The Love Hungry Farmer

The Love Hungry Farmer tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a farmer and a bachelor who is, according to his own assessment, “past his best” and evidently still a virgin, despite his best efforts. John Bosco’s amorous adventures range from the cartoonish to the pitiful. He has tales of being led on and humiliated, outraged and offended, duped and shamed. Even the strenuous efforts of matchmaker, Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor fail him!

Seamus O’Rourke is a writer, director and actor. As a writer, his plays include Ride On (Livin’ Dred 2011), dig, Down and The Trappe Family (The Corn Mill Theatre), The Halfway House Hotel and Stale Mate (Canal Studio-Backstage Theatre), For Club and County (Moth Productions), dig, Victor’s Dung (Big Guerilla Productions) and his four One-Man-Shows; The Sand Park, Padraig Potts’ Guide to Walking, INDIGESTION and My Aunt Bee (Big Guerilla Productions).

As a director, he has directed with The Corn Mill Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Moth Productions and his own company, Big Guerilla Productions. Apart from his own material, those plays include The Cavalcaders and A Handful of Stars by Billy Roche, Stolen Child by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh and Yvonne Quinn, The Pitch by Shane Connaughton, Arrah Na Pogue by Dion Boucicault, The Quare Land, Danger Money and The Cavan Curse by John McManus.

Seamus has also over two million hits on YouTube and Social Media with his short stories, recitations and sketches. He recently released A Lock of Poems, Recitations and Good Ones – a collection of his much-loved poems and recitations and in 2020 he released his memoir Standing in Gaps.

In September 2024 Seamus released his much anticipated sequel to his popular first memoir, Standing in Gaps. Leaning on Gates is published by Gill Books and available nationwide and online via his shop