Little Thing, Big Thing (Modern Plays) by DonalO'kelly Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8288-1, ISBN: 1-4725-8288-8
"In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film roll Martha is carrying attracts the urgent interest of some very powerful and ambitious people. A play written for two actors and filled with memo ..."
"A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatreAt The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals of death with the all-too-modern assassins going about their awful task; in Hard To Believe by Conall Morrison an army intelligence agent for ..."
Catalpa (Nick Hern Books) by DonalO'kelly Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Nick Hern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85459-357-3, ISBN: 1-85459-357-9
"A frustrated insomniac screenwriter acts out his unfilmed masterpiece entirely inside his own head. Becoming dozens of different characters (from the captain and crew of the New England whaling ship, Catalpa, to the seagulls, whales and the sea itself), he brilliantly recreates the 19th-century voyage to rescue a group of Fenian prisoners from an Australian penal colony."
"This first volume in a series of drama anthologies invites readers to experience five of the best new plays being produced in 1993-1995 in Ireland's most famous theatre, The Abbey Theatre. This collection includes plays produced at the Abbey within the previous three years. Michael Harding's "Hubert Murray's Widow", his fourth play for theatre, is a surreal nightmare revolving around a killing and a funeral. With a macabre sense of humo ..."
"Yeats Is Dead doesn't seem like a book so much as a protracted pub crawl in the company of 15 hyper-articulate potty-mouths. Roddy Doyle, Frank McCourt, Anthony Cronin, and a dozen of their lesser-known compatriots have written a literary mystery that isn't terribly literary and doesn't really hang together as a mystery. It is, however, a showcase for riffing by some very clever writers. The novel commences with a chapter from Doyle ..."
"In a magnificent feat of imagination and scholarship, Henri Daniel-Rops takes us back to the very foundation of Christianity, to the secret meetings of a persecuted community, and back even further to the life of the One who changed the world forever. Beginning with the appearance of the Angel to a young girl in Nazareth, he traces the fascinating story of Christ, His youth, teaching ministry, first disciples, many miracles . . . and, i ..."
The Book of Books The Old Testament Retold by Henri Daniel-Rops, DonalO'kelly Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Sophia Insitute Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933184-48-7, ISBN: 1-933184-48-5
"The Bible is less read and less familiar than it once was, and we need to rediscover its riches. How better to do that than through this delightful retelling by a master storyteller of the sacred tales of the Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the Covenant made between God and His people In these pages, the greatest adventures of Hebrew history unfold vividly before your eyes Moses and the sojourn in Egypt, the wars between the Jewish ..."
"This first volume in a series of drama anthologies invites readers to experience five of the best new plays being produced in 1993-1995 in Ireland's most famous theatre, The Abbey Theatre. This collection includes plays produced at the Abbey within the previous three years. Michael Harding's "Hubert Murray's Widow", his fourth play for theatre, is a surreal nightmare revolving around a killing and a funeral. With a macabre sense of humo ..."
"Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..."
Modern Plays Ser. Little Thing, Big Thing by DonalO'kelly 80 Pages, Published 2014 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8286-7, ISBN: 1-4725-8286-1
"Donal O'Kelly. (US tour, The Irish Arts Center, NewYork, 2009, in rep with
Frederick Douglass Nowin collaboration with the ClassicalTheatre of Harlem,
Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe and Lusaka in Zambia 2012
). Other credits include Vive La, The Adventures of the Wet Señor(music by Kíla)
all by Donal O'Kelly for Benbo Productions;TallTales' Bogboyfor which she won
the Best Actress Award at the NewYork 1st Iris ..."
Modern Plays Ser. Little Thing, Big Thing by DonalO'kelly 80 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8287-4, ISBN: 1-4725-8287-X
"bySebastian Barry, Maeve Binchy, Dermot Bolger, Michael Collins,Stella Feehily,
Rosalind Haslett, Róisín Ingle*, Marian Keyes* and Gavin Kostick 2004 Pilgrims
in the Park by Jim O'Hanlon Tadhg Stray Wandered In by Michael Collins 2003
Handel's Crossing byJoseph O'Connor, The Medusa by Gavin Kostick, Chaste
Dianaby Michael West and Sweet Bitter by Stella Feehily (aseason ofradio plays)
Shorts byDawn Bradfield*,Aino Dubrawsky*, SimonO ..."
"Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O’Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O’Neill, Donal O’Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, and Frank McCourtFifteen of Ireland’s brightest and most entertaining authors came together to benefit Amnesty International–resulting in this raucous, raunchy, and diabolically entertaining mulligan stew of a novel. Yeats i ..."
Judas of the Gallarus (Abbey Theatre Playscript Series) by DonalO'kelly Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 1999 by Methuen ISBN-13: 978-0-413-74390-9, ISBN: 0-413-74390-X
"At the tail end of the Irish Civil War, deserter Jock McPeak from Glasgow wants to escape Ireland. IRA man Duv takes him to Paddo's Gallarus, a cliff-top stone cell, to hide while waiting for the boat to take him home. But is there any boat?"
"Bangs loudly and ghoulish voiced) Amanda Dempsey, Lorraine Dempsey, go
home for your tea. This is the ghost of Maria Goretti Mansions. Go - home - for -
your - tea. And wash your mouths out with soap you filthy tongued little rips. Girls:
Run. Jaysus. Get me out of here . . . Lil starts sweeping up. Shifts armchair to
discover pile of shredded newsprint behind it. Hard going to sweep it up. Lifts
long tablecloth and discovers even ..."
Catalpa by DonalO'kelly Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 1997 by New Island Books Import ISBN-13: 978-1-874597-57-5, ISBN: 1-874597-57-X
A Donegal Trilogy The Derry Boat, the Mental, Rural Electric by Little John Nee, Daithi Ramsay, DonalO'kelly Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2010 by Donegal County Council Cultural Services ISBN-13: 978-0-9556567-6-7, ISBN: 0-9556567-6-1
Judas of the Gallarus (Abbey Theatre Playscript) by DonaldO'kelly Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 1999 by New Island Books ISBN-13: 978-1-902602-21-9, ISBN: 1-902602-21-8
"At the tail end of the Irish Civil War, deserter Jock McPeak from Glasgow wants to escape Ireland. IRA man Duv takes him to Paddo's Gallarus, a cliff-top stone cell, to hide while waiting for the boat to take him home. But is there any boat?"