A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of societyEddie is a small-town hawker who dreams of a business of his own. Treated as little more than an errand boy by his employer John Power, the godfather of the local traveller community, his modest ambitions seem far beyond his grasp until Power becomes obsessed with a young traveller girl, Kathleen. On the night of their wedding Kathleen elopes with Power's nephew, Dermot, and £11,000 in dowry money. Eddy aids their escape and finds himself inextricably embroiled in the violent consequences…"A feisty flavourful script from Billy Roche…Trojan Eddie will please audiences still in search of old-fashioned storytelling values" Screen International

Trojan Eddie: A Screen Play (Screen and Cinema)

Literature & Fiction

Roche, Billy

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

<p>Signed by Author on ffep, dedication copy. Fore edge is tanned, else fine</p>

Tumbling Down

Wolfhound Press

<p>In this warm & gritty portrait of a town & its people, Davy & Danny are on the lookout for a pub that will serve them, no questions asked, & for girls who might initiate them in the ways of love.</p>

Romance

Irish Amer Book Co

Tales from Rainwater Pond

Pillar Press

Contemporary

Tassel Publications

A gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.In the sleepy Irish town of Wexford, where shotgun weddings are outnumbered only by random acts of violence, the pool hall is Jimmy's sanctuary. But will such a place embrace his bright ambition, or bring it down, burning, to the ground?Originally part of Billy Roche's The Wexford Trilogy, A Handful of Stars was first performed in 1988 at the Bush Theatre, where it won the John Whiting Award and the Plays and Players Award for Best New Play. This edition was published alongside the play's first professional stand-alone revival at Theatre503, London in 2014.'simultaneously mean and warm, stifling and nourishing, comic and sad' - The Times'funny, rueful and tender... has the potency of truth' - Telegraph'carefully observed... almost unbearably honest' - Time Out'a nice balance of comedy and tension... [has] a great deal of warmth' - A Younger Theatre

A Handful of Stars

Nick Hern Books

The Wexford Trilogy

Set in a betting shop, a snooker club and the local church, each story introduces a new group of astonishingly true-to-life characters, presenting a poignant spectrum of painful vulnerability, hilarious posturing and thwarted ambition.This volume contains the complete scripts of the original stage plays plus an afterword by the author. The television series features the same actors who made The Wexford Trilogy such an outstanding success in the theatre, where it won no fewer than four awards and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Cavalcaders

New edition of two "wonderful, wistful" tragi-comedies set in Roche's southern Irish home town of Wexford.

Calvacaders

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Trojan Eddie: A Screen Play (Screen and Cinema)

Tumbling Down

Tumbling Down

Tales from Rainwater Pond

Tumbling Down

A Handful of Stars

The Wexford Trilogy

The Wexford Trilogy

Cavalcaders

Calvacaders