The third and final week of the Tall Tales Theatre Company's festival of stories by female Irish writers has works by Mary Lavin and Elizabeth Bowen, each read in dramatic mode by an actor, and both very entertaining in their own quite different styles.

Voice From the Dead, performed by Peter Holmes, is a funny-serious probe into an aspect of Irish character from the not-too-remote past. A memorial card goes missing from a prayer-book, triggering off a vignette of lives oppressed by religion and rigid convention, the two not altogether separate. It is tip-of-the-iceberg material, and comes with dialogue/monologue nicely interpreted by the actor.

Elizabeth Bowen's Hand in Glove is a different kettle of Irishness, with a cast of Anglo-Irish women in the Big House society of the early 20th century. It is really a ghost story with blood-curdling intent, but - mercifully - Deirdre Kinahan plays it strictly for laughs. She is a natural comedienne, and her vigorous, flouncing attack carries the day.

Runs to August 26th; to book phone 01-4100801.