« Small Things Like These »

Presented by Four Rivers
Read by Andrew Bennett
Music composed and played by Eleanor McEvoy
Directed by Ben Barnes

For the second of two evenings devoted to the work of Claire Keegan, we present a staged reading of her unforgettable story of hope and heroism, Small Things Like These (2021). Directed by Ben Barnes, the entire story is peformed by actor Andrew Bennett (An Cailín Ciúin - The Quiet Girl) with original music composed and played by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eleanor McEvoy (A Woman’s Heart).

Nominated for the Booker Prize 2022, this deeply moving tale is set in a rural Irish town in the 1980s. As coal merchant Bill Furlong does his rounds in the run up to Christmas, he discovers a girl locked away in terrible conditions in the local convent. Unlike the silent majority, he decides to do something about it.

Find out more about our first Nuit de la Lecture 2025 event: « Les trois lumières » read (in French) by actress Constance Dollé on Friday 24 January

Image: Andrew Bennett, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Eleanor McEvoy

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