Galway International Arts Festival

Growing up in Granagh, Co Limerick, theatre director Joan Sheehy, was always fascinated with the story of Ellen Hanly, known as ’The Colleen Bawn’, from Granagh, who was immortalised in literature, drama, film and opera.

Mark O’Regan tells Colette Sheridan how he relishes playing a philandering husband in Marina Carr’s acclaimed play, Woman and Scarecrow