Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Audrey McNamara, Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel.
• Editors: McNamara, Audrey; O'Ceallaigh Ritschel, Nelson
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; Audrey McNamara and Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel.- Chapter 2: Speech at the First International Shaw Conference, Dublin; President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.- Chapter 3: 'The Rush of Air, the Windows Opened in Extravagance and Storm of an Idea ...': Kate O'Brien's The Last of Summer and Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman; Anthony Roche.- Chapter 4: Shavian Echoes in the Work of Elizabeth Bowen; David Clare.- Chapter 5: 'An incorrigible propensity for preaching': Shaw and his Clergy; Elizabeth Mannion.- Chapter 6: Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey: Remembering James Connolly; Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel.- Chapter 7: WWI, Common Sense, and O'Flaherty, V. C.: Shaw Advocates a New Modernist Outlook for Ireland; Aisling Smith.- Chapter 8: O'Flaherty, V. C.: Satire as Shavian Agenda; Susanne Colleary.- Chapter 9: Shaw, Women and the Dramatizing of Modern Ireland; Audrey McNamara.- Chapter 10: The Economics of Identity: John Bull's Other Island and the Creation of Modern Ireland; Aileen R. Ruane.- Chapter 11: Bernard Shaw in Two Great Irish Houses: Kilteragh and Coole; Peter Gahan.- Chapter 12: Shaw's Ireland (and the Irish Shaw) in the International Press (1914-1925); Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Theater--History; Great Britain--History; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Literature: history & criticism; British & Irish history; Theatre studies; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; British literature; Theater
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030421137
• Related ISBNs: 9783030421120
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