OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Eoghan Ó Tuairisc 

• Setting

  Áit: Clochar na n-Aingeal Naofa.

  Am: Lá Fhéile Míchíl, 29ú Meán Fómhair 1923.

• Synopsis

  It's 1923 and Ireland is racked by civil war. Emmet de Búrca, a young captain in the forces of the Free State, has received orders to capture a dangerous republican fugitive. When the fugitive turns up in the local convent the Reverend Mother, an elderly Frenchwoman with strong political beliefs, decides to enforce traditional church law and grant him sanctuary. De Búrca is under increasing pressure from High Command in Dublin, but Mère Michele refuses to budge ... a tragedy in three acts about the devestating effects of the Irish civil war.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  6

• Cast Size Female

  4

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  19 February 1963

• Production Notes

  An Cumann Gaelach, Ollscoil na Ríona Béal Feirste a bhí i mbun an léirithe.

• Producer

  Produced by Lyric Theatre

• Original Venue

  Lyric Theatre
  

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón script foilsithe (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2000)