For an illuminating discussion of this poem (along with similar themes in the works of Montague's Irish contemporaries) – a discussion which I am sure will prove inspiring to readers of this thread and the MA in general – please see pages 45 - 49 of the book “Medieval and Modern Ireland”, by Richard Wall, available on the web as a limited preview at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=7e7RPI1pasoC&pg=PP16&dq=medieval+and+modern+ireland+richard+well
Also, this article may be of interest as well, describing, in the last paragraph, a staging of the poem at the Seskilgreen passage grave in Tyrone:
http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/news/samuel-beckett-drama-fourknocks.php
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