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Island's Lament by Mary Hoey

An award-winning play set in 1930's Ireland, a family is forced to leave a lonely island for the mainland, but the ties that bind are hard to break. An extensively performed play, both in Ireland and London, the play consists of four interwoven monologues as mother, father, son and daughter draw the audience into a web of memories, all fiercely tied to the bleak Blasket Island which has been their world.