English and Theatre Studies Day, Semester 2, 2023
English and Theatre Studies Day, Semester 2, 2023
Wed, Feb 15, 09:15
Special Collections Room, SETU Library, Waterford campus • Waterford
Free
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Momo Restaurant 47 Patrick Street X91 DX49 Waterford Ireland
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"Come 46, Then 47, Black 47. There Was No Mercy In It!"
Our subject here is the Great Irish Famine, An Gorta Mór.
The Famine has been for so long in Irish life a literally unspeakable subject. The sense of silence was what prompted Eamon Grennan in the first place to try to centre and orchestrate such a piece through voices. Given the variety of elements involved, what Eamon decided to do, in order to make a “dramatic recital for two voices” was to put together a kind of patchwork quilt, an audio quilt, of the voices of some of those directly involved (whether suffering or helping or hindering) in the catastrophe itself, whether English, or Irish, or indeed American.