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Deirdre Kinahan

Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright and a member of Aosdána, Ireland's elected body of outstanding artists.

Her plays include: An Old Song, Half Forgotten (Abbey Theatre, 2023); Outrage (Fishamble, 2022); The Visit (Draiocht, Dublin Theatre Festival 2021); The Saviour (Landmark Productions, 2021); In the Middle of the Fields (Solas Nua DC, 2021); Embargo (Fishamble 2020); Dear Ireland (Abbey Theatre, 2020); The Bloodied Field (Abbey Theatre 2020); Rathmines Road (Fishamble and Abbey Theatre, 2018); Crossings (Pentabus Theatre, 2018); The Unmanageable Sisters, an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2018); Wild Sky (Dublin, 2016); Spinning (Fishamble, 2014); Halcyon Days (Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, and Dublin Theatre Festival, 2012); and Moment (Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, 2009; Bush Theatre, London, 2011).

In 2024, she and actor Bryan Murray were jointly awarded the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimer's Disease, for Kinahan's play An Old Song, Half Forgotten.

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Bé Carna

Bé Carna

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.

Bogboy

Bogboy

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which two lost souls – a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer – discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath.

Crossings

Crossings

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days

By Deirdre Kinahan

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.

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Hue & Cry

Hue & Cry

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.

Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts

Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts

Five Plays

By Deirdre Kinahan

Five short plays by the award-winning Irish playwright, full of warmth, humour and irrepressible characters.

Moment

Moment

By Deirdre Kinahan

An explosive drama about how one terrible moment can change lives irrevocably.

An Old Song, Half Forgotten

An Old Song, Half Forgotten

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play about the life and soul of an older actor living in care with Alzheimer's disease.

Raging: Embargo

Raging: Embargo

The War of Independence

By Deirdre Kinahan

A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Raging: Outrage

Raging: Outrage

The Civil War

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

Wild Sky, Embargo & Outrage

By Deirdre Kinahan

A trilogy of landmark plays - Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage - commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922.

Raging: Wild Sky

Raging: Wild Sky

The Rising

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.