Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Padraic Colum 

• Suíomh

  The action passes in the Hourican's house in the Irish Midlands.

• Nótaí

  The Fiddler's House is a revised version of an earlier play by Colum, 'Broken Soil', which was produced by The Irish National Theatre Society in 1903

• Achoimre

  Courn Hourican, the fiddler, has been set up in a house by his daughters who have taken him in from his wandering ways. Both daughters eventually find love, but one sacrifices her relationship so as to accompany her father when he eventually falls back into his old vagabond habits.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  2

• Total

  5

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  21 March 1907

• Leiriú

  Produced by Theatre of Ireland (1906 - 1912)

• Nótaí faoin Ionad

  Performed at the Rotunda, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the published script, with addtional information from Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh’s 'The Splendid Years'(1955)