Curlew Theatre Presents: A Celebration of Mná na hÉireann: A Trilogy of Irish Women’s Voices

A unique event to honour the enduring partnership between Eamon Grennan, Curlew Theatre, and the Clifden Arts Festival. Tegolin Knowland brings to life three remarkable Irish women – Lady Gregory, Nora Barnacle, and Peig Sayers—in a trilogy of solo plays that span history, literature, myth and memory. These vivid, deeply human portraits explore what it meant to be a woman in Ireland in the early 20th century: a literary force, a muse, a storyteller. A stirring theatrical tribute to the voices of Mná na hÉireann.

11AM Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mister Joyce In a Zurich guesthouse in the 1950s, Nora Barnacle remembers. Galway girl, mother, muse – Nora reflects on her life with James Joyce, threading her earthy humour through memories of love, exile, and literary genius. Echoes of Joyce’s language mingle with her own, creating a lively, tender “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife as an Older Woman.”

2PM The Loves of Lady Gregory Lady Gregory steps out from the footnotes of literary history to tell her own story— of political upheaval, personal loss, and creative triumph. Lady G recounts a life of public and private passion. A portrait of a woman who helped shape Ireland’s cultural identity, with wit, warmth and fierce intellect.

4PM Peig: An Ordinary Life Ireland’s most renowned seanchaí ,Peig Sayers, speaks of joy and hardship, family and folklore, grief and grace. A powerful invocation of a life where the everyday becomes epic, and the spoken word holds the soul of a nation.

A unique event to honour the enduring partnership between Eamon Grennan, Curlew Theatre, and the Clifden Arts Festival. Tegolin Knowland brings to life three remarkable Irish women – Lady Gregory, Nora Barnacle, and Peig Sayers—in a trilogy of solo plays that span history, literature, myth and memory. These vivid, deeply human portraits explore what it meant to be a woman in Ireland in the early 20th century: a literary force, a muse, a storyteller. A stirring theatrical tribute to the voices of Mná na hÉireann.

11AM Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mister Joyce In a Zurich guesthouse in the 1950s, Nora Barnacle remembers. Galway girl, mother, muse – Nora reflects on her life with James Joyce, threading her earthy humour through memories of love, exile, and literary genius. Echoes of Joyce’s language mingle with her own, creating a lively, tender “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife as an Older Woman.”

2PM The Loves of Lady Gregory Lady Gregory steps out from the footnotes of literary history to tell her own story— of political upheaval, personal loss, and creative triumph. Lady G recounts a life of public and private passion. A portrait of a woman who helped shape Ireland’s cultural identity, with wit, warmth and fierce intellect.

4PM Peig: An Ordinary Life Ireland’s most renowned seanchaí ,Peig Sayers, speaks of joy and hardship, family and folklore, grief and grace. A powerful invocation of a life where the everyday becomes epic, and the spoken word holds the soul of a nation.

A unique event to honour the enduring partnership between Eamon Grennan, Curlew Theatre, and the Clifden Arts Festival. Tegolin Knowland brings to life three remarkable Irish women – Lady Gregory, Nora Barnacle, and Peig Sayers—in a trilogy of solo plays that span history, literature, myth and memory. These vivid, deeply human portraits explore what it meant to be a woman in Ireland in the early 20th century: a literary force, a muse, a storyteller. A stirring theatrical tribute to the voices of Mná na hÉireann.

11AM Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mister Joyce In a Zurich guesthouse in the 1950s, Nora Barnacle remembers. Galway girl, mother, muse – Nora reflects on her life with James Joyce, threading her earthy humour through memories of love, exile, and literary genius. Echoes of Joyce’s language mingle with her own, creating a lively, tender “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife as an Older Woman.”

2PM The Loves of Lady Gregory Lady Gregory steps out from the footnotes of literary history to tell her own story— of political upheaval, personal loss, and creative triumph. Lady G recounts a life of public and private passion. A portrait of a woman who helped shape Ireland’s cultural identity, with wit, warmth and fierce intellect.

4PM Peig: An Ordinary Life Ireland’s most renowned seanchaí ,Peig Sayers, speaks of joy and hardship, family and folklore, grief and grace. A powerful invocation of a life where the everyday becomes epic, and the spoken word holds the soul of a nation.

A unique event to honour the enduring partnership between Eamon Grennan, Curlew Theatre, and the Clifden Arts Festival. Tegolin Knowland brings to life three remarkable Irish women – Lady Gregory, Nora Barnacle, and Peig Sayers—in a trilogy of solo plays that span history, literature, myth and memory. These vivid, deeply human portraits explore what it meant to be a woman in Ireland in the early 20th century: a literary force, a muse, a storyteller. A stirring theatrical tribute to the voices of Mná na hÉireann.

11AM Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mister Joyce In a Zurich guesthouse in the 1950s, Nora Barnacle remembers. Galway girl, mother, muse – Nora reflects on her life with James Joyce, threading her earthy humour through memories of love, exile, and literary genius. Echoes of Joyce’s language mingle with her own, creating a lively, tender “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife as an Older Woman.”

2PM The Loves of Lady Gregory Lady Gregory steps out from the footnotes of literary history to tell her own story— of political upheaval, personal loss, and creative triumph. Lady G recounts a life of public and private passion. A portrait of a woman who helped shape Ireland’s cultural identity, with wit, warmth and fierce intellect.

4PM Peig: An Ordinary Life Ireland’s most renowned seanchaí ,Peig Sayers, speaks of joy and hardship, family and folklore, grief and grace. A powerful invocation of a life where the everyday becomes epic, and the spoken word holds the soul of a nation.