My friend Eithne McGuinness, who has died of cancer aged 48, was a playwright and actor who was startling as Sister Clementine in the 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters. She infused her characterisation with a magnetic mix of cruelty and innocence.
A descendant of Muriel Gifford, who campaigned for Irish independence, Eithne had a strong sense of social justice. After attending secondary schools in Dublin, she worked in the Fitzpatrick Castle hotel in nearby Killiney, moving swiftly up the ranks with her capacity for hard work and scintillating sense of humour. She spent a decade in the Us, returning to Ireland in the early 1990s and devoting herself full time to theatre.
Eithne soon carved out a niche in Dublin's theatre community, writing and performing one-woman pieces, including The Queen of Sheba and Typhoid Mary, a lyrical, elegiac play about Mary Mallon, an Irish cook who unwittingly infected her New York clients...
A descendant of Muriel Gifford, who campaigned for Irish independence, Eithne had a strong sense of social justice. After attending secondary schools in Dublin, she worked in the Fitzpatrick Castle hotel in nearby Killiney, moving swiftly up the ranks with her capacity for hard work and scintillating sense of humour. She spent a decade in the Us, returning to Ireland in the early 1990s and devoting herself full time to theatre.
Eithne soon carved out a niche in Dublin's theatre community, writing and performing one-woman pieces, including The Queen of Sheba and Typhoid Mary, a lyrical, elegiac play about Mary Mallon, an Irish cook who unwittingly infected her New York clients...
- 1/8/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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