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Marie Mullen (born 1953) is an Irish actress.

She was one of the founding members of the Druid Theatre Company and her husband has been associated with the company many times in the past. She acted in DruidSynge, a theatre production of the complete plays of John Millington Synge, performed in the same day, by the Druid Theatre Company in which she played parts in five of the six plays. Mullen won the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a play for The Beauty Queen of Leenane.^[1] In 2007, she performed alongside James Cromwell in the Druid production of Long Days Journey into Night.

Mullen was married to Irish actor Sean McGinley and they have two children.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marie Mullen at the Internet Movie Database

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Garry Hynes (born June 10, 1953) is an Irish theatre director. She holds the distinction of being the first female to win the prestigious Tony Award for direction of a play.

Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, Roscommon County and educated at St. Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway).

She was a co-founder of the Druid Theatre Company with Mick Lally and Maire Mullen in 1975 after meeting through the drama society of NUI Galway where they studied. She was Druid's artistic director from 1975 to 1991, and again from 1995 to date. Hynes directed for the Abbey Theatre from 1984 and was its artistic director from 1991 to 1994, and also the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Stage productions[link]

DruidSynge[link]

Hynes directed DruidSynge, the company’s critically acclaimed production of all six of John Millington Synge’s plays premièred at the Galway Arts Festival in 2005 and has since toured to Dublin, Edinburgh, Inis Meáin, Minneapolis and New York. DruidSynge has been described by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times as ‘the highlight not just of my theatre going year but of my theatre going life’ and by The Irish Times as ‘one of the greatest achievements in the history of Irish theatre’.^[1]

Awards and honours[link]

Hynes has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Dublin (2004), The National University of Ireland at NUI Galway (1998) and the National Council for Education Awards (1988).

In 1998 on Broadway, she became the first woman to receive a Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She is a recipient of many other Theatre Awards, including The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director (2002) and a Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre in February 2005.

On 15 June 2006 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway, its highest bestowed honour.^[2]

See also[link]

• Eidhean mac Cléireach - ancestor of the Hynes family
• Mael Ruanaidh na Paidre Ua hEidhin - first Hynes king of Aidhne
• Eoghan Ó hEidhin - last Hynes king of Aidhne
• Uí Fiachrach Aidhne - home kingdom of the Hynes family

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.druidsynge.com/
2. ^ "Freedom of the City for Garry Hynes Saoirse na Cathrach do Ghearóidín Ní Eidhin". Galway City Council. 16 June 2006. http://www.galwaycity.ie/GeneralNews/NewsArchive/MainBody,2188,en.html. Retrieved 2008-05-28. 

External links[link]

• Garry Hynes at the Internet Broadway Database
• Irish Playography Profile
• Druid Theatre
• Dublin Theatre Festival Bio

Tam (or Tamas) Lin (also called Tamlane, Tamlin, Tomlin, Tam Lien, Tam-a-Line, or Tam Lane) is the hero of a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders. The story revolves around the rescue of Tam Lin by his true love from the Queen of the Fairies. While this ballad is specific to Scotland, the motif of capturing a person by holding him through all forms of transformation is found throughout Europe in folktales.^[1]

The story has been adapted into various stories, songs and films.

Synopsis[link]

Carterhaugh, near the confluence of the Yarrow Water and the Ettrick Water

Most variants begin with the warning that Tam Lin collects either a possession or the virginity of any maidens who pass through the forest of Carterhaugh. A young maiden, usually called Janet or Margaret, comes to Carterhaugh and plucks a double rose, whereupon Tam appears and asks why she is in Carterhaugh without his command and has taken what is his. She states that she owns Carterhaugh, because her father has given it to her.

In most variants, she then goes home and discovers that she is pregnant; some variants pick up the story at this point. When an old knight taxes her with it, she announces that she will not declare him her baby's father, that her lover is an elf and that she loves him. She returns to Carterhaugh. In some variants, her brother has told her that a herb growing there will induce an abortion. In all, she picks something, whether the herb or the same roses as when they first met. Tam reappears, enraged, and forbids her to abort.

She asks him whether he was ever human, either after that reappearance, or in some variants, immediately after their first meeting resulted in her seduction. He reveals that he was a mortal man, who, after falling from his horse, was rescued and captured by the Queen of the Fairies. Every seven years, the fairies pay a teind, a tithe to Hell, of one of their people, and Tam fears he will become that tithe on that night (Hallowe'en). He is to ride as part of a company of knights, and Janet will recognise him by the white horse upon which he is riding. He warns her that, when she catches him, the fairies will attempt to make her drop him by turning him into all manner of beasts (see Proteus), but that he will do her no harm, and when he is finally turned into a burning coal she is to throw him into a well, whereupon he will reappear as a naked man and she should hide him. Janet does as she is asked, and wins her knight. The Queen of the Fairies is not best pleased, but acknowledges her claim.

In different variations, Tam Lin is reportedly the grandson of The Laird of Roxburgh, the Laird of Foulis, the Earl of Forbes or the Earl of Murray. His name also varies between versions (Tam Lin being the most common) as Tom Line, Tomlin, Young Tambling, and Tam-a-line.

Versions[link]

The first recorded version of the song appears in the 1549 book "The Complaynt of Scotland".

There have been several interpretations of the Tam Lin story:

• Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads,^[2] but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest^{[citation needed]} (Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes' names.)
• Joseph Jacobs included a variant, "Tamlane", in More English Fairy Tales.^[3]