The Life Within by Bernie McGill
THE BUSHMILLS INN - The following audio is a dramatisation of a scene in Kane’s Commercial & Family Hotel, now the Bushmills Inn, on the evening of market day, in the last years of the nineteenth century https://youtu.be/TT5dZgKC78Y.
THE OLD COURT HOUSE - The following audio is a dramatisation of a number of genuine cases that came up before the magistrates at Bushmills Petty Sessions in the last years of the nineteenth century https://youtu.be/mZefys95UtQ.
Two of five linked audio plays that are designed to be heard in the following order: Shell Row; the Old National School (later Legion Hall); the Clock Tower & Market Square, the Old Court House and the Bushmills Inn (formerly Kane’s Commercial & Family Hotel).
This project was commissioned by Big Telly Theatre Company and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) – Sharing Heritage Programme with support from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.
Special thanks to Bushmills Folklore & History Group and their publication Portcaman, to Art Ward, Raymond McMullan and Antony Macnaghten, and to all the people of Bushmills who contributed stories.
The Bushmills Inn
Written by Bernie McGill
Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin
Thomas Brown: Keith Lynch
Francie (Market Clerk): Andy Porter
Granny: Louise Conaghan
Mrs. Hatty: Orla Mullan
Molly: Caitlin Bell-Porter
Squareface: Orla Mullan
Mixed and edited by Darren Murphy
Recorded in the Secret Library at Bushmills Inn, with thanks.
The Old Court House
Written by Bernie McGill
Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin
Lord Macnaghten: George Brien
Court Clerk: John Mulkeen
Constable Oates: Andy Porter
Miss Richardson: Catherine Wegwermer
Granny (Isabella Kane): Louise Conaghan
Mrs Hatty: Orla Mullan
Doherty: Keith Lynch
Tweedy: Keith Lynch
Mixed and edited by Darren Murphy
Recorded at Flowerfield Art Centre, Portstewart, with thanks.