Search for troy speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019): Marie Louise O'Donnell: ...life and, as such, compelling.We have lost a compelling voice away from the maddening crowd. It is now time to carry its echo with us. After the death of Seamus Heaney, I quoted his play "The Cure at Troy", a dramatisation of Sophocles's "Philoctetes". Seamus Heaney was a favourite poet of Gay Byrne's wife, Kathleen Watkins. I wish to quote lines spoken by the chorus of elders at the...
Seanad: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney: Statements (3 Oct 2013): Marie Louise O'Donnell: ...Marie and Seamus Heaney were an ageless union. I know that her loss is profound and I am very grateful today to have the opportunity to hold her in our hearts and in our thoughts. In The Cure at Troy, which is a dramatisation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles's "Philoctetes", the chorus of elders speak these lines at the close of the play:Now it's high watermark and floodtide in the heart...

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