Auditions for Thomas Kent role oversubscribed

So many actors wanted the part of patriot Thomas Kent that a production company had to extend its auditions for a summertime play about him. It will run in a number of venues in Co Cork.

Lantern Productions recently held auditions for the role of Kent, who was the only person to be executed outside of Dublin following the 1916 Easter Rising.

Kent was buried in an unmarked grave in Cork Prison and the presence of his remains there was only confirmed last year. The remains were exhumed last September and buried in his native Castlelyons, Co Cork.