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Bryan MacMahon

BRYAN MACMAHON  (1909 - 1998)

 Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    A P Watt Ltd  

Playwright Bryan McMahon comes from the great North Kerry tradition of Irish writers that includes his illustrious contemporary, John B. Keane

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=7410

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below is a list of Bryan MacMahon's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bugle In the Blood, The         Honey Spike, The         Song Of the Anvil, The

Bugle In the Blood, The

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Abbey Theatre, Dublin >>>    14 Mar 1949

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Honey Spike, The

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Breda Claffey has set her heart on returning to Kerry. For in Kerry is the Honey Spike, the 'lucky' hospital in which her child must be born. No other spike will do. But she and her husband Martin are far from home, at the northernmost tip of Ireland - and Kerry is a long, wearisome distance by cart. It's a journey of endurance lightened by laughter and mischief. the travellers tangle with soldiers at the border, priests in the Midlands and feuding clans in Kerry. Breda rushes towards the future but the past is waiting for her at Puck Fair in the shape of Winifred McQueen, the gypsy girl who wanted Martin for herself. the Honey Spike evokes an Ireland of passion, wildness and beauty. Its people live as they have always lived; putting their faith in God and in magic, in religion and superstition, but their greatest belief of all is in life itself.

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Male:  22            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Song Of the Anvil, The

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the fantasy valley of Glensharon is visited by a remarkable visionary generating religous superstitious battles.

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Contained in: "Seven Irish Plays 1946 - 1964" published by University of Minnesota Press 1967   -

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Male:  15            Female:  7            Other:  -

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