Drama explores effort to silence potent symbol of Irish identity

Cláirseach ina Tost (The Harp Silenced) will be staged at the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, on Wednesday, May 8, at 4pm as part of the Galway Theatre Festival

It deals with the effort by Cromwell’s forces, some 400 years ago, to silence this instrument that was and remains such a potent symbol of Irish culture and identity. The Cromwellians, on their rampage through Ireland, smashed the harps and hanged the harpers.

This devastation and the attendant themes of oppression and silence are being explored in a work-in-progress from new theatre collective Giorria for the Festival.

Giorria is the Irish for hare, which was a magical shapeshifter in Irish legend.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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