Kathleen O'Brennan
The scene is laid in a small town in West Kerry. The back parlour of Batty Quinlan's shop. Nora Murtagh's Kitchen.
The impact on a Kerry community of excessive emigration is the theme here as Nora Murtagh, a farmer's widow sees the last of her seven sons get ready for the boat to America.
Drámaí Ginearálta
Dráma Fada
12
6
18
27 August 1928
Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
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