Fierce Love: The Life of Mary O'Malley

Fierce Love, a scholarly work, is sourced from production notebooks and copious correspondence held in NUI Galway, measuring for the first time the achievements of a controversial and resourceful woman swimming against the tide of populism and sectarianism to establish an independent academy for actors and artists in a tireless quest for imaginative freedom and excellence.

About the author

Bernard Adams, a Dubliner with Ulster roots, went to school at Portora in Enniskillen and read English at Trinity College, Dublin. He became a journalist in Belfast and had a long career as a BBC television producer in London. He wrote Denis Johnston: A Life (Lilliput, 2002).

Summary

Fierce Love is a compelling and candid biography of Cork-born theatre pioneer (1918-2006) Mary O’Malley, founder-director of Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre from 1951 to 1981.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Adams
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781843518549
• ISBN: 978-1-84351-854-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet