Table of Contents

Contents: Werner Huber: The Early Plays: Martin McDonagh, Shooting Star and Hard Man from South London - Rebecca Wilson: Macabre Merriment in McDonagh's Melodrama: The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh/Conor McPherson: Ireland in two minds: Nicholas Grene - Paul Murphy: The Stage Irish Are Dead, Long Live the Stage Irish: The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara - Christopher Murray: The Cripple of Inishmaan Meets Lady Gregory - Maria Kurdi: The Helen of Inishmaan Pegging Eggs: Gender, Sexuality and Violence - Mary Luckhurst: Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore: Selling (-Out) to the English - Catherine Rees: The Politics of Morality: Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Lisa Fitzpatrick: Language Games: The Pillowman, A Skull in Connemara: Martin McDonagh's Hiberno-English - Patrick Burke: 'Like the Cat-astrophe of the Old Comedy': The Animal in The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Ashley Taggart: An 'Economy Of Pity': McDonagh's Monstrous Regiment - Eamonn Jordan: War on Narrative: Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman - Laura Eldred: Martin McDonagh's Blend of Tradition and Horrific Innovation - Ondrej Pilny: Grotesque Entertainment: The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre - John McDonagh: 'When it's there I am, it's here I wish I was': The Construction of Connemara - Aidan Arrowsmith: Genuinely Inauthentic: McDonagh's Postdiasporic Irishness - Shaun Richards: 'The Outpouring of a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind': The Critical Condition of Synge and McDonagh - Victor Merriman: Decolonization Postponed: The Theatre of Tiger Trash - Sara Keating: Is Martin McDonagh an Irish Playwright? - Patrick Lonergan: Martin McDonagh, Globalization, and Irish Theatre Criticism - Peter P. Muller: Domesticating a Theatre of Cruelty: The Plays of McDonagh on the Hungarian Stage - Frank Molloy: The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Australia - Karen Vandevelde: Martin McDonagh's Irishness: Icing on the Cake? - Declan Kiberd: 'The Real Ireland, Some Think' - Declan Kiberd: 'Gained in Translation' - Uinsionn Mac Dubhghaill: 'Drama Sails to Seven Islands' - Susan Conley: 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' 2000 - Karen Fricker: 'Ireland Feels Power of Beauty' - Fintan O'Toole: 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' - Fintan O'Toole: 'Murderous Laughter' - 'The Leenane Trilogy' - Fintan O'Toole: 'The Pillowman Program Note' - Michael Billington: 'New Themes in Synge-song Land: The Beauty Queen of Leenane' - Michael Billington: 'The Pillowman' - Susannah Clapp: 'Pack up your Troubles ...' - Ben Brantley: 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' - Ben Brantley: 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' - Ben Brantley: 'The Lonesome West: Another Tempestuous Night in Leenane' - Ben Brantley: 'A Skull in Connemara' - Ben Brantley: 'The Pillowman'.

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