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Goodnight Delia

By John Murphy

Dolmen Theatre, Cornelscourt, Dublin

Rating:***

Runs until March 17

‘I don’t mind people forgetting me as long as they remember the songs,” says the title character in Goodnight Delia, John Murphy’s affectionate portrayal of a woman once described as Ireland’s first pop star. Sadly, even that may have been too much to ask for. Delia Murphy specialised in defiantly old-fashioned folk tunes about courting, boozing and fighting that ...