Theatre and the state in twentieth-century Ireland : cultivating the people / Lionel Pilkington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilkington, Lionel, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Political aspects--Ireland--History--20th century.

Theater.

Irish drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish drama.

Unionism (Irish politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; *the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkin

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Home Rule and the Irish Literary Theatre, 1893 1902; J. M. Synge and the collapse of constructive unionism, 1902 9; NTS, Ltd and the rise of Sinn Fein, 1910 22; Cumann na nGaedheal and the Abbey Theatre, 1922 32; Fianna Fil and 'the nation's prestige', 1932 48; Irish theatre and modernization, 1948 68; National theatres in Northern Ireland, 1922 72; National theatre and the political crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968 92; Notes; Glossary and abbreviations; Works cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-91465-2

9786610324200

1-280-32420-1

1-134-91466-0

0-203-31323-2

9780203207628

OCLC:

252784007