Leaving aside historical and mythological dramas, a considerable number of plays written for the Abbey Theatre between 1904 and the outbreak of the Second World War represent emigration. They enjoyed varying degrees of success. In 1904 G.B. Shaw portrayed an Irish émigré as one of the two protagonists in John Bull’s Other Island; in the following two years Padraic Colum’s The Land and William Boyle’s The Mineral Workers were enthusiastically received by Abbey Theatre audience, the former with its depiction of young Irish men and women emigrating to America, the latter, an engineer returning to Ireland from overseas; 1907 saw three plays presenting emigration as one of the great Irish issues, both politically and economically: J. M. Synge’s ...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...
In 1928 – only a few years after the end of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil W...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...
Leaving aside historical and mythological dramas, a considerable number of plays written for the Abb...
Leaving aside historical and mythological dramas, a considerable number of plays written for the Abb...
The Irish diaspora has inspired many contemporary playwrights. This essay considers fourteen plays b...
The Irish diaspora has inspired many contemporary playwrights. This essay considers fourteen plays b...
Ireland faced with a general lack of interest in Irish literature and a significant decline in the l...
Irish theatre in England has frequently illustrated the complex relations between two distinct cultu...
Over the past 50 years Ireland has undergone a sweeping series of changes that have transitioned the...
Over the past 50 years Ireland has undergone a sweeping series of changes that have transitioned the...
The Irish national theatre movement developed in the ferment of cultural nationalism at the turn of ...
The stage Irishman has been a stock character in England and Ireland since the 17th century. It is a...
Emigration from Ireland during and after the Famine of 1845-50 was unparalleled in the nineteenth ce...
Contains fulltext : 169015.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)In 1928 – onl...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...
In 1928 – only a few years after the end of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil W...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...
Leaving aside historical and mythological dramas, a considerable number of plays written for the Abb...
Leaving aside historical and mythological dramas, a considerable number of plays written for the Abb...
The Irish diaspora has inspired many contemporary playwrights. This essay considers fourteen plays b...
The Irish diaspora has inspired many contemporary playwrights. This essay considers fourteen plays b...
Ireland faced with a general lack of interest in Irish literature and a significant decline in the l...
Irish theatre in England has frequently illustrated the complex relations between two distinct cultu...
Over the past 50 years Ireland has undergone a sweeping series of changes that have transitioned the...
Over the past 50 years Ireland has undergone a sweeping series of changes that have transitioned the...
The Irish national theatre movement developed in the ferment of cultural nationalism at the turn of ...
The stage Irishman has been a stock character in England and Ireland since the 17th century. It is a...
Emigration from Ireland during and after the Famine of 1845-50 was unparalleled in the nineteenth ce...
Contains fulltext : 169015.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)In 1928 – onl...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...
In 1928 – only a few years after the end of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil W...
St. John Ervine was a playwright, novelist, and a journalist whose most productive years were betwee...