



Now, Under The Hawthorn Tree is about to become a new stage production from top children's theatre company Cahoots NI. Starving and faced with life in the workhouse, the trio are forced to fight for survival as they attempt to locate their long-lost aunts in a story of endurance at a defining moment in Irish history. THE MAC will debut a new stage dramatisation of Irish childrens' favourite Under The Hawthorn Tree during tomorrow evening's Culture Night Belfast programme.īased on the popular children's book by award-winning author Marita Conlon-McKenna, Under The Hawthorn Tree follows Eily, Michael and Peggy O'Driscoll as they set out on a perilous journey during the Irish Famine in 1845.
