Teresa Deevy wrote plays about young women coming to terms with – and pushing back on – the restrictions of life in Catholic Ireland. After Meuniere’s disease caused her to become deaf, “She moved to London to study lip reading and while there became deeply immersed in theatre, deciding to become a playwright so that she ‘would put the sort of life we have in Ireland into a play.'” And when a particularly patronizing, and patriarchal, artistic director cut off her access to Irish National Theatre, she turned to radio. Now? A researcher may have discovered three new plays. – Irish Times