Friel contrasts Gar’s cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).

Melodrama on ice

Competition between rival inventors endeavouring to win a prize for the first flight by a man-powered flying machine.

A quiet little village, and especially a pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day.

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world’s longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a…

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called…