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On Monday 8th February the children of 5th and 6th class paid a visit to the courthouse in Tulla to see Me, Mollser.
Me, Mollser is part of the Abbey Theatre’s Priming the Canon series which introduces classic Irish plays to a younger audience.
Me, Mollser by Ali White, is based on the character of Mollser, a fifteen year old consumptive who appears in The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey. The play introduces the children to a strong willed and passionate young woman coping with consumption against the backdrop of the 1913 Lock-Out and the Easter Rising. Mollser is a proud Dub struggling to thrive in the overcrowded tenements but having lost none of her curiosity and idealism. She sees the adults in her world with a sharp eye and even has a sense of the ghosts who continue to haunt the building.
The children got an insight into what life was like for children in the early 1900s and how different life is now.