The Iron Harp
The Iron Harp is a play by Irish playwright Joseph O'Conor () [1].
Contents
The original text
A play about 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.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans by , probably as Die Blinde Vegter ("The Blind Fighter"), in 1964.
Performance history in South Africa
1964: The Afrikaans version performed by CAPAB, Cape Town, as Die Blinde Vegter.
1965: Die Blinde Vegter performed by PACT in Pretoria, directed by Patrick Mynhardt with Marius Weyers as "Kaptein Douglas Turner".
Sources
Die Burger, January 1964
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