Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
When I was a boy I used to wander about at Rosses Point and Ballisodare listening to old songs and stories. I wrote down what I heard and made poems out of the stories or put them into the little chapters of the first edition of "The Celtic Twilight," and that is how I began t...
When I was a boy I used to wander about at Rosses Point and Ballisodare listening to old songs and stories. I wrote down what I heard and made poems out of the stories or put th...
2. ACT I.Scene: _A lawn with croquet hoops, garden chairs and tables. Door into house at left. Gate through hedge at back. The hedge is clipped into shapes of farmyard fowl._ PAUL RUTTLE...
3. ACT II._Paul Ruttledge._ [_Sitting down and drawing a tin can to him._] Now, let me see how you mend this hole. It seems easy. I'm sure I will be able to learn it as well as any of you.
4. ACT III._Charlie Ward._ Stop that melodeon, now will ye, and we'll have a taste of the cocks. Paul didn't see them yet what they can do. Where's Tommy? Where in the earthly world is Tom...
5. Scene 1.--_Great door in the middle of the stage under a stone_Charlie Ward._ We must leave you here. The monks will take you in. We're very sorry, Paul. It's a heartscald to us to leave you and you know that, but what can we do? [_They le...
6. Scene 2.--_The crypt under the Monastery church. A small barredwindow high up in the wall, through which the cold dawn is breaking. Altar in a niche at the back of stage; there are seven unlighted candles on the altar. A little hanging lamp...
7. ACT V._Aloysius._ Nothing. [_Throws the bag down._] It doesn't seem as if our luck was growing. We have but food enough to last till to-morrow. We have hardly that. The rats from the...