Abbey Theatre (Dublin), 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 43, 44, 45, 51, 54, 55, 56, 62, 63, 64, 70, 74, 75, 87, 88, 89, 90, 126, 148, 155, 156, 161, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 205, 207, 209, 212, 214, 231–42, 245, 250, 251, 252, 255, 258, 263, 267, 269
stage design at the Abbey, 93–107
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 189
Act of Union (1800), 196
Act Without Words (Beckett), 173
Adamov, Arthur, 168
Adelphi Theatre (London), 22
Adorno, Theodor, 86, 169, 172
Aeschylus, 210
Aldwych Theatre (London), 119
All That Fall (Beckett), 172, 173
Allgood, Molly, 88
Amherst, J. H., 22
Ami des femmes, L’ (Dumas), 116
‘Among the Ruins’ (Friel), 184
An Claidheamh Soluis, 133
Angels in America (Kushner), 251
Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, 11, 12, 35, 37, 49, 65, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87, 120, 122, 125, 220, 232
Anglo-Irish War (War of Independence), 55, 136, 141, 166, 235, 236
Antigone (Sophocles), 198
Antoine, André, 48
Aran Islands, The (Synge), 80
Aristocrats (Friel), 184–5, 186, 188, 196–7
Aristotle’s Bellows (Gregory), 76
Arnold, Matthew, 79, 84, 86–9
Arrah-na-Pogue (Boucicault), 19, 20, 23
Artaud, Antonin, 168
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 186, 192
Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland, 186, 192
Asmus, Walter, 268
‘Assumption’ (Beckett), 167
Asylum! Asylum! (O’Kelly), 247
At the Hawk’s Well (Yeats), 58, 166, 167, 172
‘Aunt Maggie, the Strong One’ (Friel), 187
Autobiographies (O’Casey), 136, 140
Bailegangaire (Murphy), 9, 212, 214–16
Balfour, Arthur, 39
Ballagh, Robert, 268
Ballanasloe Boy, The (Hazlewood), 22
Barabbas . . . the company, 264–6
Barlow, Sean, 104
Barrett, William, 232
Barry, Sebastian, 14, 224–9
Batman, 267
Battle of Kinsale, 200, 218
Battle of the Boyne (1690), 220, 221, 222, 224
Battle of the Somme (1916), 220, 223, 224
Baudelaire, Charles, 80
Beauty Queen of Leenane, The (McDonagh), 253–4
Beckett Festival (Dublin, 1991), 259, 268
Beckett, Samuel, 13, 59, 70, 80, 86, 106, 164, 244, 259, 260, 267–9
Behan, Brendan, 8, 173, 174, 179, 244
Benjamin, Walter, 218
Benson, Frank, 95
Berkhoff, Stephen, 115
Billington, Michael, 262
Birthright (Murray), 97
Bishop, Tom, 267
Bishop’s Bonfire, The (O’Casey), 136
Blau, Herbert, 152
Blin, Roger, 170
Bloody Sunday (Croke Park, 1920), 27
Bloody Sunday (Derry, 1972), 180, 181, 183, 218
Blythe, Ernest, 13, 170, 237, 239, 240, 241
Boal, Augusto, 231
Boesman and Lena (Fugard), 198
Bogie Men, The (Gregory), 75
Boito, Arrigo, 213
Boland, Eavan, 157
Bolger, Dermot, 10, 245, 248–50, 256
Bose, Purnima, 26
Boucher, Franc¸ois, 116
Boucicault, Dion, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 89, 126
Bourgeois, Maurice, 29
Boyle, Consolata, 261
Boyle, William, 43
Brecht, Bertolt, 106, 231, 241
Britannia Theatre (London), 22
Brown, Terence, 5, 151, 267
Browning, Robert, 48, 56
Buckstone, John Baldwin, 18
Bugle in the Blood, The (MacMahon), 239
By the Bog of Cats (Carr), 158, 160–1, 252, 253, 255
Byrne, David, 245
Cabinet Minister, The (Pinero), 116
Cairns, David, 83
Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 48
Canavans, The (Gregory), 73–4
Canfield, Curtis, 7
Caoineadh Airt UíLaoire (Dhubh ní Chonaill), 249
Carlyle, Thomas, 48
Carr, Marina, 9, 13, 15, 150, 151, 157–8, 161, 174, 245, 253, 255, 256
Carroll, Paul Vincent, 239
Carson, Edward, 200
Carthaginians, 241
Casement, Roger, 133
Cat and the Moon, The (Yeats), 58, 59
Catchpenny Twist (Parker), 241
Cathleen ni Houlihan (Gregory and Yeats), 5, 8, 12, 20, 39, 41, 44, 53–4, 64–7, 68, 69, 81, 98, 216
Cathleen ni Houlihan, 131, 147, 216, 267
Cave, Richard Allen, 11, 12
Celtic Twilight, The (Yeats), 49
‘Cenci, The’ (Shelley), 47, 56
Cervantes, Miguel de, 76
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 4
Chambers, Haddon, 112
Charley’s Aunt (Thomas), 119
Chekhov, Anton, 47, 184, 196–7
Church Street (Robinson), 263
Cixous, Hélène, 150
Clark, Brenna Katz, 5
Clarke, Tom, 262
Closed Door, The (Reid), 241
Colgan, Michael, 267, 268
Colleen Bawn, The (Boucicault), 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 126
Collins, Michael, 227, 228, 229
Colman-Smith, Pamela, 104
Colum, Padraic, 40, 42
Communication Cord, The (Friel), 9, 30, 186, 197
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 34
Connolly, James, 34, 87, 234, 261
Contemporary Irish Drama (Roche), 164
Conversations on a Homecoming (Murphy), 207–9, 210, 216
Conway, Frank, 260
Cooke, Fred, 18
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 152
Cork University Press, 194
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats), 3–4, 38–9, 54, 57, 233
Cousins, James, 39
Craig, Edith, 104
Craig, Edward Gordon, 99
Cripple of Inishmaan, The (McDonagh), 9
‘Critic as Artist, The’ (Wilde), 112
Cronin, Anthony, 166
Crotty, Derbhle, 155, 156
Crowley, Jeananne, 156
Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant, A (Murphy), 205, 206, 216
Crying Game, The (Jordan), 191
Crystal and Fox (Friel), 180
Cumann na nGaedheal, 236, 237, 239
Cure at Troy, The (Heaney), 195, 200–1
Cusack, Cyril, 173
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 52
D’Arbois de Jubainville, Henri, 80
Dáil Éireann, 236
Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel), 186–8, 250, 251–2
Dante, 80
Darwin, Charles, 80, 82
Daughters of Erin/Inghinidhe na hÉireann, 39, 41, 52, 56, 87, 165
Dave (Gregory), 76
‘Day of the Rabblement, The’ (Joyce), 132
de Búrca, Séamus, 20
de Valera, Eamon, 6, 9, 10, 120, 238, 239, 244
Deane, Seamus, 11, 137, 150, 191, 193, 194
Death of Cuchulain, The (Yeats), 56, 106
Death of Humpty Dumpty, The (Reid), 241
‘Decay of Lying, The’ (Wilde), 111
Deevy, Teresa, 13, 150, 151–7, 161
Deirdre (Russell; AE), 39, 40
Deirdre (Yeats), 97, 98–9
Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge), 84, 96, 104
Deliverer, The (Gregory), 73
Deschevaux-Dumesnil, Suzanne, 168
Devlin, Ann, 26, 27
Devlin, Denis, 167
Devorgilla (Gregory), 72
Dhubh ní Chonaill, Eibhlín, 249
Diarmuid and Grania (Moore and Yeats), 39, 63
Digges, Dudley, 28, 87
Digging for Fire (Hughes), 10
Disciple, A, or In Search of Valour (Deevy), 151, 152–4
Disco Pigs (Walshe), 10
Disjecta; miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment (Beckett), 167
Doctor in Spite of Himself, The (Molière; trans. Gregory), 72
Dolce Vita, La (Fellini), 211
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 47, 155
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 76
Donizetti, Gaetano, 214
Dora (Sardou), 116
Double Cross (Kilroy), 195, 198–9, 200
Dowling, Joe, 262
Dowling, Vincent, 266
Dr Faustus (Marlowe), 94
Dragon, The (Gregory), 75
Drama at Inish (Robinson), 6
Druid Theatre Company (Galway), 207, 245, 246, 260
Drums of Father Ned, The (O’Casey), 136, 173
Dublin Castle, 227
Dublin Drama League, 165
Dublin International Theatre Festival, 173
Dublin Lock-Out (1913), 224
Dublin Metropolitan Police, 224
Dubliners (Joyce), 132
Dulac, Edmund, 236
Dumas, Alexandre, 116
Eagleton, Terry, 12, 200
‘Easter 1916’ (Yeats), 21, 65
Edwards, Hilton, 165
Eglinton, John, 6
Eileen Oge; or, Dark’s the Hour before the Dawn (Falconer), 22
Eleutheria (Beckett), 169, 170
Eliot, T. S., 12, 50, 97
Ellmann, Richard, 109, 111, 116, 119
Emmet, Robert, 21
Endgame (Beckett), 86, 106, 169, 171–2, 173, 268
Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen), 47
Engels, Friedrich, 107
Essays in Fabian Socialism (Shaw), 128, 129
Esslin, Martin, 169, 175
Euripides, 255
Eviction (O’Grady), 28
Expressionism, 102, 103–4, 106, 148, 269, 270
Fabianism and the Empire (Shaw), 129
Faith Healer (Friel), 185, 192
Falconer, Edward, 22
Fallon, Brian, 170
Famine (Murphy), 14, 204–5, 218, 248, 253
Famine, The (O’Grady), 19, 27, 28
Faniciulla del West, La (Puccini), 59
Fanon, Frantz, 44
Farr, Florence, 48, 57
Faulkner, William, 177
Fauré, Sebastien, 80
Faust (Goethe), 47, 96
Fay, Frank, 28, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 54, 55, 56
Fay, Willie (W. G.), 28, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 54, 55, 56, 93, 94
Fellini, Federico, 210, 211
‘Felons of Our Land, The’ (Gregory), 66, 67, 73
Fenian, The (O’Grady), 26, 27
Fianna Fáil, 238, 239, 244, 246
Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, The, 194
Field Day Theatre Company, 14, 177, 185, 186, 191–202, 250
Finnegan’s Wake/‘Work in Progress’ (Joyce), 167
Fitzgerald, Edward, 21, 26
Fitz-simon, Christopher, 29
Flaherty, Robert, 9
Flannery, James, 266
Flaubert, Gustave, 80
For Honour’s Sake (Hazlewood), 22, 24, 27
Foucault, Michel, 246
‘Foundry House’ (Friel), 184
Frawley, Monica, 161
Frazer, Sir James George, 80
Frazier, Adrian, 11, 14
Freedom of the City, The (Friel), 180–2, 183, 184, 186, 188, 192, 241
Freeman’s Journal, The, 132
French Resistance, 139, 168
Freud, Sigmund, 217
Friel, Brian, 8, 9, 13, 14, 26, 30, 51, 174, 177–89, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196–7, 200, 218, 240, 241, 250, 251–2, 259
Friel, Judy, 156
Fugard, Athol, 198
Full Moon, The (Gregory), 71, 75
Gaelic League, 50, 51, 52, 132, 133, 137
Gaiety Theatre (Dublin), 18, 19, 39, 240
Galvin, Patrick, 241
Gaol Gate, The (Gregory), 66
Gate Theatre (Dublin), 106, 166, 171, 175, 259, 262, 267, 269, 270
Genet, Jean, 168
Gentle Island, The (Friel), 180, 182
Georges Pompidou Centre (Paris), 267
Ghosts (Ibsen), 47, 83, 116
Gigli Concert, The (Murphy), 212–14
Gigli, Beniamino, 213–14, 216
Gilbert (Sir William Schwenk) and (Sir Arthur) Sullivan, 18
Give Me Your Answer, Do! (Friel), 188, 189
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 187
Glass of Fashion, The (Grundy), 112
Gleitman, Claire, 14
‘Gloaming, The’ (Beckett), 172
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 47, 80, 89, 96
Golden Apple, The (Gregory), 75
Golden Helmet, The (Yeats), 97
Goldsmith, Oliver, 19
Gommock, The (O’Grady), 23, 24
Goncourt brothers, 80
Gonne, Maud (later Gonne MacBride), 28, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 50, 53, 54, 55, 87, 165, 234
Grania (Gregory), 72, 73
Great O’Neill, The (O’Faolain), 200
Greek Tragedy, 58
Greene, David, 122
Gregory, Lady Augusta, 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 62–77, 81, 87, 88, 89, 96, 97, 131, 164, 165, 169, 216, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 251, 256, 258, 260
Gregory, Robert, 65, 75, 94, 96, 97, 98, 104, 105
Grein, J. T., 48
Grene, Nicholas, 10, 14, 20, 43, 124, 128
Grierson, Professor H. J. C., 238
Griffith, Arthur, 2, 40, 42, 52, 87, 232, 233
Griffith, Gareth, 132
Grundy, Sydney, 112
Guardian, The, 262
Guildhall (Derry), 181, 182, 186, 192
Guthrie, Tyrone, 178
Hammond, David, 193, 244
Happy Days (Beckett), 172, 173, 268
Harper, George Mills, 129
Harrington, John P., 13
Haymarket Theatre (London), 22
Hazlewood, C. H., 22, 24, 27
Heaney, Seamus, 177, 183, 191, 193, 195, 200–1
Heartbreak House (Shaw), 152
Heather Field, The (Martyn), 3, 52
Heavenly Bodies (Parker), 18, 20, 30
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 47, 155
Hegarty, P. S., 237
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 80
Henderson, Lynda, 218
Hernani (Hugo), 47
Herne’s Egg, The (Yeats), 56
Hesse, Herman, 211
Higgins, Michael D., 251
High Time (Mahon), 198, 201
History of England (Hume), 2
Holloway, Joseph, 20, 93
Horniman, Annie, 43, 44–5, 51, 54, 55, 63, 74, 93, 96
Hour-Glass, The (Yeats), 94–6, 97, 99
House, The (Murphy), 216–17
Howie the Rookie (O’Rowe), 10
Hughes, Declan, 10
Hughes, Eamonn, 198
Hugo, Victor, 47, 232
Hume, David, 2
Hume, John, 177
Hunt, Hugh, 11, 18, 19
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 80
Hyacinth Halvey (Gregory), 70, 72, 74
Hyde, Douglas, 4, 39, 40, 42, 43, 50, 63, 64, 88, 89
Hynes, Garry, 245, 248, 250, 260–3, 266, 268
Hytner, Nicholas, 119
I’ll Go On (Beckett/McGovern), 268
Ibsen, Henrik, 6, 47, 48, 52, 54, 80, 82, 83, 89, 116, 159, 166, 267
Ideal Husband, An (Wilde), 115, 116–17
ideology, 11, 14, 33–4, 39–40, 41–2
Idler, The (Chambers), 112
Image, The (Gregory), 74–5
Immaturity (Shaw), 123–5
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 111, 117–20
In the Shadow of the Glen (Synge), 42, 44, 54, 68, 71, 81, 83, 86, 87, 90, 100–1, 152, 233
Innocence (McGuinness), 106
Insurrection of 1798 (United Irishmen), 37, 50, 53, 81, 218
Intentions (Wilde), 111
International Yeats Festival (Dublin), 266
Into the Demon Universe (Nassaar), 109
‘Introduction for My Plays, An’ (Yeats), 165
Ireland and America; or, Scenes in Both (Pilgrim), 22, 23
Ireland As It Is (Amherst), 22
Irish Academy of Letters, 134
Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty (Pilgrim), 22, 23, 24
Irish Citizen Army, 138, 260
Irish Civil War, 55, 75, 76, 136, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 166
Irish Constitution/Bunreacht na hÉireann, 251
Irish Free State, 1, 5, 7, 8, 29, 45, 48, 56, 167, 236, 237
Irish history play, 218
Irish Literary Theatre, 18, 19, 20, 28, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 51, 52, 54, 57, 59, 63, 93, 95, 165, 232, 242
Irish National Dramatic Company, 40, 55, 93, 242
Irish Parliamentary Party, 235
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 236, 239
Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), 137
Irish Statesman, 236
Irish Theatre, The (Kavanagh), 19
Irish Times, 173, 236, 237, 240, 260, 262
Irish Worker, 123
(Irish) National Theatre Society, 1, 28, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 51, 52, 54, 59, 79, 87, 88, 93, 231–42, 250
Irving, Henry, 96–9
‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ (Joyce), 132
Jarry, Alfred, 89
Jester, The (Gregory), 75, 76
John Bull’s Other Island (Shaw), 13, 124, 125, 126–9, 131, 132
John, Augustus, 105
Johnston, Denis, 7, 102, 104, 166, 170
Jones, Henry Arthur, 19
Jordan, Neil, 191
Joyce, James, 38, 80, 86, 123, 131, 132, 150, 165, 167, 171, 173
Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 29, 102–4, 136, 137, 138, 139, 143–6, 164, 167, 236, 237, 260, 262
Katie Roche (Deevy), 151, 154–6, 158
Kavanagh, Peter, 19
Keane, John B., 240
Keane, Raymond, 265
Keller, T. G., 42
Kelly, David, 268
Kelly, John, 39
Kennedy, John F., 207, 208
Kettle, T. M., 234
Kiberd, Declan, 12, 29, 44, 130, 202
Killarney (Falconer), 22
Kilroy, Tom, 174, 187, 198–9, 201, 240
Kincora, (Gregory), 72, 96
King Lear (Shakespeare), 206
King, Mary, 11, 12
King’s Threshold, The (Yeats), 58, 93
Knowlson, James, 166, 168
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett), 168, 172, 173, 268
Krause, David, 13
Kroll, Jack, 226
Kruger, Lauren, 1
Kushner, Tony, 251
Labiche, Eugène, 47
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde), 112–14, 115
Lady’s World (ed. Wilde), 112
Laffan, Pat, 268
Lament for Arthur Cleary, The (Bolger), 10, 245, 247, 248–50
Land of Heart’s Desire, The (Yeats), 43, 57, 97
Larkin, Jim, 229
Larkin, Philip, 219
Last Feast of the Fianna, The (Milligan), 52
Laurence, Dan, 122
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 116
Leader, The, 235
Lecoq, Jacques, 264
Lecky, W. H., 63, 132, 232
Lee, J. J., 8, 248
Leenane Trilogy, The (McDonagh), 253–4, 255
Leeney, Cathy, 13, 15
Leerssen, Joep, 11, 12
Lemass, Sean, 244
Leonard, Hugh, 51
Less We are Together, The (O’Donovan), 239
Lever, Charles, 22
Lewis, Wyndham, 109
Libera, Antoni, 268
Liberal Party, British, 235
Limerick Boy: or, Paddy’s Mischief, The (Pilgrim), 22, 23
Living Quarters (Friel), 183
Lloyd, David, 245, 246
Logue, Cardinal Michael, 236
Lojek, Helen, 14
London Assurance (Boucicault), 22
Lonesome West, The (McDonagh), 253–4
Long, Mark, 198
Longley, Edna, 201
Lord Edward or ’98 (Whitbread), 23, 25, 26
Losing Game, A (Gregory), 68
Loti, Pierre, 80
Love Songs of Connaught (Hyde), 88
Lover, Samuel, 22
Lovers (Winners/Losers) (Friel), 180
Loves of Cass Maguire, The (Friel), 8, 180
Low in the Dark (Carr), 158, 174
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), 214
Mac Anna, Tomás, 241
Mac Giollarnáth, Seán, 133
Mac Intyre, Tom, 174
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, 165
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 58
MacBride, John, 55
MacGowran, Jack, 173
MacGreevy, Thomas, 167, 168
Macken, Walter, 239, 240
MacMahon, Bryan, 239, 240
MacNamara, Brinsley, 238
Madama Butterfly (Puccini), 59
Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre, The (Kilroy), 201
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 47, 52, 58, 80, 89, 97
Maeve (Martyn), 52
Magee, Patrick, 172, 173
Mahon, Derek, 198
Mai, The (Carr), 158, 161
Making History (Friel), 186, 200, 218
Making of the Irish Nation, The (Partridge), 129
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 52
Malone Dies (Beckett), 169, 171
Man of Aran (Flaherty), 9
‘Man’s World, A’ (Friel), 187
Mansion House (Dublin), 236
Marceau, Marcel, 264
Marinis, Marco De, 4
Markievicz, Countess Constance, 244
Marlowe, Christopher, 94
Marriage, The/An Pósadh (Gregory and Hyde), 64, 67, 68, 69
Martyn, Edward, 2, 3, 37, 42, 51, 52, 54, 55, 62, 89, 164, 165
Marx, Karl, 33, 34, 37, 80, 107, 217
Mary and Lizzie (McGuinness), 107
Mason, Patrick, 250, 267
Matter With Ireland, The (Shaw), 129
Maurice Harte (Murray), 97
Mayne, Rutherford (Samuel Waddell), 239
Maynooth, St. Patrick’s College, 180
McCormack, W. J., 44, 79, 80
McCracken, Henry Joy, 28
McDonagh, Martin, 9, 15, 245, 253, 255, 256
McDonald, Ronan, 13
McGovern, Barry, 268
McGuinness, Frank, 14, 106, 174, 219–24, 229, 251
McKenna, Siobhán, 216
McLaren, Malcolm, 116
McMullan, Anna, 266
McPherson, Connor, 175
Medea (Euripides)
Mefistofele (Boito), 213
melodrama, 18–30
women in melodrama, 27–8
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 255
Merriman, Vic, 14, 15
Merry Widow, The (Lehár), 172
Milligan, Alice, 52
Mise Éire (Morrison), 244, 245, 246, 251, 255
Miser, The (Molière; trans. Gregory), 72
Molière, 18, 51, 72, 198
Molloy (Beckett), 169, 171
Molloy, M. J., 245–8, 256
Molly Sweeney (Friel), 185, 188
Moon in the Yellow River, The (Johnston), 7
Moore, George, 37, 38, 39, 42, 51, 63
Moore, Thomas Sturge, 94, 96, 97
Moran, D. P., 2, 3, 7, 52, 235
Morash, Christopher, 8, 30, 88, 239
More Pricks than Kicks (Beckett), 167
Morning After Optimism, The (Murphy), 205–6, 207
Morris, William, 80
Mosada (Yeats), 57
Mulcahy, General Richard, 236
Mundy Scheme, The (Friel), 180, 183, 187
Murphy (Beckett), 167
Murphy, Johnny, 268
Murphy, Tom, 8, 9, 14, 174, 204–17, 218, 240, 241, 245, 248
Murray, Christopher, 4, 187, 195
Murray, T. C., 97, 166, 239
Nassar, Christopher, 109
Nathan, George Jean, 170
National Literary Society, 51
National Players Society, 55
Nationalist, The (Whitbread), 24
Naturalism, 258
Neeson, Liam, 186
New Ireland Review, 232
New York Times, 262
New Yorker, 178
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 80, 81, 83
Nishikigi (Ze-Ami), 157–8, 161
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1924 (Yeats), 48, 79
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1969 (Beckett), 164
Noh theatre, 58, 59, 157, 266
Northern Ireland conflict (‘The Troubles’), 137, 191, 194, 198, 199, 200, 201, 241, 244, 258
Ó Conaire, Pádraic, 133
Ó Laoire, Art, 249
O’Casey, Sean, 5, 13, 21, 29, 51, 55, 70, 102, 103, 105, 136–49, 165, 166, 167, 173, 175, 219, 237, 258, 259, 267, 268
O’Donnell, Mary, 262
O’Donoghue, Noel, 9, 205, 214
O’Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 50
O’Donovan, John Purcell, 239, 240
O’Faolain, Sean, 200
O’Flaherty V. C. (Shaw), 131
O’Flaherty, Gearóid, 12, 13
O’Grady, Hubert, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28
O’Higgins, Kevin, 237
O’Kelly, Donal, 247
O’eary, Philip, 132, 133
O’owe, Mark, 10
O’ullivan, Seamus, 39
O’Toole, Fintan, 10, 11, 206, 210, 249, 252, 260, 261, 267
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (McGuinness), 14, 106, 187, 219–24, 241, 251
Octoroon: or, Life in Louisiana, The (Boucicault), 22
Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act (1972), 241
Old Lady Says ‘No’!, The (Johnston), 166
Old Woman Remembers, The (Gregory), 76
Oliver, Robert, 130
On Baile’s Strand (Yeats), 20, 58, 93, 96, 98, 99
On the Outside (O’Donoghue and Murphy), 9, 205, 214
Oresteia (Aeschylus), 210
Our Irish Theatre (Gregory), 234
Parker, Stewart, 18, 20, 21, 26–30, 199–200, 241
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 44, 73, 87
Partridge, J. A., 129
Pater, Walter, 80
Paulin, Tom, 191, 193, 198
Peacock Theatre (Dublin), 204, 231, 241, 250, 251, 266
Pearse, Patrick, 43, 87, 222, 261, 262
peasant play, 5, 8, 9, 21, 43–4, 54, 68, 84–5, 89, 101, 178, 179, 187, 214
Peep o’ Day (Falconer), 22
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 166
Pentecost (Parker), 195, 199–200
People Show, The, 198
Pethica, James, 11, 12
Petrach, 80
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Friel), 178–81, 182, 184, 187, 188, 189, 192, 240
Philoctetes (Sophocles), 200
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 110, 111
Pike Theatre (Dublin), 166, 171, 173, 174, 268
Pilgrim, James, 22, 23, 24
Pilkington, Lionel, 14, 43
Pillars of Society, The (Ibsen), 116
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 19, 116
Pirandello, Luigi, 263
Plato, 159
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 4, 5, 30, 43, 44, 55, 68, 71, 75, 82, 86, 87, 90, 101–2, 153, 154, 164, 166, 233, 248, 256, 267
Playboy Riots, 75, 87–8
Player’s Club (Edward Martyn’s), 55
Player’s Theatre (Trinity College, Dublin), 268
‘Plays Peasant and Unpeasant’ (Friel), 179
Plough and the Stars, The (O’Casey), 5, 29, 55, 103–4, 136, 137, 138, 140, 143, 146–8, 166, 237, 238, 260
Garry Hynes Abbey Theatre production, 260–3, 269, 270
Plunkett, Sir Horace, 37, 40, 232, 235
Politics of Irish Theatre, The (Grene), 43
Portia Coughlan (Carr), 158–60, 161, 253, 255
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 225
Poul a Dhoil; or, The Fairy Man (Hazlewood), 22
Pound, Ezra, 12, 50
Power, Tyrone, 22
Puccini, Giaccomo, 59
Purgatory (Yeats), 59, 90, 151, 157, 160
Quare Fellow, The (Behan), 8, 174, 244
Queen’s Royal Theatre (Dublin), 19, 20, 22, 28, 29, 88, 170
Quinn, Maire T., 28, 87
Radio Telefís Éireann, 269
Rafferty, Anthony, 64, 66
Rea, Stephen, 20, 185, 186, 191, 192, 193, 195, 198, 199, 202
‘Recent Irish Poetry’ (Beckett), 167
Red Roses for Me (O’Casey), 136
Redmond, John, 235
Reid, Alec, 171
Reid, Graham, 241
Report on Economic Development (1958), 8, 240, 244
Republic of Ireland Act (1949), 239
Rich, Adrienne, 152
Rich, Frank, 186, 262
Richards, Shaun, 83
Richtarik, Marilynn, 14
Ricketts, Charles, 104
Riders to the Sea (Synge), 42, 81, 84–5, 86–9, 100
Riot Act, The (Paulin), 198, 201
Rising of 1916 (Easter Rising), 53, 54, 55, 75, 103, 134, 136, 140, 144, 183, 222, 224, 235
Rising of the Moon, The (Gregory), 12, 41, 69–70
Rivals, The (Sheridan), 2
Robert Emmet (Boucicault), 23, 24, 26, 28
Robinson, Lennox, 6, 97, 166, 263
Robinson, Mary, 250, 252, 259
Roche, Anthony, 164, 174
Rogueries of Scapin, The (Molière; trans. Gregory), 72
Royal Court Theatre (London), 171, 192
Royce, Edward, 18
Rudkin, David, 197
Rugged Path, The (Shiels), 239
Russell, George (A.E.), 39, 40, 89, 236
Russian Revolution, 139
Saddlemyer, Ann, 76
Said, Edward, 100, 109, 110, 247
Saint Oscar (Eagleton), 200
Salomé (Wilde), 115, 166
Sammells, Neil, 12
Samuel Beckett Centre (Trinity College, Dublin), 175
Sancho’s Master (Gregory), 76–7
Sanctuary Lamp, The (Murphy), 207, 209, 212
Sardou, Victorien, 112, 116
Sarsfield (Whitbread), 20, 23–5
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 168
Saxon Shillin’, The (Colum), 42
Saxon Shore, The (Rudkin), 197
Schiller, Friedrich, 231
School for Husbands, The (Molière), 198
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 80
Scribe, Eugène, 112
Shadow of a Gunman, The (O’Casey), 29, 102, 136, 141–3, 236, 237, 260
Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats), 56, 96
Shakespeare, William, 18, 19, 22, 89, 152, 255
Shandy Maguire; or, The Bould Boy of the Mountain (Pilgrim), 22
Shanwalla (Gregory), 75
Shaughraun, The (Boucicault), 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29
Shaw, George Bernard, 12, 13, 14, 18, 48, 58, 63, 65, 72, 122–34, 165, 166, 167, 173
Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis, 235
Sheehy-Skeffington, Hannah, 5
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 47, 56, 142
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 2, 19, 22
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The (Shaw), 133
Shiels, George, 239, 240
Shoreditch Theatre (London), 22
Silver Tassie, The (O’Casey), 104–5, 136, 148–9, 238
Simpson, Alan, 173
Singleton, Brian, 14, 15
Sinn Féin, 2, 40, 42, 235, 236
Sinn Féin, 235
Six Characters in Search of An Author (Pirandello), 263
Skull in Connemara, A (McDonagh), 253–4
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (McGuinness), 174
Sontag, Susan, 112
Soul of Man Under Socialism, The (Wilde), 117
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 185
Spanish Civil War, 139
Spencer, Herbert, 80
Spielberg, Steven, 109
Spreading the News (Gregory), 20, 70, 71, 74
Springer, Jerry, 254
St. Columb’s College, Derry, 177, 193
Stage Irishman, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29
Star Turns Red, The (’Casey), 13, 136
Star Wars, 267
State of Chassis, A (Watters et al.), 241
’Statement for Guarantors’ (Gregory/Yeats), 232
Stembridge, Gerry, 264
Steward of Christendom, The (Barry), 14, 224–9
Stormont, 192
Story Brought by Brigit, The (Gregory), 76
Strada, La (Fellini), 210–12
Streep, Meryl, 186
Strindberg, August, 6, 47, 170
Summit, The (Shiels), 239
Sunday Business Post, 262
Sweeney Astray (Heaney), 195
Symbolism, 58–9, 269, 270
Synge Summer School (Wicklow), 267
Synge, J. M., 4, 12, 21, 29, 41, 42, 43, 44, 51, 54, 55, 63, 68, 71, 75, 79–91, 96, 97, 100, 102, 104, 105, 125, 141, 151, 153, 158, 165, 166, 170, 175, 234, 248, 251, 256, 260, 267, 268
male characters in Synge, 86
staging in Synge, 88–90
Szondi, Peter, 247
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 48, 56
Théˆatre de Babylone (Paris), 170
Théˆatre Libre (Paris), 48
Theatre of Ireland, 55
Theatre of the Absurd, 169, 175, 270
Theatre Royal (Dublin), 18, 19, 20, 22
Theses on Feuerbach (Marx), 33
Three Sisters (Chekhov, adapt. Friel), 196–7, 201
Tiberi, Jean, 164
Tinker’s Wedding, The (Synge), 86
Toller, Ernst, 106
Tolstoy, Leo, 6
Tone, Wolfe, 21
Tower, The (Yeats), 57
Translations (Friel), 26, 30, 177, 185–6, 188, 192, 193, 195, 196–7, 218, 241
Travelling Man, The (Gregory), 68, 69
Trinity College, Dublin, 269
‘Truth of Masks, The’ (Wilde), 110
Turandot (Puccini), 59
Turner, Tramble T., 129
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 58
Twenty Five (Gregory), 41
Twilight of a Warrior (Macken), 239
Twisting of the Rope, The/Casadh an tSúgáin (Hyde), 4, 39, 43, 63, 64
Tynan, Katherine, 209
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis), 178
Ua hÉigeartaigh, P. S., 133
Ullaloo (Carr), 158, 159
Ulster Hero, The (Whitbread), 23
Ulster Volunteer Force, 235
Ulster Workers’ Council Strike (1974), 199
Ulysses (Joyce), 123, 173, 218
Unicorn From the Stars, The (Yeats), 67
University of Notre Dame Press, 194
Unnamable, The (Beckett), 169, 171
Unnoticed Analogies: A Talk on the Irish Question (Oliver), 130
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony, 116
Victoria, Queen, 107, 226, 227
Villiers de l’Isle Adam, Jean, 52, 58
Villon, Franc¸ois, 80
Volunteers (Friel), 183, 184, 186, 188
Wagner, Richard, 47, 52, 80, 89
Waiting for Godot/En attendant Godot/Ag Fanacht Le Godot (Beckett), 59, 106, 164, 166, 169, 170–1, 174, 205, 224, 244, 268
Walker, Máire, 55
Wallack’s Theatre (New York), 22
Walshe, Enda, 9
Warner, Alan, 109
Watson, G. J., 137
Watt, Stephen, 11
Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 116
We do it for Love (Galvin), 241
Weber, Max, 80
Webster, Ben, 95
Well of the Saints, The (Synge), 82, 86, 87, 90, 104, 166, 167, 172, 267
Wet Paint Arts (Dublin), 245, 249, 250
‘When Irish Eyes Are Smiling’ (Ball, Olcott, G. Graff, Jnr), 172
When the Moon Has Set (Synge), 80, 82–3, 84
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 47
Where There is Nothing (Yeats), 67
Whistle in the Dark, The (Murphy), 205, 206, 216, 241
Whitaker, T. K., 244
Whitbread, James W., 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30
White Cockade, The (Gregory), 73
White House, The (Murphy), 207
Whiteheaded Boy, The (Robinson), 263
Barabbas . . . the company, production, 264–6, 270
Whitty, May, 95
Whoroscope (Beckett), 167
Wild Swans at Coole, The (Yeats), 57
Wilde the Irishman (ed. MacCormack), 110, 121
Wilde, Lady Jane (Speranza), 120
Wilde, Oscar, 12, 14, 48, 80, 89, 109–20, 200, 267
Williams, Raymond, 138, 159, 245
Williams, Tennessee, 187
Wolfe Tone (Whitbread), 23, 25, 28, 30
Wolk, Emil, 198
Woman of No Importance, A (Wilde), 115–16
Woman’s World (ed. Wilde), 112
women playwrights, 150–1, 161–2
Wonderful Tennessee (Friel), 188
Wood of the Whispering, The (Molloy), 245–8, 254
Words upon the Window-Pane (Yeats), 59
Workhouse Ward, The (Gregory), 70, 71, 74
Would-Be Gentleman, The (Molière; trans. Gregory), 72
Yeats Drama Foundation, 266
Yeats International Summer School (Sligo), 266, 267
Yeats, W. B., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96–9, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 125, 126, 130, 134, 156, 157, 159, 164, 165, 166, 169, 173, 175, 209, 216, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 245, 251, 256, 258, 259, 263, 266–7, 268, 269
Zola, Emile, 80