Thursday 15th May 2025
Location: Thomastown Concert Hall, Station Road Thomastown
The trilogy centres on Belfast Republican Victor M McGowan (the M stands for murder ), and, home from New York for the plays’ Galway production, author Seamus Scanlon, first discussed with me, how he got into writing.

“I think the reading/writing urge came from my parents,” he says. “My father did not go to secondary school but was a great reader. I remember him putting the newspaper on the floor and we would crawl around it trying to decipher the words. Our knees and palms were black from the print. From early on we were reading everything. My mother did go to secondary school but because of rural poverty in Mayo did not have the £50 needed to attend college – that is why she made it her number one priority that we all attend.
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