Tarry Flynn By Patrick Kavanagh

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Tarry Flynn By Patrick Kavanagh A radio-adaptation of the novel by P.J. O'Connor. Donal McCann plays Tarry Flynn in a famous adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh's autobiographical novel, which was also the inaugural production at the new Abbey Theatre when it reopened in 1965. Donal McCann ... Tarry Flynn Pegg Monahan ... Mrs. Flynn, his mother Colette Proctor ... his sister  MaryKate Minogue ... his sister  BridieCelia Salkeld ... his sister  AggieMarcella O'Riordan ... Mary  Riley Eusebius O'Cassidy ... Breandán Ó DúillSeamus Forde ... Fr. Markey Peter Dix ... Petey Mehigan Brendan Cauldwell ... Joe Finnegan Deirdre O'Meara ... Maggie Finnegan Jonathan Ryan ... Larry Finnegan Brian O'Higgins ... Charlie Finnegan Daphne Carroll ... Mrs. Callan Mary Brady ... Cathryn Brennan Daniel Reardon ... the Narrator Producer: Tim Danaher (1979) A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Like The Green Fool, his autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier this century. [Goodreads] RTE Radio Drama on One OTX 1979

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.