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Italy 1 - Ireland 0 . . .
The score that marked Ireland's demoralising exit from Italia 1990 took its toll. No more so than on Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street, who lost far more than the match that night. Some years on, they reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage through interconnecting monologues that also evoke their lifelong love affair with Dublin city itself.
Sebastian Barry explores with vivid tenderness the devastating effects of public and private acts of violence. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin.
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Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), Tales of Ballycumber (2009) and Andersen's English (2010). His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne(2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008) and, most recently, On Canaan's Side (2011). He has won, among other awards, the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I went to see this dramatised in Dublin and I was never as moved in my entire life. Barry's power of language is never more apparent than in this work where he pierces the soul of the reader/spectator on every page/in every scene. At its most fundamental level, it is about redemption and whether it is always possible. The sad conclusion we are led to is that the greater the scale of horror perpetrated, the more scope there is for forgiveness and acceptance. On a micro-level, it seems our ability to forgive ourselves for personal acts of violence and hate is limited, if not impossible. Read this and weep. But you will be weeping for yourself, ultimately, and your own powerlessness.
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Simply briliant. i had the pleasure of seeing this in the theate and was blown away - the performances were incredible and the dialogue was close on perfect.
An emotional rollercoaster. And shes right. now when reading it i can't help but do it in the voice of the characters.
An emotional rollercoaster. And shes right. now when reading it i can't help but do it in the voice of the characters.
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I really enjoyed this read, well put together and easy to read as a play. I'd love to see it in the theatre.
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