Everything about Strumpet City totally explained
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, Ireland's national broadcaster.
The Novel
The novel is an epic, tracing the lives of a dozen characters as they're 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.
Television Dramatisation
Two years in the making,
Strumpet City has been
RTÉ's most ambitious and expensive production to date. The script was written by
Hugh Leonard, and
Peter O'Toole played
Jim Larkin, the union leader. The cast also included
Cyril Cusack as the alcoholic priest, Father Giffley,
Donal McCann as the Larkin supporter, Mulhall, and
David Kelly as the destitute "Rashers" Tierney.
Frank Grimes won a
Jacob's Award for his portrayal of the young
Catholic curate, Father O'Connor.
First shown in Ireland in 1980, the series was exported to the
United Kingdom, where it was shown on all regions of
ITV bar
Southern in late
1981, and on Southern's successor company
TVS in
1982. It was then repeated by
Scottish Television in
1983 and on
Channel 4 and
S4C in
1984 (ref.
The Times Digital Archive).
In 2004 a digitised and remastered version was released on
DVD.
Further Information
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