The first collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight, Patriot Games is a documentary drama charting the 1916 Easter rising and The Blue Macushla is a live gangster movie on stage set in the Republic of the 1970s with the politics of the Troubles emerging in Northern Ireland spilling over into the South.
| ISBN: | 9780413665706 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 1992 |
| Author: | Thomas Murphy |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Methuen Contemporary Dramatists |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |