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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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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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The Irish Dramatic Movement

Book by Una Ellis-Fermor; Methuen, 1954

Subjects:

English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Yeats, W. B--(William Butler)--1865-1939

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...had been lecturing on the Irish drama, taking this play in its turn, off and on, for...aimed at; it was 'the first play dealing with a vital Irish question...Casad-an-Sugan , the first play in Irish produced in any Dublin theatre...

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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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St. Patrick's Day Celebrations and the Formation of Irish-American Identity, 1845-1875

Journal article by Kenneth Moss; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1995

Subjects:

Ethnicity--Research, Irish Americans--Ethnic identity, Parades--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...commemorative rituals can play in the context of...The lineaments of Irish-American identity...regarded as a form of play-acting designed to...that purpose for many Irish immigrants who labored...identity-formation which the Irish-American community...parades and banquets play a role in that identity...
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"Preying on Foresaid Remains": Irish Identity, Obituaries, and the Limits of Mourning

Journal article by Duncan Greenlaw; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Beckett, Samuel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Grief--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Group identity--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ireland--Literature, Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., National characteristics--Ireland, Obituaries--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...transcendence" (56), and "supersession" (59) as Hegelian solutions f or Irish identity while also writing them otherwise--adding, for instance...are submitted to scrutiny ... in the name of an irreducible play of differences" (62). While Kearneys contradictory models have...
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Irish Now!

Journal article by Colleen Cotter; Language, Learning & Technology, Vol. 6, 2002

Subjects:

Educational software--Evaluation, Irish Now! (Foreign language tutor)--Evaluation, Second languages--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...some of the unique phonological and grammatical features of Irish, will not be deterred). The Grammar Tutorial is a separate file...requiring the learner to put words in grammatical order) * Plug-n-Play (which builds on knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure...
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The Dispersed and Dismissed: (1) the World of Irish Women's Best-Sellers

Journal article by Kathy Cremin; Critical Survey, Vol. 15, 2003

Subjects:

Irish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the negation of desire and the play upon need. However, there is...female bonding and the constant play of triangular anxieties, and...formulation fulfil for Scanlans target Irish audience? The frequent refusal...is symptomatic of a shift in Irish womens position as consumers...

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Magazine Articles on: irish play

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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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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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The Irish Revolution and Its Aftermath 1916-1923 Years of Revolt

Magazine article by Charles Townshend; History Today, Vol. 53, July 2003

Subjects:

Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA (Book)--Reviews, Irish Revolution and its Aftermath 1916-1923 Years of Revolt (Book)--Reviews, Irish War of Independence (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...account the reader would have no idea that the Second Dail was to play such a long-running role as the custodian of pure republican...to the IRAs claim of genealogical continuity with the early Irish Volunteer organisation. English provides the first synoptic...
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Paddy Solemn and the Desperate Chancer: The Conflict between Two Eternal Irish Types

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

Subjects:

Dunphy, Eamon--Behavior, Ireland--Social aspects, Irish (European people)--Social aspects, Irish--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Israeli soccer player and a columnist)? And how many strident Irish-Americans of Eamon Dunphy (soccer player and columnist)? Even...late fifties, Dunphy is a Dubliner who left school early to play soccer. He joined Manchester United but soon moved to the less...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish play

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Irish Play Best Rugby of Tournament to Go through; RUGBY WORLD CUP

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 16, 1999

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

Irish Play Best Rugby of Tournament to Go through; RUGBY WORLD CUP. IRISH...squad after a 44-14 victory over Romania which secured a World Cup play-off spot. The Irish sealed second place behind Australia in Pool E and a play- off next...
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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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Rugby Union: Irish Play-Offs Challenge Faces Toughest Test

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 25, 2006

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

Rugby Union: Irish Play-Offs Challenge Faces Toughest Test. London Irish boss Brian Smith knows...Guinness Premiership play-off claims will arrive...the way we want to play the game. In playing...against the best." Irish have named France star...
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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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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish play

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Behan, Brendan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Boucicault, Dion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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O'Brien, Flann

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...biting, satiric commentaries made him the conscience of the Irish government. As Flann OBrien, he published three wildly funny...Third Policeman (1976), and well as Faustus Kelly (1943), a play. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Friel, Brian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Best, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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