AWFUL news for people who worked with him in theatre all over the country; awful for friends and family – brother Neil and Tipperary clan. Dublin man Richard Ryan passed away in Wales on Monday May 4 whilst on tour with a show that he had espoused from the start, ‘Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man’. If he could have picked a way to go, well, he got it.
Brilliantly, Richard’s next play to be brought to Limerick will go on. Des Keogh’s ‘My Fair Lady’ is scheduled for Southill Area Centre on Tuesday May 19 and Moyross’ Corpus Christi school, May 20: link ww.limerickpost.ie/2015/05/11/des-keogh-takes-to-stage-in-southill/
Despite Richard Ryan’s association with London’s Godot Theatre and Beckett’s publisher John Calder, with whom he travelled for Q&A when curtain closed, he is best remembered in these parts for working with Limerick Regeneration to bring international theatre for a song.
A brave, big and bold man who inhabited and played for high stakes as much in the arenas of GAA and soccer, his death is sore loss.
Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis. RR
