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3 unusual facts about The Home Place


The Home Place

The Lifford killing is based on the actual murder of William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim in April 1878.

The play is set in the summer of 1878 in the mythical village of Ballybeg, County Donegal, at the house ("The Lodge") of Christopher Gore, his son David, and their housekeeper Margaret.

William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim

The murder forms a major element in the plot of the 2005 play The Home Place by Brian Friel.



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Cardwell, Missouri

The Missouri Bootheel is the home place of 2 members of The Kentucky Headhunters, Doug and Ricky Phelps.

Enniskerry

In the 2007 film P.S. I Love You, Enniskerry is the home place of Gerry Kennedy (played by Gerard Butler).

Kilmoyler

This is also the home place of contemporary artist and member of Aosdána, Alice Maher.

Tarusa

Tarusa became the home place for such famous dissident figures as Anatoly Marchenko, Larisa Bogoraz, Gleb Yakunin, Pavel Litvinov, Alexander Ginzburg, Andrey Amalrik, Sergei Kovalev, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Lev Kopelev, and Frida Vigdorova.