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Australian air-play for Moville
dramatists
16.09.08
TWO emerging Inishowen
writers are celebrating as an Australian radio
station prepares to broadcast their drama about the
Flight of the Earls.
Moville's Martin Lynch and Mary Lorraine McHugh will
have their radio play ‘This Place from where the
Earls Flew’ aired on Brisbane's 4EBfm later this
month.
The local writers are recent recipients of the
Broadcasting Commission of Ireland’s ‘Sound and
Vision’ award and are now looking forward to seeing
how their work is received Down Under on September
20 and September 27. |
"We're delighted our
play will be aired in a third continent to audiences
in Australia where there is a large Irish community
that celebrates its Irish identity and heritage,"
said Mary Lorraine.
The play is a contemporary slant on the story of the
Flight of the Earls, one of the central events in
Irish history. It tells the parallel story of a
young couple who |
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are forced to leave
recession-hit Donegal in 1987, much as the Gaelic
Lords O’Neill and O’Donnell were forced to leave
their homeland, never to return, nearly 400 years
earlier.
The play aired locally a year ago on ICRfm and was
also played in the US. It uses a unique mix of
music, past and present, to link both stories and
engage the listener on their journey through the
ages.
Martin Lynch is well known as the co-author of the
book ‘Inishowen Land of Eoghain’ and has taught at
universities in Ireland and the US. Mary Lorraine
McHugh has been involved in drama and the arts in
Ireland and Britain having been resident artist at
Ruskin College, Oxford University.
"We set out to explore the Irish historical and
immigrant experience that from the Flight of the
Earls to the present has shaped the identity of not
just Ireland but also the sons and daughters of
Ireland who have found themselves shaping the
distant continents of America, Australia and
beyond," added Martin. |
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