Wexford Trilogy
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Product details
- ISBN 9781854594716
- Weight: 211g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A modern Irish classic, telling three separate but related tales of small-town life in southern Ireland: A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain and Belfry.
Set in a snooker club, a betting shop and a local church, each play introduces a mix of young cornerboys, old cowboys and chancers of any age in a lyrical, poignant and often hilarious account of lost dreams and thwarted ambitions.
Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s.
His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008).
His prose works include the novel Tumbling Down (1986) and the short story collection Tales From Rainwater Pond (2006).
His work for the screen includes his IFTA-nominated, four-part TV series Clean Break, which premiered on RTE in 2015.
