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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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Maud Gonne | In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG
was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard
for the Irish White Cross |
| 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... |
Timeline
11 July 1921: Fighting in Ireland between British forces...
National or international item
11 July 1921
Fighting in Ireland between British forces and the Irish Republican Army
ended in a truce: the next step was to negotiate a new constitutional status for Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Michael Collins
12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...
Writing climate item
12 April 1923
The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey
, labourer and IRA
member, took off when his play The Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, which had by...
18 June 1936: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was declared...
National or international item
18 June 1936
The Irish Republican Army
(IRA) was declared an illegal organisation.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
615
January 1939: The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared...
National or international item
January 1939
The IRA (Irish Republican Army)
declared war on Britain in protest against the continuing partition of Ireland. A hundred bombing incidents followed.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
25
Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
32
8 March 1973: An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in...
National or international item
8 March 1973
An IRA
car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in London caused widespread destruction and temporarily paralysed the City.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
234
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
5
October 1974: Five people (a civilian and two soldiers...
National or international item
October 1974
Five people (a civilian and two soldiers of each sex) were killed and seventy injured in two pub bombings in Guildford, Surrey, attributed to the IRA
.
Kelley, Kevin. The Longest War: Northern Ireland and the IRA. Brandon; Lawrence Hill, 1982.
226
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.
24 November 1974: On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody...
National or international item
24 November 1974
On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody Sunday, two bombs in Birmingham pubs, allegedly planted by the IRA
, killed twenty-one people and inflicted sometimes life-changing injury on at least 170 more.
Kelley, Kevin. The Longest War: Northern Ireland and the IRA. Brandon; Lawrence Hill, 1982.
297-9
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
503
Mullin, Chris. “Diary”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 4, 23 Feb. 2019, pp. 30-1. 22 December 1974: The home of Conservative Party leader Edward...
National or international item
22 December 1974
The home of Conservative Party
leader Edward Heath
was bombed, presumably by the IRA
, despite a Christmas truce between the IRA and Protestant groups.
“Heath’s Home is Bombed”. BBC News: On This Day, 22 Dec. 1974.
17 December 1983: A massive car bomb exploded in the early...
National or international item
17 December 1983
A massive car bomb exploded in the early afternoon in a London street close to Harrods department store. The IRA
later claimed responsibility.
MacLeod, Donald. “London: Past Terror Attacks”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2005.
12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...
National or international item
12 October 1984
The IRA
bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party
was holding a conference.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
937, 979-80
14 March 1991: The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for...
National or international item
14 March 1991
The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for a fatal IRA
bombing on 24 November 1974, were released..
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
503
15 June 1996: A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping...
National or international item
15 June 1996
A bomb planted by the IRA
destroyed a shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, injuring about two hundred people.
“Huge Explosion Rocks Central Manchester”. BBC News: On this Day, 15 June 1996.
29 November 1999: The first multi-party, multi-denominational,...
National or international item
29 November 1999
The first multi-party, multi-denominational, or power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland (sometimes known as the Stormont government) was appointed in place of direct rule by Britain.
Good Friday Agreement, 10 April 1998. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/docs/agreement.htm.
Cowan, Rosie. “Direct rule imposed on Northern Ireland”. Guardian Weekly, 17–23 Oct. 2002, p. 8.
8
28 July 2005: The Army Council of the IRA declared an end...
National or international item
28 July 2005
The Army Council of the IRA
declared an end to its war against Britain, instructing all units to dump their arms and turn to purely political and democratic means
“Peace in our time?”. BBC News: Newsnight, 28 July 2005.
31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...
National or international item
31 July 2007
The British Army
's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.
“Army ending its operation in N[orthern] I[reland]”. BBC News, 31 July 2007.
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