Signatories - Hardcover

Donoghue, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1910820105 ISBN 13: 9781910820100

Verlag: University College Dublin Press, 2016

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Críticas:

'The reader is brought right into these gloomy cells lit by guttering candles as the doomed men question their decisive role in what now can seem like a suicidal folly ... Each of the writers provides a striking picture of these last hours ... Signatories was a gamble. Letting modern writers do voyeur in Kilmainham's condemned cells could have been an embarrassment. But these are good writers and it worked.' The Irish Catholic, 7 July 2016 '... we are in the guiding hands of some of Ireland's greatest writers, who take us back to the living, breathing, bloody streets of Dublin at Easter 1916 ... As a series of monologues, Signatories allows for a tightly-focussed re-imagining of the revolutionary - even fanatic - mind, as well as its doubts and dedication to a cause.' Evening Echo, 22 July 2016 'Signatories is a beautifully designed book to treasure and pass on ... [it] is a unique theatrical and literary commemoration of a pivotal moment in Ireland's turbulent past.' The Irish Voice, April 2017

Reseña del editor:

2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, known as "the poets' rebellion", for among their leaders were university scholars of English, history and Irish. The ill-fated revolt lasted six days and ended ignominiously with the rebels rounded up and their leaders sentenced to death. The signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic must have known that the Rising would be crushed, must have dreaded the carnage and death, must have foreseen that, if caught alive, they would themselves be executed. Between 3 and 12 May 1916, the seven signatories were among those executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol. Now 100 years later, eight of Ireland's finest writers remember these revolutionaries in a unique theatre performance. The forgotten figure of Elizabeth O'Farrell - the nurse who delivered the rebels' surrender to the British - is also given a voice. Signatories comprises the artistic responses of Emma Donoghue, Thomas Kilroy, Hugo Hamilton, Frank McGuinness, Rachel Fehily, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Marina Carr and Joseph O'Connor to the seven signatories and Nurse O'Farrell.They portray the emotional struggle in this ground-breaking theatrical and literary commemoration of Ireland's turbulent past. A performance introduction on the staging of the play is given by Director Patrick Mason, and an introduction by Lucy Collins, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, sets the historical context of the play.

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• Verlag: University College Dublin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910820105
• ISBN 13: 9781910820100
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140