"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
"2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, known as "the poets' rebellion", for among their leaders were university scholars of English, history and Irish. The ill-fated revolt lasted six days and ended ignominiously with the rebels rounded up and their leaders sentenced to death. The signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic must have known that the Rising would be crushed, must have dreaded the carnage and death, must ..."
"This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993, up to and including the present. The anthology includes plays, experimental performance documentation, and a visual essay that reveal the impassioned creativ ..."
The Wedding Breakfast by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, Published by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-911337-70-6, ISBN: 1-911337-70-X
"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 childhood in Dublin.The voices of his family circling him – wife, son, daughter – carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father, their love, their hate, their need, their sorrows ..."
"This, Frank McGuinness's 5th collection, demonstrates again the 'energy and intensity' Peter Denman noted in 'Poetry Ireland Review'. Urgent and prodigious, this is a book of wide-reaching embrace."
Dulse(1st Edition) by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, 70 Pages, Published 2007 by The Gallery Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-438-1, ISBN: 1-85235-438-0
"The McKenna family gathers at their remote west of Ireland holiday home to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene.Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, ready to expose ..."
The Stone Jug by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, Published 2004 by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-353-7, ISBN: 1-85235-353-8
"As it moves from evocations of "Rosa O'Doherty" (d.1660) to "Van Gogh in Donegal" and from locations such as Heathrow Airport and Belgium to the Pacific Coast, this collection celebrates memory, love, and the human spirit."
"All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance."
Booterstown by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, Published 1994 by Gallery, Oldcastle ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-136-6, ISBN: 1-85235-136-5
In Loving Memory by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, 57 Pages, Published 1989 by Limerick City Gallery Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-9515201-0-9, ISBN: 0-9515201-0-5