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Shamus O'Brien

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A Romantic Comic Opera in Two Acts
Founded on the Poem by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Book by George H. Jessop
The Music composed by Charles Villiers Stanford
The Wireless Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Stanford Robinson)
The Wireless Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, S. Kneale Kelley)
Conducted by Percy Pitt

(Relayed from the Parlophone Studios, by the courtesy of the Parlophone Company)

Time: Immediately after the suppression of the rebellion of 1798

Contributors

Founded on the poem by:
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Book:
George H. Jessop
Music composed by:
Charles Villiers Stanford
Singers:
The Wireless Chorus
Chorus-Master:
Stanford Hobinson
Musicians:
The Wireless Symphony Orchestra
Leader:
S. Kneale Kelley
Conductor:
Percy Pitt
Producer:
Sydney Russell
Narrator:
Filson Young
Shamus 'O'Brien ('on his keeping' - €i.e. outlawed):
Dennis Noble
Father O'Flynn (the Parish Priest of Ballyhamis):
Harry Brindle
Captain Trevor (of the British Army):
Leonard Gowings
Mike Murphy (a peasant farmer):
Trevor Jones
Sergeant Cox (of Captain Trevor's Company):
Stanley Riley
Nora O'Brien (wife of Shamus):
Enid Cruickshank
Kitty O'Toole (sister of Nora):
Gwyneth Edwards
Banshee:
Mary Hamlin
Soldiers, peasants. villagers, etc.:
[artists uncredited]
Source: Radio Times

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