1st Edition
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland Cultivating the People
By Lionel Pilkington
Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on: *the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; *the... Read more
Introduction. Chapter 1. Home Rule and the Irish Literary State Chapter 2. J.M. Synge and the Collapse of Constructive Unionism, 1902-09 Chapter 3. NTS Ltd. and the Rise of Sinn F`ein, 1910-22 Chapter 4. Cumann na nGaedheal and the Abbey Theatre, 1922-32 Chapter 5. Fianna Fail and 'the Nation's Prestige', 1932-48 Chapter 6. Irish Theatre and Modernization, 1948-68 Chapter 7. National Theatres in Northern Ireland, 1922-72 Chapter 8. National Theatre and the Political Crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968-92. Bibliography.
Biography
Lionel Pilkington teaches drama and theatre studies, Irish writing, and cultural politics in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
' ... deals illuminatingly with widening fissures in the entrenched post-1922 official northern dissociation of literature from political engagement ...' - YES
