- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Brigit I'd like it to be perfect... Beautiful... The statue... Unbeatable?... I'd like it to be what I feel... And I don't know what that is. Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985), tells the story of Mommo and SĂ©amus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when SĂ©amus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit. Brigit premiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland. Bailegangaire 'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' - Sunday Independent A Thief of a Christmas 'Grand opera... both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: the full story
- Acknowledgements
- Brigit
- Bailegangaire
- A Thief of a Christmas