Idolatry at Innishargie AUTHOR Joseph Tomelty Setting The Sirks' kitchen at Innishargie, which is used by the Coastguards as a look-out station. Synopsis Sam Sirk brings to his farmhouse on the Ulster coast a 'divil of a thing' he finds washed up on the beach at Innishargie. Together with Dendy Dale, his similarly superstitious friend, he decides the mysterious object is the God of Agriculture. Considerable potency is attributed to the 'thing' by the two cronies before some rather more mundane explanations are discovered. PLAY TYPE Plays General Number of Acts Full-Length Cast Size Male 6 Cast Size Female 3 Date of First Production 11 May 1942 Production Produced by Ulster Group Theatre ORIGINAL VENUE Group Theatre Original Cast Matt McClurg Robert Dempster Hessie Sirk Gertrude Lennon Dendy Dale R.H. MacCandless Sebina Sirk Ruby McIlveen Liza Lowrey Min Milligan Johnny Sirk Jack O'Malley Crooks Sean Reid Sam Sirk Joseph Tomelty Harris John F. Tyrone Production Team Settings by Dan Fitzpatrick Sound Reproduction and Records by W. Erskine Mayne Produced by J.R. Mageean CLICK HERE for information on script availability, production rights and translations for this play Information for this entry has come from the company programme for the original production, from press cuttings and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Printer friendly version