Green Fields and Far Away
From 1977-1981, he ran his own touring company Green Fields and Far Away. It was the first company of its kind in Britain. Based in London, the company produced 12 productions of Irish and Irish-related work and toured the UK. It also toured Ireland and its production of Jack Doyle - The Man Who Boxed Like John McCormick! by Ian McPherson, about the celebrated Irish boxer and entertainer, featured at the Lyric Hammersmith, London in the 1980 'A Sense Of Ireland' Festival. The company produced work by writers Desmond Hogan, Leigh Jackson (who wrote a specially commissioned play about Erskine Childers, English author, turned Irish patriot), James McKenna, James Pettifer and Bryan MacMahon. Actors like Brid Brennan, Liam Neeson, Michael Loughnan, John O'Toole, Patch Connolly, David Haig, Robert O'Mahoney and Kevin Wallace were among those who worked for the company. Green Fields and Far Away received an Irish Post Award for its work in 1981 and an insightful documentary film about the company, directed by John Lynch, was transmitted on RTE.
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