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Ourselves Alone, first produced in 1987, is Devlin’s best known play. Set in Northern Ireland, it explores the lives of three Catholic women who are involved with IRA men. The women are presented as being capable of much richer lives than the men, many of whom are unfaithful, abusive, and emotionally immature.
Seamus Heaney, a Catholic born in largely Protestant Northern Ireland, is Ireland’s foremost contemporary poet. His Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966–1996 (1998) contains many poems that allude to the violence in Northern Ireland, especially the...
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