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Irish Drama

Books on: irish play

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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a ...
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Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a critical assessment of the dramatist's work, and extensive bibliographical information. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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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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John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

Book by Maurice Bourgeois; Constable, 1913

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The first Irish actress to act in Synges first play. From photographs specially...that of the average Irish play. It may also account...Come -- a sort of Irish "anticipation" or peep...performance of the play October 15, 1908...
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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of these men I write of in "Irish Plays and Play- wrights" when there were...his hand on at least one Irish play. That Johnson would have...performance 1901 of " The Irish-Literary Theatre. " As this play as performed was in tone more...
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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

...To the Golden Door THE STORY OF THE IRISH IN IRELAND AND AMERICA by George...Seamus H. Delargy, Director of the Irish Folklore Commission, Dublin; Dr. R. J...3 2 The Irish Face of the Church 6...

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Journal Articles on: irish play

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Power Play: Games in Joyce's "Dubliners

Journal article by Mamta Chaudhry-Fryer; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 32, 1995

Subjects:

Dubliners (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Games--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Irish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Play--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Power play: games in Joyces "Dubliners by Mamta...work of life which . . . seemed to me childs play" (26-27). Reading this stunning paradox in...embodying both subversion and inversion, childs play is the serious work of life. Foucault argues...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cultures expense. The play was apparently the...addition, this slapstick Irish caricature was McLaglens...popular films may play in creating a "false...accommodate stage-Irish conventions and an...a Ford movie, the Irish play a significant role...
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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

...flexibility. In the Mulligan play series, Dan and Cordelia...to life among their Irish, German, and African...nineteenth-century Irish-American dramatists...similar visual frames in play after play over several...almost every so-called Irish play, from the absurdly...
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John P. Harrington, Ed. Irish Theater in America: Essays on Theatrical Diaspora

Journal article; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Irish Theater in America: Essays on Theatrical Diaspora (Essay collection)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dancing on a One-Way Street": Irish Reactions to Dancing at Lughnasa in New York" (147-62); Christina Hunt Mahony, "The Irish Play: Beyond the Generic?" (163-78). The text concludes with notes (179-94), a bibliography (195-204), and an index (205-26...
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"Oh, God, What a Pity!": The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth

Journal article by Craig A. Warren; Civil War History, Vol. 47, 2001

Subjects:

History--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Irish in the United States--History, Military history--Race relations, Soldiers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cast Irish Northern soldiers as patriotic Americans, give meaning to Irish deaths once regarded as senseless, and play down Irish "disloyalty" at home, but it also allowed room for heroism by Irish Southerners.(75) Having examined the creation...

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Magazine Articles on: irish play

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Irish Revolutionary Violence

Magazine article by Kevin Meyers; National Review, Vol. 48, July 15, 1996

Subjects:

Adams, Gerry--Evaluation, British foreign relations--Northern Ireland, Irish Republican Army--Military policy, Northern Ireland--Political aspects, Peaceful change (International relations)--Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government

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...has fantastic cultural energy and humor. Some of the finest Irish writers of this century -- Sean O Faolain, Frank OConnor, Liam...no ordinary politician could get away with. Sinn Fein - IRA play the victimhood card so often and well that it is impossible...
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Trendy Irish Pubs Invade Manhattan and Beyond

Magazine article by Tiffany Danitz; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, March 30, 1998

Subjects:

Bars, saloons, etc.--Marketing, Music, Irish--Marketing

Collections: Entire Library

...infiltrated by wood-paneled pubs with names like Swifts, where bands play "Danny Boy" to a reggae beat. I wasnt completely convinced that urban sophisticates were flocking to Irish watering holes to study Gaelic over the odd pint. I harked back to...
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Give Peace a Chance? the Irish 'Peace Talks' Are Raising Hopes: Bringing Peace Is Another Matter

Magazine article by John O'Sullivan, Martin Arostegui; National Review, Vol. 46, January 24, 1994

Subjects:

British foreign relations--Northern Ireland, Ireland--Political aspects, Irish Republican Army--International relations, Northern Ireland--Political aspects, Peace treaties--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Politics and government

Collections: Entire Library

...Northern Ireland--or to the Irish government (both of whom sometimes play "soft cop" to the IRAs "hard...2 per cent of voters in the Irish Republic and approximately one-third...one-third in the North--would play a crucial role in all-party...
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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

...Dublin had become the focus for Irish cultural energy. Yeats, though...when he was looking for a new play to open the Abbey in 1904, he...message. Significantly, the Irish protagonist, Larry Doyle, is...South Pole than Rosscullen. The play had a surprising success in...
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Brian Friel: A Sociological Appreciation of an Irish Playwright

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...of the past. This play deals with a tragedy of major importance in Irish history, the defeat...major works. The play operates at so many...is Janus faced to Irish ways and English sensibilities...Mabel asks, did the Irish Cistercian monks regard...in the heart of the play. Its central theme...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish play

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IRISH PLAY SCOOPS TOP BROADWAY HONOURS; Four 'Oscars' for Galway Theatre Company

Newspaper article by Karl Brophy; The Mirror (London, England), June 9, 1998

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

IRISH PLAY SCOOPS TOP BROADWAY HONOURS; Four Oscars...McALEESE yesterday led the tributes to the Irish play which took four top awards at the theatre...it failed to clinch the coveted Best Play award. However, Irish director Garry Hynes made Tony history...
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An Irish Play Which Is Not Lost in Translation

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 7, 2005

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

An Irish Play Which Is Not Lost in Translation. Byline...Hugh O Donnell and his son Owen from the Irish community. It was partly the intention to...succeeded," says Holmes. "Thats why the play had to be written in English." Holmes has...
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Golf: Irish Play Second Fiddle as England Snatch Title

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), September 25, 1999

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

Golf: Irish Play Second Fiddle as England Snatch Title...and for the third successive season the Irish were left in Englands slipstream. McGimpsey...Andrew holed, Aran missed. But all the tense play came to nothing. "Its a shame,"said McCormick...
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PEACE EFFORTS GET BILL ONTO IRISH PLAY LIST; Yeats' Book 'Full of Good Lyrics'

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 27, 2004

Subjects:

Major, John

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

PEACE EFFORTS GET BILL ONTO IRISH PLAY LIST; Yeats Book Full of Good Lyrics...impressed with Clintons efforts in the Irish peace process that he handed him the book, scribbling below the great Irish poets own signature: "To Bill, Hillary...
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FIFA SET TO BLOW WHISTLE ON DATE SWITCH!; Irish Play-Off Plea Will Get Red Card

Newspaper article by Frank Johnstone; The People (London, England), September 14, 1997

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

FIFA SET TO BLOW WHISTLE ON DATE SWITCH!; Irish Play-Off Plea Will Get Red Card. by Frank Johnstone...second-leg World Cup play-off changed. Thats if the play-off draw hands the Irish a home fixture on November 15, the day that Lansdowne...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish play

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Behan, Brendan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...outspoken and uninhibited man, he joined the Irish Republican Army in 1937 and was twice imprisoned for political offenses. His first play, The Quare Fellow (1956), a grimly comic...in a brothel. Brendan Behans Island: an Irish Sketch-Book (1962) is a miscellaneous...
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Best, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

BEST, GEORGE 1946 2005, Northern Irish soccer play, b. Belfast. Regarded as the greatest player ever in British...with Manchester United, with 178 goals in 466 games. His later play with lesser teams, when he was increasingly hampered by alcoholism...
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Boucicault, Dion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...BOUCICAULT, DION boo siko, 1822? 1890, Anglo-Irish dramatist and actor. At 19 he had success with his play London Assurance at Covent Garden, London...growth of the road company that performs one play owes much to Boucicaults influence. See...
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Friel, Brian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...become the most acclaimed contemporary Irish dramatist. Friels family moved to Derry...while there wrote his first successful play, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, which deals...Translations. Friel has also written of Irish family life, skillfully mingling it with...
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Synge, John Millington

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1905) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907), were presented by the Abbey players. The latter play created a furor of resentment among Irish patriots stung by Synges spoof of heroic ideals and nationalism. His later works were The Tinkers...

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