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A Day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge
Dates
1st Oct 2020
to 3rd Oct 2020
Age Range
All ages
Venue
Solstice Arts Centre
Address
Solstice Arts Centre
Railway Street
Navan
C15 KWP1
Type
Performance
"A day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge" is a new play by local writer Richard Ball performed at Solstice over three nights, 01-03 October under Covid restricted audience numbers
"I'm alive and dead, a voice in your head"
Francis Ledwidge, soldier and poet, bridges a century and more, to speak to us in his own words of his two great loves; the local landscape of Slane and Ellie Vaughey. Blown to pieces in 1917, his unique voice remains suspended forever in time, in its first flowering. He was only 29 and destined, in the opinion of Lord Dunsany, to be the poet of the age.
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