Requiem for a hotel

By: Monaghan Libraries
  • Summary

  • If walls could talk, the Foresters Hotel, also known as the Harp, also known as the Commercial, would have many tales to tell.

    Requiem for a Hotel traces, in narrative, dramatic monologue, poetry and song, the life of a hotel during the turbulent years of the twentieth century.

    Monaghan County Libraries under the Decade of Centenaries Programmed commissioned local award-winning Poet Ted McCarthy to research, write, direct, and produce this radio play which encapsulate a specific story set during a significant period of Irish history and aims to bring to live our history with a dramatic script, a cast of local voice actors, music, special audio effects and archival material individual to the county. If walls could talk, the Foresters Hotel, also known as the Harp, also known as the Commercial, would have many tales to tell.

    Requiem for a Hotel traces, in narrative, dramatic monologue, poetry and song, the life of a hotel during the turbulent years of the twentieth century.

    Monaghan County Libraries under the Decade of Centenaries Programmed commissioned local award-winning Poet Ted McCarthy to research, write, direct, and produce this radio play which encapsulate a specific story set during a significant period of Irish history and aims to bring to live our history with a dramatic script, a cast of local voice actors, music, special audio effects and archival material individual to the county.


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  • Requiem for a Hotel
    Mar 14 2024
    A Radio Play written by Ted McCarthy

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    54 mins

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