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Love and Land

A play in four acts

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Lynn Doyle 

  • Nótaí

    A note in the published script says this play was later produced as 'Persevering Pat' at the Little Theatre, Adelphi, Strand, on March 13, 1925.

  • Achoimre

    On inheriting land and money, sheepish County Down bachelor Peter O'Hare becomes the target of two different families seeking to make good matches for their respective daughters. With his housekeeper Widow Dougherty turning advisor, but also seeking a proposal for herself, Peter is taken on a whirlwind of offer, counter-offer and refusal. Eventually, the situation proves so confusing that he slips away to emigrate to America, only announcing the sale of his farm and escape to the village by telegram.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Cast size

  • Male

    3

  • Female

    6

  • Total

    9

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Mary O'Connor Marion Crimmins
Hughey Rogan Rutherford Mayne
Rose Dorrian Mary Crothers
Widow Dougherty Margaret O'Gorman
Thomas Dorrian Charles K. Ayre
Peter O'Hare J.G. Abbey
Billy Rourke Lawrence McLarnon
Pat Murphy Robert Gorman
Brian O'Connor Joseph Roney

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Love and Land

  • Bliain

    1928

  • Foilsithe ag

    Talbot Press

  • Seoladh

    Dublin
    Republic of Ireland

Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Críoch

    All Territories

  • Cinéal Cearta

    All Rights

  • Teagmháil

    Lynn Doyle Archive, Belfast Central Library

  • Seoladh

    Belfast Ulster and Irish Studies Department,
    Royal Avenue
    Belfast
    Northern Ireland

  • Guthán

    +44 (0)28 9050 9150

  • Ríomhphost

    buis@libraries.belfast-elb.gov.uk

Foinse Eolais

Information for this entry has come from Margaret McHenry's 'The Ulster Theatre in Ireland', from the published script and from reviews of the premiere production.