Famine
Tom Murphy
Methuen
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight "The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost hope, and the scandal of an em...
$15.99
Plays by Nation - Irish Plays
Wonderful Tennessee
Brian Friel
Faber & Faber
This play is by the author of "Dancing at Lughnasa", which won the Play of the Year Award, "Translations", "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" and "Making History".
$12.99
Defender of the Faith
Stuart Carolan
Dramatists Play Service
5 Male 0 Female
2005 winner of the George Devine Award ... In Stuart Carolan's debut play, an IRA family living in rural Armagh, Ireland, in 1986 come apart under the immense strain put on them when an IRA interrogator vis...
$13
McPherson Collected Plays 2 - The Weir & Dublin Carol & Port Authority & Come On Over
Conor McPherson
Nick Hern Books
Conor McPherson's four most recent plays, including one published for the first time. Also contains an in-depth interview with the author The Weir In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads ...
$21.99
Parker Plays 2 - Northern Star & Heavenly Bodies & Pentecost
Stewart Parker
Methuen
This volume includes three of Stewart Parker's most striking plays ... Northern Star - 'Only an Irishman could have written something like this: a freewheeling, lunatic sense of invention is harnessed to...
$27.99
Eden
Eugene O'Brien
Methuen
1 Male 1 Female
Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years. Tonight, Breda's lost the weight and gained a babysitter and a new outfit and is ready to sweep Billy off his feet down at Flanagans. But Billy ...
$15.99
Treehouses
Elizabeth Kuti
Methuen
2 Male 4 Female
On the day of her father's funeral, Eva - a young woman - is still haunted by the betrayal she witnessed from her childhood haven - the treehouse in the garden On the same day another woman, Magda, relives t...
$15.99
Done Up Like A Kipper
Ken Harmon
Nick Hern Books
4 Male 3 Female
A Dublin taxi driver is accidentally stabbed with a used hypodermic. He decides not to tell his wife about it until it is already too late This brings to the surface other lies buried within the family, ...
$14.99
There Came a Gypsy Riding
Frank McGuinness
Faber & Faber
The McKenna family gathers at their remote west of Ireland holiday home to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake...
$12.99
Plays 1 - Rum and Vodka & The Good Thief & This Lime Tree Bower & St Nicholas
Conor McPherson
Nick Hern Books
St Nicholas is a one man show portraying a cynical and jaded drama critic who falls for as beautiful young actress During the course of his pursuit, he meets a coven of contemporary vampires, who offer hi...
$21.99
Down the Line & The Hunt for Red Willie
Paul Mercier & Ken Bourke
Methuen
Down the Line ~ Paul Mercier Dubliners Eve and James Walsh have reared four children. Almost They have a son who took off to London, a daughter who can't go any further than the front gates without feeling ...
$15.99
Midden
Morna Regan
Nick Hern Books
0 Male 4 Female
A story of five women, from three generations, and a prodigal daughter's return Ruth, a thirty-something businesswoman, returns home from America where she has built a successful fashion business. Instead o...
$14.99
Shining City
Conor McPherson
Nick Hern Books
'The finest dramatist of his generation ... McPherson is back in business, writing magnificently' Daily Telegraph 'His sentences are better, his sentiments more developed than many Booker Prize-winners....
$16.99
Port Authority
Conor McPherson
Nick Hern Books
Three monologues about life and love in Dublin, from the author of The Weir - 'A work by a major writer... His sentences are better, his sentiments more developed and shaded than many Booker Prize-winners. ...
$16.99
Dancing at Lughnasa - Stageplay
Brian Friel
Faber & Faber
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty The two male...
$12.99
Far From the Land - Contemporary Irish Plays
John Fairleigh - ed
Methuen
At the Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods & Language Roulette by Daragh Carville & Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh & Bat the Father - Rabbit the Son by Donal O'Kelly & Frank Pig Says Hello by Patrick...
$27.99
The Cemetery of Europe - The Spanish Play & The German Connection & The Murphy Girls
Seamus Finnegan
Marion Boyars
These plays span 1936 to the present day ... The Spanish Play tells the story of two Irishmen who join the International Brigade to fight fascism In The German Connection we meet Miriam, a young Jewish ref...
$19.99
Philadelphia Here I Come!
Brian Friel
Faber & Faber
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more su...
$12.99
The Lepers of Baile Baiste
Ronan Noone
Dramatists Play Service
8 Male 0 Female
Baile Baiste is "come day, go day" until Daithi O'Neill returns and sends the quiet Irish town reeling under the weight of recrimination As a decade or more of secret guilt and resentment ends, four young m...
$13
Delirium
Enda Walsh
Nick Hern Books
2 Male 5 Female
Hilarious, brutal and tragic, Delirium is a radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries ... The Karamazovs are a train wreck waiting t...
$14.99