kiss her willingly. Enter a scruffy tinker, a song in his heart and a bottle in his hand, without a worry in the world. He agrees to kiss the hag; no sooner has he done so than she sheds her wrinkled old skin and reveals herself as beautiful young woman. The couple fall in love, but it is not long before the fairy hears mysterious unearthly music calling her back to her own world. She disappears, leaving her heartbroken lover behind her.
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Play Type
Plays General
Number Of Acts
One Act
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Cast Size Male
3
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Cast Size Female
1
PUBLISHED SCRIPTS
Title
Selected Plays of Douglas Hyde. With translations by Lady Gregory. Chosen and with an introduction by Gareth W. Dunleavy and Janet Egleson Dunleavy
Year
1991
Published By
Colin Smythe Ltd.
Address
P.O. Box 6
Gerrards Cross
Buckinghamshire SL9 8XA
England
Phone
+ 44 1753 886000
Email
sales@colinsmythe.co.uk
Website
www.colinsmythe.co.uk
ISBN
978-0861400959
TRANSLATIONS
Published in Irish as
Title
An Tinceur agus an tSidheog
Published By
An Gúm
Address
Foras na Gaeilge, 7 Cearnóg Mhuirfean
Baile Átha Cliath 2
Baile Átha Cliath
Republic of Ireland
Phone
1850 325 325 / 0845 309 8142 (TÉ)
Email
eolas@forasnagaeilge.ie
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