Enda Walsh returns to Cork for new play in former prison

Enda Walsh has been reunited with Cork company Corcadorca for a new play at the city’s former prison, writes Alan O’Riordan

“IT’S been a pretty fucking miserable year all round, it has to be said.” Such is Enda Walsh’s take on a 12-month period in which his recent collaborator David Bowie died, and we also had Brexit, Syria and Donald Trump to add to a generally miserable panoply of global events.

“I did give up reading the news for about four weeks recently,” he admits. “But then my wife reminded me of 1930s Germany — people turning a blind eye away from Nazism and allowing it happen. And I was like, fucking hell. An enabler.”