Play explores Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan's love in a time of war

THE title of Pat Talbot’s new play, A Great Arrangement, is a reference to what the director describes as “almost a fantasy” that Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan had. 

“They imagined being married and having peace and contentment together, sitting by the fire. It was what they called ‘a great arrangement’.”

It was never to be.