Rain King Productions present
Through the Dark Clouds Shining
By Neil Richardson
Directed by Caroline Barry
Starring Stephen Jones, Tommy Campbell, Rory Dignam, Vincent Browning

Based on stories from the book A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall
By Neil Richardson, Due for publication by O'Brien Press in 2010.

In 1914-1918, 200,000 Irishmen went to war. At least 35,000 never came home. Those that did were scarred, maimed and haunted for the rest of their lives...

‘Through the Dark Clouds Shining’ is the story of four men: Athlone-man Michael Curley, a seasoned experienced soldier but with a terrible burden on his soul; Jack West from Galway, a religious believer looking for some meaning in this war; Limerick-man Eddie O’Hara, an innocent and naive fresh recruit searching for his missing brother; and Dubliner Harry Burke, a veteran looking back on the war and remembering what it did to some of his fellow Irishmen.

They all went for different reasons, but at the end of the day, all those reasons melted away in the face of shellfire, machine guns, bayonets, rats and mud. It exposed them all as mere mortals trapped in hell – human beings against the fury of mechanised slaughter.

Those who managed to survive were abandoned and forgotten by their countrymen, while far away, the dead lay silent in foreign graves.

This is their story...

Tickets: €15.00

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