“The local parish priest was a man by the name of Father Tom. He was renowned for his ability to raise money --an aspect of his personality that did not appeal to my grandmother.

I remember him sitting by our fireside smoking his pipe
and expounding on the power of money, saying, Money
talks, Mrs. Foley, money talks. My grandmother,
alternately knitting and churning butter, responded
quietly, True for you Father Tom, money does talk.
And then, in a voice soft and mutinous, added, But it
hardly ever tells the truth.”
– from Lines from my Grandmother’s Forehead

Tomáseen’s one-man show Lines From My
Grandmother's Forehead, has its source in the
remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntáin, his birthplace. 
He says, “The stories, and, perhaps, more important, the
spirit of the performance itself, fell to my lap from the rich
table of communal life in that small place.

The older generation, people who were in their seventies
and eighties when I myself was nine or ten, were
considered priceless repositories of the communal
wisdom that had been gleaned by the generations who preceded them. Older women, especially. And chief
amongst them was my grandmother. She looked at the
world with eyes that had never seen the flicker of a
computer screen nor the phosphorescent glare of a
television or movie screen.”

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