Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, 2001, pp. 107-23.
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Characters | Jennifer Johnston | The action takes place in flashback, from the viewpoint of an old woman, Miranda Martin, dying after a life whose promise was snuffed out by violence during the Irish Civil War. She speaks in the... |
Characters | Anne Devlin | A woman named Finn, under interrogation for assisting the IRA
, recalls a traumatic event from her past: the political turmoil of 1969 which took her grandmother's life. The recovered memory raises questions about Finn's... |
Cultural formation | Anne Devlin | AD
grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, 2001, pp. 107-23. 111 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Devlin | Patrick Joseph (Paddy) Devlin
was a socialist politician. At the age of eleven he joined the IRA
, and he was sent to prison for three years in his youth. While serving time he came... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Betty Miller | BM
's father, Simon Spiro
, a Lithuanian by birth, had emigrated with his family to Ireland well before the end of the nineteenth century. In Cork he became a prosperous, large-scale shop-keeper (selling cigars... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dervla Murphy | DM
's paternal grandparents lived in a happy-go-lucky poverty, without any self-pity, in a house full of books. Her grandfather Murphy, or Pappa, had permanently damaged his health by going on hunger-strike in order... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maud Gonne | Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Despard | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edith Somerville | ES
produced this book under very difficult conditions: unrestrained conflict between Irish Republican
forces and the dreaded Black and Tans
. All the bridges had been broken around Skibbereen (the nearest town to her house,... |
Other Life Event | Jean Plaidy | |
politics | Seamus Heaney | SH
dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944... |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | On the first morning of action, James Connolly
announced the formation of the Irish Republican Army
; in it, CCM
served as Staff Lieutenant. She first delivered medical supplies to the City Hall station with... |
politics | Katharine Tynan | KT
greeted with optimism the truce that ended fighting between the Irish Republican Army
and British troops in Ireland. Never was so happy a country, Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable, 1922. 386 Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable, 1922. 386 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Michael Collins |
politics | Katharine Tynan | This truce was a step towards the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 (ratified by the Dail
on 7 January 1922), which made southern Ireland a Free State or Dominion with a... |
politics | Dervla Murphy | In March 1944 DM
's family gave sanctuary for a fortnight to Pat, otherwise known as Charles Kerins
, a young IRA
man who had shot a detective-sergeant in Dublin. He had been passed... |
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