Podcast feedInterview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
Package by Catherine Carroll
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What's on in Camden for the Week Beginning 14th September
London Fashion Week is here again and the Autumn Jazz season kicks off, with the Ferg Ireland Quintet at The Oxford in Kentish Town. Meanwhile, above the Oxford Arms in Camden High Street, at the Etcetera Theatre, ‘Fishcakes’ provides a slice of theatre and visual arts curator Vivien Lovell talks on Shelagh Wakely’s public artworks at Camden Arts Centre. The film ‘Pride’, just released to enthusiastic acclaim, is partly a Camden story.
Read by: Freddy Chick, Tanya Geddes, Joseph Hughes & Marian Larragy
Recorded by: Freddy Chick
Edited by: Marian Larragy
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Savita Halappanavar Scandal & Women's Right to Life in Ireland
The death of Savita Halappanavar in a hospital in the West of Ireland in December 2012 has raised fury in Ireland, in India and around the world. The allegation is that the hospital staff refused, on religious grounds, to terminate a dying foetus so allowing Septicaemia to take hold. This report provides the background to demonstrators in London and elsewhere calling the Irish Government to legislate for a safer policy on the abortion.
Package by: Marian Larragy
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Remembering The Future - in Northern Ireland
Deirdre MacBride, talks with Ann Carroll about how the Community Relations Council in the North of Ireland is helping people to look at the past and prepare for the future as we face into a long list of anniversaries.
Edited by: Ann Carroll
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What's On: Week beginning Saturday 25th September 2010
Sat 25th. 6.30pm Somerstown Community Centre: BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Stories From Our Mothers’
Wed 29th: London Irish Centre, PLAY: ‘Cromwell in Ireland’
Friday 1st Oct: Barbican, FILM: ‘Made in Dagenham’
Sunday 3rd Oct, Finsbury Park, UpRise Anti Racism Festival, FREE
Monday to Saturday each week till 30 October, workshops preparing for Haverstock Carnival, Carnival Shop, 46 Malden Road, NW5
- Haverstock Carnival
- or call 07957 579777
- Uprise Festival
- London Irish Theatre
- Barbican films
- Camden Abu Dis Association
- Stories of Our Mothers
- Back to Camden Community Radio
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