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Eleven Houses
A Memoir of Childhood
AvChristopher Fitz-Simon
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
93 kr
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Christopher Fitz-Simon was born into an extraordinary Irish family, with Daniel ''The Liberator'' O’Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other, and his childhood coincided with the Second World War – or, as it was known in the southern Irish state, the Emergency. Eleven Houses is a crystalline memoir of his family''s odd progress through those odd years, an account by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.Christopher’s father was an officer in the British army, serving in the middle east when war broke out, and the family home in these years was in fact a series of homes in every part of Ireland. Christopher’s mother, a restless, unsettled woman, moved him and his brother constantly: they stayed in the homes of relatives (including Annaghmakerrig in Co. Monaghan) and friends (Maidenhall in Co. Kilkenny); they were paying guests in country houses; and they lived in military accommodation in Co. Down. For long periods they were not enrolled in school, and the commencement of formal education proved a shock after years of the freedom of houses, orchards, lanes and fields.Drawing on his extraordinarily vivid recall of the places and feelings of those years, Christopher Fitz-Simon tells a story of growing up that is also, in effect, a story of various hidden Irelands during the twilit years of the war. Funny, moving and sharp, it is a childhood memoir like no other.
Ballylenon: The Complete Series 1-8
A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama
AvChristopher Fitz-Simon
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2020
198 kr
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All eight series of the comedy drama series set in a Donegal town in the 1950s and ''60s''Christopher Fitz-Simon''s writing is a delicious mix of gentle and sharp'' The GuardianIreland in the fifties, and the days of mass tourism and indoor plumbing have not yet come to rural Co. Donegal. But in the small, sleepy town of Ballylenon, change is coming, and trouble is brewing.A power struggle is under way for control of the town, with two rival forces aligned against each other. Seeking to rule the roost are hotel owner and undertaker Phonsie Doherty and his allies, sisters Muriel and Vera McConkey. These two formidable ladies are in charge of the corner shop/Post Office and Telephone Exchange, and are known as the eyes and ears of Ballylenon - while the voice is provided by local newspaper The Vindicator.Between them, they seem to have the means of communication sewn up - but the opposing faction, led by primary teacher Vivienne Boal, the Reverend Samuel Hawthorne, and police officer Guard Gallagher, are determined to have their say. A supporter of cultural causes, such as music festivals and architectural conservation, Vivienne is bright, breezy and apparently straightforward - but she manages to achieve certain aims by devious means...The antagonism between the two camps is thinly veiled - and the causes for dissension range from a proposal to demolish the Georgian courthouse to build a car park, to arguments over a ramshackle cottage that may have belonged to the family of US President Herbert Hoover. But as the Sixties dawn, the town faces a threat that unites the whole community in moral outrage: the arrival of television...Christopher Fitz-Simon''s playful yet cynical look at Irish village life stars TP McKenna, Gerard Murphy, Margaret D''Arcy and Stella McCusker.Production creditsWritten by Christopher Fitz-SimonDirected by Eoin O''Callaghan (Series 1-5,7,8) and Peter Kavanagh (Series 6)Music arranged and performed by Stephanie HughesPianist: Michael HarrisonFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4: 8 June-13 July 1994 (Series 1), 18 July-8 August 1995 (Series 2), 4-25 June 1996 (Series 3), 3-24 December 1997 (Series 4), 15 June-20 July 1998 (Series 5), 18 June-23 July 1999 (Series 6), 25 November 2009-6 January 2010 (Series 7), 26 January-2 March 2011 (Series 8)CastPhonsie Doherty - TP McKenna/Gerard MurphyMuriel McConkey - Margaret D''ArcyVera McConkey - Stella McCuskerVivienne Boal/Mrs McFinney - Aine McCartneyGuard Gallagher - John Hewitt/Frankie McCaffertyReverend Samuel Hawthorne - Gerard Murphy/Miche Doherty/Dermot CrowleyRL Watson - Roma TomeltyO''Brollochain/Joe MacMonagle/Canon Friel- Kevin FloodKevin ''Stumpy'' Bonnar - Gerard McSorleyEithne Ni Phartalain/Primrose ffrench O''Dowd/Sister Gabriel - Marcella RiordanAubrey Frawley - Dominic Letts/Matthew Addis/Chris McHallemPeg Sweeney - Anna Manahan/Marcella RiordanPost Office engineer - Robert PattersonJonathan ffrench O''Dowd - Wesley MurphyPacky McGoldrick - Charlie Bonnar/Tim LoaneJosie Doherty - Ciara McKeown/Cathy White/Ali WhiteMr Mawhinney - Harry TowbFather O''Flatley - John GuineyBohunkus Smith - BJ HoggTerry Black - Mark LambertConsuela Dooley - Cathy BeltonDaniel O''Searcaigh - James GreeneMonsignor McFadden - Niall CusackPolly Acton - Joanna MunroEamonn Doyle - Patrick FitzsymonsMr Boylan - Derek Baileywith Ruairi McAteer, Catriona O''Reilly, Danielle Costigan and Fabio Aprile
Del 206 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment
Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre
AvChristopher Fitz-Simon
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
376 kr
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In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination.The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent. There was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray & Shine’s An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O’Grady’s The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread’s The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden’s McKenna’s Flirtation.
Rise Above!
Letters From Tyrone Guthrie
AvChristopher Fitz-Simon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
384 kr
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Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on. Here, in a stunning volume of letters, we are offered a glimpse into the vision of this extraordinary figure as well as a view of the intimacies of his relationships with his mother, sister, wife and friends. During the 1940s and 1950s Guthrie was renowned for liberating the plays of Shakespeare from declamatory delivery and excessive staging. His most enduring legacy was in inspiring the creation of modern theatre buildings where the plays of antiquity could be brought closer to the audience, such as at Stratford, Canada, and the theatre that bears his name in Minneapolis, USA. Of Scots-Irish parentage, he identified most closely with his mother’s home at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, which he made his professional headquarters after her death, hosting producers, designers, playwrights and composers there while planning worldwide productions. Guthrie’s letters to his mother, Norah, his wife, Judith, and his sister, Peggy, give a balanced account of his professional and domestic life, and it was on the advice of his sister and her husband, Hubert Butler, that he left his mother’s house to the Irish nation as a workplace for writers and artists. Faced with often seemingly insurmountable financial and personal disaster, his celebrated mantra ‘Rise above!’ was testament to a life lived in the wings of an operatic opening night or a Shakespearean tragedy. Guthrie’s vivid descriptions of places visited are matched by the observational skills of his remarks on the people he worked with, among them well-known figures such as Benjamin Britten, Alec Guinness, Charles Laughton, Siobhán McKenna, Micheál MacLíammóir, the Oliviers and others. Family members come in for as many amused comments as do the famous and distinguished: Cousin Molly is no more spared than Sir Winston Churchill. Fitz-Simon has gathered an important, and entrancing, collection of Tyrone Guthrie’s letters, raising a curtain on the life of Ireland’s leading theatre director of the twentieth-century

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Christopher Fitz-Simon – författare

Eleven Houses

Ballylenon: The Complete Series 1-8

Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment

Rise Above!

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