Tom Murphy's work includes A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Morning After Optimism, The Sanctuary Lamp, Conversations on a Homecomnig, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, Too Late for Logic, She Stoop s to Folly and The Wake. His career has been markedly associated with the Irish National Theatre (th e Abbey Theatre). He was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. He lives in Dublin.

The remarkable 1985 play that helped to put Tom Murphy up alongside Brian Friel as one of the great masters of modern Irish playwriting. Scotsman Murphy ... is among Irelamd's greatest living dramatists. Bailegangaire ... can only further enhance his reputation. Sunday Herald Murphy's writing has the emotional weight and the intellectual athleticism of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Sunday Herald

Tom Murphy's work includes A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Morning After Optimism, The Sanctuary Lamp, Conversations on a Homecomnig, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, Too Late for Logic, She Stoop s to Folly and The Wake. His career has been markedly associated with the Irish National Theatre (th e Abbey Theatre). He was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. He lives in Dublin.

The remarkable 1985 play that helped to put Tom Murphy up alongside Brian Friel as one of the great masters of modern Irish playwriting. Scotsman Murphy ... is among Irelamd's greatest living dramatists. Bailegangaire ... can only further enhance his reputation. Sunday Herald Murphy's writing has the emotional weight and the intellectual athleticism of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Sunday Herald