Brenda Murphy is an
Irish
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playwright.
Life
Brenda Murphy was born in west Belfast in 1954. She was the eldest of 10 siblings but never knew her father. He was married to another woman who lived nearby with his own family. As a teenager she joined the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reuni ...
, was convicted of having guns and spent several years in jail. She gave birth to her first child while in prison.
Work
She has written a series of plays often set in working class Belfast which deal with contemporary issues such as the
Troubles
The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an " ...
. She has often worked in collaboration with the Brassneck Theatre Company. Her plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
Plays
* Binlids: the Story of West Belfast Resistance
* Forced Upon Us
* Working-class Heroes
* Two Sore Legs
* A Night With George
* Baby it's cold outside
* ˜Crazy
See also
*
List of Irish writers
This is a list of writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship, who have a Wikipedia page. Writers whose work is in Irish are included.
Dramatists A–D
* John Banim (1798–1842)
*Ivy Bannister (born 1951)
* Sebastian Barry (bor ...
References
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Irish dramatists and playwrights
Irish women dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Belfast
1954 births
Living people