Letter: Tom Murphy obituary
I got to know Tom Murphy during the early 1960s in pubs along the Fulham Road favoured by Irish migrants to London with an interest in theatre. Already he had a reputation on the strength of A Whistle in the Dark, rejected by the Abbey theatre in Dublin, unwilling to stage the reality of Irish men lost in England. Tom was as tough and as bitter as some of his characters: he scorned the delusions of post-revolutionary…