It's All Blarney Four Plays by Seamus Finnegan |
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| Author:
| Finnegan, Seamus |
| Series title: | Contemporary Theatre Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-3-7186-5555-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1995 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $44.95 |
Book Description:
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This collection of four plays clearly portrays the physical and mental realities of emigration and the experience of being an immigrant.Wild Grassis about all of us who are exiles. InMary Maginn, the heroine experiences exile at home and can only find the strength to survive it through faith in a religion that promises a home elsewhere. The characters inIt's All Blarney, in their struggle to survive away from 'home', find themselves weaving myths about the past, the 'old country', and...
More DescriptionThis collection of four plays clearly portrays the physical and mental realities of emigration and the experience of being an immigrant.Wild Grassis about all of us who are exiles. InMary Maginn, the heroine experiences exile at home and can only find the strength to survive it through faith in a religion that promises a home elsewhere. The characters inIt's All Blarney, in their struggle to survive away from 'home', find themselves weaving myths about the past, the 'old country', and themselves. ToComrade Brennan, the dreams of an ideal home for humanity appear to lie shattered at the end of the 20th century.