Sun Nov 15 · 2pm
Mothers, Fathers and the Boy: The Irish Immigrant World of Eugene O’Neill
An afternoon of talks and readings on how Irish immigration shaped Eugene O’Neill’s family, boyhood and plays. Beth Wynstra, vice president of the Eugene O’Neill International Society, opens on Nora Melody in A Touch of the Poet and Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night. Playwright Ronán Noone discusses Thirst, set in the Tyrones’ kitchen, and Turlough McConnell’s Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood closes in a script-in-hand reading.