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Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. [1] [2] [3] We are all living in our own strumpet cities with politicians promising us heaven when they give us hell.

And you think that that was a long time ago. It is what is happening now! We are still angry and hungry, satisfied and dissatisfied, poor and rich.

When I was about done with this review, I found the following wonderful appreciation of the book. It's from the Introduction to the latest edition of the novel, by Fintan O’Toole. http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/boo... For the unstable, young Father O’Connor, torn between fond memories of his beloved mother, his interest in musical evenings and his egotistical pursuit of sanctity, being posted to a slum parish will consolidate his vocation. Father Giffley, the older, wiser, alcoholic, possibly insane parish priest and one of the most powerfully evoked characters in Irish literature, knows otherwise: “It’s almost 30 years since I first came to the Dublin slums. I didn’t come like you, looking for dirty work, I came because I was sent. They knew my weakness for good society and good conversation. I suppose they thought they’d cure me by giving me the faces of the destitute to console me and the minds of the ignorant to entertain me.” The Bellhe became a highly respected writer. He had worked briefly with Larkin while serving as secretary to the Worker's Union of Ireland.

The novel's roots date from 1954, when Plunkett's radio play Big Jim was produced by Radio Éireann, with Jim Larkin the titular hero. [1] In 1958, it was expanded into a gloomier and more stylized stage play, The Risen People, staged at the Abbey Theatre. [1] Kathleen Heininge characterises it as a dry work which read as "pure propaganda for a socialist agenda". [2] When Hutchinson requested a novel about James Connolly from Plunkett, he reworked the play again; Connolly does not feature in Strumpet City, published in 1969. The Risen People was revived and revised in 1977 for the Project Arts Centre and Jim Sheridan. [3] A 2013–14 revival at the Abbey included "the Noble Call", a speech in response to the play's themes from a different public figure at each performance. [4] Panti Bliss' speech on LGBT rights in Ireland at the closing performance attracted media attention. [5] [6] Reception [ edit ] Winner of the Women’s prize for fiction and the British Book awards fiction book of the year for Hamnet ( Tinder Press )

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There is a terrible accident at a coal yard and you feel empathy for big Mulhall and the further poverty his family will suffer in its wake. The success of the radio play led to it being expanded for the stage in the Abbey Theatre as T he Risen People in 1958. The suggestion to expand it came from Sean 0'Casey, who wrote later to David Krause: "I am glad you met Jim Plunkett. He wrote a radio drama about Jim Larkin and sent me the book of what he had written. I thought it good, and recommended him to lengthen it, and make it fit for stage. I'm glad he did this and wish the work every possible success. He is as you say an Honest writer, and brave too; he has written some fine short stories and has a fine literary talent. But he too must walk warily." The characters in the novel represent both sides of the divide. Even so, as in all good novels, opinions are not quite so clear cut. Some of the upper classes do try to help the poor and of course some of the poor are only half-hearted in their support of the strikers, desperate as they are for work.

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