Employing previously unexamined archival material, Paige Reynolds
reconstructs five large-scale public events in early
twentieth-century Irish culture: the riotous premiere of J. M.
Synge's The Playboy of the Western World in 1907; the events of
Dublin Suffrage Week, including the Irish premiere of Ibsen's
Rosmersholm, in 1913; the funeral processions of the playwright and
Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney in 1920; the sporting and arts
competitions of the Tailteann Games in 1924; and the organized
protests accompanying the premiere of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and
the Stars in 1926. The book provides attentive readings of the
literature and theatre famously produced in tandem with these
events, as well as introducing surprising texts that made valuable
contributions to Irish national theatre. This detailed study
revises pessimistic explanations of twentieth-century mass politics
and crowd dynamics by introducing a more sympathetic account of
national communities and national sentiment.
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