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Books on: (Irish or Ireland) and Drama

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The contemporary drama of Ireland

Book by Ernest A. Boyd; Little Brown, 1917

Subjects:

English drama--Irish authors, Theater--Ireland

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE CONTEMPORARY DRAMA OF IRELAND CHAPTER I THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE...picture the Anglo-Irish expression of our...absorption of the "new drama" tendencies by the...Literary Re vival in Ireland must not, however...Deirdre in The All Ireland Review , they decided...completed his poetic drama of Irish legend, rehearsing...
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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

Book by Nicholas Grene; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Boucicault, Dion--1820-1890--Political And Social Views, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Friel, Brian--Political And Social Views, Political Plays, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--19th Century, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--20th Century, Theater--Political Aspects--Ireland

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of ...
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The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
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America and Ireland, 1776-1976: The American Identity and the Irish Connection: the Proceedings of the United States Bicentennial Conference of Cumann Merriman, Ennis, August 1976

Book by Con Howard, David Noel Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards; Greenwood Press, 1980

Subjects:

Ireland--Relations--United States--Congresses, Irish Americans--Congresses, United States--Relations--Ireland--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...AND IRELAND, 1776-1976 AMERICA AND IRELAND, 1776-1976 The American Identity and the Irish Connection THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE...American Achievement: A Report from Great Ireland 231 ANDREW M. GREELEY The Irish Neighborhood: A Contribution to American...10 percent and 20 percent were of Irish origin, from both Northern and Southern Ireland. The predominantly Protestant immigration...
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To the Golden Door: The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America

Book by George W. Potter; Little, Brown, 1960

Subjects:

Famines--Ireland--History--19th Century, Ireland--Economic Conditions, Ireland--Emigration And Immigration, Irish--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...luxuriantly in the soil of Protestant aristocratic Ascendancy Ireland. The eighteenth century was the age of grandeur for the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, in architecture, letters, and the drama, but it was hell for the Catholic Irish. The Dissenters...
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Ireland Her Own: An Outline History of the Irish Struggle for National Freedom and Independence

Book by T. A. Jackson, C. Desmond Greaves; Lawrence & Wishart, 1991

Subjects:

Ireland--History, Irish Question

Collections: History, Entire Library

...exist as a Pale and became official Ireland. Irish Chiefs, English Lords The technique...in defence of James. Bundling the Irish troops back to Ireland did nothing to better the situation...Parliament incompetent to pass laws for Ireland; (2) made the Irish House of Lords the court of final appeal...

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Journal Articles on: (Irish or Ireland) and Drama

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Out of Ireland: Revisionist Strategies in Beckett's Drama

Journal article by Laura Barge; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Beckett, Samuel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--Irish authors

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Out of Ireland: Revisionist Strategies in Becketts Drama by LAURA...Beckett within he Irish dramatic tradition...that he forsakes Ireland as homeland in a...view Beckett in an Irish context cuts its...style of Becketts drama with Irish influences...hearing repeatedly in Ireland the language of...more significant Irish influence on the...sixties when this drama was taking shape...
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An American in Ireland: The Representation of the American in Brian Friel's Plays

Journal article by Maria Germanou; Comparative Drama, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

American identity--20th century AD, American identity--Analysis, American identity--Observations, American identity--Social aspects, Dramatists--20th century AD, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Friel, Brian--Criticism and interpretation, Friel, Brian--Works, Irish drama--20th century AD, Irish drama--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--20th century AD, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Derry City, Northern Ireland, in 1970, and derives...marchers from the poor Irish Catholic community...fictional nature of drama, which is no longer...role at a time when Ireland negotiates her position...Colonial Criticism," Irish University Review...Stories? Documentary Drama on Radio, Screen...Brian Friel and Irelands Drama (London and New...Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 7, no. 1...
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Bernard McKenna. Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994

Journal article by Marilynn Richtarik; Comparative Drama, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994. Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, No. 102...McKennas study of Northern Irish drama produced during a twenty-five-year...events" (8). This is where drama comes in, as McKenna suggests that playwrights in the North of Ireland can do for communities some...
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Edmund Eyre's the Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish Docudrama

Journal article by Wendy C. Nielsen; Comparative Drama, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

Corday, Charlotte--Criticism and interpretation, Corday, Charlotte--Works, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Eyre, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation, Eyre, Edmund--Works, French Revolution, 1789, Plays--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...performed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1794, was denied...most appealed to Irish audiences. Irish...play as a closet drama, Female Heroism...Royal in Dublin, Ireland in May 1794. International...as foreign. Anglo-Irish translations of...often find Romantic drama difficult to describe...scuffles occurred in Ireland. Dublins theaters...had reason to fear Irish rebellion around...of Dublin, Eyres drama was a welcome political...
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Sites and Sights: The Iconology of the Subterranean in Late Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Drama

Journal article by Joyce Flynn; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993

Subjects:

Irish Americans--Literature, Melodrama--19th century, O'Neill, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...historical dramas set in Ireland, three more dramas of Irish country life: Arrah-na-Pogue...irishization" of his drama of the American...that pair black and Irish. (The result: "A...curtain.") In the same drama, marching Skidmore...them all back to Ireland in steerage. The...An Irish Comedy Drama in Four Acts. ts...There Isnt Any." Irish Writing (Cork, Ireland), November 1947...

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Magazine Articles on: (Irish or Ireland) and Drama

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Conquering England: Roy Foster Introduces a New Exhibition on the Irish in London in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Opening at the National Portrait Gallery on March 9th

Magazine article by Roy Foster; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005

Subjects:

Ireland--Emigration and immigration, Irish culture--19th century AD, Irish culture--Exhibitions, London, England--Social aspects, Middle class--19th century AD, Middle class--Social aspects, Middle classes--19th century AD, Middle classes--Social aspects, National Portrait Gallery (London, England)--Exhibitions, United Kingdom--Emigration and immigration

Collections: History, Entire Library

...amount of space devoted to them is nonetheless striking. Ireland continued a dominant presence in illustrated magazines. Less noticed is the rich trawl of images of Irish politicians from the early 1870s. The caricaturists in Punch...Arms and the Man, would be played with Yeats first performed drama, The Land of Hearts Desire, in 1894. The same year saw a great...
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Shadows over Ireland

Magazine article by Fintan O'Toole; American Theatre, Vol. 15, July 1998

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Works, Dramatists--Works, Irish drama--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...notion was that Ireland needed a distinctive...and more potent Irish political nationalism...playwrights. The drama being played out...finally hit the shore. Irish society was still...society was dying. Ireland had become an urban...There wasnt much drama to be wrung out...national talent for drama was no longer going...shattered, traditional Ireland and hold them up...the first wave of Irish playwrights this...
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The Great Shakespeare Fraud: Patricia Pierce Tells the Tale of William-Henry Ireland, Whose Teenage Angst Led Him to Pull off an Unlikely Hoax

Magazine article by Patricia Pierce; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004

Subjects:

Elizabethan drama, English literature, 1558-1603 (Elizabethan), Ireland, William-Henry--Works, Literary forgeries, Literary forgeries and mystifications, Shakespeare, William

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Pierce Tells the Tale of William-Henry Ireland, Whose Teenage Angst Led Him to Pull off...Shakespeare. Late in 1794 William-Henry Ireland, a dim-looking youth of nineteen, began...love and respect of his father, Samuel Ireland. Ireland senior was a collector and engraver...
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Fighting Irish

Magazine article; National Review, October 26, 1998

Subjects:

Arts, Ireland--Social aspects, Irish (European people)--Social aspects, Irish (European people)--United States, Irish in the United States--Social aspects, Irish literature--Social aspects, McCourt, Frank--Behavior

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Hollywood has cashed in on the phenomenon. If the details of Irelands political discontents remain as opaque as ever to most Americans...because we havent watched enough movies about twentieth-century Irish history, from Michael Collins, with Liam Neeson as the outstanding...in a small Irish town); also St. Nicholas (about an Irish drama critic), The Cripple of Inishman (a differently abled Irishman...
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Irish : Ever After

Magazine article by Pete Hamill; National Review, September 27, 1999

Subjects:

'Tis: A Memoir (Book), Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...the British. The first group was made up of semi-anarchic Irish rebels called Ribbonmen, who in the 1830s resorted to violence...properties. The second were part of the 1840s movement called Young Ireland, whose leaders were well educated and included a good number...special talents and vision. As a novelist, he is drawn to drama and conflict. He has a refined sense of place, evoking the...

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Newspaper Articles on: (Irish or Ireland) and Drama

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Rebel Heart Ache for BBC in Television Ratings War; Hard-Hitting Rape Drama Attracts Twice as Many Viewers as Irish Conflict Saga

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 10, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Attracts Twice as Many Viewers as Irish Conflict Saga. Byline: IAN STARRETT THE BBC drama Rebel Heart is a flop with...million viewers. Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble...lift the spirits of todays Irish republicans, already exulting...80-odd years ago - a united Ireland. The Innocent, which trounced...in a two part hard-hitting drama about a rape. EASTER RISING...
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SPACEY GETS 'IRISH BUG' Oscar-Winning Actor Kevin Loves Ireland So Much He Wants to Buy His Own Pub

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), June 27, 1999

Subjects:

Ireland, Spacey, Kevin

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Albert of Monaco. These surroundings, as well as those of Irelands other clubs, obviously made a lasting impression on the movie hero. He says that shooting the Irish movie Ordinary Decent Criminal was his `own personal pet project...who was last seen behind the helm of the hard-hitting IRA drama Nothing Personal, starring Ian Hart and John Lynch." But...
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Irish Romp Has Sorry Scots Reeling; Ireland 44 Scotland 22

Newspaper article by Ian Laybourn; The Birmingham Post (England), February 21, 2000

Subjects:

Ireland

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...almost certainly have quit had Ireland lost for the 12th time in...style on an afternoon of high drama and exquisite entertainment...to the free spirit of the Irish. It also justified the...anything like it for years as Ireland ran in 44 unanswered points...difficult conversion. Debutant Irish half-backs Ronan OGara and...marvellous." At 44-10, Ireland, having re-discovered their...hinder the frenzy of wild Irish celebration at the final...
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They're the Stars Who Made It Big but Had to Leave Ireland to Do It.; IT FIRST BEGAN WITH EAMONN ANDREWS AND TERRY WOGAN. NOW MORE IRISH PERSONALITIES ARE FINDING FAME ON BRITISH TV

Newspaper article by Amanda Doherty; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 16, 2000

Subjects:

Ireland

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...believe that wouldnt have stood a chance if they stayed in Ireland. "But something I have noticed lately is that Irish playwrights are preferring to open their productions in London...Abbey Theatre before getting his big TV break in the Irish drama blockbuster Strumpet City. Since then he has made his name...
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IRELAND MY IRELAND: MY BAYWATCH ROLE TURNED INTO HAWAII FIVE-O DRAMA; Name: John O'Brien Occupation: Founder and Guitarist with Bagatelle

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), September 5, 1999

Subjects:

Ireland

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

IRELAND MY IRELAND: MY BAYWATCH ROLE TURNED INTO HAWAII FIVE-O DRAMA; Name: John OBrien Occupation: Founder and Guitarist with...Cork is like going abroad for your holiday without leaving Ireland. My favourite Irish pub: That is my local, Jim Doyles in Bray, Co Wicklow. The...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (Irish or Ireland) and Drama

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Galsworthy (English), John Millington Synge and Sean OCasey (Irish), and Eugene ONeill , Clifford Odets , and Lillian Hellman (American). An important movement in early 20th-century drama was expressionism . Expressionist playwrights tried to convey...
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Yeats, W. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...vacations in County Sligo, Ireland, which was the setting for...poems. He became fascinated by Irish legends and by the occult. His first work, the drama Mosada (1886), reflects...intense nationalism of the Young Ireland movement. Poetry: First...Pre-Raphaelites. It centers on Irish mythology and themes and is...were collected in 1895. Drama and Prose Yeatss efforts...
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Farquhar, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FARQUHAR, GEORGE far k r, kw r, 1678 1707, Irish dramatist, b. Londonderry (now Derry), Ireland. After his short career as an actor ended when he severely...represent the transition between the licentiousness of Restoration drama and the sentimentality of the 18th cent. See his complete...