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Title: "FAMINE"
By: Tom Murphy
Format: Paperback

List price: £11.99


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ISBN 10: 0413771237
ISBN 13: 9780413771230
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 15 August, 2001
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 96
Description: The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost hope, and the scandal of an emigration policy that was in effect one of transportation, and include some of the modern Irish theatre's most powerful and poetic scenes.
Synopsis: "A major statement by a major Irish playwright" (Irish Times) Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight. "The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost hope, and the scandal of an emigration policy that was in effect one of transportation...are some of the modern Irish theatre's most powerful and poetic scenes." (Observer)"A classic...Murphy's script burns through to the very soul of all of us" (Irish Independent)
Publication: UK
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Returns: Returnable
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DRUNKARD
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RECLAIMING THE SKY: 9/11 AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO KEPT AMERICA FLYING (HB)
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