Table of Contents

1. General Introduction by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos and Shaun Richards

2. Introduction to Mary Raftery’s No Escape (2010) by Emilie Pine – University College Dublin, Ireland

3. No Escape by Mary Raftery

4. Introduction to Colin Murphy’s Guaranteed! (2013) by Patrick Lonergan – National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

5. Guaranteed! by Colin Murphy

6. Introduction to Jimmy Murphy’s Of This Brave Time (2014) by Fearghal McGarry – Queen’s University Belfast, UK

7. Of This Brave Time by Jimmy Murphy

8. Introduction to Grace Dyas' History by John Bissett

9. History by Grace Dyas

10. Introduction to Martin Lynch’s My English Tongue, My Irish Heart (2015) by Liam Harte – The University of Manchester, UK

11. My English Tongue, My Irish Heart by Martin Lynch

12. Introduction to Domingos Nunez’s The Two Deaths of Roger Casement (2016) by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos – Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

13. The Two Deaths of Roger Casement by Domingos Nunez

Promotional Information

The first anthology of Irish documentary drama, this volume features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora, with introductory essays by established academics.

About the Author

Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos is a faculty member in the Post-graduate Programme in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and production director of the Brazilian theatre company, Cia Ludens. She is co-editor of Ilha do Desterro 58 – Contemporary Irish Theatre (2010) and Ilha do Desterro 73.2 – Irish Theatrical Diaspora (forthcoming 2020), and organizer of Coleção Brian Friel (Hedra, 2013) and Coleção Tom Murphy (Iluminuras, forthcoming 2019).

Shaun Richards is Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies at Staffordshire University, UK. Professional Research Fellow at St Mary’s University College, London, UK. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (2004) and co-author with Chris Morash of Mapping Ireland: Theories of Space and Place (2013).