Irish teachers who want to bring loneliness, jealousy, courtship, frustration, passion and anger into their classrooms may like to check out an Irish version of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which is now available from Clo IarChonnachta, translated by Micheal O Conghaile.

Banrion Alainn an Lionain, by Martin McDonagh, will have your students "ar bis", it says on the back cover. Some black and white pictures, which were taken during a production in Galway earlier this year, illustrate "an drama cumhachtach seo a thugann leargas scanruil duinn ar shaol iata na tuaithe".