All Dressed Up : Modern Irish Historical Pageantry / Joan FitzPatrick Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick, 1949-

Series:

Irish studies.

Irish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Ireland--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Pageants--Ireland--History--20th century.

Pageants.

Historical drama, English--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English.

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

Irish drama.

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland. These public pageants, a sort of precursor to today's opening ceremonies at the Olympic games, mobilized huge numbers of citizens to present elaborately staged versions of Irish identity based on both history and myth. Complete with marching bands, costumes, fireworks, and mock battles, these spectacles were suffused with political and national significance. Dean explores the historical significance of these pageants, explaining how their popularity correlated to political or religious imperatives in twentieth-century Ireland. She uncovers unpublished archival findings to present scripts, programs, and articles covering these events. The book also includes over thirty photographs of pageants, program covers, and detailed designs for costumes to convey the grandeur of the historical pageants at the beginning of the century and their decline in production standards in the 1970s and 1980s. Tracing the Irish historical pageant phenomenon through the twentieth century, Dean presents a nation contending with the violence and political upheaval of the present by reimagining the past.

Contents:

Drama-mad, Cúchulainn-mad, pageant-mad

Forging the past in the Irish Free State

North and south of the border

The Tóstals

1966 and the recuperative pageantry of Macnas

Conclusion

Appendix: English translation of Pearse's Macghníomhartha Chúchulainn by Sean Briain.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Pearse, Padraic, 1879-1916. Macghníomhartha Chúchulainn. English.

Macghníomhartha Chúchulainn.

ISBN:

9780815652847

0815652844

OCLC:

899212308