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Enda Walsh Plays: Two

By: Enda Walsh

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The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four full-length plays – three of which were produced by Galway’s Druid Theatre Company, three of which were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and two of which transferred to London’s National Theatre – along with two fascinating short plays and a Foreword by the author. The Walworth Farce (2006) is a madcap yet tender play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. The New Electric Ballroom (2008) is a dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life. In a savage and riveting take on the classic Greek myth of Odysseus’s wife, Penelope (2010) sees four ridiculous men facing their inevitable deaths, and playing for an unwinnable love. Ballyturk (2014) saw Walsh reuniting with actor Cillian Murphy after Disco Pigs and Misterman for a jaw-droppingly physical play in which the lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Also included in this volume are two short plays, My Friend Duplicity (2010), which went on to inspire Ballyturk, and Room 303 (2011). ‘One of the most fiercely individual voices in the theatre today’ New York Times ‘Enda Walsh makes his own distinctive stage music in the fury of his writing talent and the irresistible surge of his blatant theatricality’ Independent

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1848424221

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Penelope (Walsh)

By: Enda Walsh

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Penelope (Walsh)

By: Enda Walsh

It’s 11:30 a.m. and already it’s ninety-two degrees. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous men connive, plot, and play for an unwinnable love, even as they face certain death at the hands of her returning husband. A riveting and savage take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.

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Concord Theatricals

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0573707626

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9780573707629

Penelope (Walsh)

By: Enda Walsh

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Penelope (Walsh)

By: Enda Walsh

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Medicine and the Same

By: Enda Walsh

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Medicine and the Same

By: Enda Walsh

One of the most fiercely individual voices in theatre today." --New York Times John Kane is sitting on a hospital gurney, and very shortly a jazz percussionist, two women called Mary, a very old man and a giant lobster will arrive. Then everything will start. Medicine is a dark and frequently absurdist play. Devastatingly funny and profoundly moving, it examines how, for decades, we have treated those who we call "mentally ill." It was first produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, prior to performances in Galway and Brooklyn. This edition also includes Walsh's play The Same, about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution, which won the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Play.

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Theatre Communications Group

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1636700969

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9781636700960

Once

By: Enda Walsh,Glen Hansard,Markéta Irglová

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Once

By: Enda Walsh,Glen Hansard,Markéta Irglová

A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm."—Vogue "It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's raw fragility."?Hollywood Reporter Retaining the film's popular music and lyrics, acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapts this charming tale of a complicated romance between an Irish street musician and a young Czech immigrant for the stage. A hit musical Off-Broadway, Once premiered on Broadway in spring 2012 to rave reviews. Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award-winning plays, including Penelope, The Walworth Farce, and The New Electric Ballroom. He also co-wrote the film Hunger, which won the Camera d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are the stars and songwriters of the 2006 film Once, for which they won an Academy Award for Best Song. The two comprise the musical folk-rock duo The Swell Season, which is currently touring the United States. A documentary film of the duo, The Swell Season, was an official selection of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Hansard is also a member of the Irish band The Frames and Irglová is a classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist.

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1559367687

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Once

By: Enda Walsh,Glen Hansard

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Once

By: Enda Walsh,Glen Hansard

When an Irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their songwriting sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. Based on the much-loved Oscar-winning film, Once is an extraordinary, original and irresistibly joyous celebration of love, friendship and music. With music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, it has a book written by Enda Walsh. Once won eight Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 2012, including Best Book and Best Musical. It opened in Dublin in February 2013 before transferring to the West End.

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1848423101

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Demography, State and Society

Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971

By: Enda Delaney

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Demography, State and Society

Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971

By: Enda Delaney

Enda Delaney argues that migration to Britain was qualitatively different from that to North America and that transience was the overriding characteristic of Irish migrant experience in the twentieth century. He provides an analysis of reasons for large-scale migration, in the process answering the important question of why so many people left Ireland. Demography, State and Society focuses on a number of vital themes, many rarely mentioned in previous studies: state policy in Ireland, official responses to migration in Britain, gender dimensions, individual migrant experience, patterns of settlement in Britain, and the crucial phenomenon of return migration. It offers much that will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers in Irish migration as well as those in the wider fields of modern British and Irish history and migration studies.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773569367

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9780773569362

The Irish in Post-War Britain

By: Enda Delaney

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The Irish in Post-War Britain

By: Enda Delaney

Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this is a major new study of the Irish in Britain after 1945. The Irish in Post-War Britain reconstructs, with both empathy and imagination, the histories of the lost generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range of previously neglected materials, Enda Delaney illustrates the complex process of negotiation and renegotiation that was involved in adapting and adjusting to life in Britain. Less visible than other newcomers, it is widely assumed that the Irish assimilated with relative ease shortly after arrival. The Irish in Post-war Britain challenges this view, and shows that the Irish often perceived themselves to be outsiders, located on the margins of their adopted home. Many contemporaries frequently lumped the Irish together as all being essentially the same, but Delaney argues that the experiences of Britain's Irish population after the Second World War were much more diverse than previously assumed, and shaped by social class, geography, and gender, as well as nationality. The book's original approach demonstrates that any understanding of a migrant group must take account of both elements of the society that they had left, as well as the social landscape of their new country. Proximity ensured that even though these people had left Ireland, home as an imagined sense of place was never far away in the minds of those who had settled in Britain.

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OUP Oxford

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0191534889

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9780191534881

Disco Pigs ; And, Sucking Dublin

Two Plays

By: Enda Walsh

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Disco Pigs ; And, Sucking Dublin

Two Plays

By: Enda Walsh

Disco Pigs is the extraordinary debut play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists. Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview - and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever. Also published in this volume is Sucking Dublin, a fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

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MIT Press

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1854593986

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Deepening Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Crisis

Europe’s Treasure Ireland

By: Julien Mercille,Enda Murphy

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Deepening Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Crisis

Europe’s Treasure Ireland

By: Julien Mercille,Enda Murphy

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected. The authors expose the class-based nature of Ireland's crisis resolution.

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Springer

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1137468769

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9781137468765

Ulysses

By: James Joyce,Enda Duffy

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Ulysses

By: James Joyce,Enda Duffy

Loosely based on the Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners through an entire day in 1904. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor.

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Courier Corporation

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0486474704

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9780486474700

Environmental Noise Pollution

Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy

By: Enda Murphy,Eoin A King

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Environmental Noise Pollution

Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy

By: Enda Murphy,Eoin A King

Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and environmental concern and is considered to be one of the most important environmental stressors affecting public health throughout the world. This book examines environmental noise pollution, its health implications, the role of strategic noise mapping for problem assessment, major sources of environmental noise pollution, noise mitigation approaches, and related procedural and policy implications. Drawing on the authors' considerable research expertise in the area, the book is the first coherent work on this major environmental stressor, a new benchmark reference across disciplinary, policy and national boundaries. - Highlights recent developments in the policy arena with particular focus on developments in the EU within the context of the European Noise Directive - Explores the lessons emerging from nations within the EU and other jurisdictions attempting to legislate and mitigate against the harmful effects of noise pollution - Covers the core theoretical concepts and principles surrounding the mechanics of noise pollution as well as the evidence-base linking noise with public health concerns

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Newnes

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0124116140

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9780124116146

Lazarus

The Complete Book and Lyrics

By: David Bowie,Enda Walsh

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Lazarus

The Complete Book and Lyrics

By: David Bowie,Enda Walsh

Beautiful...a last transmission from a dying star." - Time Out One of the last works completed by beloved pop icon David Bowie before his death in early 2016, the otherworldy musical Lazarus is a poignant homage to his legacy. Inspired by the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Lazarus weaves a thrilling rock opera from new compositions by Bowie as well as many of his classic songs.

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1559368780

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The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

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The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

It’s eleven o’clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours’ time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers, and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours’ time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and tender, The Walworth Farce combines hilarious moments with shocking realism.

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0573707693

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Lazarus

The Complete Book and Lyrics

By: David Bowie,Enda Walsh

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Lazarus

The Complete Book and Lyrics

By: David Bowie,Enda Walsh

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The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

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The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

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Chatroom

A Play

By: Enda Walsh

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Chatroom

A Play

By: Enda Walsh

Characters: 3 males, 3 females. Scenery: A bare stage The six teenage characters communicate only via the internet. Conversations range in subject from Britney Spears to Willy Wonka to - suicide: Jim is depressed and talks of ending his life and Eva and William decide to do their utmost to persuade him to carry out his threat. From this chilling premise is forged a funny, compelling and uplifting play that tackles the issues of teenage life head-on and with great understanding.

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Samuel French , Limited

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0573052565

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