Deirdre Kinahan: 5 books

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit. A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman with a zest for life and for handsome men in wheelchairs. A wary intimacy develops...

Green Shield stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It’s Ballymun, it’s 1973 and she’s got 15 friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one night, the lives of 15 women collide in Deirdre Kinahan’s new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Quebecois comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs. Premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February 2018.

Will truth out? Set over one evening, Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan is a play that rages in a tiny room. Fraught, funny and ferocious, it testifies to the pain of carrying the memory of sexual assault throughout a lifetime. A play about secret trauma and public revelation, Rathmines...

A devastating new play about loss and families, by Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights. What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? What does it take to forgive the unforgivable? In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to hold on to...

In 1919, Badgersbridge Village Hall is Margaret’s domain and the last place she expected to come face to face with Grace, who knew and loved Margaret’s brother. This chance meeting results in an unlikely pairing that will change the course of both of their futures. Fast-forward to 2019....