Drawing on the archives of libraries in Dublin, New York City, and
Boston, Albert J. DeGiacomo assesses T. C. Murray's contribution to the
Irish dramatic movement. One of "the Cork realists" of the Abbey
Theatre, Murray wrote seventeen plays in one, two, or three acts. A
prominent National Teacher and a seemingly apolitical playwright in the
Irish Literary Revival, Murray expressed nationalistic aspirations in
his peasant tragedies. His characters' drive for self-determination and
their religious consciousness mark Murray's dramatic landscape.