Long lost play with critical introduction by Notre Dame scholar. Recently discovered in America, Dorchadas is the long-lost text of Liam O’Flaherty’s three act tragedy staged in the Abbey Theatre in 1926. This edition contains the text, and a detailed account of the controversies surrounding the play’s origins, production and reception at the Abbey in 1926. Liam O’Flaherty is one of the most important and internationally celebrated Irish writers of the twentieth century.
