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The Good Luck Club: A Unique Irish Theatre Experience

The Good Luck Club is an extraordinary evocation of the reality of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, performed in the vast warren of the National Archives building, with the actors leading us from one scene to the next. It was quite a feat of writing, directing, lighting, set design and acting to make it work seamlessly …

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Irish Actress Brings Dora’s Story to Life

This week I was contacted via the website by an Irish actress, who said she was performing in a play about the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake. The Sweepstake was Dora’s biggest client in the 1930s and rescued her struggling business during the depression after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Anyway, the actress said she was …

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