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Frank Carney

FRANK CARNEY  (1902 - deceased)

 Nationality:    Irish
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Born in County Galway, educated at schools in Tuam and later at Galway University. A civil servant for a number of years in the Old Age Pensions Department, which gave him an opportunity of observing Irish rural life at close quarters. A number of his plays were staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

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below is a list of Frank Carney's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bolt from the Blue         Doctor's Boy, The         House Of Cards, The         Peeping Tom         Righteous Are Bold, The         Siul Barr Cnoic         they Went By Bus

Bolt from the Blue

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Adapted from the novel Friday's Well

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Genre:
comedy three acts

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Doctor's Boy, The

Synopsis:
A thriller about a servant boy who stands to inherit a great deal of money if his Master the Doctor dies.

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edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

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Genre:
thriller

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2006

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House Of Cards, The

Synopsis:
Yvonne Artois, an artist, is giving an exhibition of her work. there are the usual bearded young men wearing corduroy in attendance. A tinker arrives and she has an epiphany about the shallowness of her life and goes off on an odyssey with her traveller guide through different milieus of the city.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  13            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2020

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Peeping Tom

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A satire on comfortable Dublin bourgeois life in which a loiterer from the lower orders is given a chance to see how the other half lives.

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National Library of Ireland (Manuscripts Department)   -

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Genre:
comedy three acts

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1909

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Righteous Are Bold, The

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A young woman is possessed by evil spirits until exorcised by an elderly priest.

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Samuel French, NY, 1956   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1880

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Siul Barr Cnoic

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Play set in a lighthouse in Clew bay where a man, gone half-crazy with piety, his senile father his aged mother and his three children live. they have been hiding from the world for 21 years. the fact that the eldest daughter has given birth to an imbecile and illegitimate child had driven the family from the mainland to live in the old lighthouse. the child was kept in chains in a large cupboard in the kitchen, fed by its mother and kept well hidden. No one is happy and when the eldest son returns from the US he goes about changing things.

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the Damer Hall, Baile Atha Cliath    29 Jun 1959

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2652

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they Went By Bus

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National Library of Ireland (Manuscripts Department)   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2350

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