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Gender ARC:’Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters’ Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
September 11, 2015 @ 3:30 pm
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Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to:
“Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters”
Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
Reception and Performance: Friday 11 September 2015 – 3.30-5.00pm – All Welcome!!
Venue: Room G006, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway
Lily and Lolly is a new work of theatre that looks at the life of poet W.B. Yeats through the eyes of his sisters Lily and Lolly Yeats. Set in their Dublin printing company Cuala Press, it explores the poetry and plays they publish for their brother Willie. Through storytelling, poetry and song, Lily and Lolly opens up the relationships within the Yeats family, with their brother the artist Jack B.Yeats and their father, the portrait artist John B. Yeats. Lilly and Lolly and their all-female printing company, find themselves at the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival surrounded by the characters so important in the life of W.B.Yeats including Maud Gonne, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, AE, Sean O’Casey and John Millington Synge.
Since 2010, Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher (the Shannon Colleens), have been creating award-winning music-theatre productions relating to the life and works of James Joyce. In 2014, they created Here Comes Everybody : Songs from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce for Dublin City Public Libraries as part of the Bealtaine Festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake. They have performed their shows, Songs of Joyce and Caf̩ Chantant to critical acclaim, touring nationally and internationally including Moscow, New York, Prague, Vienna, Trieste, Glasgow and Coruna.
Gender ARC supports excellence and collaboration in gender research across NUI Galway and University of Limerick.
New members and affiliates are always welcome – for more information see: www.genderarc.org
For questions regarding Gender ARC ‰Û÷Lily and Lolly’ performance and to RSVP for catering purposes, please contact Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie