When Brian Friel died in 2015, the New York Times described him as ‘the Irish Chekhov’, and the Guardian called him ‘the father of modern Irish drama’. He had l…
In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What start…
This book focuses on Patrick Pearse the theatre man. Pearse, like many among the revolutionary generation, was deeply interested in the theatre and its possibil…
Drama, opera, ballet, circuses, concerts and puppet-shows: down the years, all these species of live entertainment faced innumerable difficulties in Ireland. Th…
'A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectu…
This collection of essays examines the work of Flann O’Brien, a subversive, confounding and hilarious Irish novelist. It also considers the work of Myles na Gop…
With a Foreword by Dame Judi Dench. Over the course of more than two hundred and fifty years, from the fourteenth century until well after the Reformation had …
Introduction by Patricia Coughlan. Cola’s Furie (1646) by Henry Burkhead was published in Kilkenny during the Catholic Confederacy. A fascinating composite of …
This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range o…
