Dark comedy, Irish wit, and the world of Martin McDonagh
Forget the Blackpool Tower and the cream cracker logic of package holidays — the real McDonagh country is off the west coast, where the sheep outnumber the dialogue and the views would make even Colm Doherty put down the cleaver. Here's how to do a cinematic pilgrimage through Inisherin and beyond, with your digits intact.
Leenane has a population smaller than a London bus, yet its fictionalised troubles have filled theatres from Sloane Square to Salford. We trace how one rural Irish village became the beating black heart of British theatre-going.
Peel back the jokes in In Bruges, Three Billboards, and The Banshees of Inisherin and you'll find the same thing underneath: grief, guilt, and a bloke having a very bad time. We trace McDonagh's signature onion structure across three decades of making Britain and Ireland laugh until it hurts.