The theatre of Martin McDonagh: a world of savage stories

1. early plays : Martin McDonagh, shooting star and hard man from South London / Werner Huber

2. Macabre Merriment in McDonagh's melodrama : The beauty queen of Leenane / Rebecca Wilson

3. Ireland in two minds : Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson / Nicholas Grene

4. stage Irish are dead, long live the stage Irish : The lonesome west and A skull in Connemara / Paul Murphy

5. cripple of Inishmaan meets Lady Gregory / Christopher Murray

6. Helen of Inishmaan pegging eggs : gender, sexuality and violence / Maria Kurdi

7. Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore : selling (-out) to the English / Mary Luckhurst

8. politics of morality : Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore / Catherine Rees

9. Language games : The pillowman, A skull in Connemara : Martin McDonagh's Hiberno-English / Lisa Fitzpatrick

10. 'Like the cat-astrophe of the old comedy' : the animal in The lieutenant of Inishmore / Patrick Burke

11. 'economy of pity' : McDonagh's monstrous regiment / Ashley Taggatt

12. War on narrative : Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman / Eamonn Jordan

13. Martin McDonagh's blend of tradition and horrific innovation / Laura Eldred

14. Grotesque entertainment : The pillowman as puppet theatre / Ondrej Pilny

15. 'When it's there I am, it's here I wish I was' : the construction of Connemara / John McDonagh

16. Genuinely inauthentic : McDonagh's postdiasporic Irishness / Aidan Arrowsmith

17. outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind' : the critical condition of Synge and McDonagh / Shaun Richards

18. Decolonization postponed : the theatre of tiger trash / Victor Merriman

19. Is Martin McDonagh an Irish playwright? / Sara Keating

20. Martin McDonagh, globalization, and Irish theatre criticism / Patrick Lonergan

21. Domesticating a theatre of cruelty : the plays of McDonagh on the Hungarian stage / Peter P. Muller

22. beauty queen of Leenane in Australia / Frank Molloy

23. Martin McDonagh's Irishness : icing on the cake? / Karen Vandevelde

Reports and reviews

'The real ireland, some think' / Declan Kiberd

'Gained in translation' / Declan Kiberd

'Drama sails to seven islands' / Uinsionn Mac Dubhghaill

beauty queen of Leenane' 2000 / Susan Conley

'Ireland feels power of beauty' / Karen Fricker

'The beauty queen of Leenane' / Fintan O'Toole

'Murderous laughter' - 'the Leenane trilogy' / Fintan O'Toole

'The pillowman program note' / Fintan O'Toole

'New themes in Synge-song land : The beauty queen of Leenane' / Michael Billington

'The pillowman' / Michael Billington

'Pack up your troubles ...' / Susannah Clapp

'The beauty queen of Leenane' / Ben Brantley

cripple of Inishmaan' / Ben Brantley

'The lonesome west : another tempestuous night in Leenane' / Ben Brantley

'A skull in Connemara' / Ben Brantley

'The pillowman' / Ben Brantley.