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The Perfect Family
Set in Dublin in the late 1940s, THE PERFECT FAMILY tells the story of the Floods, a well-to-do family whom friends and acquaintances consider to be perfect. Roddy, the father, runs the family business; Cora, his wife, concentrates on being the perfect spouse and mother of their five children - Ossian, the handsome eldest, who is a priest; Fidelma, the eldest daughter, as beautiful as her brother; Decla, the next daughter and desperate for a boyfriend, Cecie the youngest daughter; and Eamon, eight years old and a naughty little boy. It soon emerges that the family isn't quite as perfect as it seems: Cora has a repressed attitude to all things sexual, yet has erotic thoughts about her confessor; Roddy has a mistress; Ossian is ruthless and ambitious, Fidelma spoilt and vain. When Decla is wooed by a stranger ordered by the newly formed IRB to infiltrate the family, its problems come to a head....
The Other Cheek
Set in 1950s Dublin, THE OTHER CHEEK tells the story of the Tracey family of Mallow Hall. Martha Tracey, the mother, is widowed, and from her first marriage has a daughter, Lydia D'Abru. From her second marriage, to Thomas Tracey, she has two sons, Austin and Roland. Lydia helps her mother with the family business, D'Abru's Fine Chocolates, which has a smart shop in Dublin where exquisite hand-made chocolates are sold. Austin works for Pius Grady, the family solicitor, and Roland is a student at Trinity. Whereas Lydia is kind-natured, the two boys are 'messers' - Austin envious and mean, Roland a wastrel. When Martha dies of cancer Pius alters her will so that he and the boys have a share of the busines, which they sell. Instead of seeking revenge, Lydia turns the other cheek, confident that she can still be happy, and indeed the men's sins are eventually found out - by fate - and punished ...
Lucy Leighton's Journey
At twenty-eight, after fifteen years of service to her sick mother, Lucy Leighton finds herself homeless, penniless, and quite alone following her mother's death.
Poppy Penhaligon's Progress
Poppy wakes up one morning worrying about her fast-approaching 40th birthday, but reminds herself she has a great career and a gorgeous husband. But by lunchtime she is left with nothing and realises she must discover who she really is and what she wants.
Daniella's Decision
A new story of loss and tribulation leading to ultimate fulfillment.
Alice's Awakening
After living a very sheltered and protected youth, Alice Sandar returns home to both a passionate new romance and the tragedy of her fathers being a victim of a mysterious shooting. Trying to sort out events will lead to family tensions and a need to sort out things for herself.
Theatre and Archival Memory
This book presents new insights into the production and reception of Irish drama, its internationalisation and political influences, within a pivotal period of Irish cultural and social change. From the 1950s onwards, Irish theatre engaged audiences within new theatrical forms at venues from the Pike Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, and the Gate Theatre, as well as at Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey. Drawing on newly released and digitised archival records, this book argues for an inclusive historiography reflective of the formative impacts upon modern Irish theatre as recorded within marginalised performance histories. This study examines these works' experimental dramaturgical impacts in terms of production, reception, and archival legacies. The book, framed by the device of ‘archival memory’, serves as a means for scholars and theatre-makers to inter-contextualise existing historiography and to challenge canon formation. It also presents a new social history of Irish theatre told from the fringes of history and reanimated through archival memory.
A House Divided
By the same author as Slievelea, The Green Years and Dark Rosaleen, this is a saga of a family split apart by the fortunes of love and war. The advent of World War I blows apart established Victorian values and Garreth, a despotic family head, is faced with rebellion from those he dominated.
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