Murphy Plays: 2: Conversations on a Homecoming; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas

The second collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel



In Conversations on a Homecoming, Michael returns from America to Ireland for a long—awaited reunion with his drinking companions: "A bilious bar—room comedy on the irreducible elements in the Irish character and the death of the Kennedy dream" (Observer), Bailegangaire "is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems...A senile be...