CROSSING BORDERS – Seeking Love & Peace across the Island of Ireland

DUBLIN TOURING THEATRE PROJECT invites you to CROSSING BORDERS, part 1

Through drama, poetry, music and real life storytelling this multi-discinplinary event highlights the human challenges faced by traversing frontiers. Artists, writers and special guests reveal raw experiences of border crossing in Ireland and around the world be they physical, emotional, political or military.

Set against the backdrop of the WW2 deValera – Churchill pact allowing reconnaissance planes across the 16 mile “Donegal Corridor” to observe German movements in the North Atlantic, ‘The Lad from Laghy’ by playwright Michael Harnett, hears actor Noni Stapleton reflect on a young Donegal woman who falls for an English Flying-Boat pilot stationed at Castle Archdale on Lough Erne. One of many American and British airmen who crossed the border into Donegal for Saturday night dances to meet girls and drink beer experiencing local hostility and acclaim. The piece is directed by Vinnie McCabe.

A discussion of Crossing Borders chaired by former INTO General Secretary John Carr ( also from Donegal) follows with participation from former TD and first female Tánaiste Mary Coughlan who hails from within the “Donegal Corridor” and Reverend Chris Hudson, moderator of the Unitarian Church in Ireland based in Belfast, will describe his journey from trade unionist to prominent negotiator in the Northern Ireland peace process.

SEE CROSSING BORDERS Pt 2 HERE