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The Great Hunger: AND The Gallant John-Joe
Tom Mac Intyre
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The Great Hunger, Tom Mac Intyre’s internationally celebrated play of 1983, and The Gallant John-Joe, his most recent dramatic work, show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today. The Great Hunger is Mac Intyre’s version of Patrick Kavanagh’s long poem of the same name. It represents the life and dreams of Patrick Maguire, Monaghan small farmer and potato-gatherer, a man suffering from sexual and spiritual starvation. The play fuses image, movement and language into a classic of contemporary Irish drama. The Gallant John-Joe is the soliloquy of John-Joe Concannon, a Cavan ... Read more
The Great Hunger, Tom Mac Intyre’s internationally celebrated play of 1983, and The Gallant John-Joe, his most recent dramatic work, show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today. The Great Hunger is Mac Intyre’s version of Patrick Kavanagh’s long poem of the same name. It represents the life and dreams of Patrick Maguire, Monaghan small farmer and potato-gatherer, a man suffering from sexual and spiritual starvation. The play fuses image, movement and language into a classic of contemporary Irish drama. The Gallant John-Joe is the soliloquy of John-Joe Concannon, a Cavan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Lilliput Press
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781901866834
SKU
V9781901866834
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About Tom Mac Intyre
TOM MAC INTYRE, born in Cavan in 1931, is the author of many works of fiction and poetry as well as plays. His next novel, Story of a Girl, is forthcoming in 2003.
Reviews for The Great Hunger: AND The Gallant John-Joe
‘Tom Mac Intyre is in the forefront of the theatrical avant-garde in this country. From The Great Hunger to Kitty O’Shea, his plays are inventive and provoking, brimming with a heady mix of dramatic gesture, verbal zest, bodytalk. They make lightning and repeated raids on the erotic zones of consciousness and behaviour, challenging sexual repressions that can wreck the individual ... Read more