"There is more to Ireland than little green leprechauns, pots of gold and shamrocks. Irish theatre presents real people and very real issues" (T. Murphy)

How do the playwrights and plays, you have studied, present Ireland `on stage'

Whenever the word Ireland is mentioned people automatically, think of it stereotypically. The country of leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold. Ireland now days is an independent country. However, it took so many years of conflict between Britain and Ireland for this to happen. The role of the Christian influence over the nation was used to strengthen British/English rule over Ireland.

Before 1922 Ireland was occupied by and ruled by Britain .Ireland, which had been a Catholic country since St. Patrick came in 432AD, was stated by the Pope in to be property of the English king. Although King Henry II was happy to leave Ireland to itself, Strongbow, the...