It tells the story of the hardened Irish farmer "Bull" McCabe and his love for the land he rents.
The play debuted at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 1965, with Ray McAnally as "The Bull" and Eamon Keane as "The Bird" O'Donnell.
A film adaptation was released in 1990, directed by Jim Sheridan with Richard Harris in the lead role.
John B. Keane based the story on the 1958 murder of Moss Moore, a bachelor farmer living in Reamore, County Kerry.
Rugged individualist Bull McCabe has spent five hard years of labour cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it from barren rock into a fertile field.