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Trial at Green Street Courthouse

A play in ten scenes by Roger MacHugh

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  • Drámadóir

    Roger McHugh 

  • Suíomh

    The entire action of the play takes place in the back room of Barney Kiernan's public house and Green Street Courthouse on the same day in the year 1871.

  • Achoimre

    A reconstruction of a famous trial - of Robert Kelly for the shooting of Head Constable Talbot - where the defence argued it was medical negligence that killed the man, not the bullet.

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    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    18

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    19

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Doctor Tufnel Harry Brogan
Chief Baron Pigott James Dunne
Frederick Faulkner William O'Gorman
Old Man John McDarby
Ryan Joseph Linnane
Doctor Stokes Michael Walsh (2)
Constable Holland J. Winter
Solicitor General Dowse Austin Meldon
Edmund Vesey Denis O'Dea
Isaac Butt F J McCormick
Constable Mullen Seamus Healy
Doctor McDonell Eric Gorman
Serjeant Armstrong Michael J. Dolan
Jerry Finbar Howard
Henry Talbot Udolphus Wright
Rose O'Leary Ria Mooney
Doctor O'Leary Edward Byrne
Clerk of the Court Malachy Dooley
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Frank Dermody
Seit Michael Walsh (1)
Léirithe ag Frank Dermody
Bainisteoir Stáitse Udolphus Wright
Siúinéir J F Barlow

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Trial At Green Street Courthouse

  • Bliain

    1945

  • Foilsithe ag

    Browne and Nolan

  • Seoladh

    Dublin
    Republic of Ireland

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The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 by Lennox Robinson, with additional information from press cuttings of the time.