[6] The couple wrote a number of stage pieces and improvisational works for amateur and student players, including The Happy Haven (1960) and The Workhouse Donkey.
[3] D'Arcy has also written a number of books, including Tell Them Everything, Awkward Corners (with John Arden), and Galway's Pirate Women: A Global Trawl.
[3] In 2011, D'Arcy refused to stand for a minute's silence to honour a PSNI officer Ronan Kerr, killed by dissident republicans, at an Aosdana meeting.
Her actions were deliberate, she told the media afterwards, which attracted fierce criticism of her perceived support for armed republican groups in Northern Ireland.
She was given a suspended 12-week sentence, but was imprisoned in 2014 after refusing to sign a bond saying that she wouldn't trespass on non-public parts of Shannon Airport.