Sebastian Barry

After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then a young Indian girl crosses their path....

Que la vida es tanca com un cercle, ho sap bé la Lilly Bere. El dolor que la Lilly sent per la pèrdua del seu nét podria ser el mateix que va sentir quan va haver de fugir de Dublín cap als Estats Un

"Roseanne McNulty e una centenaria reclusa in manicomio. Il Dr. Grene e il suo psichiatra. Entrambi stanno scrivendo: lei, clandestinamente, sta completando la sua autobiografia; lui scrive il suo diario. Roseanne racconta della sua famiglia e della sua stessa vita in rovina per aver cercato di aiutare un ribelle, durante la guerra civile irlandese. Sposata, e stata ripudiata dal marito e si e ritrovata sola e povera per lungo tempo, costretta a vivere in una capanna. Dopo anni di isolamento, ha passato una notte con suo cognato, Eneas, e rimasta incinta, completamente sola, ha partorito un bambino, sottrattole poi nel sonno. Accusata di infanticidio, e stata reclusa in manicomio. Il dr. Grene nei suoi diari racconta invece le ricerche che sta facendo sulla sua paziente Roseanne, la cui vita, nei documenti ufficiali, e molto diversa dalla verita che lei racconta. Il dottore non e per niente convinto della versione ufficiale e tende a credere alla sua paziente. Poco a poco, emerge la menzogna piu grande: il neonato per cui e stata accusata di infanticidio non e morto, ma e stato affidato a un orfanotrofio. Quel bambino portava il nome del dottore. "

OLD GODS TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRYS STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW See, love between a man and a woman, its - private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms. Italy 1 - Ireland 0... The score that marked Irelands demoralizing exit from Italia 90 took its toll. No more so than for Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street who lost far more than the match that night. Some years on, Joe and Janet reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage, through interconnecting monologues that also evoke their life-long love affair with Dublin city itself. Sebastian Barrys explores with vivid tenderness the devastating effects of public and private acts of violence. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. Fishambles world premiere of The Pride of Parnell Street opened at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival at the Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, in September 2007.

Now weve lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fucks sake, the chances of that. PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy. A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, ON BLUEBERRY HILL by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the actions of his life. But is he telling the truth? And can he be forgiven? The lost tradition of staging new plays at Canterbury Cathedral, most famously T. S. Eliots Murder in the Cathedral, was revived with the premiere of Sebastian Barrys Dallas Sweetman in September 2008.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Con sólo dieciocho años, Willie Dunne, hijo de un policía de Dublín, deja su ciudad en 1914 para luchar por la causa de los Aliados. William, por falta de estatura, no ha podido seguir los pasos de su padre para entrar en el cuerpo de policía y eso lo lleva a alistarse para cumplir con su deber patriótico. De este modo el protagonista se convierte en un símbolo de la experiencia de miles de soldados irlandeses, Sebastian Barry incide en el oscuro asunto de la intervención de Irlanda en la Primera Guerra Mundial, mezclándolo con el Alzamiento de Semana Santa, germen del movimiento republicano irlandés. Escrita con la hermosa prosa de Barry, esta conmovedora novela evoca la crueldad y tristeza de la guerra, así como la lealtad dividida que sintieron muchos soldados irlandeses. Siguiendo las experiencias del conflicto a través del corazón del joven soldado protagonista, la narración explora cómo este proceso político afectó a los soldados que luchaban por el rey de Inglaterra en campos extranjeros; las dudas que los paralizaron y la división que causó entre ellos. Una historia sobre identidad y conflicto nacional con la que Sebastian Barry consigue una narración de profunda tristeza y abrumadora compasión que parece dar con la verdad de la condición humana. Una novela poderosa.

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she''s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne''s family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne''s story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland''s changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture.Jack McNulty is a ''temporary gentleman'', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.Jack is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.A heart-breaking portrait of one man''s life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack''s last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Here, now, listen, Ill tell you a tale . . . Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, anguish and emptiness. In search of advice, young Evans Stafford calls at the home of friend and strong-minded traditionalist, Nicholas Farquhar. The following day, as Farquhar learns the devastating consequences of this meeting, he discovers that his memories and words are governed by a buried history; a force far greater than himself. Sebastian Barrys Tales of Ballycumber premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2009.

OLD GODS TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRYS STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW 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 premiered 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 TribuneA rare delight. A clear-running joy.Sunday IndependentA triumph in its own right.RTEFred and Jane premiered at Bewleys Cafe Theatre, Dublin in 2002.

Celebrated childrens writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gads Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesnt at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens marriage. Andersens English by Sebastian Barry premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint.

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"Roseanne McNulty está a punto de cumplir cien años, pero no conoce su edad con certeza, nadie la conoce. Roseanne se enfrenta a un futuro también incierto puesto que el Hospital de Roscommon, en el que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta, va a ser cerrado. Durante las semanas previas a este acontecimiento perturbador, Roseanne conversa con su psiquiatra, el doctor Grene. La relacion entre ambos, discreta pero de confianza despues de tantos años, se intensifica y se complica a causa del duelo del doctor Grene por la muerte de su esposa.A traves de la alternancia de los diarios de ambos personajes, se va tejiendo una narracion profundamente hermosa, y la vida de Roseanne, reflejada en la bruma de la memoria y del recuerdo, se convierte en un recorrido por la historia secreta de Irlanda. Exquisitamente escrita, Barry nos permite recorrer una vida plagada de abusos, muerte y guerra, pero sin olvidar la impronta del amor, la pasion y la esperanza. Por esta maravillosa historia, Sebastian Barry, ha sido finalista por segunda vez consecutiva del Man Booker Prize."

Sebastian BarryRoseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret, history of Ireland. Exquisitely written, it is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.