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Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Chastitute written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play about a man who has remained a virgin.
Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781172757
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Moll written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.'When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother'. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, 'Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used to the purple'. John B. Keane was one of Ireland's most prolific and respected literary figures. He was born in 1928 in Listowel, County Kerry and it was here that he spent his literary career, running a pub which provided him with inspiration for his characters and ideas. His first play, 'Sive', was presented by the Listowel Drama Group and won the All-Ireland Drama Festival in 1959. It was followed by another success, 'Sharon's Grave', in 1960. 'The Field' (1965) and 'Big Maggie' (1969), are widely regarded as classics of the modern Irish stage and jewels in a crown which includes such popular hits as 'Many Young Men of Twenty', 'The Man from Clare', 'Moll', 'The Chastitute' and 'The Year of the Hiker'. His large canon of plays have been seen abroad in cities as far afield as Moscow and Los Angeles. 'Big Maggie' ran on Broadway for over two months in 1982 and 'The Field' was adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film, starring Brenda Fricker and Richard Harris, in 1991.
Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408132680
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights written by Martin Middeke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
Author : Diarmaid Ferriter
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652581
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Occasions of Sin written by Diarmaid Ferriter and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book energetically and originally engages with subjects omitted from the mainstream historical narrative. The breadth of this book and the richness of the source material uncovered make it definitive in its field and a most remarkable work of social history.
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651309
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty modern Irish playwrights are discussed along with summaries of their major plays and recommendations for further reading.
Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
Author : Eric G. E. Zuelow
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815632252
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Making Ireland Irish written by Eric G. E. Zuelow and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s success. Over time, tourism went from being a national joke to a national interest. Men and women from across Irish society joined in, eager to help shape their country and culture for visitors’ eyes. The result was Ireland as it is depicted today, a land of blue skies, smiling faces, pastel towns, natural beauty, ancient history, and timeless traditions. With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting; sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English; and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling today’s tourist calendar. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in “making Ireland Irish.”
Author : Colin Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350369713
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Day in May written by Colin Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a million in the middle - and they might go either way. On May 22nd, 2015, the people of Ireland voted resoundingly for marriage equality - making Ireland the first country in the world to introduce gay marriage by popular vote. Little about Ireland's 20th-century history suggested that the country would find itself at the vanguard of LGBT+ rights. “Homosexual conduct may lead a mildly homosexually-orientated person into a way of life from which he may never recover,” warned the Irish Supreme Court in 1982. Homosexuality remained criminalised till 1993. But a long, hard fight by determined activists, as well as the individual efforts and sacrifices of thousands of ordinary people, gradually made the case for gay rights and, eventually, marriage equality. Colin Murphy's documentary drama, based on interviews by the journalist Charlie Bird, charts the arc of that fight - culminating in the fervour of the final campaign weeks - interwoven with the personal stories of some of those who were touched by it. This edition was published to coincide with the presentation of A Day in May at Dublin's Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, in October 2022.
Author : Canadian Association for Irish Studies. International Conference
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389207931
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Modern Ireland written by Canadian Association for Irish Studies. International Conference and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of this volume will be struck by the pervasiveness of the connections between the medieval and the modern in Ireland and the Irish, artists in particular, and realize why James Joyce could hardly avoid linking the modern Irish artist with the medieval Irish monk, as he does in the bitter musings of Stephen Dedalus, who walks alone into eternity along Sandymount Strand: "You were going to do wonders, what? Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus." Contents: Introduction, Richard Wall; The Image Of The IrishóMedieval and ModernóContinuity and Change, F.X. Martin, O.S.A.; John Bull's Other Ego: Reactions to the Stage Irishman in Anglo-Irish Drama, Heinz Kosok; Contemporary Irish Poetry and The Matter of IrelandóThomas Kinsella, John Montague and Seamus Heaney, Brian John; Early Irish Literature and Contemporary Scholarly Disciplines, Ann Dooley; Brian Friel's Translations: National and Universal Dimensions, Wolfgang Zach; Brian Moore and The Meaning of Exile, Hallvard Dahlie; Medieval Irish Poetics: Linguistic Interaction and Audience, Toni O'Brien Johnson; The Artifice of Eternity: Medieval Aspects of Modern Irish Literature, John Wilson Foster; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Index^R
Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781174334
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Many Young Men of Twenty written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical play dealing with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants 'longing for home' - 'Everyone is lonesome leaving home' - their annual homecomings and their return to jobs and places they disliked - 'back to their night shifts, an' filthy digs ... with their long faces leanin' out o' the carriage windows with the thoughts of what's waitin' over'.
Author : Tom Inglis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799566
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Are the Irish different? written by Tom Inglis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the extent and nature of Irish social and cultural difference. It is a collection of twenty-three short essays written in a clear and accessible manner by human scientists who are international experts in their area. The essays cover topics covered include the nature of Irish nationalism and capitalism, the Irish political elite, the differences and similarities of the Irish family, the upsurge in immigration, Northern Ireland, the Irish diaspora, the Irish language, sport, music and many other topics. The book will be bought by those who have an academic and personal interest in Irish Studies. It will be attractive to those who are not familiar with the theories and methods of the human sciences and how they can shine a light on the transformations that have taken place in Ireland. Tom Inglis, the editor of the collection, is a sociologist who has written extensively on Irish culture and society.
Author : Marie Hubert Kealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kerry Playwright written by Marie Hubert Kealy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John B. Keane speaks for and to his generation. His work is regional in the best sense. By drawing on the importance of place in Irish culture, Keane orders his perceptions of contemporary life. He deserves to be recognized as a playwright who expresses the struggle for individual identity against a background of cultural expectations.
Author : Kathleen Heininge
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105463
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Buffoonery in Irish Drama written by Kathleen Heininge and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of the stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory, Buffoonery in Irish Drama demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to create a sense of identity in a colonial structure, and it explores the distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further calls to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of the reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of twentieth-century drama that brings us into a globalized twenty-first-century Ireland.
Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191016349
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre written by Nicholas Grene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, and looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting, and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the contributors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.
Author : Lilian Chambers
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780953425761
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Theatre Talk written by Lilian Chambers and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2001 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with Irish theatre practitioners
Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781172862
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Big Maggie written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Big Maggie 'J. B. Keane's most outspoken play' - The Irish Press ' Keane ... has brought the tyranny, the desperation and the frustration of the rural Irish matriarch roaring into the top twenties' 'A full-blooded, salty, earthy play with a great ring of truth and uproarious with comedy' - The Irish Times 'His depth of perception reveals a mature Keane' - Cork Examiner The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as the indomitable Maggie deals with her feckless family and unwanted suitors. Everyone wants a part of Big Maggie and her property, but she has other ideas. John B. Keane's wonderful creation of a rural Irish matriarch ranks with Juno, Mommo and Molly Bloom as one of the great female creations of twentieth-century Irish literature.
Author : John B Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170258
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane Vol 2 written by John B Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further collection of John B. Keane's highly successful letters. This book includes Letters of a Civic Guard, Letters of an Irish Publican, Letters of a Country Postman and Letters to the Brain. Four very different people in four very different circumstances and the thread that binds them is John B. Keane's skill at recognising the follies and weaknesses of men and women. The letter writers and their correspondents prove to be fine examples of this.
