Spirits Unsurrendered - RIAM Opera & This Then Theatre
Sun, 05 Nov
|Dublin 8
A journey to remember the Women of 1923 incarcerated in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin Libretto by Aoife Spillane-Hinks based on the writings of the Women of 1923 Music by Stephen McNeff and from traditional sources https://www.riam.ie/whats-on/spirits-unsurrendered-riam-opera-then-this-theatre
Time & Location
05 Nov 2023, 15:30 – 06 Nov 2023, 15:30
Dublin 8, Inchicore Rd, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, D08 RK28, Ireland
About the event
A journey to remember the Women of 1923 incarcerated in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
Libretto by Aoife Spillane-Hinks based on the writings of the Women of 1923
Music by Stephen McNeff and from traditional sources
“Have you ever stopped to think what a power weapon a key is? It is only a simply-fashioned piece of mechanism, yet it can mean open sesame to love, home, friendship, or it can shut out all these; it can mean liberty or bondage…” - Margaret Buckley, The Jangle of Keys
Keys signified all of these things to the over 300 women held as anti-treaty prisoners in the Kilmainham Gaol between 1922 and 1923. Some of these women were already well known or would soon become so: Grace Gifford, Mary MacSwiney, Dorothy Macardle. But after their imprisonment, the majority of the women returned to anonymity in the ordinary lives they’d left behind.
In 2023, these women…