Setting The Stage: Transitional Playwrights In Irish 1910-1950

There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations. The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst.

• | By (Author): Philip O'Leary
• | Publisher: Cork University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 12, 2021
• | Country of Publication: Ireland
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1782054588
• | ISBN-13: 9781782054580