Ray Yeates in the Parting Glass

THE PARTING GLASS is set on the infamous night that Thierry Henry caused Ireland’s exit from the 2010 World Cup. Henry’s sleight of hand is used by writer Dermot Bolger as a metaphor for the speedy deception experienced by people in post boom Ireland. After emigrating to Germany to find work during the 1980s, Eoin made a new life for himself with the help of his wife Frieda and son Dieter. He returned to Ireland at the height of the boom, and just in time for the bust - “where Dorset Street has become so posh that all the women have turned blonde … and the girls buying John Player Blue at Hardwick Street flats have a different pair of pyjamas to wear to the shops everyday”.Marie McIntyre spoke with Ray Yeates who plays Eoin in this one man play.

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