The Iron Harp

The Iron Harp is a play by Irish playwright Joseph O'Conor. One of the characters is an officer in the I.R.A., recently blinded.

Published in Three Irish plays, introduced and edited by E. Martin Browne. Harmondsworth, England : Penguin, 1959.

Performance history in South Africa
Presented in an Afrikaans translation (title?) by CAPAB, 1964. (Source: Die Burger, January 1964)

Patrick Mynhardt directed Die Blinde Vegter ("The Blind Fighter"), which is probably a translation into Afrikaans of this play, for PACT in 1965, starring Marius Weyers as Kaptein Douglas Turner.

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