Beckett Bridge photographed by Éamon ÓMurchú on the day of Kerry’s defeat in the All Ireland Football Semi Final by Tyrone on Saturday August 28 2021.
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1907 Dublin
Irish theatre audiences were very sensitive to any slurs they perceived to be cast on their characters, especially if the characters portrayed on the stage were peasants and the people producing the play were the aristocracy.
The word “shift” meaning underwear, was removed from the text of Synge’s Playboy of The Western World before the play went to Broadway but it still got off to a rocky start until Lady Gregory employed her famous diplomatic skills and used her connections to the Roosevelt family to ensure the audience was won over and the run was a success.
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2015 in Cobh
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Listowel Garda Station
On Church Street, Listowel in August 2021
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Excitement is mounting
Festival lighting was erected in town on Wednesday Sept 8 2021.Numbers on the Island are greatly reduced but the town is looking festive anyway.
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Meanwhile in Mayo
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Vincent Carmody
Having looked at Eamon’s lovely photo of that Dublin’s Beckett Bridge, it reminded me of two things,
Beckett was ‘ Waiting for Godot’
In Kerry, we are still, ‘Waiting for Sam’