Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme Author: Frank McGuinness
First Performance: 1985, Dublin
Published: 1986
Genre: Hist. drama in 4 acts
Setting: Ulster, c.1980 and c.1915; the Somme battlefield, 1916
Cast: 9m
Kenneth Pyper, an Ulster veteran of the First World War, reminisces about the War and compares it to contemporary violence in Ulster: ‘Why we let ourselves be led to extermination? In the end, we were not led, we led ourselves.’ Eight Ulster volunteers assemble in a barracks on a training camp: they are all determined to fight for Ulster and turn on Crawford, when he is suspected of being Catholic. Pyper, a mad, rebellious character, deliberately cuts his hand and holds it up as the Red Hand of Ulster. On leave from the War, the eight men pair off: two row out to an...
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