Amongst Men

Set on the banks of the Slaney in Wexford in 1968, local school teacher, Seán Walsh, is charged with initiating a commemorative history project with his pupils at St. Laurence’s. Local priest, the unshakable Connick, new to the parish, has definite ideas as to how this project should progress especially on the blatant divisive issue of the Civil War. Goff, a local TD, shrewd and unyielding, the one eye on the past and another on the commercial present, is burdened with personal trauma. Sean’s mother, Áine, a veteran revolutionary, has her version of the past and how the future should be shaped. 

 

Relationships and divergent views of the past are strained through a complex web of interactions, thus putting Seán’s future in doubt.

Cast: 

Áine Walsh – Nicola Graham
Father Connick – Senan Lillis
Larry Goff – Eugene McLoughlin 
Seán Walsh – Alex Murphy

 

Eoghan Rua Finn

Eoghan Rua Finn is a writer from County Wexford. He has been writing poetry, plays and screenplays for fifteen years. His plays Come Along The Road Until You Stop Dead, The Blackstairs Trilogy, Locomotive and The Kill God have been staged in the Wexford Arts Centre, The Athenaeum and the National Opera House, Wexford. In April 2017 Eoghan Rua received a National Arts Council Bursary for theatre. He was one of eight writer’s selected for the Wexford Playwrights Studio in 2021, facilitated by Billy Roche and Ben Barnes and Wexford Arts Centre. In 2022 Eoghan Rua won the Wexford Playwright’s Commission Award to write a new play commemorating the revolutionary period in Wexford. This play Amongst Men was produced by Four Rivers in 2023 and had a successful run in Wexford, Waterford and Kilkenny. In 2023 Eoghan Rua won the Arts Council Theatre Project award. Eoghan Rua is currently developing a new play, Jenny Instead, with Four Rivers for production in 2025.