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Enda Walsh is an Irish-born playwright, a fact immensely bothersome to those seeking to place him alongside his birth nation's similarly defined theatrical forbears.  Great acrobatic skill goes into locating the Synge in his characters' souls, the Keats in their speech.  For Walsh is sim

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