CONTENTS: Werner Huber: The Early Plays: Martin McDonagh, Shooting Star and Hard Man from South London - Rebecca Wilson: Macabre Merriment in McDonagh's Melodrama: The Queen of Leenanae - Nicholas Grene: Ireland in two minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson - Paul Murphy: The Stage Irish Are Dead, Long Live the Stage Irish: The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara - Christopher Murray: The Cripple of Inishmaan Meets Lady Gregory - Mária Kurdi: The Helen of Irishmaan Pegging Eggs: Gender, Sexuality and Violence - Mary Luckhurst: Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore Selling (-Out) to the English - Catherine Rees: The Politics of Morality: Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Irnishmore - Lisa Fitzpatrick: Language Games: The Pillowman, A Skkull in Connemara: Martin McDonagh's Hiberno-English - Patrick Burke: 'Like the Cat-astrophe of Old Comedy': The Animal in The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Ashley Taggart: An 'Economy Of Pity': McDonagh's Monstrous Regiment - Eamonn Jordan: War on Narrative: Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman - Laura Eldred: Martin McDonagh's Blend of Tradition and Horrific innovation - Ondrej Pilný: Grostesque Entertainment: The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre - John McDonagh: 'When It's There I am, It's here I wish I was': The Construction of Connemara - Aidan Arrowsmith: Genuinely Inauthentic: McDonagh's Postdiasporic Irishness - Shaun Richards: 'The Outpouring of a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind': The Critical Condition of Synge and McDonagh - Victor Merriman: Decolonization Postponed: The Theatre of Tiger Trash - Sara Keating: Is martin McDonagh an Irish Playwright? - Patrick Lonergan: Martin McDonagh, Globalization, and Irish Theater Criticism - Péter P. Müller: Domesticating a Theater of Cruelty: The Plays of MacDonagh on the Hungarian stage - Frank Molloy The Beauty Queenof Leenane in Australia - Karen Vandevelde: Martin McDonagh's Irishness: Icing on the cake?