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Play Reviews: Easter Rising

... Easter Rising BRIGHTON IN PRESENTING John Foley's Easter Rising at the Sea House. Brighton Actors' Workshop seemed to giving a brief glimpse of a much longer play. It had no real beginning or outcome and throughout seemed to suggest a considerably more ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

From the author of SO MANY PARTINGS comes a powerful and dramatic successor:

... dramatic successor: Two sisters, torn apart by divided allegiances in the tragic years in Ireland culminating in the 1916 Easter Rising, find that their bond of love can never be broken. . X 1 y Cm 'Q T t : \‘\ .' \\ l ' Y mayr -;,&_\; L R v EXCESS @mOV ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1985
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

IRA praised by Adams

... Westminster MP Gerry Adams praised IRA► freedom fighters at a Sinn Fein parade in Belfast yesterday to mark the 1916 Easter rising. His tribute came as Provo leaders announced: The bomb and bullet campaign will continue unabated in the months to come ...

Published: Monday 08 April 1985
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A POWERFULANDEPICLOVE STORY FROM THE AUTHOR OF MADONNA RED AND PRINCE OF PEACE

... Carroll’s magnificent new novel is set against the turbulent years of the Great War and the tragedy played out in the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916. ‘James Carroll’s narrative is strong and movinf and his skilful evocation of the emotional pressures his characters ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1986
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 86 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

Modest

... Modest Fitz Gerald was born into the middle class, the son of a government minister who had fought in the Easter Rising. He lives modestly in a Dublin suburb. His wife, now suffering poor health, is recognised as a supportive partner in his career. Charlie ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1982
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The stillborn hope

... who reported the Hungarian revolution from Vienna and the Hungarian border all those years ago. Like Yeats on Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916, we felt in the fierce excitement: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born But in the event nothing ...

Published: Sunday 10 August 1986
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Two killed in Ulster riot

... bombed earlier and the crew had to shoot their way out of trouble. Rioting broke out after parades to mark the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, with masked gunmen firing volleys over IRA graves. The parades turned into demonstrations of support for jailed IRA man ...

Published: Monday 20 April 1981
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Patrick Farrell is in the Royal Corps of Signals at Colchester. His grandfather had been one of the men who,

... grandfather had been one of the men who, with Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Michael Collins, had taken part in the 1916 Easter Rising. Sean O'Sullivan is a professional thug, a vicious layabout, always ready to be hired as an assassin. Liam O’Grady, from ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1982
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

Regional Reviews: The Plough and the Stars

... ultimately brutal and brutalised in the name of a struggle that few ordinary people knew or understood on the eve of the 1916 Easter Rising. Dowling's direction shows a fine hand, with both precision and attention to detail, and a free-wheeling answered by men ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review