Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
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The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local…
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The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff?
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