[ Bill Noonan, playwright. ] Typescript of play titled 'Tell Me Mother Ireland (or Once Upon a Black-n-Tan)'.

116pp., 4to. (Paginated to 117, without a p.95, but with no text lacking.) No prelims. Each page typed on a separate leaf, and the whole bound together by string through punch holes. Text complete. Dog-eard and worn, with the first two leaves separated from the rest. No record discovered of author or title. The play is set during the Second World War, and begins: 'Afternoon fourclock ... Late spring ... side of road, North Cork district six miles from town of Kilneesh, Irishman trying to fix a tire ... car protruding from wings showing a flat. He's sitting on a clump of gravel muttering to himself as Curtain Rises ...' The driver's name is 'Jim Fitz' and he is joined by coincidence by 'Adam Hilson the bow'ld Black-n-Tan', whom he arrested two years before. The play proceeds through a series of reminiscences and flashbacks.