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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

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

Subjects:

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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...in a poker game. The Times "Dramatist Represents Modern Middle-Class...play as "the first serious Irish dramatist to have appeared on...cord which has tethered so much Irish writing to the past." In this...Wardle 1 . As a young, brash Irish bill collector demands payment...
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John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

Book by Maurice Bourgeois; Constable, 1913

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Dramatists, Irish--20th Century--Biography, Synge, J. M--(John Millington)--1871-1909--Biography, Theater--Ireland--History

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...Critical Study . March 17, 1913: Irish Number, p. 15: "The Abbey Theatre...1909, p. 469: "J. M. Synge: Irish Dramatist, Writer, Poet", by T.M. Thomas...June 16, 1911, p. 744: "The Irish Players", by "B." August 18...
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Irish Plays and Playwrights

Book by Cornelius Weygandt; Houghton Mifflin, 1913

Subjects:

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

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...belong, denationalized the Irish people. Synge, the master dramatist of the new movement, while...Irishman, is just as natively Irish in his extravagance and irony...many of them, are altogether Irish, representative of the folk...
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Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists

Book by James Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1905

Subjects:

Drama--History And Criticism, Dramatists

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...shudder if you mention its title. It is even rumoured that the Irish dramatist serves his parish--as a meek citizen should--he will...closely observing hu manity, after the manner of all great dramatists, he has only closely studied Bernard Shaw. "Regarded as...
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Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958

Book by Laurence G. Avery, Maxwell Anderson; University of North Carolina Press, 1977

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Anderson, Maxwell--1888-1959--Correspondence, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Verse Drama--Authorship

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...critical of all he does. He should be straight Irish by descent, because the Irish write the best English. He should also be pure...because the Scotch write even better English than the Irish. He must function as a sincere high priest at the...

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Blackened Irish and Brownfaced Amerindians: Constructions of American Whiteness in Dion Boucicault's the Octoroon

Journal article by Katy L. Chiles; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 31, 2004

Subjects:

American history, Boucicault, Dion, Dramatists, Theater criticism

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...playwrights responded to increased Irish immigration by projecting an...justification of colonisation: English dramatists therefore indicated Irish inferiority and need for governance...attention focuses on the three Irish plays Boucicault wrote subsequent...
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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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...protest immediately; but the Irish seem to enjoy being caricatured...worse the libel the greater the Irish popularity of the dramatist and actor."1 Though the audiors...his genuine puzzlement at the Irish-American communitys apparent...
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The Irish in John Ford's Seventh Cavalry Trilogy - Victor McLaglen's Stooge-Irish Character

Journal article by Jack Morgan; MELUS, Vol. 22, 1997

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Ford, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish--Portrayals, depictions, etc., McLaglen, Victor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...themselves had brogues. McLaglens Irish sergeant is arguably a musclebound...introduction to the nineteenth century dramatist Dion Boucicault, that although...purveying the worst kind of Irish stereotypes, his declared intention...McLaglen character were based on Irish stage ones, they were ineptly...
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William Byrd II: Comic Dramatist?

Journal article by Carl R. Dolmetsch; Early American Literature, Vol. 6, 1971

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

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...Lord Orrery is zealous for to be his Lieutenant Collonel." 17 Byrd asks Southwell to use his influence ("it being in the Irish Establishment," he points out) to obtain the commission for Brett, whom he describes as "one of the prettyest gentlemen...
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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

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...by Maria Germanou Twentieth-century Irish theater has been traversed by recurrent...those between Catholic and Protestant, Irish and English, North and South, Nationalist...contrasts, crucial to the understanding of Irish identity during the colonial and early...

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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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...identify McPherson as part of an Irish wave, he expresses skepticism about the notion of Irish drama as a family tree that...Mcphersons formal freedom as a dramatist comes from his experience...pitch black silence of the Irish countryside its easy for...
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Brian Friel: A Sociological Appreciation of an Irish Playwright

Magazine article by Kieran Flanagan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 266, April 1995

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Dramatists--Works, Friel, Brian--Works, Irish--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...part of a foreign country. In Irish dealings, its study conveys...sociological chord. This was an Irish voice that spoke in an accent...unusual to find the reverse, of a dramatist, such as Friel, who imports...about the human condition in an Irish setting, he reminds sociologists...
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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

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The Voice of Nationism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater by Stephen Watt The rise of Irish nationalism at the end of the last century has inspired generations of Irish playwrights to draw upon their native traditions and define...
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Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink: Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay Martyr

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, May 2003

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Dramatists, English, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation

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...Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay...Balcombe before she instead chose a young Irish civil servant named Bram Stoker, who was...shades of green, red, and pink: Wilde the Irish rebel, Wilde the subversive socialist...
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All Night Long: Joyce's Ulysses, in Irish Rep's Eyes, Is Simpler and Funnier Than You'd Expect

Magazine article by Kerry Reid; American Theatre, Vol. 21, May-June 2004

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A Dublin Bloom (Play)--Authorship, Bolger, Dermot--Authorship, Bolger, Dermot--Interviews, Dramatists--Authorship, Dramatists--Interviews, Joyce, James--Interviews, Joyce, James--Works, Playwrights--Authorship, Playwrights--Interviews, Stage adaptations--Authorship, Ulysses (Book)

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All Night Long: Joyces Ulysses, in Irish Reps Eyes, Is Simpler and Funnier Than...OBrien, artistic director of Chicagos Irish Repertory, always knew that honoring the...bookstore introduced him to A Dublin Bloom, Irish novelist, poet and playwright Dermot Bolgers...

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* Award-Winning Irish Playwright and Novelist Sebastian Barry Reads from and Sig

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 30, 2011

Subjects:

Dramatists, Playwrights

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

* Award-Winning Irish Playwright and Novelist Sebastian Barry Reads from and Sig. * Award-winning Irish playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry reads from and signs copies of his new work of literary fiction, "On Canaans Side," at 7:30...
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Irish Eyes for Festival

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 23, 2004

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

...two top acts are just a part of the Irish diaspora that will be assembling...organisations as the St Michaels Irish Centre in the city to the Liverpool...winning play Blue by the young Irish dramatist Ursula Rani Sarma from County Clare...
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He's a Rocker at Heart; CULTURE THEATRE Acclaimed Irish Playwright Conor McPherson Is a Born Worrier and a Frustrated Rock Musician, Writes Terry Grimley

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 28, 2007

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...Heart; CULTURE THEATRE Acclaimed Irish Playwright Conor McPherson Is a Born...satisfied with being the outstanding Irish dramatist of his generation. The writer and...You might have imagined a young Irish playwright emerging in the 90s would...
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100 Irish Greats

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 17, 2009

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Manchester United

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...their name from the Irish phrase pog mo thoin orkiss...041 SAMUEL BECKETT Dramatist and poet known for his...OCASEY Dublin-born dramatist whose bestknown and highly...revolutionary politics, the Irish CivilWar and Easter Rising. 052 WESTLIFE Irish pop band formed in 1998...
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WIN [Euro]100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORD No 688

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 28, 2010

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

WIN Euro100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORD No 688. A prize...December 2, at Prize Crossword No 688, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge...5 Devilment, monkey business (8) 6 Dramatist Neil and singer Paul (5) 7 A type of...

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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 her writing...soon became a vital force in the Irish drama. She was a founder and the...comedies, are rich in portrayals of Irish peasantry. Among her other works...
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O'Casey, Sean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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OCASEY, SEAN shon, 1884 1964, Irish dramatist, one of the great figures of the Irish literary renaissance. A Protestant, he grew...socialist movements and in the rebellions for Irish independence. His first plays, The Shadow...
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Behan, Brendan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...BEHAN, BRENDAN be han, 1923 64, Irish dramatist. A notoriously outspoken and uninhibited man, he joined the Irish Republican Army in 1937 and was twice...brothel. Brendan Behans Island: an Irish Sketch-Book (1962) is a miscellaneous...
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Robinson, Lennox

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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ROBINSON, LENNOX 1886 1958, Irish dramatist. From 1910 to 1923 he was manager...early success. His later dramas of Irish life, which include The Big House...a somber realism. He edited The Irish Theatre (lectures, 1939) and Lady...
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Friel, Brian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

FRIEL, BRIAN frel, 1929 , Irish playwright, b. Killyglogher, Northern...become the most acclaimed contemporary Irish dramatist. Friels family moved to Derry (1939...Translations. Friel has also written of Irish family life, skillfully mingling...

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