Sive : a play in two acts / John B. Keane ; with an introduction and commentary by Joanna Keane O'Flynn.
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TextPublication details: Cork : Mercier Press ; [Chester Spring, PA : U.S. Distributor, Dufour Editions], c2009.Description: 127 p. : music ; 20 cmISBN: - 1856356515 (pbk.)
- 9781856356510 (pbk.)
- 891.62 KEA
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Clonmel Library Main Collection | 891.62 KEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 0 | Available | 30026000064997 | ||
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 822 KEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100442277 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Seán Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dóta. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage. They will receive a sum of two hundred pounds as soon as she marries him. However, Sive is in love with a young man, Liam Scuab. But Liam is not suitable and is refused permission to marry Sive. Sive is distraught but is forced to do the will of her uncle and his bitter wife. Faced with an unthinkable future she takes the only choice left to her. Set against the harsh poverty and difficult times of 1950s Ireland, Sive caused considerable controversy on its debut in February 1959. Since then it has become an established part of Ireland's theatrical canon.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
John B. Keane was born in Ireland on July 21, 1928. He attended St. Michael's College, Listowel. By 1945, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Listowel. He eventually took over a small public house and began to write. During his lifetime, he published 46 works including Sive, The Field, Big Maggie, The Streets and Other Poems, Sharon's Grave, Letters of a Matchmaker, Hut 42, Moll, and Durango.In 1999 he won the first Irish PEN Award for Literature. Keane died from prostate cancer on May 30, 2002 at the age of 73.
(Bowker Author Biography)