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"Padric Fallon created many brilliant radio plays during the 1950s, a time now recognised as the medium's golden age. He wrote with a sure sense of how the play would perform, but his works are also central to his poetic vision, expressions of the inner drama that, as he declared, 'goes on in the psyche where worlds are meeting and where history is always of the present'. These three plays, published for the first time - ""The Vision of MacConglinne"" (1953), ""The Poplar"" (1953) and ""The Hags of Clough"" (1957) - reveal the range of Fallon's historical and social themes, combining intellectual subtlety with lyrical beauty and moments of broad humour. Brian Fallon has edited the plays from original scripts, and his introduction explores their literary context and production history."

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'Fallon's meaning deepens each year...His sensibility has weathered in Galway the rainy light that was familiar to both Rafferty and Yeats; it has been tutored by a landscape once elemental and historical; a landscape that holds the walled demesne and the tower as well as the bog face and the stone wall.' - Seamus Heaney. 'He possesses a blunt, truth-telling sensibility together with a contrary and tender-hearted lyric perspective. His originality, both of phrase and perspective, remains in my mind' - Eavan Boland

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PADRAIC FALLON was born in Athenry, Co. Galway in 1905. He moved to Dublin while he was in his teens, and his first poems were published there. He married in 1930, and had six sons, of whom four survive. His middle years were spent in Wexford, and it was there that he wrote a series of radio plays. He moved back to Dublin in 1963, and then to Cornwall in 1967, before returning to Ireland. His last years were spent in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Padraic Fallon died in 1974. His Collected Poems was published by Dolmen Press a few months before his death. In 1990 Carcanet published a new Collected Poems adding previously unpublished work.

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