Hints and tips:
...“We did a couple of classic verse plays, one by Molière translated by Derek Mahon, truly a great poet, and Antigone in a version by Tom Paulin....
...But millions of fans of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring novels will also know that Mahon is where Jack Aubrey meets Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander, and it all begins....
...Rea’s deep-throated timbre and smouldering mien also seem perfectly matched to the lugubrious wit of Mahon’s verse, as does Martin’s eclectic, laid-back score, crisply and unobtrusively played by Brian Connor...
...Brian Pickett, chief executive, Commonwealth Study Conferences (Australia). Anthony Shepherd, head of Outward Bound Centre, Loch Eil, Inverness-shire....
...Brian Merriman’s 18th-century bawdy epic, “The Midnight Court”, is uncut, but daringly mixes the various translations by Frank O’Connor, Heaney, Muldoon, Ciaran Carson and Thomas Kinsella....
...Brian Wilson, a former Labour minister, said the only abnormality of the McBride affair was that the proposed allegations were directed against the Tories....
...McDonagh would, at least, pick up a shillelagh and give you a laugh at the same time, just as Christy Mahon, Synge’s playboy, comically lays his old “da” low with a loy (a small spade) in the field beyond...
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