Frank Mc Guinness is Professor of Creative Writing in University College Dublin. A world-renowned playwright, his first great stage hit was the highly acclaimed ‘Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme’. He is also a highly skilled adapter of plays by writers such as Ibsen, Sophocles, Brecht, and writer of several film scripts, including Dancing at Lughnasa, and he has published several anthologies of poetry.
28 Ebook di Frank McGuinness
Euripides: Helen
Seven years have passed since the end of the Trojan War and Menelaus, King of Sparta and husband to Helen, is making his slow and painful way home. When his ship is wrecked on the coast of Egypt he …
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Frank McGuinness: Greta Garbo Came to Donegal
In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal. Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save her family, while a girl tries to save …
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Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts
Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage, built in memory of her late husband. Her beloved artist son Oswald has returned from Paris to honour the occasion. But his long awaited …
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Henrik Ibsen: John Gabriel Borkman
John Gabriel Borkman, wealthy, powerful, revered, sacrificed love for success and was handsomely rewarded. Now, disgraced and destitute after financial scandal and a jail sentence, he paces out each …
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Frank McGuinness: Hanging Gardens
Now we have a family, a rivalry, a purpose. A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are surrounded by a lifetime's work; their home, their gardens and their children. Rachel …
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Frank McGuinness: Damned by Despair
Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares …
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Frank McGuinness: Match Box
And she grew to be a girl, my daughter. Sing a song, Mary. Sing for grandma and Granda. Sing. The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose …
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Frank McGuinness: Frank McGuinness Plays 1
This first collection by Frank Mc Guinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly …
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Frank McGuinness: Gates of Gold
Conrad and Gabriel are lovers but when Alma arrives to tend the sick Gabriel, their lives are unpicked and remade. Frank Mc Guinness's powerful, subtle and funny play explores the territory …
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Frank McGuinness: Frank McGuinness Plays 2
This second collection of Frank Mc Guinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and …
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Frank McGuinness: Mutabilitie
Set in Ireland in the sixteenth century, Mutabilitie explores the area where myth meets and transforms reality and where the harshness of life is transmuted into hope by the chance meeting of a poet …
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Frank McGuinness: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
'This powerful and subtle play . . . follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the …
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Euripides: Hecuba
Children, lead this old woman outside. A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen. Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved. She mourns her …
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Frank McGuinness: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and …
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Frank McGuinness: Speaking Like Magpies
But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed servant, They mean to kill God. Speaking Like Magpies, specially commissioned by the RSC as part …
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Jean Racine: Phaedra
The King is missing, presumed dead. His warrior son is braced for inheritance but is betrayed by his heart. Phaedra, the tormented Queen, has a terrifying secret that will shake Athens to its core. …
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Frank McGuinness: There Came a Gypsy Riding
The Mc Kenna family convenes at their remote West Ireland holiday home to mark the 21st birthday of their late son Gene. Eccentric cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for …
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Frank McGuinness: Dead
The year is 1904 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and …
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Henrik Ibsen: Lady from the Sea
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Ellida is consumed by her longing for the sea, by the promise of the unknown. The startling arrival of a stranger stirs her desires and lures her back to the …
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Sophocles: Electra
Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she …
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Frank McGuinness: Donegal
The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on her success. But as Irene's star fades, the Days are facing financial …
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Frank McGuinness: Paprika
A son tries to mourn the death of the father who abandoned him. A family rages against the murder of their gay son in war-torn Raqqa. Brilliance turns to madness in the fickle and unforgiving world …
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Frank McGuinness: Arimathea
'The great spirit of Frank Mc Guinness radiates in this magnificent novel. Myriad voices converge on one glistening core; it is a high-wire act earthed in the deepest humanity.' Sebastian …
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Frank McGuinness: Surge
A unique collection of short stories by new and established talents in Ireland
Surge showcases sixteen previously unpublished short stories, featuring work from new Irish writing talents alongside …
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Frank McGuinness: The Woodcutter and his Family
My son betrayed me. It is a family tradition.
Didn’t I do the same to my father?
The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his …
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Frank McGuinness: Visiting Hour
You used to swing me on our garden gate. In and out, in and out – out and in, me, on top of the gate, safe because I was in your arms, my father's big strong arms. Recalling events that may or …
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Frank McGuinness: Dinner With Groucho
I am honoured to meet you. You are, as they say, a man after my own heart. And you have lifted mine. My heart, that is. Two men, together, on the edge of heaven. In a strange restaurant, two American …
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Frank McGuinness: Tartuffe
Let's see how crafty a picture you paint. You're making a demon out of a saint. In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. …
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