Bernard Clarke Terrible. Beauty
RTÉ Radio 1
Drama on One: Terrible Beauty By Bernard Clarke RTÉ Radio 1 - 03 SEP 2017 • 55 MINS The piece re-imagines the Easter Rising from a single point of view, that of Irish Volunteer, Gerald Doyle. Doyle was a member of B Company of the Fourth Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. His experiences of the Rising - and the brutal aftermath - are recorded in a witness statement he gave to the Bureau of Irish Military History. This documentary account is brought to life in Bernard Clarke’s sonic version, combining memoir, dramatic scenes and sound design. An RTÉ Lyric FM production, ‘Terrible Beauty’ won the prestigious Prix Marulic* 2017 The piece was adapted, narrated and sound designed by Bernard Clarke and originally aired in The Lyric Feature produced by Olga Buckley and Eoin O’Kelly. [Gerald Doyle pdf]
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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