In writing The Playboy of the Western World, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I cou...

Christopher Mahon Old Mahon, his father, a squatter Michael James Flaherty (called Michael James), a publican Margaret Flaherty (called Pegeen Mike), his daughter Shawn Keough, her cousin, a young far...

Scene: Country public-house or shebeen, very rough and untidy. There is a sort of counter on the right with shelves, holding many bottles and jugs, just seen above it. Empty barrels stand near the cou...

Scene as before. Brilliant morning light. Christy, looking bright and cheerful, is cleaning a girl’s boots. Christy: To himself, counting jugs on dresser. Half a hundred beyond. Ten there. A score tha...

Scene as before. Later in the day. Jimmy comes in, slightly drunk. Jimmy: Calls. Pegeen! Crosses to inner door. Pegeen Mike! Comes back again into the room. Pegeen! Philly comes in in the same state. ...