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Design for a Headstone

Summary
1962 BBC production, ‘from Wales’, of Design for a Headstone, Seamus Byrne’s play about the IRA, set in a Dublin prison.
Theatre play
Design for a Headstone by Seamus Byrne [more information]
Date of transmission
Friday 18 May 1962
Time
9.25-10.40pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
David J. Thomas
Playwright
Seamus Byrne
Adapted for Television by
Harry Green
Designer
David Butcher
Cast
Roger Bale
Alan BarryMichael Breathnach
Andrew BrownWarder ‘Mouth’ Phelan
Larry BurnsWarder Pat Gerachty
John CairneyJim O’Shea
Manuel Chetcuti
Terry Ellis
Howell EvansJoe Fitzpatrick
Chris GannonMuscles Rogan
Desmond JordanTommy McGovern
Paddy JoyceBill Dunne
David Blake KellyRuctions McGowan
Glyn Kernan
Witold Kuszya
Dermot MacDowellWarder Charles Grimes
James McLoughlinConor Egan
Bill MeilenButcher Healy
James NeylinAidan O’Leary
Roger Nott
Ronald O’Dare
Arthur O’SullivanJakey
Alan Parsons
Lionel Seaton
Harry TowbKevin Shields
Gordon WhitingFather Maguire
Norman WynneO’Sullivan

Additional details

Play tags
IRA (Irish Republican Army); prison; Republic of Ireland, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 10 May 1962 (Magazine)
Linking notes
article and image, p. 51; listing, p. 53

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