Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
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Speak. Speak loud and clear. Let them hear you in Belfast. Let the Fenians hear it everywhere. Let the Hun hear the sons of Ulster preaching war.
On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I, eight ordinary men are changed, changed utterly.
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme premiered on the Peacock Stage at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1985.
'A great act of theatrical generosity.' GUARDIAN
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. His plays include: The Factory Girls, Baglady, Carthaginians (Abbey Theatre); Mary and Lizzie (RSC), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway), Mutabilitie (National Theatre), Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey and Old Vic), Gates of Gold (Gate Theatre), Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle Theatre), The Hanging Gardens (Abbey), The Visiting Hour (Gate) and Dinner With Groucho (Civic Belfast). His widely performed versions include plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, Lorca, Brecht, Sophocles, Strindberg, Euripides, Racine, Tirso de Molina and Molière, as well as James Joyce's The Dead.