This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on:
*the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence;
*the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland;
*the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre.
Lionel...

This study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Wide-ranging in coverage, this text includes discussions on: the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; and the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by...