"In writing The Playboy of the Western World, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers."
Why did Synge's masterpiece cause such trouble in the Dublin of 1907, and was it really a 'riot' or something else?
The Beginnings of Dublin Theatre (with Arran Henderson)
Dublin: A Writer's City (with Chris Morash)
The Bogside and Fu Manchu: Dublin as Somewhere Else
The Fame and the Fall
The Young Brendan Behan
Exploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester)
Diving Bells and Missing Elephants
"When Collins was killed The Terror began" (with John Dorney)
Soccer's Sinatra: Pele in Dalymount Park
From the Duke of Wellington to Kellie Harrington
Walking the Winter Lights (with Fergus Whelan)
An Inchicore Institution (with Dermot Looney)
From The Citizen to John 3:7 (with Siobhán Doyle)
Halloween Special: Hans Holzer and the Ghosts of Dublin
The Central Bank and Beyond: Sam Stephenson's Dublin
The Country Girl Returns
The History and Present of Housing (with Eoin Ó Broin)
31 August 1913
The Crumlin Kremlin
South William Street
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