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What these men said always seemed poetical or philosophical or wise, especially when set against the conversations of the English around us, which seemed flat in comparison. These were proud, resilient women who, while they could be very scary, were also capable of kindheartedness, and whose backstory of trials and disappointments and disappointing men would only ever be hinted at.My father and mother grew up in poverty, in Cork and Cavan respectively. Both left school at 14 and never had much chance to get into books or theatre. But they gifted me to be an audience to this unending and surprising theatre of dramas, intrigues, absurdities and comedies.
My latest play, Rita McGrinder Is Still Here, is a dark comic drama starring a wonderful Limerick actress, Mary O’Sullivan. Rita, a middle-aged barmaid in Monaghan, faces up to the facts of her life as lived through the tumult of Irish social and political changes of the last half-century.
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