They started off in the Gate Theatre in the 1990 Dublin Theatre Festival, as three young Bohs fans in their late twenties, heading off to Euro 88, having always dreamt of following the Irish soccer team to a major tournament and coming home like heroes with stories to tell. That first play, “In High Germany”, gave them stories to tell but no one to tell them to as all three of them were emigrants, moving abroad to Germany, Holland and America in search of work and new lives. Two of these friends were reunited in 2010, in the play, “The Parting Glass”, that toured Ireland, America and Britain, and took up the story of the joys and tragedies in their lives as they met up in Paris to watch the cheating hand of Thierry Henry rob Ireland of a place in the World Cup finals and for them to scatter the ashes of their dead friend on the turf of the Stade de France. Now their stories conclude in the third and final part of this unique trilogy, which updates their story up to the year 2024 when suddenly they are facing retirement and returning to an Ireland utterly changed from the country they left 36 years ago. Patrick Kavanagh once noted the observation of Marcus Aurelius that while he aged the people on the street remained the same age – twenty-three on average. In contrast, Shane and Mick and Eoin have aged at exactly the same pace as me. If any of you saw the first two plays, you may wish to see the trilogy be completed in the 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival at the Civic Theatre from Oct 1st to Oct 12th. Please feel free to spread the word. https://www.civictheatre.ie/whats-on/home-boys-home/