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Barry, Sebastian was born on July 5, 1955 in Dublin.
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Boss Grady's Boys: "An emotional intensity, a theatrical fluidity, and a sense of humanity that are rare and very special."—Sunday Tribune Prayers of Sherkin: "A luminously beautiful work ... It has a crystalline clarity in its language, a deeply compassionate interest in character."—Irish Times White Woman Street: "Profound, amusing, and poetic, with a sure grasp of contemporary moods of displacement."—Observer The Only True History of Lizzie Finn: "A first-rate piece of writing ... the simplicity and innocent beauty of the language give it depth and an elegiac quality."—Independent The Steward of Christendom: "What takes one's breath away is the sheer beauty of Barry's writing. I venture to suggest that not even O'Casey or Synge wrote better than this ... An authentic Irish masterpiece."—Guardian Sebastian Barry: "Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition."—Newsweek
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( This is the play that established Barry as one of Irela...)
This is the play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights. Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King Lear, Dunne tries valiantly to break free of history and himself. The Steward of Christendom took London by storm when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 with Donal McCann in the title role. It transferred to Broadway and has toured around the world.
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Praised as a “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his “flawless use of language” (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
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( Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended b...)
Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended by a young nursing Sister and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack, daughter Joanie and her dead father. Fuelled by alcohol, passion and despair it is the story of her flamboyant but destructive relationship with Jack, the lost country of her childhood and unfulfilled expectations in the wake of Irish independence and self-rule. Our Lady of Sligo was produced at the Royal National Theatre in co-production with Out of Joint, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, in April 1998.
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Whistling Psyche A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been honoured. The other, Dr Barry, would never receive the same acclaim, but notoriety came after death and for a very different reason . . . Whistling Psyche premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in May 2004. Fred and Jane explores the deep and sustaining friendship between two nuns, Anna and Beatrice, as they recall the trials and joys of religious life. 'This is Barry at his best: evocative, gentle, suffused with the beauty of the simple and the joy of turning the strange into the familiar.' Sunday Tribune 'A rare delight. A clear-running joy.' Sunday Independent 'A triumph in its own right.' RTE Fred and Jane premièred at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin in 2002.
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An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry 's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In The Secret Scripture, Barry revisits County Sligo, Ireland, the setting for his previous three books, to tell the unforgettable story of Roseanne McNulty. Once one of the most beguiling women in Sligo, she is now a resident of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital and nearing her hundredth year. Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an engrossing tale of one woman's life, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic church had on individuals throughout much of the twentieth century. Soon to be a film starring Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Redgrave.
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Barry, Sebastian was born on July 5, 1955 in Dublin.
Student, Trinity College, Dublin.
(An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy fr...)
(Praised as a “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journa...)
( Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended b...)
( Boss Grady's Boys: "An emotional intensity, a theatric...)
( Whistling Psyche A dark night, an old waiting room and...)
( This is the play that established Barry as one of Irela...)
(Beautiful novel with readers guide and interview with Seb...)
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