The Newpoint Players will be performing Juno and the Paycock at the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, on the 23rd and 24th of January 2015.
Professor N. Dharmarajan has worked for 56 years translating over 170 works from various languages into Tamil. In an article in The Hindu we have learned that his very first work of translation was Sean O’ Casey’s The Worker Blows the Bugle appearing as Uzhaippaliyin Sanganatham in Janasakthi in 1958.
Professor Dharmarajan’s work includes translating many works into Tamil including all the works of Tolstoy (excluding War and Peace). The work of a translator in bridging works and ideas across cultures is not an easy one and Professor Dharmarajan is responsible with introducing several new coinages into Tamil.
We are very proud indeed that Professor Dharmarajan’s wonderful journey began with a step hand in hand with Sean.
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Gabrielle Reidy, Irish Actor, 1960 – 2014
It is deeply saddening to learn that Gabrielle Reidy has died. Her career was bookended by roles in plays by Sean O’Casey at the Abbey Theatre. Starting as a child actor in The Shadow of a Gunman in 1971 and with her last role her acclaimed performance as Bessie Burgess in The Plough and the Stars 2012.
In the intervening years she graced many productions on stage, television and film. More information is contained in her obituaries in The Guardian and The Irish Times.
Condolences to her family and friends.