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Books on: irish drama

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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

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...has survived the cultural nationalism of the Irish Literary Theatre. Ireland within Irish drama is there to be perceived as John Bulls other...and the emptiness of postmodern posturing, Irish drama in its perspicuous difference and the liveness...
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The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916

Book by Ben Levitas; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Drama--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, Nationalism And Literature--Ireland--History--19th Century, Nationalism And Literature--Ireland--History--20th Century, Nationalism In Literature

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...Certainly there is promise of an Irish National drama, Yeats and Todhunters reviewer had pondered; But what of the Irish National stage??4 W P. Ryans overview noted the obvious-that Irish drama required stage and audience...
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Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama

Book by Alan Price; Methuen, 1961

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Drama, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Synge, J. M--(John Millington)--1871-1909--Criticism And Interpretation

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...Macmillan New York . LADY GREGORY. Our Irish Theatre , 1913. Putnam London...1946. Putnam London . S. GYWNN. Irish Literature and Drama , 1936. Nelson London . J. J...Ireland Dublin . H. HOWARTH. The Irish Writers 1880-1940 , 1958. Rockliff...
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by Bernice Schrank, William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1997

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Dramatists, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Ireland--In Literature--Dictionaries, Theater--Ireland--Dictionaries

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...heart of a distinctly Irish drama. In time, Irish drama...tied to the Abbey. Later Irish dramatists like Brendan...York, and elsewhere. Irish drama has become both a national...and familiar figures of Irish drama as well as a significant...
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Irish Plays and Playwrights

Book by Cornelius Weygandt; Houghton Mifflin, 1913

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Dramatists, Irish, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Theater--Ireland--Dublin

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...atmosphere, in color, that drama must be native, and in color...character the Abbey Theatre drama is Irish. Reading of life and style...matter of fact, no less natively Irish than the Elizabethan drama is...convention" of that drama. The new Irish drama is more native in its...

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Journal Articles on: irish drama

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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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...addition to two historical dramas set in Ireland, three more dramas of Irish country life: Arrah-na...authors "irishization" of his drama of the American Civil War...ultimate liberation for a young Irish protagonist. Beginning with...
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Beyond the Caricature: Harrigan, Hart, and Braham's Music and the Construction of New York Irish Identity

Journal article by Michelle Granshaw; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 19, 2007

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Braham, David, Composers, Harrigan, Edward, Hart, Tony, Irish Americans, Lyricists, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Musical theater, Racial identity

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...Construction of New York Irish Identity by Michelle Granshaw...Freunds Daily Music and Drama inserted a short paragraph...news section commenting on Irish-Americans and the theatre. It reported that "the Irish are a curious people from...
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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

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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

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...Scholars know very little about dramas depicting Charlotte Corday...elements that most appealed to Irish audiences. Irish vicar Matthew West even plagiarized Eyres play as a closet drama, Female Heroism, a Tragedy...of 1793 (1803). Anglo-Irish translations of Marats assassin...
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Talking with Ghosts of Irish Playwrights Past: Marina Carr's by the Bog of Cats ..

Journal article by Richard Russell; Comparative Drama, Vol. 40, 2006

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By the Bog of Cats (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews

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...shadow, a maneuver that a school of Irish drama might enact and thus jettison Englands...the presence of a later period of Irish drama, one inaugurated by Yeatss late...Yeatss play signaled a new moment in Irish drama, as Cathy Leeney has argued...
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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

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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

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...established within contemporary Irish drama. Late-twentieth-century...and eliminated from the Irish home, a symbol of the...Answer, Do!" Modern Drama, 46, no. 3 (Fall 2003...Identity in Contemporary Irish Drama," Modern Drama...

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Magazine Articles on: irish drama

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Haunts of the Very Irish

Magazine article by Pamela Renner; American Theatre, Vol. 15, July 1998

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Authors, Irish--Works, Dramatists--Works, McPherson, Conor--Works

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...McPherson, the 26-year-old Irish playwright destined to give...candle. The accomplished young Irish playwright is still a newcomer...them the 1997 Evening Standard Drama Award for outstanding new playwright...named Valerie meet in a rural Irish pub where they swap stories...
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The EU Confronts the Irish Rejection of the Lisbon Treaty

Magazine article by Michael L. Nash; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Spring 2009

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European Union--Laws, regulations and rules, European Union--Membership, Ireland--Economic aspects, Ireland--Elections, Ireland--Foreign policy, Irish foreign relations--Laws, regulations and rules, Treaty Amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community, 2007

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...Treaty. Sensing a change in Irish public opinion, the strongly pro-EU Irish Times is advocating an early...into force by January 2010. An Irish parliamentary report in November...constitutional matters that this whole drama started, with its inevitable...
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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

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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

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...Punch-cartoon Paddy. The Irish presence on the London stage...on the scene. Neither used Irish themes (though Shaw would later...recently been re-evaluated as an Irish tale-teller, almost a folklorist...played with Yeats first performed drama, The Land of Hearts Desire...
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The Poetry of Irish Murdoch

Magazine article by Geoffrey Heptonstall; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, February 1999

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Murdoch, Irish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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The poetry of Irish Murdoch. by Geoffrey Heptonstall Unusually...footnote to the corpus of her fiction, drama and philosophy. There is little poetry...story, a situation with enough implied drama to hold ones interest, but insufficient...
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The Voice of Nationism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater

Magazine article by Stephen Watt; Humanities, Vol. 20, January 1999

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Drama, Dramatists, History, Ireland, Nationalism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The hundred-year legacy of Irish drama reflects the nations...patriotism, and violence. Irish literature and drama of the past century have delivered...history lessons on such topics as Irish involvement in World War I...the site of contemporary dramas by Ann Devlin and Christina...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish drama

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Irish Get Own Version of Shock Crime Drama

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 23, 2011

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Television dramas, Television programs

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

Irish Get Own Version of Shock Crime Drama. Byline: Warren Swords AN IRISH version of a highly controversial Australian gangland...judge labelling it a disgrace. The producers of the Irish show have yet to decide on what criminals it will focus...
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Irish Drama, Poetry, Song in Spotlight at KenCen

Newspaper article by Cathryn Donohoe; The Washington Times, May 13, 2000

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

Irish drama, poetry, song in spotlight...portions of the Kennedy Center Irish festival, speaking from Cork...moderated by New York Daily News drama critic Fintan OToole, will...emerging and contemporary Irish playwrights and talks on their...
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Who's Yet to Lands a in Irish Classic; as Classic Drama the Playboy of the Western World Arrives in Wales This Week, Lead Actor John Olohan Tells Gavin Allen How It Broke the Bounds of Irish Theatre When First Staged and He Praises His Young Co-star Who Was Trained in Wales

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 15, 2009

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Actors, Actresses, The Playboy of the Western World (Play), Theater

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Whos Yet to Lands a in Irish Classic; as Classic Drama the Playboy of the Western...How It Broke the Bounds of Irish Theatre When First Staged and...Welsh College of Music and Dramas production of Thoroughly Modern...hailed as a "blueprint for Irish theatre". And shes woking...
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THE IRISH SEX AND THE CITY; Bittersweet: Smart, Sassy New Drama or More Brooklyn Bridge Meets Hapenny Bridge? Role Models: Sex and the Citys Samantha, Miranda, Carrie and Charlotte

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 22, 2008

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

...years of underachieving, RTE drama is, finally, giving the viewers...Weve witnessed the success of dramas such as Pure Mule, Prosperity...received is that they tell Irish stories froman Irish perspective. In Bittersweet...heartwarming and relatablepiece of drama. Although I loved Sex And...
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GAY PARENTS DRAMA A FIRST FOR IRISH TV; TV3 Reveals Comedy Debut

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 12, 2008

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Television programs

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

GAY PARENTS DRAMA A FIRST FOR IRISH TV; TV3 Reveals Comedy Debut. Byline...on Christmas Eve, will be the first Irish-made drama to feature a gay couple...child. Frank and Keith are played by Irish actors Peter Gaynor and James Donnelly...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish drama

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...singular wit. Twentieth-Century Drama During the 20th cent., especially...after World War I, Western drama became more internationally...be broadly termed naturalist dramas are Gerhart Hauptmann (German...Millington Synge and Sean OCasey (Irish), and Eugene ONeill , Clifford...movement in early 20th-century drama was expressionism . Expressionist...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Theatre in Dublin (see Irish literary renaissance...Sean OCasey all wrote on Irish themes mythical in Yeatss poetic drama, political in OCaseys realistic plays. Also Irish, George Bernard Shaw wrote biting dramas that reflect all aspects...
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Abbey Theatre

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

ABBEY THEATRE Irish theatrical company devoted primarily to indigenous drama. W. B. Yeats was a leader in founding (1902) the Irish National Theatre Society with Lady...1966. In close association with Irish dramatists, the Abbey also has...
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Gregory, Lady Augusta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Isabella Augusta Persse), 1859 1932, Irish dramatist. Though she did not begin...soon became a vital force in the Irish drama. She was a founder and the manager...comedies, are rich in portrayals of Irish peasantry. Among her other works...
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Menen, Aubrey Clarence

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...MENEN, AUBREY CLARENCE men n, 1912 89, English novelist, b. London. The son of an Indian father and an Irish mother, he was a drama critic, theater director, and advertising agency executive. Menen was primarily a satirist, and his novels...

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