"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?
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
Refugees Welcome?
Sites of Memory: Gay Dublin
Sylvia Beach and Us
The Stolpersteine of Donore Avenue
Dublin's First Female Councillor
Dublin since the 1970s (with Joseph Brady)
Thomas Kinsella from The Ranch
The Calm Before The Storm
Doggerel for a Departed Dublin
Alderman Tom Kelly and The Tenters (with Cathy Scuffil)
From Misery Hill to Champions' Avenue
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
The Rest Is History
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