Strumpet City
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Strumpet City (1969) is a historical novel by James Plunkett set in Dublin, Ireland at the time of the Dublin Lockout. In 1980, it was made into a successful TV drama by Radio Telefís Éireann.
The novel is an epic, tracing the lives of a dozen characters as they are swept up in the tumultuous events that affected Dublin between 1907 and 1914. It was immensely popular when it was published, although a very conventional novel and sometimes laboured, the writing is direct and powerfully evokes the terrible poverty and the peculiar intimacy of pre-independence Dublin. One theme is the essential goodness of people and the tenderness which survives the brutality of deprivation. The popularity of the novel also owes something to events in Ireland in the early '70s, as the Troubles made the more traditional iconography of the insurrectionary period troublesome and economic success that fostered nostalgia for the mythical vanishing Dublin of tenements, working class heroes, and vagrant balladeers.
The TV drama was an important undertaking for RTÉ, as it was the first time they had attempted such an ambitious and expensive production. The script was written by Hugh Leonard, and Peter O'Toole played Jim Larkin, the union leader.
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- Stumpet City is discussed in an obituary for James Plunkett in the Irish Independent; free registration required.
- IMDb entry for the RTÉ TV series.
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| Comedy & Drama shows: The Blizzard of Odd | Bull Island | Hall's Pictorial Weekly | The Irish R.M. | The Panel | The Podge and Rodge Show | A Scare at Bedtime | Strumpet City | ||
| News & Current Affairs: Discovery | Nine O'Clock News | One O'Clock News | Prime Time | Questions and Answers | Reeling In The Years | 7 Days | Six One News | ||
| Chat shows: Kenny Live | The Late Late Show | The Live Mike | Tubridy Tonight | ||
| Soap operas: Bracken | Fair City | Glenroe | The Riordans | Tolka Row | ||
| Talent Contests: Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels | Charity You're A Star | You're A Star | ||
| Irish language: Buntús Cainte | Trom agus Éadrom | ||
| Children's: Bosco | The Den | Wanderly Wagon | ||
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See also: List of programmes broadcast by RTÉ |
