"Remember Skibbereen" a success
Staged by Skibbereen Theatre Society, ‘Remember Skibbereen’ which re-enacted Rossa’s frank eyewitness accounts of the horrors endured by the people of this area and beyond during the late 1840s was a tremendous success. It was performed outdoors in front of the impressive and historic Skibbereen Heritage Centre at Upper Bridge Street at 7.30 p.m. on the evenings of Friday and Saturday, 20th and 21st July, 2001, in conjunction with the golden jubilee Munster Fleadh Cheoil, and may be staged again on September 8 or 9 for National Heritage Week.
‘Remember Skibbereen’, a pageant devised by Con Downing, is based mainly on O’Donovan Rossa’s recollections of what became known as the Great Famine. However, the founder of the Fenian movement maintained that this was a misnomer, because there was enough food produced here at the time to feed three times the population and he pulls no punches in attributing the blame for the suffering and humiliation it caused the Irish people.
Staged by Skibbereen Theatre Society, ‘Remember Skibbereen’ which re-enacted Rossa’s frank eyewitness accounts of the horrors endured by the people of this area and beyond during the late 1840s was a tremendous success. It was performed outdoors in front of the impressive and historic Skibbereen Heritage Centre at Upper Bridge Street at 7.30 p.m. on the evenings of Friday and Saturday, 20th and 21st July, 2001, in conjunction with the golden jubilee Munster Fleadh Cheoil, and may be staged again on September 8 or 9 for National Heritage Week.