Sunday 27th October 7.30pm: Sorrow and Honey by Nuala O’Connor voiced by Claire Dunne.
Mother and daughter Verity and Lillis have a long-term turbulent relationship. They recently relocated to Kerry from Dublin. Sorrow and Honey is a day in their life, as they try navigating their emotionally charged circumstances against the backdrop of handling grief, ill-health and the balm of the scenery of West Kerry and Gobnait, a saint associated with the area.
On thinking about her story Nuala O’Connor says ‘…The state of me is a phrase I often use, most often when I’m in my duds, the comfortable clothes I wear at home. But the last few years I’ve been more occupied with the state of my emotional health, and with improving it. Lillis, the adult daughter in my story, is on a similar journey. She and her mother Verity – an artist and recovering alcoholic – have always clashed. Now the pair have moved from Dublin to Dingle to start afresh. But Verity’s health is bad, and Lillis has to support her, while also trying to reach a state of mental balance herself, by attempting to forgive her recently dead father, and very much alive mother. The landscape of west Kerry, and a saint who worked there, may provide the succour that Lillis and Verity crave.
