Dublin, 1922, the Irish Civil War is tearing the nation apart. In the cauldron of the family’s tiny tenement flat, Juno Boyle, a beleaguered matriarch whose sharp wit is a survival tool ...

Juno and The Paycock is set in Dublin in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. It follows the misfortunes of the Boyle family, who live in a two-room tenement apartment. Poverty, religion, nationalism ...

Juno also describes Boyle - who complains about pains in his legs as the reason he cannot work - as being able to "skip like a goat" when he’s going to the pub. There are also a number of animal ...

sadly continues his recent slide into mannered self-parody as Juno’s feckless husband ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle. The play was ...