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This collection brings together three of Tom Murphy's finest plays, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. Together, they tell the story of Irish emigration - of those who went and those who were left behind. Crossing oceans and spanning decades, Murphy's three plays cover the period from the Great Hunger of the nineteenth century to the 'new' Ireland of the 1970s, exploring what we mean when we call a place 'home'. Conversations on a Homecoming: County Galway, 1970s. Even the humblest of small-town pubs can be a magnet for dreamers. Michael, after a ten-year absence, suddenly returns from New York and has a reunion with old friends, in that same pub 'The White Hous...
‘SCROVEL’ - A new writing GENRE. Read SinkHole in ‘Scrovel’ and play the MOVIE in your head as you read. ‘SCROVEL’ is a crossover between a NOVEL and a SCREENPLAY. Stiv and Bob are two young unworldly hunters with extraordinary shooting skills. Guns and shooting is their shared passion. One day after a fruitless day out hunting they blunder into an evolving crime scene. The criminals discover them and the situation escalates out of control. The two young men survive, but their extreme actions bring them into the World of charismatic Irishman, Michael O’Leary, a FIXER in international political assassination. Their journey from local Cumbrian town ‘BOYS’ to becoming ‘Assassination Superstars’ is a great personal cost to their family, friends and finally to their own lifelong friendship.
"A Whistle in the Dark" depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventy. A picture of Irishmen "over here" asserting themselves in one of England's post-war dream cities.
Murphy's plays explore desires, frustrated and unrealised, with a mixture of dark comedy and light tragedy. Murphy, whose work includes 'Famine' and 'The Patriot Game', is one of the leading writers in Irish theatre.
Despite the short life of the Dada movement, it has provoked the interest of art historians, museum directors and literary critics from all over the world. The present volume comprises the literary texts of individual Dadaists and periodicals from all Dada centers as well as books, articles, exhibition catalogs and bibliographies by international scholars. Jo rgen Scha fer's Exquisite Dada is the most exhaustive bibliography on Dada that has ever been compiled so far. By giving a synopsis of some decades of scholarly research, it provides an indispensable source for further studies on the matter.
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