Barunka O'Shaughnessy. Writer: Motherland. Barunka O'Shaughnessy was born August 16, 1973 to a Czech mother and Irish father and grew up in (the former) Czechoslovakia and the UK. Known for Motherland (2020), Up The Women (2015) and Hunderby (2015), Barunka first discovered writing and performing while at Cambridge University, where she read Theology and Classics. After some years working in TV comedy and light entertainment production, she formed theatre company...