Part 1
Barry McGovern is the Granada Artist in Residence on the University of California, Davis, campus. He is a celebrated stage and screen actor, with roles in films such as Braveheart, Far and Away, and Joe Versus the Volcano and on television in such series as The Tudors. On Stage he has received wide-ranging praise for his performances. The New York Times has said of him, “McGovern illuminates the accessibility of the novels, their Irishness and their brilliant, bitter humour… [he is] brilliant.”