Aislinn Delaney
Children of Lir
"'Come for a ride in my chariot, dear children,' she said one day. When they arrived at the Great Lake, she ordered the children into the water. No sooner had they entered than she struck each one with her rod of enchantment, turning them into four swans. 'For three hundred years you will swim on this lake,' she gloated, 'and then you will fly to the cold Sea of Moyle. For another three hundred years you will shiver and suffer, before you can go the Sea of Erris, for the final three hundred years!'" (The Children of Lir). In 1998, I started working in St. Michael's Parish Youth Project in St. Michael's Estate, a local authority flats complex on the edge of Dublin's inner city. At this time, the flats were at their lowest ebb, existing in a state of official neglect and under siege to the ravages of the heroin trade. Many of the young people in the area slowly began to succumb to the drug. 'Children of Lir' seeks to evoke a sense of this time, and the enormity of what growing up with an overabundance of heroin has subsequently meant for this group of young people. In using the Irish folk tale 'The Children of Lir', it seeks to combine two parallel stories that challenge the audience to re-imagine the drugs crisis of the mid to late 1990s in Dublin's working class communities. It also aspires to evoke the idea of a curse, as a way of comprehending the injustice that created the conditions where a generation of Dublin's young working class became heroin addicts.
Clare Bottomley • Julien Danan • Aislinn Delaney • Rebecca Gardiner • Will Hartley • Kathrin Hauser • Eveliina Hujanen • David Jenkins • Muiread MacNabb • John McKernan • Hiroyuki Mori • Ally Nelson • Elizabeth Clare North • Janire Nájera • Catherine Townsend • Hunter Workman •
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