EN3604 Week 3: The Abbey: Riots onstage and off

Week 3: Week 3: The Abbey: The Abbey: Riots Onstage and Off Riots Onstage and Off

Writing IrelandWriting Ireland

The Abbey TheatreThe Abbey Theatre"You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?".

The Playboy RiotsThe Playboy Riots

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“…a drift of Mayo girls standing in their shifts

itself.”

Sean O’Casey

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http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ocasey-sean/

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http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ocasey-sean/

http://www.seanocasey.co.uk/

1916…1916…

The Play

Tenement realities?

Heroism of women?

Critique and Question?

Protest and controversy

Tenement realities?

Heroism of women?

Critique and Question?

Protest and controversy

Yeats, W.B., W. B. Yeats (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) Seamus Heaney ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009) Particularly:• The Lake of Innisfree• To Ireland in the Coming Times• No Second Troy• Easter 1916• Meditations in Time of Civil War

Chapman, Wayne K. “Joyce and Yeats: Easter 1916 and the Great War” New Hibernia Review, Volume 10, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2006, pp. 137-151

Yeats, W.B., W. B. Yeats (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) Seamus Heaney ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009) Particularly:• The Lake of Innisfree• To Ireland in the Coming Times• No Second Troy• Easter 1916• Meditations in Time of Civil War

Chapman, Wayne K. “Joyce and Yeats: Easter 1916 and the Great War” New Hibernia Review, Volume 10, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2006, pp. 137-151

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